Today was our first park day at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka! We had the 1.5 day pass so we could only enter from 3pm onwards, but were able to enjoy a lot of the daytime Halloween festivities and Haunted Houses for Halloween Horror Nights. After 6pm the monsters came out and it was very cool to see how USJ does Halloween!
Unfortunately there was a casualty toward the end of the night – my camera lens – which resulted in us having to leave the park quite suddenly and make a mad dash to try and find one before the stores closed at 9pm.
Thankfully due to some luck and my lovely husband’s persistance, the day was saved! We’ll be back tomorrow for our second and full day at USJ!
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Good morning it is 10:30 bit of a late morning for us but we don’t have a heat plan so we’re just leaving the hotel to go find something to eat for breakfast I haven’t showered yet cuz I’m I want to wash my hair so I’m just just
Got like freshened up and then I’m going to come back and wash my hair before tonight we’re heading to um a place called a Saka Bay Tower I think they have a a couple of different options there so we’re going to see if they have anything that appeals to us it’s very
Sunny if you can’t tell from my faith and the squinting but um yeah it’s only a I’m minut to walk from out Rotel so almost There Shown in pancake this is what we which we found on Google let’s see what’s on that menu what do you got lots of different types strawberry Royal milk tea lemon custard apple caramel banana Shen pancake they do look fluffy but we got to make sure we’ve got something for Dylan too
H Huh to kind of so food is here so I got the Royal milk the Royal milk tea pancake I thought I would try something different today Dylan’s got the regular Shonen pancakes which think they’re just like a a fluffy kind of pancake we both got ice lates and yeah we’re going to
Start eating we’ve been while we’re waiting for our food we’ve been kind of planning our day with universal see if I can open that up again we’re just like making list of like favorites of things that we want to do and stuff like that and what our plan is going to be
Essentially we’re going to try and Target as many rides as we can that aren’t on our Express class tomorrow so we only have four rides on the express pass which are the Forbidden Journey um in the Harry Potter uh Whiting World area the Super Mario um Mario Kart ride
Flying dinosaur and Spider-Man 4D so we have four of those everything else we’ll have to pretty much line up for so yeah whatever we can get done today will be amazing for us really and like any shows and stuff we can see will be good um like obviously we’ll be there for
Horrror nights after 6:00 p.m. as well so excited hello we finished breakfast it’s very yummy it’s uh 11:25 now so we’re just going to walk back to our hotel just like a 5 minute walk going to wash my hair start getting ready what are you laughing what are you doing like
Angry anyway yes um going to get ready I want to get to Universal like before 3:00 cuz when we can get let in but I don’t know if there’s going to be like a line situation or like what happens or how it works so I figured if we can get
There earlier that would be good so it give us like a couple of hours to get ready more so me Dylan doesn’t need that I need it I’m excited guys I I really like the more I look into it I’m excited to do the houses some of them have a really
Short weight like the Chucky ride Chucky ride the Chucky house and the universal monsters house like only currently have a 10-minute wa it could change when we get there but that’s still very reasonable so yeah let’s go hello it is 1:30 we are just about to head out to go
To Universal hair is washed and straightened and nice and clean um how can I I want to show you what I’m wearing one second this is the fit a dress from Dangerfield bit poofy but cute kind of spooky um but yes we’re we’re ready to go just going
To walk down to banto Station so like a 5 minute walk I think it’s going to take us about 20 minutes or so by public transport to get there I hoping to get there early just so like we can check out the the area surrounding the park as
Well because they’re like most universal Park they have like Universal Walk where you can go and check out shops and and food places and things like that as well I don’t actually know like if like what the que situation is going to be like as
Well so I thought rather be early so we can get in you know straight at 3:00 I think there’s some parades and shows and stuff happening around that 3:00 um 3:30 uh Mark so that would be cool to see as well but yeah we’re going now so I’m excited let’s Go Guys made it 156 we’re out here at Universal City walk this is what it looks like it’s pretty busy biery donkey see Dylan has had some success spending his franchise worldwide bubblegum shrimp good job also go to Universal Studios store outside the park so if you want to do
