Exhibition in Japan allows visitors to smell the butts of animals

Who doesn’t like to go to different places, visit museums, go to exhibitions. Really feel the smell of the place. But an exhibition in Japan caught attention on social media for allowing enthusiasts to smell the real scent of the animals’ rear ends. That’s right, what you just read! You may have smelled perfume in those cosmetic magazines, but have you ever been curious about what a penguin’s bottom smells like?! Well, you can have this 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 various species of animals it has there. The venue was inaugurated in 2021 and has been receiving people not only from Japan but from several other countries.

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

Olfactory Experience

The Atoa Aquarium is not only known for this peculiarity; the place also has an amphibian forest and a cave with lights and mirrors for an underwater experience sensation. The location was inaugurated in 2021 and has since been well received by visitors and tourists. However, the novelty of smelling the animals’ bottoms is more recent and emerged in 2023.
Penguins, tigers, and orangutans are among the animals displayed in frames in 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 zones is one that resembles a cave; another feels like floating in the sea with various tanks spread out and different marine species; one mimics a forest; another has interaction with what is displayed; there is an environment that shows the four seasons according to the lighting; it is possible to feed the koi fish with special food sold there; and there is even a part that connects outer space with the ocean floor.