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The Queues in Fuji-Q<\/span><\/h1>\n

After the hard grind of the last weeks I’m taking a time out. This time by train to Fuji-Q amusement park<\/a> at the foot of Fuji San. It will already by my second time at mount Fuji. Even if the trip to it \u2013 starting from Tokyo’s city centre \u2013 takes up to two hours and is 90 km long it is quite a bargain to get there. The journey there costs less than 2,000 Yen (26,6 AUD, 16,7GBP 27 CAD, 26 USD).<\/span><\/p>\n

On this trip I’m accompanied by Hiro, one of my previous hosts, (Week 2) and Christopher, who joined as after Hiro and I announced this trip as a public event on the couch surfing web page<\/a>. Christopher is from the Ohio, U.S.A. and studies peace & conflict resolution here in Japan. Who knows, perhaps I’m standing in front of U.S.A.’s next exalted peace ambassador. Well, U.S.A. and peace ambassador. Ain’t that a contradiction? ;)
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I’m glad we’re taking the train because we get to socialize with a nice women and girls travelling group with whom we can easily make conversation with. And this is how time rides. Well they say so, don’t they?<\/span><\/p>\n

Fuji-Q has its very own station right in front of the theme park. The entrance fee system<\/a> is somewhat confusing. Either you pay 1,300 Yen (17,3 AUD, 17,6 CAD, 10,90 GBP, 17 USD) for the entrance fee but have to pay for every ride separately, or pay 5,000 Yen (66,5 AUD, 67,6 CAD, 42 GBP ,65 USD) for a day ticket and can enjoy every ride without limit for a whole day.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Okay, it’s obvious that we’ll take the day ticket, right?\u201d I’m saying. But Hiro knows that a day ticket won’t pay off for us since it’s already past 1 p.m. and you often have to wait in line for over an hour for one attraction. If at all, the ticket only pays off when arriving on time at 10:00 a.m. and making use of one attraction after another for a whole day.<\/span><\/p>\n

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world record certificate<\/p><\/div>\n

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Only when getting in line for the first queue\/line do I begin to realize the credibility of Hiro’s words. In fact we are waiting \u2013 believe it or not \u2013 for two hours and 30 minutes in line\/the queue for a two minutes and 10 seconds roller coaster ride. Well, it’s the Eejanaika<\/a> (\u3048\u3048\u3058\u3083\u306a\u3044\u304b<\/span>) roller coaster. A world record coaster \u2013 of course with an entry in the Guinness book of world records<\/a>. 14 Inversions! However, roller coaster freaks<\/a> are arguing about the acknowledgement of this record. Because when taking the record the inversions of the rotating roller coaster seats were combined with the track inversions and were counted as a whole. Record or not, it’s a fun coaster, however the two hours and 30 minutes waiting time is not justifiable for me for a little longer than two minutes ride.
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