Updated for September 2026
The Best Aquariums in Tokyo
How this list is ordered: by how complete our listing is — how much we hold on opening hours, ticket prices, accreditation, photographs, animals and facilities. It is a measure of our own coverage, not a judgement of the venue. We hold no visitor scores or conservation assessments, so “best” here means every aquarium in Tokyo that qualifies for the list, fullest entry first.
Listed alphabetically
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Animal feeding experienceBehind-the-scenes tourOn-site dining
Sunshine Aquarium
Aquarium in 豊島区
Opened in October 1978, it occupies upper storeys and the roof of Sunshine City's World Import Mart building, and holds around 750 species and 37,000 fish across roughly 80 tanks. Its rooftop setting limits the scale of any renovation and leaves it with less floor space than most aquariums, a constraint addressed with a full closure and rebuild between September 2010 and August 2011. Displays range from the Sunshine Coral Reef, Japan's first permanent coral reef reproduction, which keeps a great white pelican, Baikal seal and zebra shark, to newer additions such as the Marine Garden's rooftop penguin and otter areas added in 2017 and the Kurage Kuukan jellyfish exhibit introduced in 2020.
Aquariums nearby
Our ranking methodology
This is not a ranking. The 2 venues above are listed alphabetically by name, the same order used throughout this site. We do not collect visitor reviews, star ratings, ticket-sales figures or a conservation-impact score, so none of those exist here to rank by — “best” in this page’s title means every venue that qualifies for this list, not first-to-last by quality. If we ever add a data source robust enough to support an honest ranking, this note and the order above will change together.