Ogasawara Islands | A Place to Interact with Adorable Sea Turtles

If you're asked about the top recommendation in the Ogasawara Islands (Chichijima), this is the place to introduce. At the Ogasawara Marine Center, you can learn about and interact with sea turtles. The Ogasawara Islands are a habitat for sea turtles, and many come to lay their eggs here every year. Generally, on Chichijima, they let nature take its course, but they also raise and release lost or endangered eggs. There are panels that carefully explain issues related to sea turtles (like microplastics and garbage problems), providing an opportunity for each person to think about what they can do. It's not just a distant problem... In the outdoor pool, palm-sized baby turtles swim energetically, and you can feed the larger ones. You can take commemorative photos with your favorite turtle, release baby turtles, and even polish their shells. And all of this is reasonably priced! It's a spot where you'll fall even more in love with sea turtles, so definitely check it out! ♡ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Ogasawara Marine Center 📍 Byobudani, Chichijima, Ogasawara Village, Tokyo 🕐 9:00-16:00 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━