Japan Salamander Center — Attraction in Nabari

One of the most beautiful places there is in japan! The waterfalls and nature is stunning. That’s a five star for sure! The only thing that brings down the stars, is the small aquariums where they keep the salamanders. No use to keep them like that! It’s not fun to see and if they what that experience to bee good. Then they should give them a big beautiful aquarium where you feel happy to see them. Otherwise it’s just a bad contrast to all the beauty of nature at this place and the small empty water container where they keep them. They should instead of let them be in the beautiful nature where they belong and...

Very very sad view of the salamanders. All salamanders had the same water tank available as "home". That meant that the 90cm salamander and the 23 cm one had exactly the same available space to move.

Imagine it as if you had to live in a child's playhouse forever.

The irony was that there were posters everywhere informing tourists that they should not take salamanders from their natural environment, during the waterfall walk.

The people at the office were nice and the waterfall walk was nice too. But the salamanders' situation was too...

I came to visit the waterfalls but this is what I got to see right after paying my entrance fee. Absolutely atrocious life conditions for these beautiful creatures that are in some cases decades old and too big to even fit in their water tank. This is not a way to treat life and after witnessing such a horrendous spectacle, I couldn't really enjoy the otherwise beautiful trail. I was also asked to turn back only halfway through the hike because some light rain had started falling so I only got to see half of...