Takashi Amano Planted Tanks
Amano - For those who have been in this hobby for only a short time to those who have years of experience, the name Takashi Amano represents natural aquariums at their finest. Most can only say they’ve seen pictures of his tanks. The lucky ones have had the opportunity to see them in person. I was one of the lucky ones. After college, I went backpacking in Japan. Being in this hobby for only a few months, I knew already that I couldn’t pass up the chance to see Takashi Amano’s tanks in person. So I took the 2 1/2 hour BulletTrain ride from Tokyo to Niigata to see them in person. Here are the pictures I took….
Natural Aquarium World
This is the first book of a series from Amano. The pictures of his tanks are simply amazing. With each picture he includes a detailed description of each tank. |
Natural Aquarium World 2
With this 2nd book, he continues where he left off - with more amazing pictures of natural aquariums and detailed descriptions. It’s a must-have! |
Natural Aquarium World 3
You can’t just own one Amano book. The 3rd book from Amano is just as incredible as the last two. Every tank is completely different. You have to see it for yourself! It’s totally worth it. |
The store is located in the most random area. The area is very rural. There are no other stores and the bus only comes around every hour and a half. |
The closest thing in the store to a reptile were these HUGE turtles. Thought they were giant stones at first. |
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 The store is divided into two sections; one for the fish/plants and one for his products. |
 This is a picture of the other side of the store. All the tanks on the walls looked like lil’ natural aquariums. Imagine going to your LFS and all the tanks are amano-style. neat. |
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This is the from across the street. As you can see, it’s not a very big building nor a very modern one. |
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The following pictures are pictures I took at the fish store. These are unfinished tanks in the store that were mostly I think used for storage or minor display tanks.
You have no idea just how much I’m envying this.
WOW! This is totally making me miss having freshwater tanks!
WOW!!! Thats one awesome tank!!
See if every freshwater tank looked like these they might be worth having
No but seriously…they look awesome!
Damn! I feel envious! If I get to visit Japan, I won’t let go of the chance to check out that store! His style is amazing! If only… if only!
cool store!
These are beautiful pictures. What is the long grass he has in the background of so many of his tanks? I’m having a hard time identifying it.
hello. i hope mr amano gets to see this.
can i ask you to teach me on planted aquarium.
i would be willing to go to japan.
please send me a message at saldie_tan@yahoo.com.
hope to hear from you.
anyone know what type of fish that is in the pic? The blue ones?
the blue ones are discus freshwater fish.
Hello,
I’m really sorry to be not as positive as you are on the tanks presented here.
It looks a bit like an Amano design, but really does not have the same quality! It doesn’t look natural; especially the stones are really badly placed…
So, is it then the Shop of Amano?? In fact, it is not! It is a shop selling ADA products but not the HQ of Amano in Niigata… The HQ, were you can see the tanks done by Amano is in a very modern building, not in the cheap construction on the picture. You have simply visited the wrong place… Sorry for you… :-((