Operating under the motto of "contact between humans, animals, and nature", Adventure World consists of a zoo, aquarium, and an amusement park.

The park's many facilities include a giant panda breeding exhibition and dolphin and sea lion shows.

In July 2022, as part of the "Wakayama Summer Traffic Safety Movement", Ayahama became the new mascot of the campaign.

[5] All pandas born at the research base have names that carry the suffix hin (浜) (e.g., Rauhin).

Eimei gave birth to Ranbao (male) in 2002 at the Lanzhou Zoo in China via artificial insemination from Ran and Shulan (twin sisters born from Umeume), but he died on August 30, 2012.

[12] The dolphin and whale show, called "Marine Live", is held in a pool with a tank capacity of 10,000,000 litres (2,642,000 US gal).

Adventure World's first killer whale, Kianu (female, body length 6 m (20 ft), weight 3 t), was brought from Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in California five days before the opening of the amusement park in 1978.

[20] Some time afterwards, only Goro (a male brought from Taiji, Wakayama in 1985) remained, but fell ill on 18 January 2005 and died on March 21 at 9:20 pm.

Four eggs and sets of sperm from Ruka, Goro, Ran, and Kyu, collected before they died, have been preserved in preparation for future artificial insemination.

Located on the Adventure World site, it is the only facility in Japan where trainees receive specialised daily animal training in the park from keepers.