For those of you keeping score of such details, Hokkaido Greenland has three scary attractions. Quality-wise, yeah, there's a traditional dark ride and a walk-through (pictured above) that are not as bat-poop bonkers as some of the others featured on this trip. But they most certainly don't offend with suckage, and we didn't wait a minute for either of them.
I know I go on and on about this matter, but it must be emphasized when appropriate: to find three scary attractions in a park of this size and scope is mega-dope.
This is the entrance to the dark ride, which is just down the path from the walk-through. I did not have my picture taken as "stretchy neck geisha phantasm" as I clearly could have, *slaps forehead.*
My favorite attraction at Greenland was their spooky Surprising House, which is tucked away under the station for the suspended pirate boat monorail; you can see it behind the entrance to the carousel in the photo above.
Somebody I'd like to buy a drink for someday came up with the idea to mate a "3D audio" headset experience with a mini somersaulting room ride. The result is so good, I can only hope there are more of them at other parks we didn't get to. First, it lasts several minutes. Second, there's a story to the whole shebang, and don't ask me to tell you what that story is, but it involves seductive/unnerving whispering and breaking dinner plates and creepy moaning and darkness and the possessed room rocking and rolling and finally flipping all the way over. Marvelous.
Greenland is a neat little park; I'll be back.
Later that afternoon, a few of us took a stroll through Sapporo. This is Odori Park, which runs quite a few blocks through the center of the city. That's the Sapporo TV Tower in the distance. |
