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Okinawa Zoo & Museum (Okinawa Children's Country)

沖縄こどもの国

Okinawa Zoo & Museum, known in Japanese as Okinawa Children's Country, is a zoo and hands-on Wonder Museum in Okinawa City.

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26.3277, 127.8035

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Okinawa Zoo & Museum, called 沖縄こどもの国 in Japanese, is a zoo and children's museum complex in Okinawa City on Okinawa Island. According to the operator, whose Japanese site was read on 29 September 2026, it opened in 1970 as a project marking Okinawa's return to Japan, keeps about 150 kinds of animals, including wild animals and native livestock of the Ryukyu Arc, and includes the Wonder Museum, a children's museum. The operator lists admission fees and a NIGHT ZOO programme on its site. Hours, animal-viewing times and closures are published by the operator and change; check its site before you travel.

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Okinawa

Okinawa Island (沖縄本島) is the main island of Okinawa Prefecture and, according to Wikidata, the smallest of the five main islands of Japan. XTOUR maps venues across it, from Naha and Tomigusuku in the south to Onna, Nago, Motobu and Nakijin in the north.

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