So, while Amy and Kyle ran off to get in line for the Super Scary Labyrinth of Fear (seriously it's the name), Andrew and I bought tickets for the only ride that was selling priority tickets, the Nagashimasuka water ride.
We ran to met Amy and Kyle in the line for the Super Scary Labryinth of Fear, and luckily we only had to wait about 15 minutes to get to the front of the line. When we got in with our group of about 12 we sat down to watch an introduction video which had a loose story line based on a girl entering into a scary dark hospital with blood on the walls and signs of suspicious activity and having flashbacks to the bright past where the hospital started becoming covered in blood. (Spoiler alert for next part).
The flashback involved our hero girl seeing a doctor stab a patient in the neck (gruesome incident #1), and then when the flashback flashforwarded she was being chased by half dead people, and finally got knocked over the head and passed out, which lead to gruesome incident #2 where she was on an operating table, guts all out, and the same doctor was getting ready to cut off her limbs (fade to dark). This attraction was suitable for 7 year olds! We were traumatised.
For the next part we were led into a line where the doors to a dark room opened, and a lady in a lab coat beaconed the first two people to come into the room. The girl half of the young couple in front of us actually refused to go in with such vindication that her boyfriend had to actually pull her in, and we were sure she was a plant. Turns out it was just the room where they take your photo, poor little thing was scared already!
The actual haunted hospital part was awesome. I lost track of how many storeys it was, but we were led down a narrow path filled with intricate details like stacked up wheel chairs, glass jars from experiments, old equipment with gauges and dials, and hospital trolleys with all kinds of atrocities. The attention to detail was really awesome (the girl from the video eventually made an appearance on a hospital trolley), and we only had a flashlight to explore with. Every now and then there would be a zombie? ghost patient? not really sure based on the story but some form of evil scary person who would chase you to the next section. It was so much fun and we screamed the whole way! We quickly realised that they weren't allowed to actually touch the visitors because every time they came close to catching you they would start limping, or find some other credible way of not catching you. So cool!
On our way to the next ride (while being rained on) we realised that our priority tickets weren't needed since there wasn't much of a line. We used our normal tickets to go in with the hope that we could refund the priority tickets, which luckily we could! We bought temporary ponchos and crowded into the ride carriages which were big floaty black tubes with seats. Between the rain, the splashes from the ride, and the ride actually spraying water in your face we were soaked and miserable by the end of it and couldn't wait to go back to the hotel. We were outraged that we actually paid and lined up to get soaked, the rain was already doing that for us! I'm sure it would have been great on a hot summer day.
After peeling off our wet shoes Andrew and I made our way (yet again) to the onsen to relax. On our way back we noticed that the big roller coasters were running so we quickly got ourselves organised and ran to the park. I got in line for the Fujiyama while Andrew went and bought express tickets to the Takabisha (the Dodonpa was still closed).
The Fujiyama was the biggest roller coaster we'd been on (even bigger than Shambhala in Port Aventura) and was absolutely fantastic, now officially the best roller coaster we've been on. After we got off we noticed that the Dodonpa was running so we quickly got express tickets for that too, then headed for the Takabisha (the one with the biggest invert) which was also really fun, but similar to other ones we'd been on. The Dodonpa was similar to the Furious Baco at Port Aventura which is another launch roller coaster, but this one was a lot faster (172km/hr in 1.8sec versus 135km/hr in 3.5sec) and left us literally breathless.
The only big one we missed was the Eejanaika (the one with the spinning seats) but the express tickets for that had sold out until 5pm and the wait was over an hour so we happily skipped it and left satisfied since after this morning's soaking we thought we'd get no roller coasters, and we got 3 of the big ones! Plus a Thomas the Tank Engine ride and a cloud roller coaster for Amy and Kyle.
So glad we got to actually experience Fuji-Q!
We're now on the bullet train to Kyoto to check into our second Air BnB. The Shinkansen go so ridiculously fast it's actually quite shocking when one goes past you in the station without stopping. Only 2 more hours to go till we arrive, thank god the crying baby got off at the last stop.
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