Fuji Q Highland

A friend invited me to Japan's most famous land mark - the Fuji Mountain with the plan to proceed to Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park, located at the base of the legendary mountain. What a wonderful day it was to set foot next to the magnificent Mt. Fuji, so close by, a nature's beauty alongside. I am mesmerized by the exquisiteness of it, quietly spreading the softness of cool weather. It was as if the day stood still, like the FuJi San, always there day and night. From a distance, the tip of Mt. Fuji was misted up by white cloud so thick, making it look like a flat top. It's a combination of blue, green and white. The feeling of peace, of loveliness and eternity settled in my heart whenever I am in awe of how majestic mountains can be, wishing to stay there forever. It took a while before the tip appeared, showing the height, almost reaching the sky from where I stand. As everyone was eager to check out the amusement park below, the time to admire the beauty of nature end up so short and wish there's enough time to stay a little longer. If I can't climb the Mt. Fuji today, why not enjoy the scene from a distance and have fun with the rides?

One can purchase a ticket for admission only. You can then roam around and wonder how the rides feel in your entire life. Will you be able to challenge yourself to try any of them or will it be a wishful thinking forever? Would I at least try a few of the rides or be the spectator of thrills, my mind struggles as we approach the ticket section. We end up getting a day's pass for 5200 yen, includes entrance fee and unlimited rides. We're here, why not make the most of the day? The best part of it is to get a better view of the majestic Mt. Fuji riding the Fujiyama, as it goes up, capture the breathtaking Mt. Fuji as most people who had been here claimed. I'd like to experience it myself and be able to say "It's amazing"!

There are numerous rides to choose from “Guinness-level” attractions, including Eejanaika - boasted as the highest total number of roller coaster spins in the world. The park strives to be at the forefront of theme park entertainment, and is constantly opening new rides and attractions, including the new Guinness World Record breaking roller coaster approximately every five years.

You will enjoy the different rides of your life with Fujiyama, Dodonpa, Pizzala, Red Tower, to name a few and the Super Scary Labyrinth of Fear 4.0. Several times I have conquered my fears by riding the Pizzala, the Red Tower and the very high Takabisha roller coaster so many times that day. I love those rides. For the children, they offer Thomas Land for a variety of rides fit for children and adults who fear the heights, very family oriented indeed. Since we don't have any children with us that day, we opted for those that make your heart skip a beat. We were all gearing for excitement and thrill of a lifetime. Famous for its thrilling, record holding roller coasters and elaborate, anime themed rides and attractions, Fujikyu, here we come.

Fuji-Q Highland is perfect for children, youths, adults and family, somewhat like Disneyland, the happiest place on earth, the Japanese way. It is a fun place to be. It also has an ice-skating rink that opens during winter and attracts many skaters. An amusement park indeed, fit for everyone - thrill, fear and fun - wrapped in one.

At the entrance you'll passed by La Ville de Gaspar et Lisa - a taste of France - Little French Village, a French cafe that offers other services besides food and beverages.

With its four major roller coasters, we went crazy what to ride first. Fujiyama, the park's centerpiece attraction, was opened in 1996, I learned from a local who was standing in line before us. You know, this is a good way to make friends too. It is considered the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster and it continues to rank among the best coasters in the world. Dodonpa is the parks' speediest coaster and the world record holder for fastest acceleration. Take note, the world record holder for fastest. I cannot even imagine what it feels like. I am starting to feel the tension. It opened in 2011 according to the Japanese student who was with us that time. Then, there's Eejanaika, called the "4th dimension" roller coaster with seats rotating within the car, a double twist, has the most inversions of any roller coaster and was built 2006. Finally, Takabisha, built in 2011, is the steepest roller coaster in the world.

The park also has several large scale entertainment attractions, many of which are based on popular anime series. Gundam Crisis and Evangelion World are immersive displays of their respective robot suit themed anime and include life-sized models of the robots and characters. There are also three maze attractions: the Ultimate Horror Labyrinth or Haunted Hotel which is popular because the line was long, one of the world's major and scariest haunted attractions; Ultimate Fort, a prison escape themed puzzle maze that will make you feel like a real prisoner; and Kassen Sengoku Basara, a warring states period themed attraction.

In addition to those major rides and attractions, the park also offers a host of amusement park varieties accommodating families like tea cup, frisbee, log flume, pirate ship and drop tower type rides. It also offers the traditional rides such as a ferris wheel, carousel and sky swings for moderate riders. Of course, seasonal attractions, such as ice skating rink are also open at certain time. Restaurants, rest areas, souvenir shops and carnival games are spread out around the park for convenience.

