A cool aquarium... very cool... as a matter of fact it's minus 5 degrees F.
Welcome to The Big Chill, Japanese style! The "Kori no Suizokukan" (Ice Aquarium) in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, displays around 450 specimens of fish from over 80 different species, flash frozen in a life-like state after being unloaded from fishing vessels at a nearby port.
The ice columns are exposed to the open air inside the Aquarium so a powerful refrigeration system is constantly working to keep the ambient temperature at a bone-chilling minus 20 degrees Celsius (-5F). On hot days, the temperature differential between the Aquarium's interior and the outside air can exceed 50 degrees Celsius (58F). Visitors are able to don protective clothing to help them stay warm while browsing the eerily motionless displays, which are illuminated with icy pale blue lighting to enhance the "frozen world" effect.
What, hot days don't exceed 53 degrees F? :confused:
Oh, and there's a Maguro (tuna) Sashimi restaurant next door.
linkSomeone got his conversion from °C to °F wrong.
A difference of 50°C between inside and out means 122°F.
Since they say it is -20°C inside, outside temp would be 30°C, meaning something like 85°F.
That's pretty cool.<---See what I did? I kill me!
Icy what you did there.
that was a goodun fro' Zen
So, it is like living in Maine during the winter, only inside out. Just without the wind-chill factor and mosquitoes wearing parkas.
Welcome to the world's most boring aquarium.
Can you see fish swimming around? No.
Can you watch them eat at feeding time? No.
But you CAN see them on ice; just like a trip to your supermarket's frozen section, only it's painfully colder. Also, you have to pay.
But it's wacky. Always with the wacky.
Made me think about what I currently have in my own freezer. A couple of types of wild salmon from Alaska and Washington state, tuna, halibut, cod, mahi mahi, crab, shrimp, squid and mussels. Perhaps I could open my own version of this aquarium.
a glacirium. or something.
those people look like they're having a good time, but -- Japanese and their fish. very suspect.
So, in essence, it's a sushi museum.
The woman who runs it is a cold fish.
Salmon Ella, they call her. She's been the subject of many a fisherman's folk song.
:DYa did it again, Shawnee.
Salmon Janet Evening
You may meet a stranger
You may meet a stranger
Across a crowded room...
Perhaps I could open my own version of this aquarium.
Makes sense to me. Just open your freezer's door for a minute and let the Japanese tourists see what you got. No need for people to wrap up in a big blanket.
The woman who runs it is a cold fish.
But her clients are cool customers.