Shopping but you don’t want to go all the way in you can do that coming up on the left here is the park front Hotel uh it’s probably the closest accommodation you can get to staying at Universal Studios without having to like get in transport or
Anything it’s a very short walk to the park room there so this is it just on the right here very pretty doing a quick little detour to check out the merch store we’ got some like we’ve got lots of like gift sets and like cookies and things so
That’s pretty standard in most Parks what’s that marioart oh Mario Kart trophy that’s cool um I want to look over this side where the the merchandises so got some sweaters toad Mario Luigi and Yoshi I thought you said they didn’t have any so they got Mario headbands they got
Luigi headbands oh they got is that a Princess Peach one I kind of want to try it On so big well look it’s a Mario yourself yo it’s me Mario they got way more they got boo they got Bowser they got the bomb bom whatever his name is squid dude I’m not a Mario experts so don’t come for me look at these it’s like EMS with like
Toad on them what does he found oh those are cool those are very cool like if there was any Mario merch I would consider buying it probably that love oh is that a hat how does that work it’s like a Beret I must say I’m pretty impressed with the merch so far even as somebody who’s not a big fan like I love Nintendo I just not like on the same level as Dylan but like look at these Pass Holder pouches these are adorable horrible how much are they, 1500 Yen not even that
Expensive cute yeah they have really cute merch like this is really nice like I don’t even want to look at the rest of it cuz the Mario stuff just puts everything else to shame you going to buy anything right now got more ears got the Snoopy ears
We’ve got I don’t know what this is some of dog um we’ve got Jaws oh dinosaur I can’t tell what these are no that’s Jaws that’s definitely a shark this is a dinosaur maybe we got Sesame Street more oh it’s this guy I need to figure
Out what his name is he’s very popular here I don’t know what his name is but that’s cute the music is great love some Ghostbusters we got King Kong up here there’s multiple merch shops which is cool they’ve also got um I don’t know if you can really see it super well there
They’ve got some Pikachu for the oh this one has Yosi as well huh oh yeah there is also Yoshi yep peeps so they got yeah a Pokémon collab going with universal at the moment so it’ll be interesting to see if there’s more merch in the store but as you can
See in the distance we’re approaching the gate almost there need to figure out where I need to go that’s the next step wao I think that’s Hollywood the dream that roller coaster there could be wrong but I I feel pretty Confident the Sun out of my eyes there we go see if it’s still possible to get a timed entry into um Nintendo World today I mean we have an entry for tomorrow worst case but you know it would be could be cool See it just telling you download the app yeah all right so we’re still super early like it’s 2:17 can’t get in the park yet so we’re going to another gift sh cuz what else can we do with without time and look look at these so cute
Hello Kitty and then they’ve got like a leopard print one as well so cute what are these are these H Kitty they’re H Kitty they are H Kitty oh my God so cute so many colors this is the other Snoopy one that I was looking
At cute oh look look at these he got a little little hat and then we’ve got just a regular peanuts G Snoopy lots of things guys are these need I think they look cute totally do not have space for this but look at him it’s all Halloween
Snoopy oh my gosh guys look at that hella Kitty bag I was just about to buy um this boo one but now I’m oh so zoomed in yeah I was about to pick up this one and now I’m like should I just get Hello Kitty tempting guys I’ve been here for 5
Minutes haven’t even entered the park yet already gotot ears the hell kitty pouch This is the C area to get in for the 300 p.m. people we joined at about 2:40 is like now we have about 5 minutes 4 minutes actually to get let in so I’m hoping Hing they’ll let us in soon [Applause] all right it’s time it’s go time it’s 3:00 exactly
Cheers all right we’re in merch what the hell they’ve already got their Christmas tree up here what in the world it is Halloween during Halloween hor not Blasphemous I’ve got to buy some Mario popcorn babe all right um yeah so we’re in I wasn’t like my tripod stick thing for some reason at
Disney it was fine as long as I didn’t use it as a tripod the security lady here said I’m not allowed to use it at all so this will be fun um I’m just going handheld for now but if I see somebody else with want something similar then I’m using it
