A Ride on the HEP5 Ferris Wheel in Osaka, Japan

We are still sorting through the thousands of photos from our trip to Japan…. this is the first of many highlights to come.

A day or two after we arrived in Japan, we visited the HEP5 (“Hankyu Entertainment Park”) shopping mall in Osaka, which caters to seventeen-year-old girls wearing mini-skirts and knee-highs. It has a gigantic, bright red ferris wheel on top of the building. The tallest point of the wheel is about 106 meters in the air — in other words, it’s about 20 stories high. That’s high. You can see my reaction in the last picture.