I spent most of my first day in Japan to visit Osaka’s Universal Studio. In the morning we went to Tempozan Harbor Village to ride the Tempozan Ferris Wheel. It is a very massive ferris wheel, and it’s claimed to be one of the biggest ferris wheel in the world. The ride costs us 700 Yen per person, and it lasts around 5-10 minutes. The ride was nothing special, it’s just a ferris wheel, but the view was magnificent. After riding the ferris wheel, we went to WTC Cosmo Tower for a couple of photo shots, before going to the Universal Studio.
We arrived at Universal Studio roughly around 2 o’clock in the afternoon. We were very excited when we got there, we went straight to the souvenir shops and was totally forgotten that there’re a couple of attractions worth seeing in Universal Studio. Due to tight timing, we only managed to see 4 attractions, which are: Rocky Horror Show, Waterworld, Wicked, and Terminator 2 3D. I like the Terminator show the most, it’s one of the best 3D effect I have ever seen, especially the part where Arnold blows T-1000 terminator’s head off, the liquid particles look so darn real. We spent roughly about four and a half hours in the Universal Studio. Since we did not play any rides, its more than enough time to experience Universal Studio. We had an awesome time.
Universal Studio Osaka is not my first Universal Studio experience. I have been to Universal Studio America when I was a kid. I have to say that Osaka’s Universal Studio is very similar to the one in America. There are a couple of rides and attractions that can be found in both Universal Studios, such as: Waterworld, Jurassic Park, E.T. and few others. One complaint that I have for Osaka’s Universal Studio is that, all of the attractions are done in Japanese Language, and it does not have English subtitle at all. There are plenty of non Japanese visitors in the Universal Studio, there’s no reason not to have English subtitle in their attraction shows.
After Universal Studio, we squeezed in a little bit of time to see Osaka’s floating garden before having dinner. The floating garden is located on top of a very tall building. From the name, we thought that there’s actually a real physical garden on the top of the building, but when we get there we were kinda surprised that there was No garden at all. We later found out that the garden is actually the full view of the Osaka city. Yep, you can see the whole Osaka city from the top of the building, and it is very beautiful. Definitely worth seeing.
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