Exhibition in Japan allows visitors to smell the animals' butts.

Who doesn't like going to different places, visiting museums, attending exhibitions. Really feeling the smell of the place. But one Exhibition in Japan caught the attention on social media by allowing enthusiasts to smell the real scent of the animals' hindquarters. That's right, what you just read! You may have already smelled perfume in those cosmetics magazines, but have you ever been curious to know what a penguin's butt smells like?! Well, you can have that experience for free at the Atoa Aquarium, located in the city of Kobe, Japan.
The place allows visitors to feel close to the habitat of the animals of various species it houses there. The location was opened in 2021 and has been receiving people not only from Japan, but from several other countries.

Exhibition in Japan allows visitors to smell the animals' buttocks.
Exhibition in Japan allows visitors to smell the animals' buttocks.

Several frames are displayed on the wall of the living room and people can approach their nose and smell the photographs. Among the animals exhibited are: penguins, tigers, orangutans and others. They have their tails in the olfactory booth. In other words, not everyone has the courage to fully experience this.

Olfactory experience

The Atoa Aquarium is known not only for this peculiarity, the place also has an amphibian forest and a cave with lights and mirrors for the sensation of a deep-sea experience. The place was opened in the year 2021 and since then has been well-received by visitors and tourists. However, the novelty of smelling the animals' bottoms is more recent and emerged in 2023.
Penguins, tigers, orangutans are among the animals displayed in frames at the olfactory gallery. The exhibition is free but entry to the Atoa Aquarium costs 2,400 JPY.

The exhibitions are located on the second, third, and fourth floors and are divided into eight different environments. Among the areas are one that resembles a cave; another is like floating in the sea with several tanks scattered around and various marine species; one imitates a forest; another allows interaction with what is exposed; there is an environment that shows the four seasons according to the lighting; it is possible to feed the koi fish with their own food that is sold there; and there is even a part that connects the outer space with the depths of the sea.

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