is a major amusement park

Amusement park

thumb|Cinderella Castle in [[Magic Kingdom]], [[Disney World]]Amusement and theme parks are terms for a group of entertainment attractions and rides and other events in a location for the enjoyment of large numbers of people...

 in Kuwana

Kuwana, Mie

is a city located in the northern end of Mie Prefecture, Japan. It is known as a major sightseeing city in the prefecture. Located at the mouth of the three rivers dividing Mie and Aichi prefectures, the city has functioned as a regional center of fishing, industry, business, and culture.As of...

, Mie Prefecture

Mie Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan which is part of the Kansai regions on Honshū island. The capital is the city of Tsu.- History :Until the Meiji Restoration, Mie prefecture was known as Ise Province and Iga Province....

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. It features several roller coaster

Roller coaster

The roller coaster is a popular amusement ride developed for amusement parks and modern theme parks. LaMarcus Adna Thompson patented the first coasters on January 20, 1885...

s, a giant Ferris wheel

Ferris wheel

A Ferris wheel is a nonbuilding structure consisting of a rotating upright wheel with passenger cars attached to the rim in such a way that as the wheel turns, the cars are kept upright, usually by gravity.Some of the largest and most modern Ferris wheels have cars mounted on...

, and a water park.

Roller coasters

• Children Coaster
• Corkscrew
• Jet Coaster
• Looping Star
  Looping Star (Nagashima Spa Land)
  Looping Star is a roller coaster which is located at Nagashima Spa Land in Mie, Japan. Built by Anton Schwarzkopf in 1982. It is one of the identical models of Looping Star at other parks. Built by Anton Schwarzkopf in 1982. It was actually built right after two years since Shuttle Loop was...
  
  
• Shuttle Loop
• Steel Dragon 2000
  Steel Dragon 2000
  is a roller coaster at Nagashima Spa Land amusement park in Mie Prefecture, Japan. Built by Morgan Manufacturing, this gigacoaster opened, appropriately, in 2000—"The Year of the Dragon" in Asia. It debuted only months after Millennium Force at Cedar Point, and surpassed that as the world's tallest...
  
  
• Ultra Twister
  Ultra Twister (Nagashima Spa Land)
  Ultra Twister is a roller coaster located at Nagashima Spa Land in Mie Prefecture, Japan. Built by TOGO, which is also one of the only few Ultra Twister models still in operation in Japan. It is almost identical to the other Ultra Twister models in the United States except it has a vertical chain...
  
  
• White Cyclone
  White Cyclone
  is a wooden roller coaster at Nagashima Spa Land in Mie Prefecture, Japan. At 1,700 meters in length, White Cyclone is the fourth longest wooden roller coaster in the world, and is the longest wooden roller coaster outside of the United States...
  
  
• Wild Mouse, two mirror image tracks

Ferris wheel

Nagashima Spa Land is the home of Aurora Wheel, a giant Ferris wheel

Ferris wheel

A Ferris wheel is a nonbuilding structure consisting of a rotating upright wheel with passenger cars attached to the rim in such a way that as the wheel turns, the cars are kept upright, usually by gravity.Some of the largest and most modern Ferris wheels have cars mounted on...

. It is 90 metres (295 ft) tall and 83 metres (272 ft) in diameter.

Water park

The water park holds the record for most slides packed in a space.

Incidents

On October 19, 2003, one of the Steel Dragon 2000

Steel Dragon 2000

is a roller coaster at Nagashima Spa Land amusement park in Mie Prefecture, Japan. Built by Morgan Manufacturing, this gigacoaster opened, appropriately, in 2000—"The Year of the Dragon" in Asia. It debuted only months after Millennium Force at Cedar Point, and surpassed that as the world's tallest...

 trains lost a wheel, resulting in a guest in the water park suffering a broken hip. The ride was standing but not operating

Standing But Not Operating

Standing but not operating is a term used for an amusement park, amusement ride or roller coaster, which means it is standing, but it is not operated for various reasons. Reasons might include irreparable damage or simply a lack of funding to operate the amusement park or ride...

(SBNO) until sturdier wheels were installed and the ride reopened in 2006.

External links

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• Mie Prefecture tourism guide to Nagashima Spa Land
• Roller Coaster Database listing for Nagashima Spa Land
• http://www.tartoinjapan.com/photos/20061111_nagashima/spaland_2.jpg