Fuji-Q Highland, the story continues......

On my last post, I wrote about my story getting to Fuji-Q Highland, and a review of a Guinness world record roller coaster, Eejanaika.

Now I will review and finish my story during my visit to Fuji-Q Highland!

Fujiyama Roller Coaster.

Fuji-Q Highland is famous for its world record roller coaster. It fits perfectly for adrenaline junkies that seeks for the best roller coaster in the world. Me and my brother LOVE extreme roller coaster so much, and every time we visit a country, we try to find the best roller coaster there. As I told you before on my last post, my family weren't planning to visit Fuji-Q Highland until my brother suggested it. We had so many hardships just to get to Fuji-Q Highland, but when I finally ride the roller coaster, it was definitely worth all my time coming there.

Eejanaika was the first roller coaster we tried. It was unforgettable. But the problem was the queue for the roller coaster. It was too long and well, it was pretty much boring. My brother and me didn’t have much thing to talk about for three hours, but if you were coming with your friend maybe the queue wouldn’t feel that long.

The queuing time for almost all the roller coasters were pretty much the same.  It usually takes 2-3 hours for a ride, but for the ride itself, it usually takes 4 to 7 minutes. So almost all my time in Fuji-Q was for queuing. It was worth it when you finally ride the roller coaster but you need to prepare yourself to queue that long.

So for our 2^nd ride in Fuji-Q Highland was Takabisha. Its another Guinness world record roller coaster for the steepest drop in the world at 121°. When I first saw it, I was terrified. The drop was really steep and the roller coaster was very fast. The track itself was long and had so many turns. Even though it was terrifying, I just can not wait to try it! As you can expect, the queue for this ride was also long. It takes 2.5 hours to queue for the ride. My brother and me wanted to give up so badly, but there is a small TV in every corner of the queue and it shows the roller coaster, so when we think we want to get out of the queue, we just take a look at the TV and watch the video of the roller coaster. It makes wanted to go to ride the roller coaster even more.

Certificate from Guinness World Record
for the steepest roller coaster in the world, Takabisha.

After a very long wait, we finally can ride it. Luckily we sat in the front seat. So the ride started really slow and we got into a very dark hall, but few seconds later, the ride went so fast! and then we got out from the hall we can very clearly of the track with so many turns. Then the best part, we got to the steep track and when it was going up, you are really looking up to the sky. When it got to the top, it just drop you 121°. It was an amazing and thrilling ride!! and if you want to get a better imagination of how the Takabisha roller coaster looks like, here is a review video from Theme Park Review.

Sadly, we couldn't ride any other roller coaster in Fuji-Q Highland, because by the time we finished riding Takabisha, it was already 4.30PM and we knew that we need to get home early because it took us 3 hours to get back to Tokyo using a JR train. But we did manage to take one more last ride and it was the Tondemina, it looks like a giant frisbee that went from left to right. The round seating also spin so at one time you would looking down, and the other time you would looking up to the sky.

Tondemina.

There are still a lot of great roller coaster you can try in Fuji-Q, like Fujiyama, was once a Guinness world record roller coaster for the tallest roller coaster in the world. But as of now, its the 8th tallest roller coaster and 5th longest roller coaster in the world.

Mom posing right in front of the Fujiyama, King of coasters.
also you can see the long line at the back.

There is also Dodonpa, used to be the fastest roller coaster in the world, but now its the 4th fastest roller coaster. This ride also have a very long line, so when we try to decide which one to take, we choose Takabisha instead. Sadly, I didn't take any picture of the roller coaster, but here is the review video of Dodonpa from Theme Park Review.

Fuji-Q Highland also have great attraction like Ultimate Fort, a very hard labyrinth that could take you 20 minutes or more to get out, scary haunted houses like Mizuki Shigeru's Ge-Ge-Ge Haunted Mansion and Super Scary Labyrinth of Fear. There is also attraction for kids Thomas Land. So Fuji-Q Highland is a great place for families and friends. When you are visiting Tokyo, you have to come here and try the attraction there. Its definitely worth all your time!!

As a bonus, you can see Mount Fuji right from Fuji-Q Highland.

My tips for you:

1. Before coming to Fuji-Q Highland, I suggest you plan it first. From my experience, its really hard if you suddenly want to come there and not knowing how to get there. I stayed in Tokyo and from Tokyo to Fuji-Q Highland is pretty far. Plan the trip so you can decide the transportation to get there, it can be trains, bus or even car. If you want to use a train, it usually takes and hour or so, and it usually costs ¥1280 or more, depending where are you taking it. For bus, it usually takes approximately 100 minutes. I suggest you book you transportation to Fuji-Q Highland so it will be easier, and you can ask your receptionist for more information because traveling in Japan with a limited knowledge of Japanese, its pretty much hard especially if your destination is very far away.
2. There is two types of tickets in Fuji-Q Highland. The first one is a One day free pass ticket and Entrance ticket. The difference is, in Fuji-Q Highland, you need to pay for the attraction. If you only but the entrance ticket you need to pay for every attraction you are going to take. But for one day free pass ticket, it already includes the entrance ticket and you can take any attraction. I suggest if you are planning to spend the whole day there, it will be better to choose one day free pass but if you don't and you aren't planning to take the roller coaster ride or other scary and thrilling attraction, its better to choose the entrance ticket and buy the ticket to any ride you want to take.
3. Queue in Fuji-Q Highland are pretty long especially the roller coaster or other thrilling attraction. So prepare yourself for a very long queue and its better to take someone with you rather than queuing alone

For further information about Fuji-Q Highland, please visit its official website right here ----> Fuji-Q Highland Website