OPENING SOON
A night aquarium of light
We open shortly.
A 20:00 aquarium showing only creatures that make their own light. Interior illuminance is 0.002 lux. Your observation lamp is handed to you at the door.
Inside is almost total darkness. Bring your own light.
OBSERVATION FLOOR
Move your cursor to light the dark. When a glowing shadow appears, hold the light on it.
Trace the screen to light the dark. When a glowing shadow appears, hold the light on it.
Faint glows still out there: 7.
This log stays with you on your next visit.
Nothing found yet. Use the cursor to light the dark.
Nothing found yet. Trace the screen to light the dark.
EXHIBITION
These are the exhibits for the creatures you confirmed in the dark. For the rest, go back and light the observation floor.
Exhibits unlock once you confirm 3 species. 0 of 7 species confirmed so far.
About 1,000 light organs on its arms and belly. It rises to the surface at night to spawn.
A crustacean about 3 mm long. Its dried light chemistry glows again a century later, given water.
That green fluorescent protein (GFP) is now used worldwide as a marker in life science.
It follows food up toward the surface at night and sinks again before dawn.
The lure glows by symbiotic bacteria. Only the female carries it.
The rainbow shimmer of its comb rows as it swims is light scattering — a separate thing from its glow.
A single cell about 1 mm across — the 'sea sparkle' behind a shoreline that glows blue at night.
ADMISSION
Night tickets are booked in advance for a set date and time. Your observation lamp is handed to you at the door.
The early-observer code appears once you confirm 5 species.
Enter it when booking to take 2,000 yen off your next night pass.
A still-unnamed light-making creature, filmed at 1,200 m in Sagami Bay. It debuts next season. Details go to booked visitors first.