Going Places : Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise

Date of travel : 5 September 2009

Organized by : Us!...with Masa-san, our coordinator

This Sea Paradise in Hakkeijima, Yokohama is one of the largest water park which holds one of the largest aquariums in Japan. You can find out about this park more on its website, here. This place was one of the places that we managed to visit as part of our farewell tour in Japan. We could see thousands of marine creatures from hundreds of different kinds of species in its immensely big aquariums. We could also see a special scheduled show of dolphins and seals, and also enjoy ourselves in some of their game parks. My favourite ones..(and perhaps the scariest..huhu) were falling 107 meters down in the Blue Fall and riding the crazy surf coasters...just by the Yokohama Bay. Quite scary and crazy indeed, I couldn't even open my eyes more than half of the ride. And there were lots more. I also had my first ever merry-go-round ride in this place...(pity girl, eh?). Ha ha...

My coordinator and I, at the entrance

The dolphin aquarium

Yeah, we roughed the 'rapid'

The Blue Fall

A nice snoozing seal..er..walrus?

Waiting for the ferry

The thrilling coasters, try it if you dare..

Beautiful white dolphins performing a show

Anyway, other than the enjoyable and crazy time we had in this park, I had a rather pleasant experience here, showing the honesty and trustworthiness of the Japanese. At one time, I realized that I had lost my rings, probably forgotten to wear them back after taking the ablution at one of the restroom in the park. I went back to the restroom but couldn't find them. I was really worried and sad because those rings are precious to me. After telling my coordinator about it, he brought us to the information/help counter and relayed my problem to the lovely staff there. At first I felt rather hopeless to get them back, as they were just tiny things and were not even made from gold. The staff asked me to describe how they looked like, then out came the rings, properly kept and packed in a transparent plastic bag, exactly mine! Alhamdulillah, I felt jolly relieved! In a place that big, with lots of people visiting, I was lucky to get back my little treasures. Many thanks to the kind and honest soul who found them and brought them to the counter.

Lastly, but not the least, this place is quite awesome and a really nice place to spend the time. We had a great time here. ~The end~