Gunma Safari Park is a huge hit with the kids. Take the aerial off the car, shut the car windows, lock the door and head out into the wilds of Tomioka. You drive around spotting animals strolling past (or more often than not, lounging in the shade) almost close enough to reach out and touch. The park is divided into different zones with monkeys, bears, lions, buffalo, rhino, zebra, camels, deer and antelope all on display. Half way around you can park up and there is a walking area that is more like a zoo. Here you can find flamingoes, donkeys, llamas, a panther, a cheetah, white tigers, ostriches and more lions. For five hundred yen you can buys a few scraps of meat and, armed with a pair of BBQ tongs, poke bits of meat through special holes in the cages for the lions and tigers to nibble. The viewing areas include some that head under the cages so you can see a big cat right above you. After you have driven around the final few sections there is a fun fair and some restaurants at the entrance/exit. The rides are retro (part of the fear seeming to come from the age of some of the attractions) but great for kids and some of them allow children as young as 1 to ride. A fun day out.
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A Wild Ride at Gunma Safari Park
A terrific family day out

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As close as I ever want to get with a rhino

Buffalo

Lazy lions

Close up with a camel

A tortoise

The retro attractions

Tour buses with flaps in the side to poke meat out to the lions

Feed a white tiger

Lions enjoying the autumn sun

A lioness asleep on the perspex over the walkway

A very scary ostrich

Inquisitive meerkats

A bored llama

A flamingo at the start of the walking area

A fake zebra
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Okamoto, Tomioka, Gunma, 370-2321 (Directions)
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