Target: Manmade location Basic: Describe the location Intermediate: Also describe any activities found there. Advanced: Also provide scalar info & find it on the dowsing map ================= From: Silver Karolin Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:10:20 +0200 To: lynbuchanan@beyondbb.com Cc: Subject: Possible target for TOTW Hi Lyn, I found a possible TOTW: Seagaia Ocean Dome in Japan (indoor water park). Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyazaki_Ocean_Dome http://www.excitris.com/2005/09/27/seagaia-ocean-dome/ I wanted to send you this before, but I found that there is a catch with it: it was officially closed in 2007. Therefore I hesitated. But I remembered you once told that sometimes a specific target is given to viewers that tests whether the viewer is viewing the target or the feedback. May be this is that kind of target. I am not sure is it good target for TOTW. If not then may be you can use this target for testing purposes. I hope you can use it. Silver ================== http://www.japannewsreview.com/travel/20070605page_id=71 The world’s largest indoor water park: Seagaia Ocean Dome, Miyazaki There is nothing worse than Japanese summer. If the weather isn’t too hot, it’s probably just because the rain season hasn’t quite ended yet. Not to mention the suffocating moisture! And say the improbable happens, as it occasionally does, and one day the weather is absolutely perfect, you’ll be damned if you can find a nice beach where you can spend it. There is a solution to this dilemma and it is spelled “Ocean Dome”, and is situated in Miyazaki, southern Japan. The Ocean Dome is, as it happens, the world’s largest indoor water park, measuring a massive 300 meters in length and 100 meters in width. The dome features a retractable roof - on sunny days, it’s open, on less sunny days, it’s closed, but even then the ceiling provides you with a perfect blue sky. The air temperature is always kept at hot, but not too hot 30°C (85°F), and the water temperature at 28°C. If this somehow isn’t enough to whet your appetite, how about if we add a flame-spitting volcano, hi-tech wave machinery and crushed white marble sand, almost identical to the real thing except it doesn’t stick to your body quite as much? Wow. I guess only a complete sucker would have built the world’s most technologically advanced indoor beach and then spoilt it all by going for utterly boring, totally unimaginative REAL sand. But wait, there is actually even more to it. The Ocean Dome is only one part of the Sheraton Seagaia Resort, which except for the obvious hotel (Sheraton Grande Ocean Resort), also has tennis courts as well as golf courses on the premises, and there is even a zoo nearby. A zoo? Should we expect robot animals, considering what we’ve been told of this magical place so far? Nah, sorry to make you disappointed. But the zoo does keep an impressive collection of animals, ranging from ring-tailed lemurs to indian wood storks (for a more detailed list of animals, click here). Miyazaki is only a breath away by plane, 1 hour 30 minutes from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport and 1 hour 5 minutes from Kansai International Airport. Buses to Seagaia leave from Miyazaki Airport as well as from the JR Miyazaki station, and take less than 30 minutes. Detailed transportation and access information: To Miyazaki From Miyazaki to Sheraton Seagaia Resort Ocean Dome prices Summer admission: adults ¥2600, children ¥1600, children under 4 ¥800. 3 months pass (unlimited admission): adults ¥8000, children/children under 4 ¥4000. Guests at the Sheraton Grande Ocean Resort get a ¥300 discount. Board Rental Fee: ¥1,000 Hours: Between 21/7-31/8, 10:00-20:00. Other dates, 10:00-17:00 Official site: Sheraton Seagaia Resort Miyazaki City Zoo Admission: adults ¥800, Junior High School Students ¥400, Children (4 years to Elementary School age) ¥300 Hours 9:00-17:00, closed on Wednesdays Official site: Miyazaki City Phoenix Zoo ========================== http://www.excitris.com/2005/09/27/seagaia-ocean-dome/