Jigokudani Monkey Park In Japan

 Jigokudani Monkey Park

 

 
Not only humans who can relax in the onsen (hot springs), monkey ever have a special place and can relax in the onsen, especially in Jigokudani Monkey Park, Yamanouchi, Shimotakai District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

The Park is part of the Joshinetsu Kogen National Park, also known as Shigakogen. Its location in the Yokoyu River Valley North of Nagano Prefecture. The name Jigokudani, meaning "Valley of hell", because of the many steam and boiling hot water from the cracks cracks in ground frost, coupled with the villages of the Valley, the chill of the air, and the danger of its forests.

The Valley of the mountains at an altitude of 850 meters can only be accessed by climbing around 2 kilometers through the Woods. The combination of location and challenging routes made the journey to this place not so crowded though it is famous among the castaways.

This place is famous for the abundance of Japan monkey (macaca fuscata), or commonly referred to also as the snow monkey, who went to the Valley during the winter, and foraging elsewhere on other moons are warmer.

In warm seasons monkeys usually eat plants, fruits, and insects. These monkeys don't eat meat and fish. When winter arrives, when all the plants died, the monkeys also eat twigs or bark of trees around them to survive.

Since 1963, the monkeys is down to the Valley to seek warmth during the winter at onsen (hot spring) located in the base of the Valley, and returned into the forest if the night has come.

Shimokita peninsula is the northern boundary of the place of Japan monkey this dwelling located on the northwestern part of the island of Honshū, approximately 500 km or 310 miles to the North of the Jigokudani. There are no primates that can live in an environment that is colder than this. Cold temperatures can reach minus 10 degrees Celsius.

Onsen is managed by the private company parties, Jigokudani Yaen-koen Inc., with the entrance ticket per person 500 yen and 250 yen for students. No time off is opened 365 days continues all the time. But when different opening hours April-October 08.30-17.00 while between January-March between the hours of 09.00-16.00.

A one-hour bus from the train station of Nagano Yudanaka, Shibu Electric Railway Line. Then a 30-minute walk away. When using a car is only 20 minutes from Shinshu-Nakano at the junction of the Joshin-etsu Expressway. Watch out for motorists, for the winter because it is too cold and heavy snow often in some places are closed.

The company was founded on June 3, 1964, with a capital of 10 million yen, and has since also performed onsen special for bathing monkeys. lots of tourists from foreign countries there, only to photograph the monkeys relax soak in the onsen. Because it is often visited by tourists, monkey any benign and relaxed walks among the large number of tourists.

In 2012 there are about 160 monkeys there. Caution If near monkey Japan because like whim steal that interest them as sunglasses or the sleek camera with lensanya shiny. It is advised not to touch or close to the monkeys, let alone feed very not recommended.

So should see and photograph with caution. The camera is tethered to the neck was hung, keep if monkeys come unexpectedly trying to steal our camera.