JMC Monkeys in Chicago
We are delighted that our eight JMC Japanese monkeys
are very happy in their new home in Chicago. For us,
these monkeys are an expression of the friendship andcollaboration between the United States and Japan. For
more info, please visit snowmonkeys.org▼DonateHelp us to help primatesYour donation will enable us to let our primates live arich, interesting, and happy life. It further helps theirfellow primates living in the wild.

▼Zoo Hours
10:00 – 17:00 (Nov. – Feb.: 10:00 – 16:00)
Closed on Tuesday and Wednesday; and some additional
weekdays in low season (open on public holidays and inhigh season). Please check the calendar in our website
before your visit.

▼Admission Prices
One Day Ticket
AdultsElementary and JuniorHigh School Students
400 yen

Providing Quality Care for Our Primates
We are committed to optimising the welfare of ourprimates every day. We do so by asking ourselves
every morning: “What can we do today to make theirlife even better?" There are new ideas and challenges
every day, and for maintaining the physical and mental
well-being of our primates, we need your help. Please
support our primates and make a donation easily via
the online donation form.
URL: https://fundexapp.jp/monkey/entry.php?lang=ENG

Under 2, FreeAdults

Elementary and JuniorHigh School Students

Conservation of Natural Habitats
The wild habitat of primates is vanishing at an alarming
pace. That means, many of them will be extinct by thetime our children have grownup. There are many ways
to fight this unsustainable development. Our approachis, together with the local governments and people, tosupport the conservation and sustainable
development of these habitats. But we can achieve
this goal only with your generous support.
Donor names will be posted in the JMC, on ourwebsite and printed in our newsletter (unless you wishto remain anonymous). Please let us know byspecifying this on your application form.

3000 yen

2000 yenTax Breaks for Residents of JapanThe Japan Monkey Centre (JMC) is a 'Public Interest
Incorporated Foundation', certified by the Japanese
Government to be acting in the public interest.
Therefore, all donations to the JMC are eligible for tax
breaks: deductible from your taxable income forincome tax.

JAPAN MONKEY CENTREMuseum and Zoo for Nonhuman Primates

Preschool
Children(Ages 3 - 6)

800 yen+Englishu

300 yen▼JMC Membership
JMC membership provides great benefits and privileges
throughout the whole year. You get free admission to theJMC, free parking, as well as special access to membersonly events.

Preschool
Children(Ages 3 - 6)

1500 yenSupporters: access to exclusive supporters’ website

5000 yen & Up

▼Access
The train station closest to the Japan Monkey Centre is theMeitetsu Inuyama Station; about 30 min train-ride fromNagoya Station. From Meitetsu Inuyama Station (East exit)
to the Japan Monkey Centre, it takes 5 min by bus or taxi,or 20 min walking.

JAPAN MONKEY CENTRE
26 Kanrin, Inuyama, Aichi 484-0081 Japan
Tel: +81 (0)568 61 2327
Fax.: +81 (0) 568 62 6823
www.japanmonkeycentre.org
twitter.com/JpnMonkeyCentre
動物取扱業：公益財団法人日本モンキーセンター 愛知県犬山市大字犬山字官林 26 番地
業種:展示 動尾第 510 号 業種：貸出し 動尾第 509 号 登録:平成 19 年 5 月 31 日
有効:令和 4 年 5 月 30 日 取扱責任者:木村直人

2020.04.01“A Window to Nature”
The Japan Monkey Centre (JMC) was founded in 1956
for primate research and conservation. Its other main
goal is to give all interested people a wealth of
information on their closest relatives. JMC runs aunique zoo housing the world’s largest number of
nonhuman primate species and attracts visitors fromall over the world.

