Harmonyland not Kijima

Following a mistake from the driver we found ourselves driving out to the overly cute Harmonyland rather than the close by Kijima.

Harmonyland is a Hello Kitty themed park which means everything is splatted with vomit inducing cuteness.

We were welcomed to the park by a Hello Kitty. Later we saw another one being decorated by visitors who'd brought their own fashion accessories in. Those guests were grown men...just a little bit creepy!

The village theming was pretty impressive though.

Sick yet?

I can't imagine how awful the stage show must be with all those cute animals. Fortunately we got to miss it as we'd only be here for an hour and a half. Instead we got to enjoy a 3d wacky races cartoon which featured a guy who stuck his arse out the back of his car and farted flowers.

Even the gardens were given an overdose of cute.

As was the video game hall (all the games were Kittified too)

The park has a big wheel but you already knew that from the pic earlier.

There are two definite coasters in the park. The first one is just a dragon coaster but themed in lurid colours.

The second was a rollerskater, where the staff upset some of the group by not allowing them to take their camera on the ride. We have a constitution that says the most important rule is that you follow the park rules, no exceptions and some of the people should have known better.

An even worse display came in the queue for the parks train ride (is it a coaster or not?) where the testing was taking a little longer than some liked to the point that they decided to boo the ride staff. I thought this was atrocious behaviour towards a people who were just doing their job. Japan is a country where the people are civil, especially towards foreigners and as ambassadors of the industry to boo these people I thought was just wrong. I'll put it down to the people needing to counter the over-cuteness on display everywhere. The ying to the yang so to speak.

The train is quite long and runs on coaster track. It does use gravity to get down the mountain and lift hills to get back, but its braked most of the way down. Some people counted it, others did not.

A view of the lower entrance to the park.

One of the pictures in the lower station.

This park was like most Japanese girls, small and cute and friendly. From here we headed back towards the hotel to visit Kijima.