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Japanese theme park now offering fake thugs you can “beat up” to impress your girlfriend【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Apr 27, 2017 - Tweet
Flash mob scenarios include one seemingly inspired by anime hit Your Name.
- Japan
- (acting • Amusement Parks • cool • flash mob • funny • Hirakata Park • Osaka • theme parks • video • weird • your name.)
Tokyo indoor anime theme park launches new cosplay rental service
- Casey Baseel
Apr 15, 2017
There’s no easier or more appropriate place to cosplay as some of the greatest heroes of the anime and manga world.
- Japan
- (Amusement Parks • anime • cosplay • Dragon Ball • gintama • Ikebukuro • J-World Tokyo • manga • Naruto • One Piece • Shonen Jump • theme parks • Tokyo)
Japan’s hot spring amusement park announces first rides, and onsen merry-go-round makes the cut!
- Casey Baseel
Apr 11, 2017
Kyushu amusement park will also have “artificial intelligence duck races.”
- Japan
- (Amusement Parks • Beppu • cool • funny • hot springs • Kyushu • onsen • theme parks • Uenchi • video • weird)
Crowdfunding campaign aims to revitalise disaster region by opening abandoned theme park in Japan
- Oona McGee
Jan 13, 2017
The eerie ruins of this once-thriving amusement park look set to become Japan’s next unusual place to visit.
- Japan
- (accommodation • Amusement Parks • haikyo • resorts • ruins • theme parks • Tohoku • tourist sites • travel)
First look at Universal Studios Japan’s Nintendo World shown in official concept art
- Casey Baseel
Dec 13, 2016
Well now, that looks awesome.
- Japan
- (awesome • cool • nintendo • Super Mario • theme parks • Universal Studios • Universal Studios Japan • video games)
Evangelion ride being added to Universal Studios Japan this winter
- Casey Baseel
Oct 21, 2016
New Attack on Titan attraction also in development as theme park continues to embrace anime franchises.
- Japan
- (anime • Attack on Titan • Evangelion • theme parks • Universal Studios • Universal Studios Japan)
Japanese doll enthusiast shares photos of his “daughter” at Tokyo Disneyland and Disney Sea
- Casey Baseel
Oct 5, 2016
She’s too short to ride Thunder Mountain, but proud owner still seems to be enjoying their theme park visits together.
- Japan
- (Disney • Disney Sea • dolls • otaku • theme parks • Tokyo Disneyland • weird)
Death Eaters set to attack Osaka in invasion of Universal Studios Japan’s Harry Potter area
- Casey Baseel
Aug 17, 2016
Dark times are coming this autumn.
- Japan
- (halloween • Harry Potter • movies • theme parks • Universal Studios Japan • USJ)
Sounds like Universal Studio Japan’s Nintendo zone is going to be huge!
- Casey Baseel
Jul 13, 2016
Park reveals project is bigger than Wizarding World of Harry Potter, gives tentative opening date.
- Japan
- (nintendo • Osaka • theme parks • Universal Studios Japan • USJ • video games)
Japanese TV program chuckles at Shanghai Disneyland’s “non-Disney” characters, like…Mulan?
- Casey Baseel
Jun 21, 2016
Could none of the producers remember back to 1998?
- China, Entertainment, Japan
- (Disney • Disneyland • funny • Mulan • Shanghai Disneyland • theme parks • video)
Chinese businessman sets his sights on driving Disney Resort out of Shanghai
- Jamie Koide
Jun 7, 2016
Billionaire Jianlin Wang says Mickey Mouse and friends aren’t welcome in China.
- China, Entertainment
- (businessmen • Jianlin Wang • rivalry • Shanghai Disney Resort • theme parks • tourism • Wonda)
Idols ahoy! AKB48 to hold concerts at Universal Studios Japan every day starting in July
- Casey Baseel
Jun 3, 2016
Osaka theme park doubles down (48-times down?) on its Japanese appeal with daily performances by members of four Japanese idol supergroups.
- Entertainment, Japan
- (AKB48 • concerts • Idols • J-Pop • music • theme parks • Universal Studios Japan)
Japan is getting its first full-scale Legoland amusement park
- Casey Baseel
May 20, 2016
But it’s not Tokyo that’s being graced with the block-based attraction.
- Entertainment, Japan
- (Amusement Parks • LEGO • legoland • Nagoya • theme parks)
Brand-new Beauty and the Beast area and Baymax attractions coming to Tokyo Disneyland 【Pics】
- Casey Baseel
Apr 28, 2016
Belle, Beast, and Big Hero 6’s biggest hero part of extensive renovations planned for the park and its neighbor Tokyo Disney Sea.
- Entertainment, Japan
- (Baymax • Beauty and the Beast • Big Hero 6 • Disney • Disney Sea • theme parks • Tokyo Disneyland)
New Dragon Ball, Death Note, and One Piece attractions coming to Universal Studios Japan
- Casey Baseel
Apr 19, 2016
Some of the biggest stars of anime and manga are going to be spending their summer at the Osaka theme park.
- Anime & Manga, Entertainment, Japan
- (Amusement Parks • anime • Death Note • Dragon Ball • manga • One Piece • theme parks • Universal Studios Japan)
Awesome optical illusion turns Japanese Ferris wheel into a cube 【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Mar 23, 2016
Yokohama plays a beautiful trick on the eyes of visitors to its harbor area.
- Japan
- (Amusement Parks • cool • Ferris wheel • Kanagawa • optical illusion • theme parks • video • Yokohama)
Universal Studios Japan to (probably) get Nintendo-themed attractions
- Mike
Feb 3, 2016
Nintendo and Universal Studios Japan (USJ) recently signed a basic business agreement that could pave the way for future USJ attractions featuring Nintendo characters and game worlds.
J-pop star Kyari Pamyu Pamyu has a virtual reality theme park ride, and it’s open now!
- Preston Phro
Jan 15, 2016
The J-Pop star joins the ranks of such musicians as Michael Jackson with new limited-edition USJ theme park ride. Now there’s a sentence I never thought I’d write.
- Japan
- (Kyari Pamyu Pamyu • theme parks • USJ • virtual reality • VR)
Tokyo’s Hello Kitty theme park to host stage reading of homosexual romance novel
- Casey Baseel
Dec 2, 2015
Kitty-chan seems to have no problem with a bit of boys’ love.
- Japan
- (books • boys love • Hello Kitty • Puroland • Sanrio • theme parks)
Hello Kitty fans have a special reason to go to Sanrio amusement parks December 4 – They’re free!
- KK Miller
Nov 20, 2015
Japan’s two Sanrio theme parks are holding a one-day event on December 4 filled with shows, special events and your favorite characters. The best part is that it will cost you absolutely nothing to get in that day!
- Japan
- (free • Harmonyland • Hello Kitty • My Melody • Puroland • Sanrio • theme parks)
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New Studio Ghibli anime gets extended run at the only cinema in Japan where it’s being shown
Osaka’s famous Glico Running Man will be removed and replaced with a new-look sign
Studio Ghibli creates illustrated Kyoto sightseeing map, available at any 7-Eleven Japan store
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Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
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Japanese convenience store offering chance to have your shopping be effectively free for one day
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