We went to Universal Studios Japan in Osaka! It was one of many awesome activities over 2 weeks across the four cities we visited. We went on multiple rides that took forever to get through the lines. On a few of them we took the “singles” line which was faster and sometimes we still got to ride together. My favorite ride was Jurassic Park’s The Flying Dinosaur. It was super scary and I was shaking after the ride! We went to many shops which had a wide variety of things and we got some souvenirs. There are a few large themed areas within the park. We went to the Harry Potter world, Super Nintendo World, and a Minions one. I liked all of them. In the Harry Potter world, you got to walk through a very detailed Hogsmeade town with shops, restaurants, etc. We loved drinking Butterbeer!!

We started in Tokyo and my family surprised me with a couple different animal cafes. Our first one was a pig cafe, and I was completely in shock the whole time. There were a lot of pigs of different sizes that would pile up on people’s laps. I was a bit skeptical at first until a caretaker convinced me to try it with a sleepy red-haired pig. It was so cute and just wanted to fall asleep in my lap. We also went to a cat and capybara cafe. The cats were the fluffiest things in the world. There was about a dozen cats and a single capybara which just stood there and stared at the wall until we were feeding it leaves. When the cat food came out the cats would climb on top of you and on top of the cat trees.

These are just a couple of highlights of our amazing trip to Japan!