The only snake theme park in Japan "Japan snake center" has a variety of knowledge about snakes and can be touched and entangled with snakes Paradise

In the mountains of Gumma prefecture "Japan snake center"Is the only snake special theme park in Japan, it is a mysterious place where you can see how poisons are taken from snakes' fangs, actually interact with snakes, and even eat snakes . Also, since this institution is also the only snake science institute specializing in snakes specialized in Japan, it is possible to listen to various stories about snakes, and by the time we fully enjoyed the park Even though the insight into the snake has changed from scratchy.

Japan Snake Center [Hibiken] Official website
http://snake-center.com/

The Japan Snake Center is located near Tobu Kiryu Line · Yubuzuka Station running in Gumma Prefecture.


I arrived at the Japan Snake Center in 10 minutes on foot from nearest Yuzuka station. You might think that "... ...?", But relieved, this is the entrance to the Japan Snake Center.


That's why I paid 1,000 yen for entrance fee and entered, I got the in-garden map and the viewing ticket. At the time of entryDiscount screenIf you show, you can enter at 900 yen of 1 discount.


This is the place where I came through the entrance gate. The garden is built on the hillside and various facilities are scattered along the slope, so it is OK if you go around them and see the snake.


Every day at the Japan Snake Center, events are held in July, during weekdays "contact with snakes", on Saturdays "hub poisoning experiment", on Sunday · 21 on "hub poisoning experiment" "snake "Meal Time for Meals" "Hemorrhoid interaction experience classroom" is held. So, in advanceConfirm the event schedule on the websiteIf you do, it understands what you have at the time of visit, but as event time approaches, researchers will notify you by using megaphone from the high place in the park, so even if you do not know anything you miss the event Being as good as you can.


◆ Hub Disinfection Experiment
Since it was a time zone where "hub poisoning experiment" was done at the time of visit, it moved to the poisoning room that the experiment is done as it is with Sokko.


To prevent snakes from escaping or poisoning during flight experiments, the aisle side where the laboratory and customers are located is separated by glass.


When the experiment start time comes, a white coat uncle appeared, using a stick ......


Take out the hub. This is a hub inhabiting Okinawa and Amami Oshima, etc. It is a snake known as the so-called "Ryukyu Hub", but the official name is "hub". In addition, there are 5 kinds of hubs inhabited in Japan, and it seems that there are also individuals exceeding 2 meters if it is big.


When snakes encounter people, they intimidate their heads with triangles like this. Even if it is bitten by the hub, the researcher says, poison will go around the body in a few days, the fingers will not bend or it will be cut off at its worst due to aftereffects So I definitely will not put out my hands. In addition, since it is said that snakes in Japan basically do not attack themselves other than hubs, it seems to be okay if they keep distance beyond "the half of body length" which is the attack range of snakes.


The researcher tells us about the hub with brilliant talk, but while we are doing it we capture the pap and hub, grasp the head ... ...


Hooked on a beaker with a fang and pushed hard around the back of the eye of the hub, the poison was popping from the tusk.


From the side it looks like this, you can see that the mouth of the hub is 180 degrees open. In addition, the hub 's fang is hollow in the inside like a needle of a syringe, and it injects a poison into a prey which bites through it.


Looking in the mouth from before, this way. From the size of the head, the hub has a fairly long and respectable fang (approx. 2 cm), but it seems that this is usually folded and stored.


Mr. Hub of expression with kelori after the poisoning ended. Is cheers for good work.


Next, Japan viper appeared. Snakes that appear everywhere in the country, the length is shorter than the hub.


It is rare for a viper to attack from yourself, but because it is hiding in dead leaves like this, it seems that there are many times that you are being caught without noticing while walking on the mountain path.


In addition, like the hub, the fangs of the viper are like injection needles, but the length is very short, about 5 mm. The poison seems to be stronger than the hub, but it seems that it will never die unless poisonous content is little bit chewed and injected with poison. However, about 3,000 people are chewed each year, and it is said that elderly people who are just living are dead, so it is better to be cautious.


The viper inhabits all over Japan, and there are various appearances that there are no patterns on the body depending on individuals. So, even farmers familiar with vermicelli may mistake other kinds of snakes, so even if they are chewed, there are also people who will leave that they are not "poisonous snakes" so be careful with this point Is necessary.


