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Lukas Bürgi (lb) - Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2016 um 03:42:15
A view into one of the penguin pools from a lower floor. It allows for spectacular views on them diving. And there is the saying: "Whoever said that penguins can't fly has never seen one underwater."
Lukas Bürgi (lb) - Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2016 um 03:40:15
It also holds several seabass and hammerhead sharks. We are now nearing the bottom levels of the central tank and exhibition overall.
Lukas Bürgi (lb) - Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2016 um 03:38:56
Same tank but already further down. As you can see, it holds a multitude of different species. Among them several races of tuna.
Lukas Bürgi (lb) - Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2016 um 03:37:24
The huge tank in the middle and one of the most famous inhabitants of it. A whale shark.

This is on the upmost level that allows a view into the tank. From here on you will slowly circle it while going down. Occasionally leaving into side rooms for other parts of the exhibition, but always quickly being led back to it.
Lukas Bürgi (lb) - Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2016 um 03:33:33
The Kaiyukan holds several species of penguins. This is the first you will run across and their pool is deep enough for another view into it from one floor below.
Lukas Bürgi (lb) - Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2016 um 03:31:18
It also holds otters.

Because otters.

Unfortunately we were a bit too slow to catch the perfect picture. Just a few moments prior to this scene, two of the otters had been lying on their backs, hindpaws set to each other and cleaning their forepaws.
Lukas Bürgi (lb) - Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2016 um 03:28:37
The glass rooms on top of the building hold the first bigger habitats you enter. First the one on the western, seaward side of the building: The Japanese Forests. It holds, among other animals, giant salamander.
Lukas Bürgi (lb) - Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2016 um 03:24:57
There was one final thing that had been on our must-list from the very start. And I'm walking towards it here. The Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan.

I should explain that the entrance is on the first floor (European counting, second floor for America or Japan) of the smaller building to the right. You then cross the bridge into the main building and follow an escalator all the way up to the top floor. The path then leads around and down the building through the different habitat zones. Often giving another, lower look into the same tank on a lower level for the bigger ones. At the end, you get back into the smaller building to the stores (one on the first floor, one on the ground floor) and exit.
Lukas Bürgi (lb) - Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2016 um 03:10:08
After stopping for a tasty snack just beneath Sakura-mon, we prepared to leave the castle grounds towards Morinomiya Station. This is a look back towards the castle tower before heading down into the lower castle grounds.

Turned out that at Morinomiya Station, which would have been just one stop further on the train we arrived at the castle park with, there would have been luggage lockers big enough for our trolley cases being empty. Hindsight is 20/20.
Lukas Bürgi (lb) - Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2016 um 03:01:20
If you turn around back northwards on the spot that the photo before was taken, this is what you see. This section of the wall is made out of huge, and I mean huge! rocks. Just look at the size of the one in the middle. I really wonder how they got that one up there.