For the Children

A number of elaborate anime-themed attractions for kids such as the Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro haunted house, Hamutaro rides that includes a kid sized roller coaster, pirate ship, Kaiketsu Zorori Land, and the Loony Toons themed Cartoon Lagoon. Another popular kid-themed area is Thomas Land, a train themed zone which is based on the British Thomas the Tank Engine books and television series. This area is aimed at young children, and features child friendly rides and attractions including the Thomas and Percy Train Ride, the Thomas Land 3D Theater, and a variety of small rides and other kid related activities.

Just outside the park a few steps from its main entrance stands the Highland Resort Hotel and Spa, an affiliated hotel that offers nice views of Mount Fuji and easy access to Fuji-Q Highland and its surrounding attractions. Hotel guests enjoy perks such as early entrance to the theme park and free entry to the Fujiyama Museum and Fujiyama Onsen.

The Fujiyama Museum is an art museum displaying a wide variety of paintings and other illustrations of Mount Fuji. The museum is located on the Fuji-Q Highland park grounds and is free to enter for park attendees that have unlimited ride tickets. Those who only wish to visit the museum and not the amusement park can enter via the Highland Resort Hotel and Spa outside of the park grounds.

Also nearby just outside the park is the Fujiyama Onsen, a modern hot spring facility next to the Fuji-Q Highland Resort. The bath house features nice, traditionally styled wooden baths and offers both indoor and outdoor baths segregated by gender. Unfortunately, Fujiyama Onsen does not have views of Mount Fuji from its baths, but the mountain can be seen from the facility's restaurant.

Option 1 (recommended): 1 day free pass ticket, adults ¥5,200. This option gives entrance to the park and unlimited access to the rides.

Option 2: Entrance ticket, adults ¥1,400 + cost of individual rides and attractions. This is best if you are only there for a couple of rides or just to watch your friends.

There's a different price on children, adults, seniors and students. If you need a fast pass, there is extra fee for that, around 1000 yen, maybe? It's not free according to a friend who went there before us. Be aware that at times, you may have to wait in line for two hours for the popular rides and during holidays or summer season where all the students are looking forward to enjoy the summer before school starts again.

We had fun till it was dark.

--------To reach Fujikyu, we passed by Japan's most famous natural land mark - the Fuji Mountain, then we enjoyed the rides at Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park. Several times I have conquered my fears by riding the Pizzala, the Red Tower and the very high Takabisha roller coaster. I love those rides.

The majestic My. Fuji from a distance. Closer take of Mt.Fuji

leaving the village quite late at night.

Its top was never completely visible during our visit due to thick clouds. Then the clouds moved away as we get closer, exposing the tip of this majestic mountain, famous for its height. Bare from thick clouds surrounding earlier, Mt. Fuji stood grand.

The clouds concealing the mountain at the base from afar.

Entering Fujikyu parking lot.

Fujikyu is an amusement park not only meant for children but daring young and adults. It is located at the foot od Mt. Fuji where one can get a better viewof its majestic when one dares to ride those highly thrilling roller coasters.

We have to pass by La Ville de Gaspar et Lisa

A taste of France

Little French Village

A carousel inside Thomasland

Miniature Eiffel Tower

A French Cafe, offering several services besides food and beverages

Fun rides for children

Pizza ride - tondomina, sits 50 in a pizza like ride, tossed and swirled by pizza in the air.

Red Tower

Nagashimasuka

Takabisha

Fuji-Q lookied like it was already Christmas during night time with all the lights wrapping the trees.

Fuji-Q highland is located next to the Kawaguchiko I.C. along the Chuo Expressway. There are numerous “Guiness-level” attractions, including “eejanaika,” the roller coasting boasting the highest total number of spins in the world, “FUJIYAMA” “DODONPA,” and “Super Scary Labyrinth of Fear 4.0.”

There are also popular character theme-parks such as “THOMAS LAND.” Fuji-Q Highland is bound to amuse all ranges of visitors, from youths to families. Ice-skating link opens during winter and attracts many skaters.

An amusement park, located on the foot of Mt. Fuji, is brimming with Guinness-worthy thrill rides.

Features “Eejyanaika”, the ride which entered the Guinness Book of Records, as well as “Dodonpa”, and “Fujiyama”.

