D11 - Legoland Nagoya

We had a nice night at out hotel, and went back to good old faithful - the 7-11 breakfast, just downstairs from the hotel in the morning.

At about 8:30am we headed off towards Nagoya station, then continuing onto another subway line to travel to Legoland. Unfortunately today was a low cloud and drizzling rain until about 5pm. We arrived at Legoland before it opened, so we checked out the hotel lobby and lego store attached.

Just before 10am we joined the small crowd of maybe 70 people for the opening of the park. Here we spent the day getting slightly wet all the time. Some rides were closed - the biggest rollercoaster being one. We rode most of the rides, wet seats were the problem, attendants sometimes tried to wipe them. The good part was there was little, to no, line wait for the entire day. In saying that the rain kept drizzling all day just enough to be annoying.

The Miniland was very well done. The kids rode the small roller coaster a few times, this and some other rides they were the only passengers. We stopped for lunch at around 1pm at the burger place. These were ordinarily at best and close to $20 for the set. Disney has one up on the food over this place.

After completing every ride they wanted to we hit up the largest lego store in Asia in the park. We were very restrained and did not buy any of the Legoland exclusives, as they were too overpriced. We did however do the 3x build -a- minifigure for $16. At 3:20pm we decided to call it a day at Legoland. Hubby really wanted to visit the SC Maglev train museum. It was open until 5:30pm.

So we walked to the train museum and saw all the rolling stock they had. It was a large place with lots of trains. We finished up there just before 5pm. We had forgotten to get our Lego passports stamped at Legoland. It shut at 5pm, so we hightailled it back over there, showed the attended a translated message. She checked our ticket and let me go back into the store to get the stamp.

After this was complete we walked back to the train station and caught the train back to Nagoya, this took about 25mins. We had decided on Tonkatsu Matsunoya for dinner and there was one about 170m the other side of the station. Here we had a nice dinner, but stuffed up on the ordering machine and ended up with an extra dinner. So we got that one as take out and it will be breakfast.

We then decided to walk back to the hotel instead of getting the subway. It was 1.8km and took a while. We did see some interesting things, like a street being filled with emergency vehicles and more arriving on the scene. We didn't hang around to see what the emergency was but about 7 vehicles were spotted and more were lights and sirens on their way.

We arrived back at the hotel safe and tired about 7:20pm.Meer informatie