My favorite amusement park in Japan is called La Qua. My favorite ride was called the Wonder Drop. It was a flume where you ride around then you drop. There were tons of other rides but that was my favorite.
The craziest thing I saw in Japan was when we were running and we saw a giant turtle with a guy walking it. It was a really cool turtle. It had spikey legs and was walking slow. I think that I want a turtle like that.
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| not the one we saw, but very similar |
My favorite fun park in Japan is a huge park with a fun slide. There's also a climbing wall, a tread mill thing and a zipline. But the park was even better because our cousins were with us.
I think the biggest difference between America and Japan is the food. It is so different. They have sushi, ramen, tempura and other foods. Even the American food here is different. But it is also really good so I don't care.
The biggest difference between stores in America and in Japan is that most of the stores if you walk through Shibuya are completely open. In America no stores would ever have open fronts. I like that because then you can see what kind of store it is.
Alec's Top 10 List of Crazy Japan things:
1. what's with egg on top of everything and usually raw
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2. not as much color--buildings, people
4. after school cram schools
5. parts of animals we would never eat are common munchies here
6. kindergartners go to school and travel by trains and buses without supervision
7. only 4 TV channels
8. cigarette machines
9. can scan your train pass to pay for purchases at vending machines and stores
10. Kingakuji shrine, the silver pavilion, wasn't silver at all.
3. no matter which way you put a ticket into a subway machine, it will come out facing up and the right way.
Alec's favorite things in Japan:
1. ebi wasabi nuki
2. lots of fun parks
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| showa kinan park kid's forest |
3. lots of amusement parks
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| La Qua |
4. stores with open fronts instead of just doors
5. vending machines everywhere and the never ending options
6. department store roof top amusement and game parks
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| wouldn't the littler cousins love this? |
7. Edo outdoor architectural museum stilts and old fashioned games
8. naan as big as your torso
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| he has already eaten a few inches off the top |
9. Kinokuniya bookstore where you can read all the manga you want
10. favorite temple: Gingakuji temple, the golden pavilion
Alec,
ReplyDeleteVery interesting, what you liked and what was different. Looks like one could spend a lot of time at amusement parks. Glad you had such a good time in Japan and that you wrote about it for us back in the States.
Love,
Grandma
Hi everyone,
ReplyDeleteKirsten told me about this blog. I enjoyed a lot reading your blog. I hope you don't mind sharing your experiences with my students.
Yuki