Family-oriented places are, “Thomas Land”, the theme park of “Thomas & Friends” and “Rika-chan Town” as well as “Doki Doki Kingdom”, inspired by “Tottoko Hamutaro”.

Business periodWeekdays 9:00-17:00

Weekends and holidays 9:00-20:00

(Extended hours depend on the season)It is usually periodWeekdays 9:00-17:00

Weekends and holidays 9:00-20:00

(Extended hours depend on the season)Business hours / Busy seasonsOvernight operation date for ice-skating;　

Dec 2(Sat), 9(Sat), 16(Sat), 23(National holiday), 24(Christmas Eve)

Dec 30 to January 3(Year-end and New Year holidays)

Jan 6(Sat), 7(Sun), 13(Sat), 20(Sat), 27(Sat)An off-seasonWeekdays 9:00-17:00

Weekends and National Holidays; 9:00-20:00

(Extended operation hours depend on the season.)Closed dayClosed for extra holidays. (The extra holidays were Dec 12, January 16, Feb 6 in 2006.)

Facilities for tourist / Genre of activity

FacilitiesLeisure Facilities

Facilities informationsHot spring：No　

Total seating capacity　　A pet companion：Impossibility　　

Charge of use

Entrance and admission fee existenceI am charged a feeEntrance and admission feePark admission; Adults 1200 yen, Children 600 yen

Free Pass: Adults 4800 yen, Youth 4300 yen, Children 3500 yenOther charge

(Experience fee and lending fee, etc.)Stroller, Wheel Chair, Gauge (for pets)

Types of tickets           Adults

(over 18)          school students

(12 to 18)        Kids

(3 to 11)          Remarks

Entrance Ticket           1,400 yen        1,400 yen        800 yen           For admission only

1 day free pass ticket  5,200 yen        4,700 yen        3,800 yen        Tickets + Free pass

2 day free pass ticket  8,300 yen        7,400 yen        6,200 yen        Tickets + Free pass (2 days)

Kids pass ticket

Senior pass ticket        Seniors

2,600 yen        ――    2,600 yen        Seniors: over 65 Infants: kids under schooling age

with these tickets, rides are limited

Group Rates

Types of tickets           Adults

(over 18)          Students

(12 to 18)        Kids

(3 to 11)          Remarks

Entrance Ticket           1,300 yen        1,300 yen        600 yen           For admission only

3-ride Set Pass            3,100 yen        3,100 yen        1,800 yen        Includes admission fee and rides on 3 attractions

Free Pass

(Per person for groups of

15 people and over)    4,600 yen        4,100 yen        3,400 yen        Tickets + Free pass

Q Pack

TAKABISHA

A huge brand new roller coaster with "the steepest drop in the world at 121°"

Get plenty of thrills from this spine-tingling drop produced using a linear launch system with linear acceleration and a vertical ascent! A heartpounding experience with non-stop thrills awaits you starting with a vertical ascent that takes you straight up toward the sky followed by a brief stop at the top tilted downward just before the highlight finishing off with a max. 121°-tilt drop in free fall.

Eejanaika

The roller coaster with the highest total number of spins in the world

Enjoy unprecedented thrills and a feeling of liberation as you experience three different kinds of spins, "the spinning of your seat forward and backward," "loops and flip-flops through the air," and "spinning with twists in it," while you race down the track!

As an added bonus, you'll hang there with your legs dangling, so you won't be able to plant your feet anywhere to steady yourself. This will send a strange sense of being hurtled through the air coursing through your body.

DODONPA

Travel at speeds that are almost too fast The world's most exhilarating roller coaster

Go up to 172 km/h (111 mph) in a mere 1.8 sec. after launch!! A thrilling sense of acceleration you can't experience anywhere but on DODONPA!!

Come and try out DODONPA, the attraction that races around almost the entire park at speeds so fast you can't even breathe!

Get a sense that you're being thrown through the air on the vertical tower, halfway through the track!

FUJIYAMA

The atypical, over-the-top "KING OF COASTERS"

FUJIYAMA, the "KING OF COASTERS," which boasts world-class specs, including a maximum speed of 130 km/h (81 mph), a maximum drop of 70 m (230 ft.), and a maximum height of 79 m (259 ft.).

The thrill on this attraction is so out-of-this-world that we guarantee you'll feel like you did the first time you rode it no matter how many times you're on it!

Total length：2.045m

Max height：79m

Max speed：130km/h

Capacity：28 persons

TEKKOTSU BANCHO

Ultimate Fort

The most difficult maze ever created, with a successful escape rate of only 1/100000!?

