Japan’s tallest Ferris wheel adds kotatsu and hot sake service for a warm way to chill in the sky

The Osaka Wheel, positioned within the metropolis of Suita, Osaka Prefecture, is Japan’s tallest Ferris wheel. 123 meters off the bottom at its highest level, the Osaka Wheel offers beautiful views of the encircling surroundings, and shortly it’ll present one thing much more great: the heat of kotatsu and sizzling sake.

Subsequent month the Osaka Wheel might be beginning its Kotatsu within the Sky service wherein various its gondolas might be outfitted with kotatsu. Arguably one of many best improvements in Japanese inside design, kotatsu are tables with heaters connected to the underside and a thick blanket sandwiched between a two-layer high, making a paradise pocket of regularly heat air you slide your toes, legs, and forearms into.

▼ The Osaka Wheel’s kotatsu gondola

Actually, the one draw back to kotatsu is that when you sit down at one, odds are you’re not going anyplace for fairly some time, on account of how cozy they’re. Placing a kotatsu on a Ferris wheel cleverly solves this drawback, although, since you possibly can keep seated and heat whereas the gondola rises into the sky and comes again down on its circuit, which within the case of the Osaka Wheel is a leisurely 18-minute trip. The gondola inside can be adorned with faux-shoji paper display sliding doorways, to offer it an old-school Japanese home vibe.

After all, should you’re not sitting down and stress-free for that lengthy, it’s possible you’ll as nicely have a drink, proper? Kotatsu gondola passengers are additionally served a bottle of Kuromatsu Kenbishi, a sake made by Kobe brewer Kenbishi Shuzo, which was based in 1505. In step with the heat of the kotatsu, the sake is served astukan (heated sake) fashion.

▼ The 180-mililiter bottle isn’t more likely to get you full-on drunk, but it surely’s a pleasant quantity to sip over an 18-minute Ferris wheel trip.

And should you’re having a drink, why not have some snacks too? Right here once more, the Osaka Wheel has considered your wants and offers kotatsu gondola passengers with sizzling canned oden, a combination of greens, fish sausage, eggs, and different simmered meals that’s particularly fashionable in winter.

However once more, as talked about above, the potential drawback with kotatsu is that it may be exhausting to ever persuade your self to go away one. Accommodatingly, the Kotatsu within the Sky bundle can be out there in a two-circuit format that permits you to trip for 2 rotations of the wheel, which takes 36 minutes.

The one-rotation bundle, with sake and oden, is priced at 2,000 yen per particular person, and the two-rotation plan at 2,500 yen. When you simply need oden, with no drink, these are discounted to 1,500 and a pair of,200 yen. It’s additionally potential to decide on a non-alcoholic beverage as a alternative for the sake within the drink-inclusive plans, in case you’re using the Ferris wheel with kids or grownup non-tipplers.

▼ Artist’s rendition of the Kotatsu in Sky (precise households is not going to rework into manga characters)

All in all it guarantees to be a way more laid-back and nerve-soothing expertise than that point the Osaka Wheel was taken over by zombies.

Most capability for every Kotatsu within the Sky gondola is six folks, and reservations will be made for instances between 11 a.m. and eight:30 p.m. (hey, in case your schedule permits you sufficient time to trip a Ferris wheel earlier than midday, you most likely have sufficient time for an a.m. drink too). The kotatsu gondolas might be out there from December 2 to February 29, and reservations will be made on-line right here.

Supply, pictures: PR Instances

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