Fur all around: more than a hundred foxes live in a Japanese village

In the mountains of Japan, near the town of Shiroishi, there is a village where more than a hundred foxes of six different species live. The entrance to the village is open, you can even feed the foxes. We already talked about this village, but we found new photographs and could not help but show them to you.

The author of these photos is Natasha Puente from Mexico. She came to Tokyo to obtain a TESOL certificate, which certifies her qualifications as an English teacher. Finding herself in another part of the world, the girl could not miss the chance to go to a fox farm - especially since this is her favorite animal, she even got herself several tattoos with foxes.

To get to the farm, Natasha took the Shinkansen bullet train two hours to the city of Shiroishi in Miyagi Prefecture and called a taxi there.

Admission costs $8, and you can also buy food for the foxes. Zoo workers explain in English how visitors should behave inside.

You should not feed foxes from your hands - you should throw food to them.

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Don't bend down because foxes can come up from behind and bite you.

You cannot leave things unattended: foxes can mark your territory.

In the first part of the village, in addition to foxes in cages or on leashes, there are also rabbits, ponies and goats. You can pet these animals and take pictures with them.

In the main part of the territory, foxes roam freely throughout the reserve, as if they were living in the wild.

If you feed them, they may follow you in hopes of more.

In this part of the reserve, foxes are practically not controlled by workers, so you need to remember that these are wild animals and it is better not to touch them.

There are feeders, small houses for foxes and ritual torii gates throughout the reserve. There is even a temple.