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Listen to the music: http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/warabetti/warabetti.htm Listening to these quite “funny” sounds, I guess you will find that the impressions of the Expo with some pictures of my visit there will be less enthusiastic for the management of the nevertheless great hearted suppliers of the heritage exposed in wonderland Japan. Arriving in Nagoya airport, you will find that you can't get any information about the Expo there. A return train ticket is not available at a ticket machine at the airport. Also only two free Internet computers available at the high tech airport. What does this mean? It seems that Japan doesn't like the Internet, but therefore more weapons etc. I discuss with the train officer at the airport how to reach the Expo. Functions at half dozen counters like reductions for handicapped people or purchasing of 2 or 3 day visiting tickets (similar to Hong Kong's tourist visiting pass) are not available. Even the fare to reach the Expo 2005 with one-to-purchase-Expo 2005 ticket isn't covered. You have to find 3 times queuing up masses and the message "I don't understand" or "I don’t speak English". A real wonderland, that I could find after two hours searching a free ticket of 2,200 Yen from the train station manager for the "knowledge" and "creative ideas" I could heritage to him. If I would have needed to buy foreign currency I would have waited even an hour longer. The ticket helped me to arrive at the final station of the “Limino” (limitation of passengers?) the next evening but not to return to the airport in Nagoya! Thanks to a teacher on the way to Tokyo I could find the way back to there and also get a ticket - avoiding queuing up at another ticket counters. So thankful for this, because an other stuff marks a red stamp on a paper that the fare is not enough ... so I arrive in time! English as an international must is a missing quality of the stuff. We will hear about this from the HR manager at the Expo, who cannot find enough people from English native countries. Further requests however show that there was no attempt to ask in Hong Kong the students of all the universities for practical traineeships in Aichi. It seems that such request would lead to internal problems in Japan. Anyhow, as we will see soon, the homework already before entering the premises of Expo 2005 are not done yet. We will see the progress! You get a glimpse of the situation by looking at the pictures of the following website, which is under construction. http://mywebpage.netscape.com/hktnf/index.html . People waiting from 6:30 cannot enter the park before 9:00 in the morning. Some online freaks, who ordered the ticket in the Internet, have to reconfirm the validity of the printout at the ticket office. I wonder why Japan could grow so fast in the IT sphere. Is it true that companies like Hitachi and others, recruited all the stuff, so that the IT showdown of Aichi's Expo 2005 is one of the consequences? I hear as a waiting visitor from Japanese, that hundred thousands of Japanese complained with the ticket manager, who has not yet changed the procedures to reduce the mass of people which have to stand in line in front of the cashier. You get a feeling of a prisoner, which I got inside the Expo, too. Look at the caged adults and tired faces of children, who cannot even see the brothers - robots who need explanations by the stuff, because they cannot understand the weak voices of astonished children. I try to complain and find a manager - some stuff arriving at the side portal at 8:10 before the park should open 9:00 seem to be nerved by the question to find their manager. This stuff (some of them are overseas students) who can speak Japanese as well, does not even know the hierarchies above them). After one hour asking to get help and information before the ticket counter opened, I give up and see that the mass of people lining up (they bought tickets maybe the day before) has swollen to abut five to ten thousand and then we the new ticket holders are number 5001 or 10001. Oh happy day, arriving already at 6:30 as one of the dinosaurs to see that famous Expo 2005. By the way, Hitachi and Toyota shows must be booked online two days before, and you have to wait around 182 minutes to get into the spectacle. I have to fly again to Aichi in September coming from Italy or so with a big surprise in the baggage (a real cappuccino). Unfortunately I could not see the products and new inventions there, which are all better than all over the world, or? The link to these events is not even managed on the Japanese website, which is not consumer friendly to the world (language, links, transparency). Another example for the greatness of this event is the Maglev, which is waiting to be realized soon. I could get into these shows and in contact with two of about ten English speaking stuff of this company. The heavy rains made it possible to get an entrance to the mentioned below secrets... You get a glimpse in