Noboribetsu Bear Park
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MeeraMeera
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The park itself is pretty small, probably can spend 2 - 3 hours there. The view up there is great!! The cable car ride is around 5 - 7 minutes long. Highly recommend to wear more layers as it can get really windy there! Get heat packs for your shoes!! You can purchase bear food to feed the bears! Place them into the tubes and the bears will come to you! Do note that not all the enclosures allow feeding of bears! So do not throw food/snow at the bears!! There are 2 souvenir shops, 1 at the ticket office of the park and the other is at the park itself. Other activities at the park includes, duck race where you can place your bets on your duck and if it wins, you win yourself a novelty park souvenir! There is also a bear obstacle course where you can participate by placing bear food around the course for the bear to find! The zookeeper will ask for volunteers, so just raise your hands and follow their instructions. The park in general is not very crowded when I went on a Monday. Note: Once you are done with the park, you can arrange with the front desk to ask for a shuttle bus back to your hotel. (Not sure if it's available for all the hotels around the area, but you can ask)
Aloysius LimAloysius Lim
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You can get here via free shuttle bus from Noboribetsu Onsen bus station. Just ask the counter reception. Buy ticket from the bus station to get more discounted price. We brought our 4 young children; 7,5,3 years old and a baby. To go up, we have to go via cable car. The bears in the cage were friendly and quite communicative with visitors. We bought the bears' food at counter opposite of the bears cage. There were salmon and cookies. Throw the food into the cage. The bear will skillfully catch the food. My daughter like the bear in the green cage in particular because it looks interesting and when she threw the bear food, it can catch easily. The bears also love to wave for food. Very cute. At Human Cage, we can feed the bears even closely. As if we were feeding on our hand. But actually we put the bear food in drawer and push it to the bear who's waiting outside. In Human Cage, we can get the bear food from the coined lockers. Thankfully there were not much people during our visit until later. The Human Cage is not that big. This bear park also has bear museum for us to learn more about the bears from birth.
Khadeejah HasmadKhadeejah Hasmad
00
Had a great time here! Entrance is expensive, but the gondola ride and experience of seeing/feeding the bears is worth it in my opinion. Some of the reviews made me worry because they said the bears seemed unhappy, but that wasn’t the case when I went. The cubs in particular were climbing all over the trainer who was trying to feed them, they clearly had affection for the workers. The enclosures are very big with many structures built for climbing- although there are a lot of bears in the female enclosure, it didn’t strike me as inhumane or sad. I spent almost 3 hours here and visited the different enclosures a few separate times, during which I saw all of the bears lazing around seeming lethargic AND energetic/moving around. I think some people visited when the bears happened to be resting and got a bad impression. I’m no bear expert, but they seemed happy and well-cared for to me. It was adorable to see them stand up and wave for treats!
PensulliwenPensulliwen
10
Tickets kinda pricy ~2500 per person. You get a gondola ride up and entrance to park. We walked past earlier in the day and it said it was closed due to wind. But came back an hour later and it was open again. When we went up it was really empty,m even though it was 2pm. All the stalls were closed. We saw a duck race, you can bet on ducks and they run. But we saw it once during our time there. The bear show didn’t happen and we weren’t told before hand. No squirrels in the squirrel park. Can buy salmon biscuits to feed bears. 100 yen a bag of about 6 biscuits. The bears will wave and do humorous things to make you throw the treat at them. It’s kinda really sad. Hope the bears get treated okay. There’s also a human cage where you can put the biscuit through a tube and feed the bear that way. Overall just made me feel kind of depressed. The museum was also very bleak and sad. Lots of stuffed bears to take pics with.
Tiffany TTiffany T
120
I left deeply upset and disturbed by the harsh and cruel living conditions these poor bears are subjected to. No animal should have to live like this. We found the bears looking utterly defeated, confined to small and inhumane spaces. In one enclosure we found the adult bears all curled up together, panting from the heat, but without any shade or visible water. In another, the baby bears were in an extremely small enclosure, with the first one we saw crying! After spending time exploring Noboribetsu and its vast nature, it was shocking to find the bears like this. It was so sad to look out from the enclosure and see the rich green forest in stark contrast to this artificial enclosure where the bears looked trapped. I implore the bear park owners and management to make the necessary changes that will ensure a high quality of life for these beautiful animals.
Kirsty McKellarKirsty McKellar
80
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Basic Info
Address
224 Noboribetsuonsencho, Noboribetsu, Hokkaido 059-0551, Japan
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+81 143-84-2225
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bearpark.jp
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outdoor
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attractions: Noboribetsu Bear Park - Second Enclosure (Female), Mareppudake, Noboribetsu Ropeway station, Yukar no Sato (Ainu village), restaurants: クマ山食堂
