Our first day in Osaka we went off to Universal City, which is actually close to the same as Universal Studio, but of course it is in Osaka. :) It’s quite the place — has it’s own subway stop and everything (here’s a hint: get off the subway at the Universal City stop). We spent the day going on rides; and unfortunately don’t have many pictures to show for it… some of the hilights were the Spiderman ride and the Jurassic Park ride. The other rides were good but didn’t touch those two — and the little “movies” (15-minute action and comedy clips) that we went to were all in Japanese, so a little tough to follow (although the really high-action ones like Shrek really don’t need the conversation to be funny).
My personal favourite was the Jurassic Park ride, no question. It’s basically a waste of time except for one huge drop at the end, but that drop makes it all worthwhile. You even get wet… except for some of us that were wearing waterproof pants.
I don’t think Andrew will ever forgive me.
Angela liked the Spiderman ride most, I think, and it was pretty good — basically a 3-D romp around where you have to help Spiderman fight all his worst enemies. It’s fun, but to be honest there were two problems. The first being that if your legs aren’t stubby, they hit the car that you are riding in quite sharply when the car makes sudden stops/turns, etc. (leaving you with bruised legs); and the second being that the 3-D’ness gave me headaches. I don’t normally get it from 3-D glasses/etc., but I think this ride was a special case…
Anyway, after Jurassic Park, we had to have… meat! Yum…
… and then we messed around in the gift shop a bit. 
He’s be-a-utiful, ain’t he? After the Jaws ride we found a similar cap (the Jaws ride was not spectacular, which is why I didn’t really mention it…).
If I would have been thinking we would have bought both and then fought to the death. Alas. Maybe next time…
