Fuji-Q Highland

After few weeks, I finally can post my new story on this blog. Its because last week was my mid-term exam week, so I just don't have the time to post any new story.

Now since my exam week is finished, I'm gonna tell you about my story in Japan.

In 2012, I went to Japan with my family. We went there for a week and one day, my brother suggest that we go to an amusement park called Fujikyu Highland.

Fujikyu Highland

The story begins when my brother first suggest that we need to go to an amusement park called Fujikyu Highland. He know Fujikyu Highland from searching the internet about amusement park in Japan and watched a show about the best thrilling roller coaster in the world. So when we went to Japan, he keeps telling us to go there because there is one amazing roller coaster that we just have to try.

That morning, we went out the hotel at 8AM after having breakfast. We stayed at Prince Hotel in Shinagawa, and our hotel was near Shinagawa Station. At Shinagawa Station, we had trouble finding the way to Fujikyu Highland, but thankfully my mom understand Japanese so she asked few people on how to get there. So after asking few people, my mom finally understand and bought the tickets, but we wasn't expecting that Fujikyu Highland was located far away from our station and using the normal train to get there was a bad idea.

At 8.45AM we got in our first train. I want to tell you how to to Fujikyu Highland, but it was so complicated, i didn't even remember where we change station or what line that we use. Japan Railway is really complicated because there are many lines, and Fujikyu Highland was located in Fuji, that is outside of Tokyo. So its very hard to use normal train. You can use bullet train called Shinkansen that could take you there faster but its more expensive and you need to booked it first because they reserve the seats.

You know its hard just by looking at the map.

After two and a half hour of changing trains,  and getting in and out in many stations, we finally arrived in the last station that head to Fujikyu Highland. The last station was very unique and looked very vintage. The train that we're going to take was very cute because it has a Thomas the train theme as the design. Near Fujikyu Highland there is Thomas Land, so they use that as a design for the train.

That is my mom and she is posing right in front of the entrance to the station.

and this is my dad, right behind him is the Thomas theme train. 

(Please mind my parents posing so weirdly....)

After we got on the train, we finally heading to our last stop, FUJIKYU HIGHLAND!!!!


Fujikyu Highland have two type of of tickets, one is the entrance ticket only and the other one is 1 day free pass ticket. The difference is the entrance ticket, you only pay for getting into Fujikyu Highland but when you want to go on a ride, you need to pay for it first. As for the 1 day free pass ticket, you can get on every ride without paying it. Of course the entrance ticket is cheaper, but if you are planning to get on every ride, the 1 day free pass ticket is the better choice. I also bought the 1 day free pass ticket.

Inside the amusement park, you already could see all the huge roller coaster track and you could not just be amazed by it, and see how it works before decide to ride it. The first roller coaster I see right after getting is the Eejanaika. Right after I saw the ride, my jaw just dropped. Eejanaika is one of the Guinness world record holder for most turn roller coaster in the world. It was terrifying but looks so much fun at the same time. My brother rushed me to get into the line right after that.

Eejanaika, a Guinness world record roller coaster.

Before queuing, I look for the info on how long is the queuing time. IT WAS 3 HOURS LONG. I was so surprised because when I went to Disneyland few days before, the longest queue was at Space Mountain and that was 2 hours. I wasn't expecting the queue would be that long because that day, it felt like not many people came but yet a ride could take 3 hours long queue?!
Also, the difference in Fujikyu Highland and Disneyland is that in Fujikyu Highland, there is only lines. No interaction video, no funny characters that could talk, and no cool design that you could take photo with. The only entertainment while waiting was talking to your friend. But since I was waiting with my brother, we pretty much got bored waiting for three hours. 

When we finally stood right in front of the entrance to get into the ride, it was exciting again. We could not wait until we sit in that roller coaster. So after we got in, and sat there. My blood just rushing full of excitement!! and I didn't watch any video about eejanaika so i really don't know what to expect.


After i took the ride, the conclusion is that THE RIDE WAS SO MUCH FUN!! Right after it starts, i didn't know that it will moved backwards, and when we went up, we literally facing down because the chair literally rotates 360 degrees. It was one of the most exciting experience I've ever had. All that memories of 3 hours queueing just went away. Definitely worth to try!! and if you really want some spoiler of the ride. You could go check this review video!

On my next post, I will write all the rides that I took in Fujikyu Highland. So please anticipate!! You don't want to miss it.








For further info of Fujikyu Highland, go check their website here ---> Fuji-Q Official Website