Furthermore, as it is said that there is a mushroom in the place where the firefly is present, when going to the firefly in the mountain, etc., not wearing sandals for fashionable, but wearing shoes for your own life Recommended.


This snake, which is even bigger than Japanese viper, is Yamakagashi. It does not hit people from oneself, it is a very meek snake unless you add harm.


Yamakagashi's fang is as short as 2 mm shorter than that of vermicelli, and it seems that there are many cases that there are not pain and symptoms even if it is chewed. Since the inside of the fangs are not hollowed, poison seems to come out from the root of the fang, so it will not be injected into the back of the body. However, when the poison goes around, blood will blow out of the body and will not stop, so sera of this poison are only placed in two places, the Japan Snake Center and Kumamoto Prefecture, so it will be annoying. However, it seems that there have been only four cases of deaths due to the poison of Yamakagashi until now.


Since toads seen in rice fields and river beds store poisons in the warts of the body, wild snakes that feed on frogs will not eat only toads. However, it seems that only Yamakakashi uses poison in wart by eating toad. Since Yamakagashi also has poison bags near the back of the neck, if you attempt to disinfect by striking or cutting the neck when you encounter in the wild, poison is scattered and it is dangerous so let's escape with the scoop .


At the end of the commentary on three kinds of poisonous snake inhabiting in Japan, researchers suddenly opened the window glasses ......


He told me that he was accustomed to touching people since childhood.


The snake does not hide from people and can only do it to remember whether the partner is harmful to him or not.


I could actually have it with my hands, and the feel was like touching the enamel material very slick.


The Japan snake center keeps snakes captured in the wild and poisonous snakes and others that were seized by being kept without license, and in addition to the poisoning room various kinds are found everywhere There is a snake of. This is Ulla core Rattlesnake in the poisoning room.


I also found eboshi chameleons.


The colorful body and limbs divided into Y shape are distinctive.


◆ snake's meal time
After the poisoning experiment I decided to move to the poisonous snake greenhouse and see the "snake's mealtime". Snakes are very vigilant, they sometimes get something moving in the sight, eat something on the way, eat more than one year, and eventually they will die as it is. So, while you are feeding, you need to take a step and watch the snake eat slowly and slowly. However, since there is no eardrum in the snake, it is difficult to hear the voice of human beings, so it is OK to give a variety of strange sounds such as "Wow ~! Suja!" And "Uja!"


In the venomous greenhouse, a large number of poisonous snakes have been bred, and this snake is rather large in size but it was a thick category, Hananagakobura. It is a cobra with a powerful poison who inhabits the southeastern part of Africa.


The feeling I've seen is dressed in a terrible aura of feeling like "This is just a snake!", But if you look closely well the bulky pupils are cute.


Farmers throw poisons of frozen rats as foods into the breeding cottage.


Then she bites pakuri and rats. This is exactly the eyes of predators.


Snakes are weak compared to human eyes, so when you ham ham with the prey added and rotate the rat's body and find the orientation that can be swallowed ... ...


Gokuri, and so on gradually swallowing the food.


Mr. Hananagakobura with expressions such as "Turkey", something has come out from the mouth, is it a toothpick after eating or something?


It is very strange that all swollen rats slowly move in the tail direction in the belly.


You can see how Hananagakobura eats frozen rats in the following movie.

Food of Hananagakobura (4 times faster) - YouTube


Of course there are many other poisonous snakes living in the venomous greenhouse ... ...


I can also encounter the Saharan Tsuna snake which has two corners on my eyes.


◆ In-Garden Various
Although trees grow lively inside the park ... ...


I discovered that snakes are entwined on the branches of these trees. These trees seem to have grown as a result of careful consideration to be able to spend as much natural as possible of the eggs and Aoda shisu, who are releasing themselves in the park, rather than being a thing that grew up when noticed. Since snakes are nocturnal, they do not move very actively in the daytime, but you can observe the "Where and how do you spend the day during the day" so you can take a closer look at it, so it's fun to watch it just by looking at it.


It is safe to keep snakes away from the free space, so that the snake can not come out from the open space, as ingenuity has been tampered with, so even if you say go in free-standing, there is not a snake that is hiding the passage inside the garden with its own face.


