Osaka City

Using this app & booking the transportation made it easy & less stressful. After a little confusion we got our tickets & booked our bus times. It was a pleasant ride over to the park. But the real confusion is getting dropped off at a roadside oasis with really no clear direction of where to go. It’s not a theme park. It’s a giant park that offer various themed events/rides/activities within it. All are spread out and not really signed very well. You can walk 30 mins thru the park to the Godzilla or take a second bus to drop you off closer. However you have to figure out how to get to that bus. Then they drop you off at a gate without clear signs so we walked & eventually found Godzilla. It was strange. You really don’t need that much time for just the Godzilla zipline and museum. Take the last bus there and the first bus back; you’ll still have time to kill. Loved Godzilla attraction!

I am SO glad we splurged and got the 5hr VIP - it was worth every cent. Our tour started at 1.30pm but we were at USJ at 9am to collect our VIP bands which gave us express access to whichever rides we wanted, before our tour even started. Lunch was 11.30am at the Luminant VIP restaurant, the food was pretty good and the themed sweets were super cute! Staff were very attentive. Our actual started after lunch and our guide (Ezawa) was a perfect fit for our family - my youngest son was not keen to go on any scary rides and she was very patient with him. It was fantastic being able to skip the huge lines and go through secret passages to get to the rides. We had an amazing day and wouldn't do Universal any other way!