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Lithuanian Zoo

Within Ąžuolynas Park, this was renovated in 2023 and now offers a better experience for animals and visitors.

Listing from Wikivoyage: Kaunas, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Molas
Indoor mall with a large supermarket, around 50 retailers - various shops, pharmacy, bookstores, opticians, restaurants
Daily 08:00-22:00, some retailers close earlier
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Dariaus and Girėno Sports Complex
Large athletics stadium (capacity 10,000) plus indoor hall and sports science facilities.
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Galaunė House-Museum
The house was built in 1932 for soprano Adelė Nezabitauskaitė-Galaunienė (1895–1962) and art historian Paulius Galaunė (1890–1988). The architect was Arnas Funkas (1898–1957).
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House of Sugihara
Diplomats for Life
In 1940 thousands of Jews from Poland and Lithuania were desperate to get out, but they needed visas. The Dutch issued many visas for Curaçao and their Caribbean colonies, but getting there became much more difficult when Italy joined the Nazis and closed the Med. The main escape route was then across the USSR to the Pacific. In Kaunas the Japanese vice-consul Chiune Sugihara (1900-86) issued hundreds of Japanese transit visas, blithely disregarding orders to conduct all sorts of checks. He may have saved thousands of lives, as a whole family could travel on one visa; from Japan they moved on to North America and elsewhere. His mission ended when the embassy closed, Germany crushed Lithuania, and anyone who hadn't got out was exterminated. Sugihara spent his later years in obscurity in Japan; his Kaunas residence is now this museum.
Adult €10, child or conc €5