This is the only rest space and cafeteria in the park.


Inside is like this. When I entered I was just lucky that there were no other customers accidentally miraculously.


It is also possible to enjoy how snake food is served at this cafeteria, it seems to take out snakes live from the basket located at the end of the dining room and cook. The price of snake cuisine changes with the size of the snake used, and one of three types of snakes, Shimafuke, Porcupine, and Hub, is eaten, the price is roughly 4000 yen to 5000 yen. The food that can be eaten is the thing that snakes snake's live blood and internal organs put in wine, the one that baked herself with salt or sauce. Furthermore, in the short period from the middle of September to October, the viper gives birth to a child so we can eat it as sashimi.


Although I was impressed, my stomach was not reduced so much, so I tried to order only fried eggs that can be eaten with cranes instead of course dishes (1050 yen) and tried it. The feeling I ate was like frying the fish bones, the texture of the bones is good, but the taste of the main body is hardly felt.


Then invade the greenhouse of tropical snakes.


Here, you can see animals other than snakes, such as alligator and crocodiles ......


The world's strongest poison snake · Black Mamba is also in this tropical snake greenhouse. Black Mamba is the 2nd largest poison snake in the world with a body length of about 200 cm to about 450 cm, and movement seems to reach 11 km / h at very high speed.


Furthermore, in this tropical snake greenhouse it is also possible to take a commemorative photo with the serpent. Let's not overlook the reception gently from 10:30 to 12:00, from 13:00 to 15:30.


I was able to take a commemorative photo with Boa Constructor on this day.


It seems that there are no particular precautions in handling, especially, handling boa with Sokko such as "Have, bring it with both hands", so you can take pictures with Polaroid without breathing, hold a commemorative photo . So it is a prudent judgment to prepare for a moment and then to shoot.


The mouth part of the bore is covered with a cellophane tape, but since the long tongue is stretched out from the gaps of the mouth,Wow"Even though it attacks especially, it does not move hard, so it will be surprisingly cute as I get used to it.


The eyes with a cross in the cross seems to tickle the middle two hearts, it seems not to be the case.


◆ Reptile interaction experience classroom
And I tried to participate in "Reptilian interaction experiencing classroom" that lastly it is done only from 14:30 on Sunday. The venue is the upper floor of the poisoning room.


Here you can have a variety of lectures on snakes and reptiles in general using slides. For example, there are so many types of reptiles, but there are only 25 species of crocodiles.


As an example of an animal that slices like a snake, I could see the molted shell of chameleon. Chameleon seems to shed until around the eyes, it is a mysterious animal.


And this is a spider's molting shell. It is astonishing fact that spiders will shedder in the first place.


I also saw snakes' egg shells in my hands and could see it carefully. In addition, most snakes lay their eggs as eggs, but most of the sea snake, bamboo bore type anacondas and most sea snakes are born after children are raised in the body instead of eggs.


This is the yellow tumbling beetle of the tail. The color of some snake's tail is discolored as "to fish".


A summary of Japanese snakes inhabiting Kyushu and northeast is like this. The poisonous snake is three species of Japanese viper, Tsushima and Yamakagachi, and it seems that Yamakagashi grows the largest among poisonous snakes.


And a researcher who gives food to the snake suddenly brought. In snake's meal time, I heard that "snakes are wary of nervous animals and they do not eat," but this snake was a snake snake that eat deliciously eat fresh mice and frozen rats in front of the audience .


And finally medium-sized non-toxic snakes appeared. I am having fun with hands and enjoying it as an accessory feeling, but I am doing quietly.


Also check the back side of the body firmly. It is a very strange feeling with the feeling like enamel material as well as boa who took a memorial photo with urodao which the scalp first touched with slippers.


Everyone is OK, so adults and children were too afraid to talk about various impressions.


It is a valuable experience as it will not be easy to approach so far.


In addition to this, you can learn about snakes in various places, various forms, such as a museum where snake stuffing and skeletal specimens are lined up and Ochiro greenhouse where bamboo snake and large boars exceeding 6 meters are kept. Rather than being a theme park, it was the Japan Snake Center that is a snake museum-like spot where you can study just about snakes.