Go inside the new Ushio-maru!

Niskin bottles for collecting seawater in various depth layers. X-Niskin (3L volume) with Teflon coated interior.

Shower room for students and faculty; the third photo shows crew washroom for the crew. A women-only sanitary compartment has also installed (No photos).

Large-screen TVs can receive both normal and one-segment waves. (1-seg. is Japanese terrestrial digital broadcasting service for mobilidevices).

Chara-kamaboko (character kamaboko) often appears in noodle dishes. (Chara-Kamaboko has been in existence since II.)

The student room (cafeteria) now has a larger table and all 17 students can sit down to eat.

Observation monitor compartment located aft of the bridge.

While cruising, a high-performance sonar monitors bottom-topography. Stratified current velocities by ADCP are also displayed. The Realtime Sea-bird CTD operates from this compartment.

【Bridge】The bridge (wheelhouse) is now spacious.

Almost all equipment and fixtures have been replaced with the most up-to-date ones, and the quality of acquired data has improved.

Stern deck area has been approximately doubled and the wheelhouse area has been expanded by three times. The hallway, which was previously impossible to pass each other, is now wider.