Summer, it is the time to show how hard the global warming is. I think the greenhouse effect is getting worst, at lease in Hong Kong. Fortunately, I can take a break from the sultry weather in Hong Kong for five days, because I have just come back from Japan.
In this five days trip from July 10 to 14, I visited japan with my families through travel agency instead of planning the travel route by ourselves, because just understand limited Japanese and do not know which locations are worthy to visit.
It is the second times to go to japan, this time we traveled Wakayama and Osaka, although it is during summer in Japan, the weather is different from Hong Kong. The temperature in this five days are around 27.c-32.c, it is same as Hong Kong, but since there has less high buildings than HK in Wakayama and Osaka , the hot island effect and wall effect is not as worst as the situation in HK, so the wind in Japan is cooler and comfort. So, even we were visiting the Universal Studios in a sunny day, we do not feel hard and suffering.
Beside the weather, we try hot spring at first two nights, it is the first time I have a bath in hot spring. To be honest, it is quite embarrassed that everyone must be naked in the men pool with my brother, but I get used to it in the first five minutes, and then i can feel the life of real Japanese. But it is too bad that it is no photo taking in the spring area.
In the day of visiting Universal Studios, I find that there are not only the characters of the movies produced by Universal picture (like Back to the Future, Hellboy, Jurassic Park, jawes etc.), but also there are the characters of Japanese, especially “One Piece” it is far more popular and commercialize than I can imaged. There is a shop to promote its product and have a theme show of this comic, it showed that the western theme park can accept the local sub-culture, and it can give a fresh image for the oversea and local tourist. I think that if the Disneyland can add some theme shop, show or even an area for the characters which represent HK culture or sub-culture, it would be make it more special.
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