Ultimate Fort is a walk-through attraction set up as a labyrinth in a huge fortress with mission tasks to clear in order to escape. The goal is to make it so difficult as to boast a successful escape rate down as close to 0% as possible.

Guests who take on the challenge have to try to work through a labyrinth of countless doors, corridors, and rooms and strict security set up within the fort and make it out within the time limit. There are different stages inside, with the stages becoming increasingly difficult as you progress through the fort. Each stage is full of hidden clues, secret doorways, and other traps and contraptions all designed to trip you up. This is not the type of maze that can be cleared by merely fumbling around in the dark. Only those who posssess the knowledge, memory power, physical strength, imagination, and most of all, luck will be able to persevere to the end and earn the rank of "Sucessful Escapees."Successful escapees will be given a prize to recognize their glorious achievement.

Length of time to complete: Approx. 20 min.

Capacity：30 persons

Adventure land of Kaiketsu Zorori

Enter the "World of the Stories" created by author Yutaka Hara.

Kaiketsu Zorori is a series of children's books written and illustrated by Mr. Yutaka Hara and published by Poplar Publishing that began in 1987. To date, 50 volumes of stories have been published. There are also a TV animation series, movies, and games and other merchandise available, a testament to the popularity of the series.

Kaiketsu Zorori Adventure Land is a fun mini adventure park where guests can enter the world of the stories and go on adventures with Zorori, the main character.

The first Kaiketsu Zorori-based theme attraction in the world, the adventure park is chockfull of the fun and humorous scenes and touches typical of Zorori in everything from the themed rooms to the contraptions and tricks and down to every line of dialogue.

Within the spacious, approx. 700-m2 area inside the park, you will find awaiting for you all the mischievous tricks and adventures from the Kaiketsu Zorori books reproduced in spectacular color and detail. 　

You can experience all the fun adventures in the stories along with Zorori and friends who chatter away in each themed room or area including the "Gate Protected by the Dragon" and the "Room Afflicted with the Dreaded Stripe Disease." There are many trials and thrills awaiting you as you walk through. You can even climb inside Lord Enma and have fun tickling his stomach and guts and playing tricks, just as described in the books.

At the end of your journey, you can go down into the huge underground cave where lots of exciting events and activities will delight and lift you including the "Oyaji Gag Inferno" filled with corny puns and the "Ishishi and Noshishi Onara Smelling Corner" where you can smell the smelly gas they pass.

Once you finish your journey through the mini park with its many cool spots for great photo opportunities, you can try making your own original Zorori newspaper in the Editing Room highlighting your many adventures.

You can find books and DVDs from the Kaiketsu Zorori series as well as original Zorori merchandise not available anywhere else in the goods shop located at the Adventure Land exit. 20 mins

Super Scary Labyrinth of Fear

A rendering of "Fear" so terrifying that those who experience it are beyond hope of being saved The longest and scariest haunted house in history

All rooms and corridors redesigned!

Also with new rooms including "The Quarantine Ward," "The CT Scan Room," "The Diagnostic Exam Room," "The Third Operating Room," "The New Mortuary," "The Second Long Corridor," and "The Bacteria Lab."

With the longest route in history at 900 m and lasting over 60 minutes long!

The level of "labyrinthine" twists increased with a complete renewal of the entire route, and you will be gripped with a terror that you're "never going to get out alive..."

Building：2 stories (one part on the second floor)

Length of time to complete：Approx. 50 min.

Total floor space：Approx. 3000 m² (32391 ft.²)

Distance walked：Approx. 900 m (2952.7 ft.)

Tondemina

Nagashimasuka

Great ZABOON

Red Tower

Mad Mouse

Panic Clock

EVANGELION: WORLD

A pavilion opened where you can enjoy a view of the world from the popular animation film series, Neon Genesis Evangelion "Rebuild of Evangelion"!

Filled with a variety of things from the world of Neon Genesis Evangelion, including the first 3-D life-sized scale model of the "General-purpose, humanoid battle weapon, the Cyborg Evangelion Unit-01" ever built, a life-sized reproduction of the cockpit of an Evangelion, a scale model of "Kaworu Nagisa," and other items!

Gundam Crisis

Shining Flower

Tea Cups

Merry -Go Round

Mizuki Shigeru's Ge-Ge-Ge Haunted Mansion

Hide-and-Seek in the Forest

Thomas Land includes several rides for children

Family Canteen
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