Nagasaki - Huis Ten Bosch - 10 May 2017

 Mills and flowers: we stayed till dark, when the park was lovely lit

Wednesday, 10 May 2017

A day in theme park 'Huis Ten Bosch', which is situated approx. 50 kilometers north of Nagasaki. It's amazing how this park resembles a Dutch village. Even the cobble stones have been imported from Holland to give this park a real Dutch feeling.
A lot of famous Dutch buildings have been copied: the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, the port of Delft, the city hall of Gouda, the port of Sneek, the Dom tower of Utrecht and of course Huis Ten Bosch (which btw was closed)

City hall Gouda

photo made from the top of  the Dom tower

Sneekerpoort

Hotel l'Europe in Amsterdam

As in all theme parks there are a lot of food counters, restaurants AND various attractions. For many attractions you have to put a VR headset & headphone on. We did several and had lots of fun, especially in the merry-go-round.  

in virtual reality

health check (all was fine, some even excellent, phew)

overview of the results ... in Japanese 

Robots

amazing robot fishes

VR

wearing this white paper mask under the VR headset is mandatory

We were the only non-Japanese around, except for the Italian musicians. 
Again we noticed there was far too much personnel present, waiting for visitors. Especially in the early afternoon it was very quiet (cold and windy) 
The park is now 25 years old and costed about USD 2.5 Billion (!)

still a lot of fun P.'s new Samsung phone

We had a nice dinner at an Italian restaurant on the premises of Huis Ten Bosch, which wasn't bad at all. The espresso wasn't strong enough in our opinion. When I asked to see the espresso machine, and mentioned our opinion, all 5 waiters discussed among each other (panic) and after a while a cup of stronger espresso was placed on our table and 2 waitresses looked at our faces when we tasted. This one indeed was better/stronger.  

When we left the restaurant it was already dark and all the lights gave the park an enchanting atmosphere. Couldn't resist making lots of photos. Showing a few:

Italian musicians at the 'Amsterdam square'

the fountain that looks more Italian than Dutch if you ask me

leaving the park to drive to our temporary home; the Forza hotel in Nagasaki

That's it for today.

Dikke kus

Carina