Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium

Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium
Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium
	Exterior in 2022
	35°05′26″N 136°52′42″E / 35.0906°N 136.8782°E
Date opened	October 1992
Location	Minato-ku, Nagoya
Land area	41,529 m2 (447,010 sq ft)
No. of animals	50,000
No. of species	500
Volume of largest tank	13,500,000 litres (3,566,000 US gal),
Total volume of tanks	25,400,000 litres (6,710,000 US gal)
Annual visitors	2.2 million (2017)
Memberships	JAZA
Major exhibits	Whale(North Building), Equatorial sea tank(South Building)
Management	Nagoya Minato Promotion Foundation
Website	English website

The Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium (Japanese: 名古屋港水族館, Hepburn: Nagoyakō Suizokukan) is a public aquarium in Minato-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

It is a member of the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA), and It is the public aquarium with the largest tank capacity and total area in Japan. It also owns Japan's largest dolphin show tank.^[2]^[1] The aquarium is accredited as a Museum-equivalent facilities by the Museum Act from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.^[6]

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^ 名古屋港水族館について (in Japanese). Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium. Archived from the original on February 18, 2013. Retrieved December 29, 2010.
^ "うるおいと魅力のある港湾空間の形成" (PDF) (in Japanese). Nagoya Port Authority. 2017. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
^ "法律上の位置付けがある登録博物館・指定施設". 文化庁. February 27, 2024.