Tama Zoological Park


The Tama Zoological Park 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 branch 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:
;Insectarium
;Asian Zone
  • Amur tiger
  • Asiatic black bear
  • Asian elephant
  • Bar-headed goose
  • Black-faced spoonbill
  • Bornean orangutan
  • Eurasian eagle-owl
  • Eurasian otter
  • Golden eagle
  • Golden takin
  • Grey wolf
  • Himalayan tahr
  • Indian rhinoceros
  • Japanese badger
  • Japanese giant flying squirrel
  • Japanese hare
  • Japanese macaque
  • Japanese raccoon dog
  • Japanese serow
  • Lar gibbon
  • Malayan tapir
  • Masked palm civet
  • Mouflon
  • Oriental stork
  • Père David's deer
  • Pheasant pigeon
  • Przewalski's horse
  • Steller's sea eagle
  • Red-crowned crane
  • Red panda
  • Reindeer
  • Siberian crane
  • Snow leopard
  • Straw-necked ibis
  • Water buffalo
  • White-tailed eagle
;Mole House
A man-made mole burrow made of glass-covered earth and metal tunnels, housing Japanese moles and small Japanese moles.
;African Zone
;Australian Zone
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

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".