This is us at Sanrio Puroland in Japan last year (January). It was pretty cold and I was freezing under my coat. It took a lot of effort for me to smile in this photo. Would I do it all over again? Of course! =D
Photo taken at Tama City, Tokyo, Japan.
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Sanrio Puroland (サンリオピューロランド, Sanrio Pyūrorando) is an indoor theme park located in Tama New Town, Tokyo, Japan that attracts over 1.5 million visitors per year.
Opened on December 7, 1990, the theme park is run by the Sanrio company, and hosts various musicals, restaurants, attractions, and theme rides using popular characters such as Hello Kitty, Pochacco, Keroppi, and many more. While many of these attractions are only in the Japanese language, Puroland attracts many visitors from overseas as well as Japan because of the worldwide popularity of these characters. Puroland also has an extensive gift shop featuring Sanrio characters. Tourists visiting in the summer will be able to see fireworks on a daily basis.
The theme park lost money its first three years, owing to operational foul-ups and a temporary lull in Hello Kitty's popularity. Despite these setbacks, the park has become one of Japan's most popular attractions.
Nearby train stations are the Odakyu Tama Center Station (Odakyu Tama Line), Keio Tama Center Station on the Keio Sagamihara Line, and Tama City Monorail's Tama Center Station. Puroland is also situated within walking distance of the Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo. (Wikipedia)
2 comments:
That must be a nice place to visit. I am wishing that i can visit Japan just even once.
I loved Hello Kitty everything when I was a girl. We had a store in our local mall called The Happiness Shop which later became Sanrio. I loved that store! My siblings and I played post office (as in mailing letters through a window in our house) using my Hello Kitty stamp pad to 'cancel' stamps (which were made from leftover mailing labels from my mom's
I didn't know that Sanrio had a theme park...but if we are ever able to travel to Japan, I'd love to visit it!
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