May 16 2014 - Fuji Amusement Park

Fuji Amusement Park was today. This park is a world renowned park. It has broken a few different records. This park houses the tallest rollercoaster in the world! It also has the fastest rollercoaster in the world. One thing that amazed me about this park was how clean it was. There was no garbage anywhere but there were also no garbage cans. That just doesn’t make much since. Usually, especially in America, people get tired of holding trash so they just drop it everywhere which makes the place dirty. In Japan, I didn’t see one person liter which is absolutely incredible. A couple other things I noticed was the layout of the park were awful. Usually in parks they connect all over so that you can just go where ever you please. In this park though it was pretty much just one circle with dead ends everywhere, so some places weren’t very accessible. Secondly, there were no drinking fountains to be found. I think this is a good and a bad idea. No drinking fountains mean people get dehydrated a lot quicker because no one wants to buy water bottles, but if you have to buy a water bottle then that company makes a lot more money.  Another thing that was very different was how people order food. Many vendors in the park had automatic stations that you would order your food and then take the ticket to the counter. So the lines were much shorter and to me it seemed like the food came faster.

I feel like the Japanese people put a lot of trust in each other in order for their society to work out the way it does. They believe in each other and want to make their world a better place.