This weekend was my first trip to Kanagawa.... weird.For most people who have visited Japan, this is a must see place. It is the prefecture where you can find both Kamakura (one of the old capitals of Japan) and Yokohama (has a nice bayside area as well as the biggest China Town in Japan). However, this was my first time, in my third time in the country and almost two months into living here. But I didn't go to Kamakura or Yokohama (saving those for a nice day). I went to Oiso to spend the night at my friend Yu's house before our epic road trip to Fuji Q Highland Park.
We got up early and headed out in our pink rental car.
It took about three hours to get to Fuji Q... Upon arrival we saw massive coaster tracks, and got very excited!
Upon entering (using my SDSU school ID for the Student discount! I'm Chinese, can't help it) we were directed over to these photo booths. We inserted our tickets, and then the machine counted down. In less than five seconds out popped these cool fancy tickets.
Apparently Derek didnt realize what was going on, so his shoulder was the star. This pass gave us free reign over the park rides. If you rather not pay the $30, you can pay for individual rides, but the best ride, Ee Ja Nai Ka, costs $10 a ride.
Ee Ja Nai Ka is a 4-D ride. As far as I know, it is the second ever built (the first being X at Magic Mountain, which has recently been upgraded to X2). I looooooved X2 when I went to Magic Mountain, so I couldn't wait to get on Ee Ja Nai Ka. It was a good ride, but X2 had flames and all that jazz, so it was a bit disappointing. We ended up going on this one twice (or was it three times?). Fuji Q is not run in a very smart way. For a rainy cloudy day, it was pretty busy. Usually parks realize how busy it is and throw in another car or two to make the lines go faster, but NOT Fuji Q. They had one, sometimes two, cars going for their coasters. This made our wait for a 30 second ride, dodonpa (think superman but a complete cycle), over two and half hours long. THEEEEEN, to put some icing on that cake, once we got into the building, they shut the ride down because of the rain. Luckily as we exited, they handed us return tickets so we didnt have to wait for five bazillion hours. Overall, it was fun. Always good to go to theme parks with a group of people so the wait time isnt as excruciating. That night we stayed at some ritzy hotel near one of the lakes surrounding Mt. Fuji. It was pretty cloudy, so we couldnt see the mountain, but the hotel was nice and we all had a good night's rest. On Sunday we went to Gotemba Premium Outlets in Shizuoka. The outlet was pretty big and so were the prices. Basically, things were being sold at regular price in America. It was fun to look around, but I had to get back to Tokyo to catch my train (I think all of my journals are going to end like this).
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