The is a zoo, owned by the government of Tokyo Metropolis, and located in Hino, Tokyo, Japan. The Tama Zoo was opened on May 5, 1958, originally as a of the Ueno Zoo. The zoo aims to use its large site – 52 ha, compared to the 14.3 ha of the Ueno Zoo – to show its animals moving in a more free and natural environment.

Animals Animals in the zoo include:

Asian Zone

African spoonbill American white ibis Amur tiger Asian elephant Bar-headed goose Black stork Black-faced spoonbill Black-headed ibis Blue-and-yellow macaw Bornean orangutan Brant Cackling goose Chinese bamboo partridge Common shelduck Common wolf Crested ibis Domestic water buffalo Edwards's pheasant Eurasian eagle-owl Golden eagle Golden takin Greater white-fronted goose Greylag goose Guinea pig Himalayan monal Himalayan tahr Hokkaido horse Inca tern Indian peafowl Indian rhinoceros Japanese black bear Japanese giant flying squirrel Japanese grass vole Japanese hare Japanese macaque Japanese pipistrelle Japanese raccoon dog Japanese scops owl Japanese serow Japanese wood pigeon Large Japanese field mouse Lesser white-fronted goose Malayan tapir Mandarin duck Masked palm civet Mouflon Mountain hare Mountain hawk-eagle Northern bald ibis Oriental small-clawed otter Oriental stork Palawan peacock-pheasant Père David's deer Pheasant pigeon Przewalski's horse Puna ibis Red junglefowl Red panda Red-and-green macaw Red-crowned crane Reindeer Scarlet ibis Siberian crane Small Japanese field mouse Snow goose Snow leopard Snowy owl Steller's sea eagle Straw-necked ibis Swan goose Tundra bean goose White-handed gibbon White-naped crane White-tailed eagle Ural owl

Mole House A man-made mole burrow made of glass-covered earth and metal tunnels. Eurasian least shrew Japanese mole Long-clawed shrew Small Japanese mole

African Zone African bush elephant Cape teal Cheetah Chimpanzee Giraffe Great white pelican Greater flamingo Grévy's zebra Lion Scimitar oryx Serval

Australian Zone Brush-tailed rat-kangaroo Common brushtail possum Common wallaroo Emu Koala Laughing kookaburra Parma wallaby Red kangaroo Sugar glider Tasmanian devil Tawny frogmouth Yellow-footed rock wallaby

Insectarium

Diving beetle Eiffinger's frog Forest green tree frog Genji firefly Giant leaf insect Giant water bug Glowworm Heike firefly Japanese common toad Japanese fire-bellied newt Japanese rhinoceros beetle Leafcutter ant Migratory locust Montane brown frog Ogasawara land snail Sakishima grass lizard Sakishima tree lizard Schlegel's green tree frog Tokyo salamander Tree nymph

Anura Anura () is a male Asian elephant at the Tama Zoo. As of 2025, he is 72 years old and the oldest elephant living in Japan. Anura was born in 1953 in the Dominion of Ceylon and imported to Japan in 1956. He originally lived at Ueno Zoo and was moved to Tama Zoo in 1958. Anura was named after Anura Bandaranaike, the son of Ceylon's then-prime minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike.

Access Tama-Dōbutsukōen Station on the Keiō Dōbutsuen Line and the Tama Toshi Monorail Line is in front of the park's gate.

In popular culture Tama Zoological Park is featured heavily in the manga and anime series My Deer Friend Nokotan, where it is referred to as "Hino Zoo". It also appeared in the original Kamen Rider, as a location of the week

References

External links

Official site (English) Official site (Japanese)