Nara Dreamland was a theme park near Nara, Japan which was built in 1961 and inspired by Disneyland in California. On August 31, 2006, Nara Dreamland closed permanently.
The entrance to the park was designed to look almost identical to Disneyland, including the Train depot, a Main Street, U.S.A. and the familiar Sleeping Beauty Castle at the hub. It also had a Matterhorn-type mountain (with a Matterhorn Bobsleds-type ride, called Bobsleigh), and the skyway running through it, as well as an Autopia-type ride and a monorail. The park also had its own mascots, Ran-chan and Dori-chan, two kids dressed as bearskinned guards.
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The park contained several rides prior to closing, including: aska, a wooden roller coaster based on The Cyclone at Coney Island, screw Coaster, an Arrow Dynamics designed double corkscrew steel roller coaster, Bobsleigh, a steel roller coaster modeled after the Matterhorn Bobsleds, fantasy Coaster, Kid's Coaster, Figure-8 monorail.
