The Ice Aquarium

Here’s an aquarium where you don’t fish moving around as they are all frozen. It is the Ice Aquarium located in the port city of Kessennuma in Miyagi. It’s actually an arrangement of 40 large ice blocks containing 450 specimens (80 varieties) of local marine life, yeah, they are frozen and dead of course. More images after the jump.

It is very cold inside, the room temperature is kept at -20 degrees Celsius (-4 degrees Fahrenheit), you will need to use a heavy coat before getting in. There will be ambient lighting and sound to give the sense that you are on ocean floor.

[via Pink Tentacle]










