I bet you guys know where we went today! Yep, Universal Studios Japan in Osaka!! It was so awesome, and being with friends made it all the better!
We took about four subway trains to get there, and it was wayyyyy early for us as we had to get up at around 6, take the subways, and so we finally got there around 7:50.
We were kind of stupid because we went into the line to get into the park, for those who already bought tickets, which we (of course) didn't. So we had to go into a seperate line for the tickets and then go back into entry line for the park. Madness already when we didn't even enter the Studios yet.
After a somewhat long line, we finally entered the amusement park. One of Riko's friend's, Mio, went ahead to get us time slots to enter Harry Potter world. She'd been here before so she wanted to go help us out by letting us try out Harry Potter first. Our waiting time was an hour and a half away so we decided to go try out the ride Space Fantasy!
It was actually a pretty cool ride, like, we actually traveled in space! Sort of. It was about a 90 minute wait, but I thought it was well worth it!
Next up, Harry Potter World! Wow, everything was pretty amazing there, so much Harry Potter-ness.
We went into a couple shops before getting some butterbeer! It tasted like cream soda - pretty good.
Did I forget to mention how blazing hot the weather was? Cause we were sweating a lot and we didn't even start the day yet, and waiting in lines were kind of bad. We were waiting in line for the famous Harry Potter ride but the wait was kind of dreadful - about two hours long. We as a group wanted to buy the speedpass but they were already sold out when we wanted to get them. I bought the picture from the ride! Meghan had to cool down so she went to look around more of the Harry Potter shops, so that's why she wasn't on this ride with us.
We took a few pics before leaving Harry Potter World.
We then went back to Hollywood Life and went to a burger place to get some burgers. It was pretty expensive but we hadn't really eaten breakfast so we had to get something. I had an avocado burger and it tasted fine but it was nice just talking to Mio, and Riko's other friend Akari. They spoke no English so I had to bring back some Japanese I've forgotten to talk to them. Meghan was usually the expert in that area.
We then went on the ride Back to The Future. The line was short compared to the others, we looked online to see them, ha. It was a fun ride, with a lot of moving in place inside a vehicle but, WOAH, did it make us a bit weezy after the ride.
After, we went to the Minions store! It was a lot of fun stuff in there and a lot of people bought them but they were verrrrryyyy expensive.
Me and Meghan and Riko with her friends went our separate ways as they wanted to ride Space Fantasy again, so we went off and bought some Minion food! It was just a meat bun and mochi on sticks, but they were so cute looking with the Minions faces on them.
I also really wanted to try the frozen mango that I had seen every where, and WOW was that good.
We originally wanted to go to Jurassic Park but the timed tickets to go in were already sold out, so only those who got them earlier could go in. It wasn't a big deal because right next to it was Jaws! I remember riding this ride in Florida so I knew I would enjoy it. (BETA Natasha's note: I was there with you, too. I didn't enjoy it, I cried lol)
Meghan and I didn't want to wait that long and there was a singles line that people just waited for 30 minutes, so, a plus for us.
FYI, every announcer on every ride all speak in Japanese, I got the jist of most of the stuff but the ride of Harry Potter and Back to the Future were dubbed in Japanese so I had to video most of their words cause I didn't understand why they couldn't put subtitles instead.
So after that ride we took some more pics and went to meet up with Riko and her friends again.
We were discussing a lot and decided for our last ride to be Spider-Man! It wasn't like the latest movie of Spider-man, but more of the old animation one.
Us waiting in line:
It was still a marvelous ride because it was more action packed and more of a roller coaster. I also got the picture for it at the end.
Riko, Meghan and I then said goodbye to her friends and left cause we were so exhausted, and Mio and Akari wanted to go back to Harry Potter again.
I stopped by Hard Rock Cafe on the way back and we even saw a Pinkberry! Couldn't resist getting that!
Riko's mom picked us up and even prepared dinner for us which was very nice of her. She's done so much for us that I really couldn't thank her enough with the mere chocolates I bought them.
We took a night night shower as this was going to be our last day, and went straight to sleep.
Sid
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