What other travelers are saying about Fuji Safari Park
Open animal park that’s mostly a petting zoo. There’s a motorized portion where you can ride on a bus and feed the animals or drive through in a personal or rental vehicle with no feeding. YOU MUST BRING CASH!! Check the pics for prices or look online but EVERYTHING with the exception of buying the bus tickets and two restaurants requires cash. There is NO ATM on site which is ridiculous!! They have signs saying no food near the animals, but there are green spaces to eat your food if you bring it and coolers were seen around the parks. Very enjoy experience. Come early if you want to do the jungle bus option as it feels up fast. Wear comfortable shoes as theirs lots of walking on uneven and steep terrain
The Fuji Safari Park (富士サファリパーク) is a wildlife park on the southern slopes of Mount Fuji where visitors can take a safari through the simulated habitats of freely roaming animals, including lions, tigers, bears, giraffes, cheetahs, elephants, rhinoceroses, zebras and bison. It is one of the largest and most popular safari parks in Japan.
There are multiple ways to explore the park's safari zone: by your own car, by a rental car, by bus or on foot. No additional fee is charged if you drive through the safari zone with your own car. On average, it takes visitors about an hour to complete the course, but the road through the park is broad enough to allow each car to proceed at its personally preferred pace.
Superb time seeing interesting animals and feeding plenty of them! Even could drive our own vehicle into the safari zone - splendid experience! Good to book admission tickets online because it’s slightly more affordable but experienced no issues with getting super jungle bus tickets on the same day (weekday) at about 10am. But the bus was indeed full during our schedule.
What a great experience! You get to drive your own car, rented or otherwise, through the one-way route and see animals up close. Just don't pull off the paved road or the park rangers will use loudspeakers to remind you to stay on the asphalt.
Its worth every yen to visit if you are around Mt Fuji. I've been on a real African safari before so while this isn't quite the same in terms of raw untamed nature, it's a much more comfortable and convenient ride when you are in your own aircon vehicle.
If you don't drive, you can get on the cute park bus with other visitors, or engage a personal park warden guide in a park cruiser.
Budget at least 3 hours so as to drive through slowly to get good photos, and leave enough time for the House of Cats, petting section for kids and the huge souvenir shop.
And the park entry gates also elicit a "Jurassic Park" feeling as you go through them!