three halls (still waiting like prisoners in shelters) to get into a seating position on a chair to see some films of the world record of more than 583 km / hour. Asking the questions: "why is this train better than the Maglev in Shanghai?" nobody can really give you an answer to this miracle. You can get upset, if you are told, ask ThyssenKrupp.com or Siemens.com, because these companies seem to hide all information. As far as I learn, China has already copied all the Know-how and can produce similar trains, which can reach only 430 km/h speed. This old technology slides only at one centimeter difference over the magnetic "railway". The Japanese solution however provides 10 cm because of earthquakes and huge wheels, which vanish at 165 km/h. Nobody can tell me why the Japanese train is better and cheaper. So, please tell me, why China did not buy this better solution? 1. Does it waste less energy? 2. Is it safer if an earthquake occurred? 3. Is it cheaper because of the missing support of Japans government? 4. Can't the Know-how be spied out much more unlikely? 5. Are the results of the wind channel better? 6. Can't you hear less noise? 7. Will the time to realize links like Tokyo and Nagoya be shorter? 8. Will the children be happier on narrow seats than in comfortable couches for westerners in Shanghai? Why are there so many questions and no answers to the secret train in Expo 2005? The sightseeing trains and bicycles are not included in the ticket. Even weak children and handicapped are forced to pay 300 Yen. It is necessary that the Expo management hired policemen that the tourists aren't hit by the bicycle drivers. They friendly apologize twice with me, because the vehicles don't seem to have brakes. Do the drivers in Japan need a driver license. I get really excited by the statement of a policeman who stated me that he had informed the ticketing manager (a lady in grey clothes) several times about the good ideas of some visitors, like "the installation of computers or machines to buy ticket there opposite of a dozen counters, who open punctually at 8:30. Your throat will be already dry, because you cannot get any drinks meanwhile waiting for the big moment. Two Japanese students (a young couple) Tarzan and Jane ask me to get a cheaper ticket as their budgets are limited. But unfortunately three people at my cashier are tough ladies. Full price, why? Should I really tell this the world? Maybe not, but you will see why. We haven’t yet still received any information. The day is pretty over and I tried to get some food or good drinks (I purchased a Coke after a Japanese cappuccino. Asking in one of the shops, how this Italian brand is prepared, I do not even get milk or sugar and the coffee tastes like a mixture of green tee, old water which has been conserved a week in the heat of the sun. I got the money back after several requests and do ask the following: 1. Who told you what the visitors want to eat and drink? 2. Does this person know how this food should taste? I hear that a Mr. "Is-Mad" or so never traveled outside Japan and therefore does not know how a Cappuccino should taste. Therefore we have already learned that all the drinks were taken out of the baggage of the curious spectators at 9:10 in the morning. The check of the baggage on weapons was not effectuated. I could have been hit by some knife or other weapons - I survived happily. Now the good message: Everybody, speaking English can apply at the email that is provided on the Expo 2005 website (voicebox@expo2005.or.jp). You might try to do so, but the message will be rejected, because the IT managers failed too. Contacting the Manager of the Calls Centers via hotline isn't possible, too! The counter has normal working hours. So you can't get help, if one of the stuff (the guy with the stick in his hand) threatens you for all that words of the frustrated visitors of this nevertheless super Expo 2005 - you could get a glimpse of it now. I wished that the Japanese people would have understood the message of the Australians with their magic show. Unfortunately I must hear that the prejudice of the kangaroo is so deeply rooted in the Asian thoughts that the stuff seemed to be really happy, if you ask the meaning of the great art in this salient exposition. New Zealand has also a powerful show which is easy to understand. I suggest the Management to revise the whole concept and to open the park already at 7:00 in the morning, offering a free drink to the early comers to avoid a heavy loss of the Expo 2005, which is most likely created for well educated Japanese. It seems that they do not complain if you have to wait and will also come back the next day too, or even a third time so see the Japanese miracles after getting a happy draw in the reservation lottery. Finally I would like to ask the Expo management for a refund for the costs of my flight from Hong Kong to Nagoya/ Aichi and a compensation for the waste of time due to heavy organizational lacks! Thanks to the guardian, who hesitated to hit me with the red stick!