Unlucky Ferris Wheel

August 13, 2008 on 10:02 am | In Culture | | Email This Post

There is a ferris wheel attached to the HEP Five building near Umeda station in Osaka.

HEP Five Ferris Wheel

(click image for bigger ferris wheel)

In the area, Japanese say that if you ride this ferris wheel with your significant other, you’ll break up.

Be careful.

Vocab: Ferris Wheel - 観覧車 (kanransha)

- Harvey

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    Comment by Joshua — August 14, 2008 #

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    Funnily enough I rode this with a girl I’d been dating for a while. We broke up a few days later.

    It wasn’t until the next week that my friends told me about this rumor :(

    Comment by Tres — August 14, 2008 #

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    Joshua, don’t do it.

    Comment by Joe — August 14, 2008 #

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    Wow Tres… Geesh.

    It’s uh… cool that uh… the rumor is uh… true?

    Sorry that it ended up messing up your relationship though!

    Let’s dismantle the ferris wheel!

    Comment by Harvey — August 14, 2008 #

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    Maybe it’s the rumor rather than the ride doing the damage. If a guy took me for a spin on a world-reknowned (now that Harvey has blogged about it) Wheel of Doomed Relationships, I’d assume he wanted to break up with me, so I’d dump *him* ASAP.

    Comment by Sara — August 17, 2008 #

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    I rode this ferris wheel in September 2006 with my gf. Now, we are married for almost one year. It seems, that my gf and me are immune against this rumor ;)

    Comment by Steffel — August 29, 2008 #

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    Oh,that’s too bad, i’ll definitely skip that Ferris Wheel in my whole life!

    Comment by Nikko — September 10, 2008 #

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