Too but oh my God this look at these minions Pok yes Pokémon display but look at these Minions look at this Guy All right we’re making our way towards the there’s going to be a Pokémon show at 10 plus 3 which is in 4 minutes Halloween stor um so we’re going to go there first and see if we can catch that cuz that’s one less thing we have to do
Tomorrow I can see the universal monsters house Legends of fear just over there in the corner so might come back with that I want to try and get the house is done pretty quickly cuz they’ll have quite low weight time so then we can worry about other Rides you need to get every popcorn you don’t even like that’s not even a bucket it’s just a thing yeah that’s cool like the lines again like Disney they’re pretty long for food so I’m prepared for that all right let’s go okay I think we’re getting close I can see Pokémon
Charge up Halloween greeting I think I think that’s where they come out after to meet them we’ve got SOS curse over there that’s the overlay for the roller coaster where is the Stage 3 2 1 go Pikachu yeah Pikachu Pik Pikachu Higher jump jump jump jump Jump djik your [Applause] [Applause] Go go [Applause] 1 you that was nuts I love how hard they go for Halloween here and like everyone knew all the dancers and they’re get involved it was just amazing um I don’t know what we’re going to do next I’m going to walk past the Pokémon area again and see if there’s any characters
Out if not maybe we’ll do like a house and then we pass Universal monsters so we could go do that maybe something smells really nice M Y all right the first ride of the day hello lining up for the universal Monsters Legends of fear house parent it’s posted a 10-minute wait so we’ll see if that’s actually accurate it doesn’t look like super long line but it must just let people in like a lot at a time I don’t
Know where this Line’s going oh I know that I was looking at the back there I was like damn that’s long but I think that’s another house check the Pokémon Halloween Cafe that they have popped up the line is huge I’ve been told that you have to get there
Pretty early in the morning to secure a spot or even just to get a return time um so we’re going to try for that tomorrow I think if we get the time where is he going where are you off to come on oh they have little Pass Holder pouches too this is
Cute look at you and then we’ got a little matching head band hat that’s Cool here we go here we go this is Hing Kuma it’s very popular here here we go we found Chuckies he’s at a half an hour wait so I think we’ll jump in and do that one I was going to ask you something Dylan what was your review on the
Universal monster’s house oh apparently I’ve never been in the Universal monsters house and apparently um yeah it was fun it’s pretty tame in terms of a pointed house you know usual jump scares nothing crazy though not no if you judged it by the people behind us if the girls behind
USI they were not fans of haunted houses they were terrified they were grabbing Dylan’s bag they were like jumping all over the place and screaming but no it wasn’t wasn’t a bad house wasn’t anything amazing so I have high hopes for Chucky I think it’ll be a good
One this is um dinner SL snack who knows it could be more food later anyway we got pizza from Louis got spicy pepperoni I think it’s just regular pepperoni and then you get some chips over there as a side oh drop some um and then I got a Coke Zero got a
Coke I’m going to turn you around in a sec I’ll give you a quick review on the Chucky haunted house once we finish eating cuz I’m hungry yeah so in terms of chucking it was a uh it was a 3D haunted house which I’ve never done before so
You got 3D glasses to wear while you were in there um it was pretty trippy to be honest like a lot of the effects it was cool um what they did sometimes you couldn’t tell if somebody was like actually jumping out of you at you or
Was like 3D um but yeah it was definitely a step up from the Universal Master’s house I thought it was a little bit more intense um definitely they got me a few times I like jumped out scared me whereas univ I don’t think I really got scared that much but
Um yeah actually that was really good so the third house that they have here is biohazard which I just realized it’s a Ed entry house and they don’t have any time entry left for the day so we won’t be able to do it today sadly um so we’re
Going to have to just try and get time entry ticket for that tomorrow once we get into the park I guess I definitely wanted to do it I’ve heard it’s the best one out of the three houses so um whether or not we can do both is is
