Halloween in USJ

The last time, I talked about USJ, and this time, I’ll talk about USJ again especially about Halloween. In USJ, there are many decorations or events of Halloween.
There are many special sweets of Halloween. For example, cream puff of pumpkin, or special desert set. It is a rather high price. I have never eaten it because of the price, but I want to eat it someday!!

cream puff of pumpkin

special desert set

There are also many kinds of souvenir of Halloween. For example, mascot, handtowel, clear file, mug, and so on. It is very cute, and I feel like buying everything!!
There is Halloween parade at night, 18:30 to 19:00. We can participate in the parade, not only as a spectator, but also as a performer. If you wear costume and enter in the parade, you can walk the parade course with USJ staff. The chance to join the parade is 9 times on October, but 7 times of that was over, so you can join it on October 25th and 26th. But there is restriction which is 1000 people can join it at one time, so you want to participate it, I recommend you that enter in it quickly. It will be your good memory and if you join it, you can get snack, Koara no March, free of charge.
Actually, I went to USJ on October 18th, and I watched many people wore costume and joined the parade. I didn’t know about this system, so I enjoyed it as one of spectators. Many girls wear mantle, or headband, and many people imitated various characters. For example, there were Dorothy, Pikacyu, Jack Sparrow, and so on. It's very fun. Let's enjoy Halloween!!

http://www.usj2.com/info/halloween/index.html

USJ

USJ was opened in Konohana area in Osaka on March 31 in 2001. The size is 14 times as large as Koushien. At first, USJ had planed to build in Sakai city in Osaka, but transportation to USJ was bad, so it was changed.
USJ is a theme park which is based on many Hollywood movies and is combined magnificent ride attraction, show, restaurant, and shopping. We can enjoy USJ all the year round. In USJ, we can enjoy fantastic experiences and meet many characters of USJ. For example, snoopy, Hello Kitty, companion of Sesame Street. Now, in USJ, there is Halloween event, and it will be changed to Christmas event in November 6th.
Business hours depends on the day or season, so I suggest you that you should go there after checking it. An entrance fee is 5800 yen a once, and an annual pass is 11500 yen.
According to survey of Internet, the most popular attraction is Universal Monster Live Rock and Roll show. Second is Water World, third is Back to The Future. And Spider-Man, Jurassic Park, Terminator, Jews, E.T., Hollywood Dream The Ride, and Back Draft in order of the rank.

All of picures are from... http://www.asahi-net.or.jp

JEWS

E.T.

Jurassic Park

Spider-Man

Tsutenkaku

Wikipedia

Tsutenkaku is one of the symbols of Osaka, and it is a tower which has 103 meter height. This tower was built in 1912, which was modeled on the Eiffel tower and the Arch of Triumph. However, it was removed during the Second World War, and rebuilt in 1956.
In this tower, there are an event hall, a tearoom, a stand, and an observation deck. At the fifth floor, the floor of an observation deck, there is Billiken. Billiken is a statue of god of good luck. Billiken has a tradition that if you stroke the sole of the foot of Billiken, you can have good luck.
The top of this tower, there is a neon light which turns on a light which depends on the weather. There are four colors. Sunny is white, cloudy is orange, rainy is blue, and snowy is pink. So, this is also a light equipment of the weather forecast which tells us the tomorrow weather.