JDo217 Posted December 25, 2011 Author Share Posted December 25, 2011 ^^^Nope, but I walked past the line and it was like an hour. ^^Bad because of only 16 people/dispatch. My memory is fuzzy but I'm pretty sure the station is similar to Maverick in that they load and dispatch 2 trains simultaneously. The difference is that both of Atlantis's trains combined only hold four more people than a single train on Maverick. The operations were pretty good though. The only thing I'm confused by is why Fahrenheit's line seems to move faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDo217 Posted December 25, 2011 Author Share Posted December 25, 2011 also, I submitted the Lotte World photos to the park index but how do I go about getting them approved? btw, how difficult is it to get to Tobu Zoo Park from Tokyo via public transport? debating going to ride my first mega-lite but google maps isn't doing me any favors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hydra Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 I made it from Tokyo to Tobu on the train. If I remember correctly was about an hour. Once I left the subway system and went to the surface train, I was uper confused. However there were some super helpful Japanese people who got me on the right train to Tobu Zoo. If on the Metro get off at the Kita-Senju station (serves the green and gray lines). From there go up to the surface trains and head to Tobudobutsukoen Station. Once there its about a 15 min walk to the park. (http://g.co/maps/kumaq) Kawasemi is definitely worth it! Im sure Robb and Elissa have some better tips as well. Have fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shivtim Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 There's also an express train from Asakusa Station to Tobudobutsokoen Station. It's the Tobu Nikko line. You don't have to transfer and it's the third stop (after Kita-senju and Kasakube); it only takes about 40 minutes. Make sure you pay the extra 500Y since it's an express train. It runs about once an hour. The staff at the information booth in Asakusa Station should be able to help you! Otherwise you can take a local train, which is cheaper but has a ton of stops so it takes 90 minutes. When you get there, you can either walk (15 or 20 minutes) or take a shuttle bus for about 100Y. Before you go I would double-check that Kawasemi is going to be open. I had a friend that went on a Friday in October and it was closed. It was open when I went on a Saturday in November. Unfortunately the "ride closings" section of their website is only in Japanese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDo217 Posted January 5, 2012 Author Share Posted January 5, 2012 hey guys, just wanted to give you a really quick update on what's going on i've been in tokyo and kyoto for the past week over new years and it was unreal. i went to tokyo dome city but didn't get to ride Thunder Dolphin since it was broken (i have pictures though). i'm in singapore now and went to Universal Studios. Rode everything there more than once. Battlestar Galatica was great. Transformers was gdgsahflja AMAZING. maybe i'm just too easily impressed though. tons of pics to come soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 ^Thunder Dolphin isn't broken, it's been closed since December 2010 when a bolt fell off of the ride. It was a minor incident, but after two larger incidents with other rides at the park the whole park changed and closed many rides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
better_by_design Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Awesome pictures! You really captured the beautiful oddness that IS Lotte World! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDo217 Posted January 7, 2012 Author Share Posted January 7, 2012 ^^ oh wow, I never knew. kinda bummed but everyone says Thunder Dolphin is kind of a dud anyway, so that's my consolation ^Thanks! edit: what in the world? apparently i'm signed in to a really old account. i think this was my first account but i completely forgot what the username was so I made a new one a while back. and when i logged in the other day I guess I unknowingly used the old username Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDo217 Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 Here we go. I have about 2000 photos from this trip. After sorting, I have around 500. I'll just share the meaningful ones here. I have photos from Seoul, Tokyo, Kyoto, and Singapore. Each post will be a different country, starting with Seoul. some delicious soup noodles with kimchi kind of shocked to find baskin robbins in seoul kind of a typical street at night a picture within a picture some temple the guards were in very traditional garments namdaemun market - (supposedly) the largest such market in seoul seoul at sunset as seen from the ridiculous freaking cold hike up to the seoul tower. it was FREEZING out and the line for the cable car up to the top was enormous, so I just hiked seoul skyline red mango in seoul was really classy.. on the last day a friend of mine who lives in seoul took me out to have korean bbq. it was delicious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDo217 Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 Here is Tokyo. This was honestly one of my favorite cities in Asia. The only drawback was how extremely expensive it was. Even moreso than New York... bright and early to go to the Tsukiji fish market fish market only the best sushi i've ever had in my life the chefs Tokyo Dome City! Thunder Dolphin is closed though thunder dolphin and big-o in all their glory. the japanese call them zandaa dorufin and bigu-o >_> we did go on big-o though. the