13th Jun 2018 (Wednesday)
If you are planning a visit to OSAKA Universal Studio Japan, first thing to do is to book your tickets ahead to avoid queuing at there. AND, I would strongly recommend to come on weekdays(Tuesday/ Wednesday) to avoid weekends insanely crowd. We booked our Universal Studios Japan Day Pass ($94.30) and Express Pass 4 ($95.70) at klook. In order to control the crowd, popular theme area such as Harry Porter and Minion rides include time allocation on the express pass vouchers as shown below.
The Express 4 that I purchased include the visit to Harry Porter, Despicable Me Minion as well as two other rides of our choices - Spiderman or Jurassic Park; and Jaws, Terminator or Backdraft.
This park is divided into 8 different areas as shown above. The rides that we tried and played included:
1. The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man
2. Backdraft
3. Despicable Me Minion Mayhem
4. The Final Fantasy
5. Harry Porter Forbidden Journey rider
The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man
The first stop we visited was The Amazing Spider-man. This 3D ride was fun which is similar to Transformer in Universal Studio Singapore. You will require to wear a 3D glasses and followed Spiderman to fought the evils. You can experienced special effects like water, rapid falls, fogs.
After the ride, you can walked around the souvenir shop and purchase something related to Spider-man if you are one of the fans.
Cheeky yellow characters from Despicable Me can be found at the theme park. Over at the Minion Park, you can get to enjoy Minion-themed food, souvenir, shows and ride to enjoy. The ride is extremely fun and thrilling.
Harry Porter
When you are over at Universal Studio, you will definitely require to sit on Harry Potter signature ride. The ride is inside the Hogwarts Castle and it was extremely a fun 4D motion ride in the dark room. As you walked inside the Hogwarts castle, you will also get to see talking portraits.
We stopped by the Three Broomsticks Restaurant for our lunch. The food was considered okay and we also drank the butter beer in the restaurant too. It is a non-alcoholic and sweet drink with butterscotch flavour foam. Above photo show the frozen butterbeer while my husband chose cold butterbeer. To recommend, cold butterbeer will be the best choice over the frozen one.
The Final Fantasy
Other than 3D/4D ride, we were lucky to enjoy this limited time (Jan 19th - Jun 24th) ride.It uses the existing Space Fantasy roller coaster with additional of VR headsets to play the Final Fantasy content. With the VR headsets on, it feel so real life and definitely a great experience.
Backdraft
Universal Night Parade
Universal Night Parade is definitely worth waiting for, you get to see spectacular parade with Transformers, Jurassic Work, Despicable Me minions, Harry Potter come to life. The transformation of the park with lighting and show orchestration technology is a must to stay-back and capture the amazing moment.
Lastly, before I end this post I strongly recommend to buy your tickets in advance...
You can purchased tickets online like klook and simply print out the voucher to go straight up the entrance to avoid queuing and save time.
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