Yokohama Dreamland
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Yokohama Dreamland was an amusement park
that operated in Totsuka
, Yokohama
, Japan
from 1964 to 2002. It closed permanently on February 17, 2002 due to financial issues. The amusement park was turned into a prison in 2006.
Amusement park
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that operated in Totsuka
Totsuka-ku, Yokohama
is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 273,418 and a density of 7,640 persons per km². The total area was 35.70 km².-Geography:...
, Yokohama
Yokohama
is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu...
, 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...
from 1964 to 2002. It closed permanently on February 17, 2002 due to financial issues. The amusement park was turned into a prison in 2006.
External links
- Yokohama Dreamland Mirror of official site (Japanese)
- Photos of Yokohama Dreamland
- Rollercoaster Database - Yokohama Dreamland