Kitakyushu's Space World draws early morning crowd for farewell party
Fans began lining up at 4 a.m. Sunday to enter Space World amusement park in Kitakyushu for its final day in business. Attendance at Space World, which opened in April 1990, peaked at 2.16 million in fiscal 1997. But the gradual decline in business since ...
Naha firm to open miniature model theme park in Okinawa featuring tourist sites around the world
A company based in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, is aiming to open a theme park in the prefecture around 2022 featuring exhibitions of famous cities around the world using miniature models. The attraction, to be called Little Ambassadors' Small World Okinawa, will be constructed in the ...
Safety concerns emerged Monday at an amusement park in Nagoya under scrutiny for a minor crash on one ride and failure to fully secure a carriage door on its ferris wheel. The safety mishaps occurred at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens, where all 16 attractions ...
The operator of the Disney theme parks in Japan will open a new attraction featuring the Disney/Pixar animated film series "Finding Nemo" at the Tokyo DisneySea theme park in spring 2017. Oriental Land Co. said the indoor attraction in the Port Discovery area will enable ...