MAP① Visitor Centre, Museum Shop, Changing/Nursing Facilities
At the Visitor Centre, we have regular exhibitions
including taxidermist specimens, skeletons of
nonhuman primates, and a touch screen monitor toperform a memory test for chimpanzees at thePrimate Research Institute, Kyoto University. We also
hold special exhibitions on a wide variety of different
themes.
At MAP2A : Wao land mini, you can meet a small groupof ring-tailed lemurs
MAP② Madagascar House
This outdoor enclosure is in the form of an island
ringed by a moat, allowing the inhabitants to roam
freely. Living on the island-enclosure are different
species of lemurs found in the wild only in Madagascar: brown lemurs, black lemurs, and ruffed lemurs.
MAP③ South American House
Here you can see tiny monkeys such as marmosets
and tamarins. They live in an indoor enclosure
maintained at a temperature of about 25°C tosimulate tropical jungle conditions. In the outdoor
enclosure, you can meet saki monkeys, woollymonkeys, spider monkeys, and capuchins. In a special
room where day and night light is reversed, nocturnal
owl monkeys can be seen moving about during ourdaytime.
MAP④ Asian House
Different species of leafeaters: Francois’s lutongs andsilver lutongs can be seen here, along with macaques
that are distributed in wide area of Asia. It includes
long-tailed macaques, rhesus macaques, southern
pig-tailed macaques, toque macaques, bonnetmacaques, Tibetan macaques, lion-tailed macaques,and Japanese macaques (also known as snow monkeys).
MAP⑤ Wao Land
One of JMC’s must-see attractions are the free-ranging
ring-tailed lemurs, offering a close encounter withthem.
MAP⑥⑦ African Centre / Nocturnal Monkeys
Another star attraction is chimpanzees. You can also
see a gorilla searching for his food, parts of which thekeepers hide earlier in various places within theenclosure. Here you can also watch mandrills andnocturnal monkeys including pottos and Senegal
lesser galagos.

MAP⑧ African House
This house shows brightly-colored monkeys including
Schmidt's guenons, moustached guenon,
Buettikofer’s guenon and De Brazza’s guenons.
Colobus monkeys presents their strikingly beautiful
black and white markings. You can also meet goldenbellied mangabey, northern talapoin monkeys, Sykes’monkey, patas monkeys, savannah monkeys,
hamadryas baboons and Barbary macaques here.

Visitor Centre

MAP⑪ Monkey Scramble
Here, you can enjoy siamangs brachiating (moving byswinging arm by arm) at a height of 15 meters ( MAP11-1 :Big Loop). Very impressing are also the Geoffroy'sspider monkeys moving back and forth across a 100meter-long suspension bridge ( MAP11-3 : Monkey
Skyway). Don't forget to look up to see one of ourgreatest attractions — and keep an eye out formonkey excrements! (Dangerous Zone)
MAP⑪-2 Squirrel Monkey Land
One of our highlights is a close encounter with Bolivian
squirrel monkeys, moving freely within the dense

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MAP⑨ Baboon Castle
Over seventy Anubis baboons can be watched fromthis rooftop viewing deck.
MAP⑩ Monkey Valley
From this observation platform, you can see about 160
Japanese Yaku-macaques, showing the behavior ofwashing sweet potatoes and other food in a pond.
They put the sweet potatoes inside the water and rub
them against rocks. Sweet potato washing in Japanesemacaques was first observed in a natural troop in
Koshima Islet, Japan. Though rubbing behavior is quite
common in macaques, the behavior of rubbing objects
in water is rare. It can be easily observed during themonkeys’ feeding time. You may also see otherinteresting behaviors like Saru-dango, tool use, andnoise making with stones.
From the late December until the end of February, onweekends and holidays, our Japanese Yaku-macaqueswarm themselves by a real bonfire. The tradition oflighting bonfires for the monkeys began in 1959, after
Japanese Yaku-macaques were observed to gather
around the fires lit by staff to burn fallen trees
following the Isewan Typhoon. This new ‘bonfireseason’ soon became established as a well-known andcherished attraction of JMC.

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15Wheel Chair
Stroller Rental

Toilet12Multi-purpose Toilet
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TemporaryGathering Location
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Changing Board

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Changing/Nursing
Facilities
Lockers
Museum Shop
Food and Drink

To Monkey Park (Amusement park)

Smoking Area
To Bus Stop

undergrowth on a small island. Of all their food, Bolivian
squirrel monkeys love to eat insects most. So, they spend
a large amount of time foraging for insects. It is rare forany insects that have strayed into the Squirrel Monkey
Land to ever reach the adult stage.
MAP⑫ Gibbons' House
Here you can see three different species of gibbons fromSoutheast Asia: pileated gibbons, white-handed gibbons,and Mueller's gibbons.
MAP⑬ Kusunoki Forest/Tree House
In the Kusunoki Forest, our zookeepers created 4 story
Tree House on Kusunoki (camphor tree). Looking downfrom the Tree House gives an impression of how monkeys
see the world from the treetops.
MAP⑭ Restaurant Rakuen
Curry, noodle, pork cutlet on rice, gelato, drinks etc.

Rest Area

MAP⑮ Monkey Bar(Open on weekends and holidays)