Yesterday I went with Rodrigo (AKA Zordor) and a Japanese friend to FujiQ .

Fuji-Q Highland (富士急ハイランド) is an amusement park located in Fujiyoshida (Shizuoka), located just to the base of Mount Fuji.

The park had until recently many attractions in the Guinness World Records, but lately they have been opening new parks around the world leaving the haunted house FujiQ the largest in the world with one of the few records it maintains.

The main attractions are:

Fujiyama: A roller coaster which has a height of 79 meters, a length of 2045 meters and is at a maximum speed of 130 km / h. Until recently it was the highest rollercoaster in the world.

Dodonpa: Another roller coaster, this length of 1189 meters which runs at a maximum speed of 172 km / h in 2 seconds, which was once the fastest rollercoaster in the world. Currently the president still has to be the one with the fastest acceleration.

Eejianaika: 4-dimensional roller coaster, which has a fall from 76 meters, a speed of 126 km / h and a length of 1153 meters. It is the 4-dimensional roller coaster with more complete rolled over the world.

This is the 4 dimensions of that part of nip around for the rails of the attraction, the seats also go round in turn.

Queues can be formed in these attractions are championship. Although yesterday was Monday, yesterday was the last day of summer vacation in Japan (Obon) and we got to do 3 hours 40 min queue to board the Eejianaka, 2hrs 30 mins to get on Dodonpa and 2 hours to get on Fujiyama . Although this is a long time standing in queues, appears to be less than what is usually a normal weekend.

In my opinion all this time to queue worth it, because the attractions are spectacular.

Rodrigo is so big, I think it was about to have a heart attack a few times.

I leave you with some pictures and videos of FujiQ.

The Tokyo Dome, which opened on March 17, 1988 is the largest domed stadium in the world which can accommodate 55,000 people. Located in the area of ​​Shinjuku (Tokyo), which serves as a stadium for the baseball team Yomiuri Giants Stadium but also serves as basketball, football, wrestling, K-1, Kickboxing, music concerts and so on. It is also the place where "The Hall of Fame Japanese Baseball" which preserves the history of Japanese baseball.

Its dome shaped roof structure is supported by air, a flexible membrane contained by pressurizing the interior of the stadium. The original nickname was the Tokyo Dome "The Big Egg", also called "Tokyo Egg Dome." Although the use of these nicknames has declined and is rarely used. Opened on March 17, 1988 and was built on land adjacent to its predecessor, the Korakuen Stadium.

The Tokyo Dome is part of a larger entertainment complex known as "Tokyo Dome City", which also includes a theme park whose attractions are located in the former Korakuen Stadium. The amusement park has a roller coaster and a few attractions but quite large.
Besides all this Tokyo Dome city also has an association of horses, a center for horse race betting, a recreation center, a spa called LaQuan, which opened in 2003, the Tokyo Dome Hotel 43 floors which is visible easily from the street or from the subway station Suidobashi, which is the closest station to the site.

Definitely a great place to spend the day with your partner or friends and a nice place to see at Christmas where you can see the entire room decorated with lights.

Information translated and adapted from Wikipedia .

Last Friday we met all of the company and friends to celebrate Hanami.
The hanami, as its name suggests (hana = flower, mi = look / see) is to meet to look at the flowers. Since Sakura blooms (the most famous flower of Japan) about late March to early April, the Japanese tend to gather in parks with sakura to spend time together looking at the flowers and drinking. The picture in these parks is usually a group of friends are a canvas lying on the ground where they feel everyone to talk and drink.

The COO of my company is well behaved with all workers, occasionally bringing us donuts to the office, leaving us out some time before some days and above all, doing events with everyone. Last Friday COO hanami organized the festival, which started at 16.00 (two hours before finishing the job), with plenty of food and drink he had ordered, so the hanami was most interesting, and 70 people who attended the party, and some just the party at noon the next day.