Asahiyama zoo

I’m going to talk about its history.

On July 1, 1967 in Asahikawa, it was established by Kozan Igarashi. At first, it has 75 pieces of animal. There were 505 animals. In 1983, the number of visitors rose to a peak of 597,000! But in 1996, the number of visitors decreased to 2 million.

So in 1997, the stuff started to found new institution. Then in 2000, “The Penguin Exhibition” was completed. Furthermore in 2004, “The Azarashi Exhibition” was completed. In 2004, the number of visitors exceeded 320,000 which surpassed Ueno zoo in Tokyo. At last, it became the best zoo in Japan. Thank you.