Universal Studios Japan

May 16th, 2006

I went to "Universal Studios Japan" with my family for the first time the day before yesterday(this past Sunday). One of my wife's acquaintances gave her some free tickets as a present.
USJ was built in Osaka, Japan 5 years ago, but I haven't visited there before. Because we live in Osaka, so I'd thought we could make it easily anytime.

The place wasn't as crowded as I expected. The longest waiting time was about one hour to see the attraction of "JAWS". We needed to wait for just about 20 minutes to see most of the attractions. I guess the reason we didn't need to wait so long was that the day was the Sunday right after Golden week holidays(holiday-studded week).

First, I went see "BACKDRAFT" because there wasn't a long line. But the decision was a huge mistake. All my children got scared due to a lot of fire. So we could go to only "BACK TO THE FUTURE" after that. I wanted to go see and ride some more attractions. (ToT) Anyway we walked around in USJ, to see lots of buildings and some street performances. I got extremely tired...


We dropped by a cheap Chinese restaurant to have dinner on our way home. We had a huge amount of Chinese foods.

My 12-year-old son:
1 bowl of boiled rice
2 servings of jiao-zi(餃子 ぎょうざ steam-baked meat pie)
6 pieces of deep fried chicken
some meat

My 7-year-old son:
1 bowl of fried rice
1 bowl of Ramen(Chinese noodle)
1 servings of jiao-zi
2 pieces of deep fried chicken

Me:
2 mugs of draft beer
1.5 servings of jiao-zi
6 pieces of deep fried chicken
some meat and vegetables(left on my children's plate)
1 serving of double cooked pork(回鍋肉 ホイコーロー)
1 bowl of fried rice for dessert :)

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