Omiya Park Zoo — Attraction in Saitama

Please don't go, this is extreme cruelty! All animals look in a terrible state and extremely stressed. Most of them display repetitive behavior, trying to find ways to escape their cells. Look at the bear and Hyena videos and you will understand what I mean. Animals that are meant to roam freely and in different environments to here are forced to withstand conditions they would never face in their natural habitat. Have been crying and feeling completely depressed during all the visit. Most worrysome might be everyone else is enjoying the Zoo, completely unbothered by the cruelty in front of their eyes. Beyond all of this, cells are dirty, and there doesn't seem to be an attempt to mimic their natural habitat. Most of the cells have concrete floors and are dirty with pee and feces. Absolutely...

I was a bit sad I didn't get to see the tanuki, but I did get to see the anakuma badger. We enjoyed this little zoo. It rained during my visit, so some of the animals hid.

Each enclosure had photos of and names for each animal as well as a little information about them.

We enjoyed being able to walk through and see everything without having a huge crowd around. I especially liked the hyena and the javalina/peccaries.

Funny enough, peccaries, also called javalina are native to my home state, Colorado, but I have never seen one before. Seeing a whole herd of them living happily there was really cool.

Most of the birds were sequestered for breeding season, but the local wild birds made up for it by hanging...

As parks go in Japan this is one of the best, especially if you have small kids.

There's a big playground with a lot of rides, and things for kids to climb on.

There's a Public zoo which has no entry fee and it's open on holidays until 4:00 p.m.

There's a lot of green and nature all around with tons of places to have a picnic, you can even watch the Sakura blossom in springtime, there's a little lake and a beautiful temple next...