Maruyama Zoo, Sapporo

Our family holiday isn’t complete without a visit to an aquarium or a zoo.

While in Sapporo, we spent a day exploring Maruyama Zoo.  The zoo is located in Maruyama Park.  It is quite a walk from the bus/train stop, so we took a taxi to and back from there.

We were there on Friday, and we were surprised to see that is was packed kindergarten students where besides the teachers, the parents and the family were also there.  The whole zoo is like a picnic ground where they sit together enjoying their bento.

I also noticed that residents in Hokkaido live (or walk) in a slower pace compare to the other cities in Japan.

Ok back to the zoo story.  The zoo compound is not that big, we can lazily walk around.  Even took a few stops sitting on the bench or simply on the grass.  Everywhere is so clean, except for some area with animals poop smells.  Well, it’s a zoo, what do you expect, right?

Here we had our 1st live encounter with polar bear, brown bear, wolf, and kangaroo.

Enough talking, here’s same of our photos and video there.