Another thing cuz there’s there’s the Leon PA and then there’s the um girl’s name is um what’s her name what’s her name CLA CLA R and um I don’t know if you can get more than one timed entry a day so we’ll find out tomorrow I guess
But for now we just finished eating we’re going to try and join the line for SOS curse it’s jumped down to 75 minutes which is 10 minutes less but they also have a single ride of queue which we’re going to try and utilize we might utilize for a few rides because some of
Them like Hollywood dream and backdrop are like 140 160 minute weights and I don’t know about you I I that one time uh J C is at 60 Minutes at the moment everything else is kind of like a minimum hour wait other than like the some of the houses so yeah we’re going
To go now and drop L that’s where the monsters are going to come out at 600 so people have already started kind of like queuing up to get the best spot for it but that’s okay like I think I would rather spend the time lining up for this ride getting
Something knocked off our list so yeah we’re going to keep going to S AO by the time we come out we’ll probably have all started kicking off with like the scare zones and everything so that’ll be fun to see so 40 minutes for single Rider versus 65 in the regular line I think
We’re going to go single Rider perfect timing He is so woud we just got off sako’s CSE I kind of went in blind with that one I wasn’t sure what to expect but it was really really good like I I was really impressed with it we also did the single Rider too so we’re only spent like about
30 minutes or so in the line um highly recommend that if you want to save time cuz it cut the way time down by like half but yeah it was really good I think if we can get on it again tonight like maybe we’ll do single R again then we
Will so now it’s after 6 so uh horon nights is officially kicked up and there are characters roaming the streets which I’ll show you some of them on the way oh no there kids crying they probably should avoid the scare zones um anyway we’re going to try
And do Jiu-Jitsu kaisen now and then we might do one of the Hollywood um either the dream or backdrop if we have time but I also want to spend a little bit of time out here and just like see what happens with um horror nights as well so
Yeah that’s my little update we’re going to get going Now I love that they got like little security guards for them that was Great all right let’s go this Way D DOR Da DOR On Oh This is the butterbeer que I really do want one do I need to wait this long for one I might have a look can see if there’s anywhere else to get it if not then guess we got to queue up that’s the one thing is like I feel like that was more
Efficient in the US like we didn’t have to we did queue up for things but never this long for like popcorn or drinks or Butterbeer What is this packaged soft serve from the 711 interesting hello sorry for the sudden change of pace I would usually still be coming to you from Universal but we’ve had a night we’ve had a bit of bit of a stressful night so we were in the line um we were
At Hogwarts um Whiting World getting butterbeer and my camera fell out of my hand and it seemed okay like there was no major damage to like the outside of it I think largely due to the case and everything but then I couldn’t get the lens to work it was just stuck on this
Mode where um when you first put the lens on it’s like you have to press a button and and rotate it till it like figures out camera battery died it just doesn’t want thing it’s just not a good night anyway um so yes it the lens was
Turning on but it was stuck on this mode like it couldn’t fully I don’t know how to explain it it basically wouldn’t fully focus and the message wouldn’t go away and um so I couldn’t actually use the functionality of the camera everything else worked like the menu buttons everything else
But I couldn’t shoot I couldn’t take any pictures I couldn’t take any video which kind of defe defeats the purpose of you know being able to Vlog like I couldn’t do anything so obviously I was pretty stressed out about it this is about 8:00 p.m. and we probably sat there for like
15 20 minutes around troubleshoot it if there was anything that we could do the camera itself worked without the lens it’s just the lens was not functional anymore so I did a quick bit of Googling and there was a CLE there was a camera shop called big camera that was in
Number um or number um I don’t know the right way to say it but it was you know it was in that area closed at 9 so I had an hour to get there so we basically ran for the train got on the train got to
This this place it took about half an hour to get there got there and they said that they didn’t have any the guy reckons it was discontinued or they didn’t have stock or something and yeah obviously you know I thought that was going to be the solution to my problem
