Ueno Zoo
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Miki Huntington
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"I have fond childhood memories of field trips to the zoo/gardens. The zoo has had pandas since the first pair were donated in 1972 as a gesture of friendship from China to Japan. The current pair of pandas are a male called Ri Ri, and a female called Shin Shin, which arrived at the zoo in 2011.
The Ueno Zoological Gardens is host to several museums as well, including the Tokyo National Museum with the largest collection of Japan’s important cultural properties dating back to antiquity, the UNESCO National Museum of Western Art with an impressive collection (art by Rubens, Pollock, Rodin and Monet), a well as the interactive National Museum of Nature and Science."
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coney B
"Visit Japan’s oldest zoo, Ueno zoo to meet some animals like gorillas, tigers, elephants, polar bears, and their most popular, pandas! Right now, they have twin pandas that was born June of 2021!"
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Mackenzie Woods
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"This is Japan's oldest zoo! Note that it is closed on Mondays."
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