Yokohama City Zoo Fund-Supporting the Zoo with Hometown Tax Payment-

The Yokohama City Zoo Fund has been established to promote the international contribution of biodiversity to the conservation and the enhancement of zoos. The Zoo Fund will raise donations from all over the world, and will introduce animals to promote breeding at the zoo to promote conservation and breeding of endangered wildlife.

Used for expenses related to the collection of animals essential to the zoo (animal collection, related facility renovation, etc.).

The three zoos in Yokohama (Yokohama Zoo ZOORASIA (outside site), Nogeyama Zoo (outside site), and Kanazawa Zoo (outside site)) in collaboration with zoos not only in Japan but also around the world (outside site), breed rare wildlife in conservation (outside site), and engage in attractive exhibitions so that everyone can learn about the environment surrounding animals and animals.

If you choose the zoo support menu as a way to use the donation, and if you live outside the city and donate more than 11,000 yen, you can choose the "Yokohama Zoo and Kanazawa Zoo Common Annual Passport" as a return item.
If you apply, please select an annual passport with your favorite design from A) Minami Africa Ottosei B) Ball Pison Higashi Clothing.

Please come to the zoo with your annual passport and see the attractions of the zoo in Yokohama and the results of your efforts!

• Zoo where you can enter the park: Yokohama Zoo, ZOORASIA, Kanazawa Zoo ※You can enter Nogeyama Zoo for free.
• Valid period: 1 year after reception at the zoo entrance window above
• Deadline for reception: Passports designed for "Minami Africa Ottosei" and "Ball Pison Higashi Clothing" must be registered as users at the counter by March 31, 2026.
• Others It is not possible to re-issue or update.

※For detailed information, see "the manual about the annual passport" to send after the contribution application and "the use of annual passport article".

• The design changes every year.
• It takes about two months from the donation before the annual passport is delivered.

You can pay in the following three ways.

Please apply from the site listed on this page.

Please fill out the donation application form with required items and send it to the application by mail, fax or e-mail.
Donation application style (individual) (PDF: 426KB), style (corporation) (PDF: 518KB)
Application: Yokohama City Green Environment Bureau Zoo Division To the person in charge of the Yokohama City Zoo Fund
Mail: 6-50-10 Honcho, Naka-ku, Yokohama 231-0005
Fax: 045-550-4650
E-mail: [email protected]

As soon as you confirm your donation application, we will send you payment documents by mail at a later date.

You can apply for electronic application from the link below.
"Hometown tax payment" to Yokohama-shi [enhancement of zoo] donation application form (outside site)

As soon as you confirm your donation application, we will send you payment documents by mail at a later date.

Regarding donations to the Zoo Fund, the remaining amount obtained by subtracting 2,000 yen from the donation amount can be deducted together with income tax, up to approximately 20% of the personal residence tax income percent. I can do it. Please contact the municipality where you live.
Please file a tax return at the tax office that governs your Address area between January and March 15 of the year following your donation. You will need the "receipt" or "donation receipt certificate" received when you made the donation, so please keep it in a safe place.

Under the corporate tax law, the entire amount may be included in deductibles.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who donated to this project.
※Only those who have agreed to disclose their name are posted.
※Information on those who donated in the current fiscal year and the previous year.

In fiscal 2023, we donated goods to Nogeyama Zoo through our corporate version of hometown tax payment.
The donated items (parasols, cool shades, tents) are installed at Makigahara Little Kids Zoo in Nogeyama Zoo and branch gardens, and are used to improve visitors' services and improve the living environment of animals.
※Information on those who donated in the current fiscal year and the previous year.

• Company name: TAKASHO Co., Ltd.
• Location 20-1, Minamiakasaka, Kainan-shi, Wakayama
• Representative: Nobuo Takaoka, President and CEO