Universal Studios Japan (Osaka, Japan)

Cost:

Adult 1-Day Pass ¥6600

Adult 2-Day Pass ¥11000

Directions:

From Osaka station, take JR line to Universal City. Exit from the station and you will see a big shopping area called Universal Walk. There are MANY takoyaki shops in the complex and an awesome JUMP! store! Oh, and a Takoyaki museum which I didn't have time to visit. Okay, so you just walk along the Universal Walk street and you'll reach Universal Studios.

Official Website:

http://www.usj.co.jp/e/

Honestly, Universal Studios Singapore is much better! USJ only has 6 rides for adults, Spider-Man ride will be down for two months, so we are left with 5. One of them is a super lame ride called 'Back to the Future', it's just like a car, u sit in it and watch graphics -.- it did not move at all, all it did was shake a little. Gosh, it was labelled as a 'dynamic ride' how misleading! USS's Transformers is way better. So now we are left with 4 adult rides... The Space Fantasy and Jurassic Park are quite fun but not very thrilling. And there's another pretty okay ride - the Jaws. It's not exactly a ride I'd say... No thrill, no excitement, just a bit of fun. And the last one is the super thrilling roller coaster which I gave it a miss. Lol. It is freaking scary to watch ><. But frankly speaking, my threshold for thrill is pretty high but I'm timid. Perhaps if I've been on it I'd say that USJ is worth a visit :p

Well anyway, for USJ I'd only truly recommend the Space Fantasy and the Hollywood Dream roller coaster, other than that others are quite boring and simply not worth the SGD84~ admission ticket! In contrast, USS has more to offer,  the blue and red roller coaster rides, transformers, the Mummy etc.

It seems that USJ is more kid-friendly, there are many rides and play lands for children as compared to adults. Oh yes, and it is not really a place for tourists as all of the shows are in Japanese and there is no subtitles, translations :( so we can't understand the shows and they seemed to be pretty lame! 

The shows I'd recommend would probably be a Rock n Roll show as the songs are in English and they sing 100% live, and also the hello kitty fashion show which is simply tooooo kawaii!!! Hahaha!