Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan - December 01, 2024 Japanese monkeys soak in an open-air hot spring at the Hakodate Tropical Botanical Garden in Hakodate in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Dec. 1, 2024.

The Tropical Botanical Garden in Hakodate City has prepared a hot spring exclusively for 40 Japanese macaques, as temperatures dropped below minus 5 degrees Celsius. Hokkaido originally had no ...