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I wanted to get the premium park tickets, but they were sold out on the day that it went on sale. Ughs. I was very disappointed because going to Ghibli Park was the very reason why I wanted to go to Nagoya in the first place.
My Japanese friend told me to try getting a combo ticket. By that, she meant staying at a hotel which has tie-up with Ghibli Park.
No matter which hotel I looked at, every package was very expensive because it cost at least $500 per night. I had no choice but to settle for the normal ticket.
There was a very long queue to enter the grand warehouse but the queue was fast moving. There was also a ridiculously long queue for the No Face mannequin. I refuse to queue for that because I thought it looked hideous. There was also a long queue to buy bread from their famous bakery. I refused to queue for that too.
We had to climb up a steep slope to get to see Totoro on the hill. The Totoro play statue is for children under 12 but the opening for children to go up is very dark AND narrow AND the stairs were steep.
This meant that while going up was not very difficult, coming down proved to be a problem. I waited a very long time for my child to come down because a younger kid in front of her took an agonisingly long time to come down the 90° stairs in the dark.
Although there was a staff stationed there, she proved to be not helpful because she didn't go up the stairs to help the 2 children who had difficulties coming down. I believe she was chosen to be the staff stationed there because of her height.
Remember because this play statue is made for children under 12, if the staff went up, she would barely fit through the narrow opening herself. The staff had to squat in order to station herself near the stairs.
That's how short the height allowance is between the ground and the bottom of the statue.
As climbing up the stairs proved difficult for her, she just asked me to keep calling my daughter to ask her to come down now.
I waited 15 to 20 minutes for my child to finally re-emerge.
I wonder what the designers were thinking when they planned this play statue.
At the souvenir shop inside the grand warehouse, the queue was also ridiculously long.
The queue was so long that it actually stretched outside the shop!
Fortunately, the queue itself was fast moving, so I did not have to wait very long.
The souvenirs are really pricey. And so all I managed to buy were the cheaper ones.
If you wait till evening time to leave, the grand warehouse house is beautifully lighted up which provides a beautiful photo spot.
The cat playground was fun, but by the time my child got there, it was already dark. My child loved the flying fox.
Thank goodness the staff nearby did not tell us to leave.
