Saturday, December 06, 2025

Japan Day 7 - Sendai Umino-Mori Aquarium

02 Nov - We had a full breakfast at at our hotel before taking a short 15mins walk to Sendai Umino-Mori Aquarium to start the day. As usual, the breakfast spread is fantastic, with unlimited servings of salmon, tuna, squid and not forgetting Sendai's specialty - Beef Tongue Stew.


Sendai Umino-Mori Aquarium, by itself is not big. If you considered just walking and browsing through all exhibits, at most, I estimate you only need 3-4 hours. One thing that impressed me is that the aquarium is setup in such a way that it allows visitors to have close proximity with the penguins (see pictures below)! They also have a big tank near the entrance where you literally can see the "schools" of fish effect!

Sendai Umino-Mori Aquarium entrance

School of fishes as they swim according to the music


Waiting for the dolphins, sea lions and birds performance to start

Sea lion balancing a ball

Dolphin jump in sync

Cute little penguins as they chase the food feeder around the enclosure

Emperor Penguins with their chick

Little penguins retiring for the day as they returned to their "nest"

Dolphins playing basketball

Jellyfish

We ended the day with Dormy's free serving - Yonaki Soba Noodle. Holiday sure ends fast as we packed our bags to check out the next day for *OEE* last week of pre-school experience.

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