t66 TOEI Uzumasa Eigamura

walking 550 meter from Uzumasa-Koryuji tram station, there is a movie studio park with a traditional setting called Toei Uzumasa Eigamura.

 in the middle of the walk, you will see entrance-like structure but that is not really the entrance.  next to it is a new modern building that house the ticketing booth, the entrance, and many souvenir shops.

the main entrance

 the entrance fee is 2200 yen per person, on the expensive side of fare i guess but it still feel worth it knowing this is a still-in-use studio.  entering, you will find cute figurines.  by now, they have started to feel excited.

there are areas for exhibition and souvenir shops.  better take note where to buy those souvenir before stepping into the studio ground. 

with all these figurines, they are already semi excited.  wait till they go to the first floor, but we didn't know at first.

  

we ru ka mu (that's 'welcome')

 instead of just studio for mostly samurai films, the park offers some recreational activities such as ninja house, ghost house, and sword fight demonstration. no there is no roller coaster here, wait for tomorrow!

sakura left over

 

sword-wielding performance swamped by school children

one thing obvious that day, being a weekday there are many school children young and old on a school trip to this park.  we have to compete with them for space, but being a large park, this place can still accommodate.

horror house, said to be really scary

kimono-wearing lads

at last there is a kimono-wearing lady but wait, they are actually visitors like us wearing a rented kimono.  so i took the picture from afar.

the real excitement came in towards the end, that's the first floor of the main building where the entrance is.  we skipped it at first to focus on the ground studio, luckily we didn't completely ignore this section. as we walked in, i could here ahaaa here and there, as if they have found their idols.  look...

this one has many fans, or is it

sad figurine, locked up for misbehaved

 

cheering leader.  i think he is hungry, again...

talking about hungry, kak long (not syakir, as indicated earlier) has made a study of eating out location and she said there is a malaysian restaurant that we know very well back in malaysia that had opened a branch right here at Uzumasa.
knowing that, we disbanded everything that we did and hurriedly walked back straight to that restaurant. the restaurant name is WADI HANA. check the picture below...

that striped shirt man must be the hungriest

gatcha...........WADI HANA. we are here!!!

 

wait a minute. what day is today? what? tuesday?
why? why? why?.............
that questions lingered for days until we came home.