view from it: crosswalks in tokyo were interesting. at certain busy areas (aka most of tokyo...jk), pedestrians can only cross when all directions of traffic have the red light. then you can walk in any direction through the intersection. interesting for me since we don't have anything like this in new york to my knowledge, and I didn't see this in HK either shibuya Shinjuku JR station. The architecture is very different from the restof Tokyo. i'm going to go on a rant about their metro system. the metro system in tokyo is operated by many different companies. The main ones are the Toei subway line and the JR rail. many stations will have both a JR station and a toei station, except they're not connected. I didn't know this and spent a good 30 minutes trying to connect from one to the other. also, i know i'm jaded by hong kong's MTR system, but transfers to other lines were horrendous in tokyo a somewhat normal sight in Harajuku (the inspiration for nicki minaj's harajuku barbie) this is weird but whatever. a typical bathroom in tokyo. this isn't only in airports or nicer institutions. these types of bathrooms are everywhere from 5 stars restaurants to small tea shops. WAY too high tech for me. i didn't really know what half the buttons in the stall did and managed to wash my hands with toilet seat cleaner and turn on the ass massager (yes, those exist) by accident another of tokyo dome i got to meet up with a friend of mine who is from tokyo. she brought us to an all-you-can-eat do-it-yourself okonomiyaki restaurant. not really sure how to describe it but it was a bit like a pancake. really good preparing the okonomiyaki (actually, i just let the girls do all the cooking ) the next few pictures are from the top of tokyo tower. it was very challenging to get good pictures from here because there were huge glass windows in the observatory. you need to have your camera pressed directly against the glass in order to minimize reflections. i did long exposures (upwards of 30+ seconds) so it was hard to make sure my hands didn't shake. luckily, my lenses were long enough that i could just rest my camera on the railing endless... spent new years at a temple. it was very nice yeah so they release balloons when the countdown hits 0. the birds and turtles are weeping too crowded on new years... akihabara electronics district so this girl is advertising for a maid cafe. no comment... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDo217 Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 on the new year we took a bullet train ride to Kyoto. most expensive train ride ever. the same service is available in china for like $15 USD (it was $170 USD in Tokyo), though i;m sure japan's version is infinitely safer. kyoto was beautiful though inside the bullet train. nozomi line the bullet train service is called shinkansen a shrine in kyoto. it's very popular to visit these on the new year some gardens some gardens some gardens..... from the top of the small hill some temple... cherry blossoms aren't in bloom right now random stray cats (they were super friendly) green tea parfait. kyoto is really famous for its green tea went back to tokyo for one day since my flight was departing from there photo editing on the train ride neon lights this is was happens when you zoom during long exposure kabukicho harajuku takeshita street in harajuku even department store sushi is really good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDo217 Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 I saved the best for last ie the only other theme park I went to. I only spent 2.5 days in Singapore but I felt like I saw a great deal in that time. I have a bunch of friends from Singapore that I met on exchange so it was nice to see them. SIngapore was basically the converging point for all of my friends at the end of the semester. We all went separate ways in our traveling at the end of the semester but converged in Singapore. These past 4 months were honestly the greatest of my life so far. I'm already back in the U.S. but I want to go back. The saddest part is perhaps the fact that even though every single one of us wants to go back to Hong Kong/Asia to experience it again, it just won't be the same Study abroad truly is a unique experience that is completely different from just "traveling" or living in another country. I don't think you really appreciate until it's over. Leaving everyone after Singapore was one of the hardest things I've had to do, and I normally don't get emotional. Anyway, I spent around 5 hours in universal. True, it was small but I really enjoyed it. Even though there weren't too many rides, the ones they did have were very very good. Battlestar Galactica was really great. I didn't really observe before going on so I wasn't expecting the launch up the lift hill. I liked both sides - maybe Cyclon a bit more but the Human side was smooth and very fun as well. RotM was the usual, though if my memory is correct then I like the one in Florida better. We went straight to Transformers at opening and there was no wait. Honestly an AMAZING ride. I haven't seen the movie before nor do I care too though. I think this was a solid addition to the park and very well themed. Battlestar had no wait early in the day. Right after we rode Cyclon for the first time it broke down, so the line for Human got a bit longer at around 5 minutes. Tey fixed it pretty fast. We rode each side twice. Later on in the day Cyclon had a 15 minute wait and, if the signs were correct, Human had a whopping 40 minute wait. Rode transformers again right before we left and the wait was only 15 minutes (and the linemoves VERY fast). Mummy had a 30 min wait at that time. the queue