Promise that I would blog on my Japan/Taiwan trip on my off day, so I need to keep my promise! If not I will never finish this trip posts. I am only at day 2 leh... omg. 12 more days of details waiting for me. Anyway if you want to backtrack on my trip, here's the link:
This post would be mostly photos because what else to write than to actually show you the wonders in Universal Studio Japan? Yes, we changed our schedule abit because initially I wanted to do some shopping first before going to attraction places but my sister checked on the weather forecast and realised that it might rain the few days that we were in Japan and the only possible forecasted sunny day was on the second day so there we go! About 20 - 30 mins away from our hostel, how awesome. The least we don't have to wake up so early to travel. Easily accessible by the subway; destination stop is Universal-city station. We were very kaisu of course, we wanted to spend the full whole day in USJ; there was too many things to see and play definitely. So if you want to be like us, the operating hours for USJ is from 0900 - 2200. Please go to their website and check again for the hours of the day that you will be visiting the theme park because there is variation. The period that we visited was summer holiday so I think hours were longer, or so I think. The ticket for USJ is about 7000YEN for each (SGD 86). The reason we wanted to go USJ and spent such money was because they recently opened the HARRY POTTER WORLD in July! The other harry potter world is at Orlando which I think for the near future I would not be going there. So why not take this opportunity to visit then! *Excited*
Let the magic begins!
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| my sis with her favourite character! |
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| cookie monster! |
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| my sister insist on taking with Elmo since she wore red as well! and whats the worth if you didn't take pictures with the mascot in USJ? But this Elmo is very popular among the kids, we waited for quite some time. |
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| roller coasters!! our favourite! |
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| You need to get this time slot ticket to enter the harry potter world. I believed is their way of crowd management because it just opened and it's holiday you see. Super packed. Remember to check out this detail before you visit USJ. Maybe there will be changes! |
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| We waited for this mascot for so long! and under the freaking hot sun. I kid you not, It was summer at Japan and looked at my arms, already slightly sunkissed liao. Anyway, the mascot support told us we must be daring if not we can never have the chance. The kids are all snatching the mascot legs and hands to take picture with him and we have no chances at all! ( how do you fight with kids?!) The mascot support saw us hovering around for very long therefore the advice. We are worse than tourists.LOL |
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| Jaw ride was the first ride we took. A boat ride which was okay. |
Before I continue on more pictures, I would like to share on this tip for visiting attraction theme parks like this: if you don't mind separating with your friends or travel buddy when you take the ride, do consider the single ride queue. Reason being, the queue is much more shorter waiting time than the normal queue. We both don't really mind whether or not we can sit the same ride side by side ( some of the ride we actually get to sit together thou), because our aim is to enjoy as many rides that we planned to do so! Some of the normal queue goes up to twice the waiting time as compared to single ride, so why not! Back to the pictures!
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| no filter. Look at the clear sky. |
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| in need of an ice cream or something cooling. |
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| Can you see my sunburnt now? |
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| Why don't we have this in USS? |
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| The Jurassic Park ride which is not bad. |
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| You get splashed and wet if you are suay! |
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| A waste of our time. Don't go for this ride. Just a motion ride which we queue for nearly 2 hours. damn |
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| THIS IS AWESOME! Second from harry potter ride. |
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| we were lucky to get the backdrop one. There is two hollywood dream ride; the normal and the backdrop one. We only managed to take backdrop one because we are running late from the harry potter world if we take the normal one too. Yes single ride queue and still very long wait. The backdrop is basically backwards of the normal ride. So we actually ride backwards; the adrenaline that you can't see the ride path is the awesome part! |
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| the game that my crazy sister spend on and did not manage to get the prize anyway. LOL |
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| Entering Harry Potter World.... |
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| Welcome to Hogsmeade |
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| The animated poster (It really moved like the one shown in movie) |
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| monster book |
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| hogswart castle |
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| We were really too obedient to keep all our valuables and phones in the locker that we missed out on the beautiful interior design of the castle. Every other tourists were busy snapping away. Silly us. By the way, this ride was freaking damn long queue; I think it was 3 or 4 hours wait. I am serious. This is that crazy but it was really worth the wait. |
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| Head to three broom stick for early dinner because we were too hungry. |
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| A simple meal but cost 2550YEN. We bought just one to share. |
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| The hogsmeade at night. beautiful isn't it? |
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| The parade that we wanted to see! Here are a few of them because we practically took all the individual parade cars. |
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| caught the last ride at spiderman which has zero queue and I would recommend as well. |
Managed to buy some souvenir from spiderman retail for my boy because he likes spiderman, of course it is not cheap la. And this end the whole day in USJ. Very worth the money despite the scorching sun which make both of us suntan till very badly that when we went to Taiwan and the locals thought we came from the Kenting beaches. Day 2 USJ ended! Till then!
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