Fuji-Q Highlands I recently went to the Fujikyu Highlands, an amusement park located approximately 2 hours from central Tokyo. We took the first bus in the morning (07.10) so that we'd get to ride as much as possible.. Japanese people seem to love waiting in line and rumour was that the waiting time could be up to seven hours for the new, hugely popular rollercoaster "Ee janaika". We had to wait 3 hours.. So even if most of our time was spent waiting, we still managed to ride all the rollercoasters and then some. We wanted to go into the famous Ghost House, but by the time we got there the waiting time was estimated to 1 hour 30 mins and we had to make sure we could get back to the busses in time. Just walking through the ghost house is supposed to take around 40 mins (and you have to go ALONE!), so we didn't want to risk missing the bus. It's true!! It's not like we were afraid or anything! Since when did anything Japanese scare anyone..?









Look at that girl in the line.. she's looking right at me hehe. Notice how the staff leaves a megaphone on the ground like that. We saw a lot of those. But people are too nice to steal things... The cute little nurse is from the souvenir shop outside the ghost house.

Anyway, I think we got the most out of our trip to Fuji-Q. Those rollercoasters were so crazy! The one on the left is the Fuji-Yama Rollercoaster. The highest point being 79 meters, it had the Guiness record for highest rollercoaster in the world when it was built back in '98 (I think). Riding it was probably the scariest thing I've ever done in my life. When we reached the top, before that big vertical drop, I saw the sign "79 m" and despite being struck by pure primal fear, I couldn't help but feeling slightly annoyed that they didn't make it a nice and even 80 meters... I like even numbers. Anyway, I regretted it everytime I sat in the car, waiting to be launched! And everytime we came down I felt so relieved to be standing on firm soil again, promising myself I would NEVER ride a rollercoaster again. Why do we build these things anyway? Isn't it time we spend our time and resources trying to invent a holodeck or something?

They sort the garbage quite well in Japan.. I like the way the man kicks the litter into the bin..







Think this girl looks weird? The high black socks, jeans shorts, weird vest-looking thing, dyed hair and cigarette in hand is a very common sight in Tokyo.

The black t-shirt on the left is just one of many funny t-shirts I see here.. if you ask me, though, I think it would have been funnier if it said "PAIN." two times instead of three.




Nice pizza eh? Sausage-pizza.. sure.. probably tastes alright.. just looks frightening. The idea is that you fold the bread around the sausage when you eat it, so it's like a hotdog-pizza hybrid!






Me, Mike and Fuji-san. Can you believe we climbed that thing a few weeks ago?? Never again...







More lovely food! How about this delicious-looking sausage on a bamboo stick?









Listen to the sounds of waiting in line to DoDonPa and the Ee janaika. Yes, we went completely insane more than once... we saw people tear their ears off just to make it stop.











The last photo was from another bathroom in Fuji-Q. It says "Wao! So big! Unbelievable! .....She loves it!"

To reward you for reading (or scrolling) all the way down here, I give you this sign. I won't bother translating, as the message is pretty obvious. This sign was in a candy shop... ¶ 09:38