the line moved fast but i'd hate to wait in the entire queue entrance queue giddiness? the cars queue again i seriously cannot ****ing see what's in the thumbnails because they're small as hell onmy computer, so my apologies if i upload twice by accident Egyptian area egyptian area the shrek castle was REALLY nice imo shrek 4d pre show gift shop at the exit of transformers your battlestar galactica fix sci-fi city area missed this one before. waiting in line to get on transformers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDo217 Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 and here are the rest from Singapore skyline at the start of sunset skyline at the start of sunset the end of sunset light show at marina bay sands clarke quay. they have a skycoaster-like attraction there but it's extremely expensive (about 50 SGD) just a sign that we're well-traveled... chinatown at night more chinatown at night no durians allowed on the singapore MRT. and for good reason..they smell terrible (and taste terrible too imo) my friend is a bit obsessed with hello kitty and likes to get a picture of it wherever she goes >_> us near marina bay sands blue hour over the helix bridge and marina bay sands a different angle every night there's a light show at the marina bay sands. we saw it once at the actual site and once from afar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfc Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 (edited) giddiness? "Giddy" can mean either "causing dizziness," or "not serious; silly." Being that "dizziness" is already covered on that sign, I guess they don't want people acting silly. Or using their spinning hypno-eyes on people, which I suppose could cause dizziness. "Look into my eyes!" Maybe it has something to do with the use of strobe lights on the Transformers attraction? I have no idea. Excellent pictures, by the way--thanks for this report. Edited January 8, 2012 by cfc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJeXeL Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Absolutely gorgeous pictures! Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 That's odd that after all of your traveling you found the Tokyo Subway/Train system complicated. It's giant that's for sure, but it is very well signposted and if you have one of the cards you can seamlessly go from line to line. You have to remember that HK's MTR is so much smaller and newer, they learned a lot from Tokyo I'm sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedmetal Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Still in love with your photos. Really makes me want to upgrade my camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDo217 Posted January 13, 2012 Author Share Posted January 13, 2012 That's odd that after all of your traveling you found the Tokyo Subway/Train system complicated. It's giant that's for sure, but it is very well signposted and if you have one of the cards you can seamlessly go from line to line. You have to remember that HK's MTR is so much smaller and newer, they learned a lot from Tokyo I'm sure! I think it might be my perspective that's off. It's true that the MTR is much smaller, but I think there are some aspects that just make it downright easier to use. The transfer stations are made so that each platform level is a direct transfer, rather than having line 1 on one level and line 2 on another. The main lines have interactive, virtually complete maps of the entire system so that you never have to stop and find out which way to go next. The main thing about Tokyo's metro was that sometimes it was hard to figure out which station you were at. If you were going 1-3 stops it wasn't a problem. But many of the trains just had the list of stations and only announced which station you were at every 2-3 stations. Most stations were at least clearly labeled but some, the station signs were spaced reallllllly far apart so that unless they announced the station, we didn't know where we were. Granted, tokyo's metro is much older as you say. All of this is just my take as a foreigner. Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei were really easy to use right off the bat. Shanghai wasn't bad except we couldn't help but feel a little bit unsafe. Back in September when we were there, the line that we had to take everyday to leave our apartment literally crashed 2 days before we got to shanghai because of some signal issues i know it's one of those things that doesn't happen often but it's still scary to think about ^Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gisco Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Nice picture from all over. I reallly miss Japan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDo217 Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 Hey guys, just posting to say I entered a free giveaway for a Nikon D700. For those of you that speak camera, it's Nikon's entry level full-frame camera..with a $2600+ price tag. Since I'm just a hobbyist, I don't make any money from my photos. I have been eyeing this camera basically since I've been in Hong Kong. When I upgraded to the camera I have now, I was considering the D700 as well but didn't buy it because of pricing issues. Anyway, each contestant has a unique link. For each unique IP that clicks that link, the contestant gets one more entry into the contest. More entries = more chances = good so i'd really appreciate if you guys can help me out here. There are no obnoxious surveys or forms to fill out. just click the link and you can close it right afterwards. Link: http://bit.ly/zhsgHo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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