So I was probably I was about to have a meltdown in the shopping center not like a you know not cause a scene but like probably stop crying and so Dylan was really good and he was Googling doing other stuff while I was like trying to calm down and he found another camera
Store which also was open till 9: it was about 8:45 at this point and we basically power walked there from from big camera and yeah the guy there was really helpful again they weren’t sure if they had anything but he went to have a look and he found a lens it was a
Secondhand lens but it was the right lens for my camera we tried it on and it did work so it just meant that the actual lens was the problem which is a good sign and so we picked that up so that’s what I’m recording on now so yeah I honestly
Wasn’t sure we were going to get that solution tonight and it would have put me in a bit of a tricky situation because tomorrow most camera or most stores in Japan don’t open till like 9:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. and we have to be at Universal at that time cuz our window
For The Wizarding World is at like 9 a.m. so there wouldn’t have been any time to go tomorrow so I was just yeah very overwhelmed and stressed and uh didn’t know if it was going to work out for me but thankfully it has and thankfully Dylan kind of kept me calm
Because yeah I was probably like 5 seconds away from just having a meltdown so yeah that’s why we we left really suddenly but that being said you know we had a really good time at Universal or at least I did did you have a good time
You did we did pretty much everything we wanted to do in terms of rides the only thing we couldn’t get on tonight was the Hollywood dream and the backdrop roller coasters because they were kind of they had been at like 140 150 minute wait pretty much from when we got there at
3:00 p.m. all the way until 8 but you know we got s soko’s curse done which was really good we got jji kaisen Don we got what else did we do we did both the we did two of the houses um Universal monsters and Chucky we didn’t do biohazard because they were ticketed
We’re going to try and jump on that first thing tomorrow I think that was it I’m trying to think if there’s anything else that we missed I think the only things we didn’t really pay attention to doing were the ones that we were we have Express passes
For and probably Jaws as well if I don’t ride Jaws this time I’ll survive like it’s it’s an okay ride it’s nothing special to me so I you know if we’ get if there’s a low weight time and we can get on it then sure but like I think it
Was like it got down to 40 minutes of that one point which I probably still wouldn’t even line up for so yeah now I really enjoyed it the scare zones were cool I didn’t get around to all of them but I can probably pop around to some of
Them once it hits 6:00 p.m. tomorrow I don’t think we’ll stay till close just because we’re heading to Tokyo the next day and yeah I mean I think you can get a lot of it done you don’t have to stay to close at these kind of horror night
Especially with only three houses I know like in the states they like go to like 2: a.m. but there so many more houses to do and um yeah things that you know you’d stick around for whereas you could easily get this done in one night here I
Think but yeah that’s that’s my my update so we’ve got Super Nintendo World as well in our ticketed um express pass tomorrow so we’ll be there at like I think 3ish is our entry 3:30 in the afternoon is our entry to Super Nintendo World so that will be really cool and
Know Don is excited about that I think that’s it I think that’s all I’ve got I don’t want to ramble too much that’s it so I’m going to get ready for um for bed and everything probably try and pack up my suitcase as well cuz I’m hoping to
Forward that on to Tokyo before we leave in the morning maybe just so don’t have to worry about that on the on the shinkansen again and then that’s the last time we’ll have to transfer our luggage until we go to the airport basically cuz we’ll be in Tokyo for the
Rest of the trip after tomorrow so so yep that’s it I’m going to go get ready for bed do all my other things um and yeah we’ve got a big day at Universal tomorrow it’ll be yeah good to to do it like from the start of the day I have to
Actually look into how early we need to get there because I feel like I’ve read somewhere that you need to be there at least an hour beforehand or something like that so I’m going to look into this after this video thank you for bearing with me so I couldn’t cover the rest of
The night but I think you know it’s probably good to have a slightly earlier night before a big day tomorrow anyway so I will see you then and uh yeah that’s all I got I don’t have anything else to say good night thank you for watching I’ll see you tomorrow for Universal Bye