Penguin-themed celebration event "Happy Happy Penguin 2025"(Sapporo City)| Domingo

Penguin-themed celebration event "Happy Happy Penguin 2025"

Date and Time

2025/7/5~8/31

To celebrate the birth of the Northern Rockhopper Penguins, born on Sunday, June 1st and Wednesday, June 4th this year, the event "Happy Happy Penguin 2025" will be held from Saturday, July 5th, where visitors can watch the chicks grow together. All visitors will receive an original card with a nearly life-size image of the feet of the penguin chicks, and there will be an exhibition introducing the growth of penguins through videos and original penguin-related goods for sale. Please join us in watching the growth of the Northern Rockhopper Penguin chicks, the first to be born at AOAO SAPPORO.

The newly born "Northern Rockhopper Penguin" is a chick born between a male "Nanae" and a female "Otaru", and eggs were confirmed to have been laid on Saturday, April 26th and Thursday, May 1st, 2025. The first egg hatched on June 1st with a birth weight of 71g, and the second egg hatched on June 4th with a birth weight of 82g. They are currently growing well in the back yard.

The penguin is scheduled to be open to the public at the Penguin Lab on the 6th floor from Wednesday, July 23, 2025. Until then, updates on its growth will be posted on AOAO SAPPORO's official social media accounts.

■ Experience program: A little creepy? Very cute? Happy Happy Card (15-day-old penguin)
・Event period: First chick's footprints: July 5th (Sat) - July 11th (Fri) / Second chick's footprints: July 12th (Sat) - July 18th (Fri)
- Location: 4F "Entrance"
・Contents: An original card featuring a nearly life-size photograph of the feet of the 15-day-old chicks will be distributed to all visitors. On the back of the card is a commentary on the condition of each of the two chicks by the staff in charge of living things who lovingly raise them every day.

■ Experience Program: Happy Happy Report
・Event period: July 5th (Sat) ~
・Venue: 6F "Penguin Lab"
・Content: You can watch videos of the two penguin chicks currently living in the back yard, showing their daily growth and current condition. The content of the videos is carefully selected by the staff in charge of living things and will be updated regularly.

■ Food and drink: Happy Happy Cookies (free toppings)
・Event period: July 5th (Sat) - August 31st (Sun)
・Event hours: 10:00-22:00 (last orders 21:30)
・Venue: 6F "Shirokuma Bakery &"
・Sales price: 450 yen (tax included)
Details: To commemorate the birth of the chicks, "Hokkaido Kitahiro Farm Soft Serve Ice Cream" will be sold for a limited time with a free penguin-shaped cookie topping.

■Products: "Tokyo Rusk" collaboration rusk mix
・Sales period: July 5th (Saturday) ~
・Sales hours: 10:00-22:00
・Sales location: 4F "Museum Marche"
・Sales price: 1,230 yen (tax included)
・Contents: In collaboration with "Tokyo Rusk", we will be selling rusks in original packaging featuring two types of penguins.

■ Merchandise: Happy Happy Charm
・Sales period: July 5th (Saturday) - Limited to 88 units *Limit of 8 units per person, ends when sold out
・Sales hours: 10:00-22:00
・Sales location: 4F "Museum Marche"
・Sales price: 1,888 yen (tax included)
-Contents: Last time, the charms containing the ornamental feathers of the Northern Rockhopper Penguin were sold out on the same day. To coincide with the "Happy Happy" theme, we will be selling a limited number of 88 charms.

■ Merchandise: AOAO SAPPORO Acrylic Magnet ~Penguins at Night~
・Sales period: July 5th (Saturday) ~
・Sales hours: 10:00-22:00
・Sales location: 4F "Museum Marche"
・Sales price: 770 yen (tax included)
Contents: We will sell two types of original acrylic magnets that allow you to enjoy the cute sleeping positions of penguins. As a purchase bonus, you will receive a card with an explanation of the sleeping positions by the penguin staff.

■ Merchandise: Plush toy lottery "Pingu lottery"
・Sales period: July 19th (Sat) to July 21st (Mon)
・Sales hours: 10:00-22:00
・Sales location: 4F "Museum Marche"
・Sales price: 1,500 yen (tax included)
Contents: A lottery with no losing tickets, where you can win a "Pingu" stuffed toy. Available for a limited time only.

Official Site

Fee

・Fee A: High school students and above 2,200 yen / elementary and junior high school students 1,100 yen / 3 years old and above 200 yen / under 3 years old free
・Fee B: High school students and above 2,000 yen / elementary and junior high school students 1,000 yen / 3 years old and above 200 yen / under 3 years old free
*Prices include tax.

Event Application

Venue

AOAO SAPPORO 4F “LABORATORY”

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