Mt. Fuji Trip: Day 3, Fuji-Q Highlands Amusement Park

Our hotel owner made us get up early the next day because he was going to drop us off at Fuji-Q Highlands at 9am. But that turned out to be a good thing, because then we got to go on more rides!! There were three big rollercoasters: The Fujiyama (record-breaking for height and speed), the Dodonpa (shoots you out like a bullet), and the Eejyanaika (just crazy all around, where the seats rotate as well as breaking records for the most twists and turns in a rollercoaster). We went on the Eejyanaika twice, the Dodonpa once (it gave us headaches!) and the Fujiyama three times.

The Eejyanaika was our first coaster of the day, so I'll show it first.

The promotions while waiting in line were awesomely Japanese. And when we were leaving the platform of the Eejyanaika, the attendants clapped and chanted this song, and waved goodbye at us. They also clapped when we returned. :D


This is what it looks like when you go down the first drop of the Eejyanaika. SO SCARY HAHA. The seats rotate so you are really facing completely down while you make that drop.

I'm not even kidding, the Fujiyama was the greatest rollercoaster I've ever been on. It didn't give me a headache at all, and each ride lasted for 3.5 minutes!!! The drops were huge and the view of Mt. Fuji from the first drop was unbelievable. Here are our photos from the ride. :D We tried to make the last one look like Mt. Fujis. :)

Here's a picture of us from the Dodonpa. It gave us a headache but was a great time!

Stats from the Dodonpa.

Here's a pretty hilarious video from when we went on the teacups. It had started raining so this was a perfect ride for us to do and keep dry.

The bathrooms at the park were hilarious too. Look at what was written on the walls and doors. In the boys' bathroom, a sign above the urinals said, "WAO! So big! Unbelievable. She loves it."

Mt. Fuji view from the park. :) We still couldn't believe we had climbed it.

We went on some very tall swings and the carousel and played a fun adventure game based on the Gundam show. By then the rain was really coming down and most of the rides had been closed anyway because it was after 5pm.

So we ran to a grocery store to buy dinner (spaghetti again, but this time with meat and booze!) and took some really wet purikura. :D We were soaked!

Dinner was amazing, and this time we made Robert cook and clean up while I took a hot spring bath. :) The hot bath felt soooo much better today because the weather was really cold due to the rain. The previous day, it was really hot outside AND in the bath. Here's our dinner, omg. Hirose-san told Robert to move over and then cooked the meat in wine!

 Judging by the website for our hotel, it was famous for the 25-year-old cat, Mimi-chan. We were excited to see the cat, whose picture was even on the side of the hotel van that was used to pick us up. We even found a magazine in our room with articles about Mimi! But when Robert asked if we could meet Mimi, Hirose-san said that she had died. :( Hirose-san said that he cries every day when he thinks about the cat, who was apparently like a child to him for 25 years. He cried when he talked to us about Mimi. :( But he showed us a ton of pictures of her. Mimi was even featured in movies and manga, which he showed us. We were really sad to hear about how much he obviously missed her, so we toasted to the memory of Mimi at dinner. The next day, Hirose-san had us take a picture with a photograph of Mimi because all of his guests used to take pictures with the live cat before they left. He gave us omamori with a photo of Mimi inside of it, to bring us good luck and happiness. :) What a sweet old man Hirose-san is! 

We had some interesting fun after dinner and called Sachi again. :) Then we went right to sleep, or so Ethan wants me to say. Here is a picture of us faking sadness from earlier, when we got soaked and were waiting to be picked up to go back to the ryokan. It was a really, really wonderful day. :)