Day 4, Part 2 – Cosmo World and dinner

We then headed to Cosmo World, which is diagonally across from the CupNoodles Museum. The kids saw this and wanted to go on. We bought a ticket from a machine (they have a ticket booth too) and picked the option for 3500 yen for 2800.

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It’s a dark ride where you sit in a little cart with a handheld device and tap on the screen to kill the monsters (see the thing the squirrel is holding). The problem was the monsters have nothing to do with the things in the ride. It’s not like you’re using the device to find monsters IN the ride. DS just held it in his lap so that it was just a black background and tapped at the screen the entire ride and didn’t even look at anything else. I paid 600 yen/person for the kids to play an app for 5 minutes….

It was seriously the worst money I spent in Japan. You have been warned. :mic:

The kids then played on some coin operated machines. Here’s Pikachu, there was also Doraemon and Anapaman.

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There were a bunch of capsule toy vending machines outside the arcade and the kids got a couple. At home, I usually say no, but the ones in Japan are cute, well made, and seem worth the money (most of them were 200-300 yen). DH wanted to go on the Ferris wheel after dark, so we went to have dinner first at the shopping mall across the street (Yokohama World Porters). We ate at a conveyor belt sushi place – I can’t seem to find an English name. I liked all the different tea cups they have going around on the lower level of the conveyor.

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We ordered kappa maki (cucumber rolls) for DS and the chef put a cute seaweed dog on it.

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The variety on the belt wasn’t great. We probably should have ordered more. The total came to 3900 yen (credit cards accepted). When we headed back out to Cosmo World, we realized we had just missed a bout of rain. The Ferris wheel was closed – not sure if it was due to just rain or if maybe there had been lightening. But we still had money on our ticket! We walked around trying to decide what to use it on. Then we noticed more people standing around, so we figured the Ferris wheel will probably reopen and it did (yay!). It was 800 yen/person.

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Views from the Ferris wheel:


We headed back and DD fell asleep on the train again. Luckily, we were able to wake her up this time and DH didn’t have to carry her up all those stairs and back to the hotel again.

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