Japan 2023, day 5, cancelled due to rain.

The forecast said rain so Mike and I geared up with rain coat, parka and umbrellas. Little did we know…

It was raining so hard that rain was coming through our umbrellas. We went straight to Super Nintendo World and rode the Mario Cart ride again since we knew it was one of the rides we wanted to get to do at least one more time. It was just a quick 15 minute wait. We thought we’d do it again but the wait had jumped to 2 hours for standby and 1 hour for single rider. We didn’t want to do it again that bad. The crowds yesterday in Super Nintendo World we’re pretty heavy. Today it was insane due to the umbrellas.

We left SNW and decided to do do some of the indoor shows/attractions. The first we did was an Anime 4D movie (seats shake and squirt water at you) called Jujutsu Kaisen. It was interesting to see an attraction in the Anime style. The story was easy enough to follow despite the fact that it was in Japanese. Bad guy vs. good guys. Lots of fighting. Good guys win.

We hung out at Mel’s Diner to avoid the rain for a bit and had onion rings. Good ones, too.

We then stood in the rain for a bit waiting to get into Universal Monsters Rock and Roll Show.

It was a rock revue starring Beetlejuice as the host and Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Werewolf and Gay Dracula as the rock band. The songs were sung in English and the narration was all in Japanese.

Yes, Gay Dracula. Mike said the Bride of Frankenstein was the butchest one on stage. The werewolf howl was more like a little girl’s scream. The show was campy and fun.

By this time our shoes were filled with water and the rain kept coming down hard. (The forecast expected 4” of rain and possible flooding.) there was very little that we hadn’t done at least once in the park over the last two days and even less we wanted to repeat so we decided not to make ourselves suffer by just to get our money’s worth out of the tickets so we left.

We decided to eat lunch at The Sushi Diner again and were not disappointed.

We headed to the room and had a jet lag nap of a couple of hours. We spent some time using the room hairdryer to give our shoes a head start in drying out and then watched the final episode of Ted Lasso on Mike’s iPad. (Brilliant.)

For dinner Mike was conveniently craving Japanese food so we went back the the Tonkatsu place we’d eaten at on our first day. We took it back to the room this time and feasted while watching a steady stream of soaked people exit the park.

Not a bad day, all and all. Tomorrow we head to Tokyo.

Thanks for following along.