My Japan Trip - Exploring The Magical Harry Potter Studio Tour (Part 2)

Hello there! It's my 6th post in the new World Map Pin community! Trying to do the tag as well! If you haven't read about them, please take a look at this link.

As background, I have done a few overseas trips last year, as some of my friends here would know, and I have been wanting to share some of the interesting places that I have visited. However, life has been busy and I have been procrastinating penning these entries and recently, I revisited this target of mine and finally broke the inertia!

One of my memorable trips in 2023 was to Tokyo, Japan, and during that trip, I did quite a few day trips to nearby cities and towns. Earlier this year, I wrote about visiting the peaceful Karuizawa, the scenic Atami, the nature in Nikko and the zen Kamakura. Then we went to the magical place which was Warner Bros Studio Tour aka The Making Of Harry Potter in Tokyo! For this post, we continue our studio tour in this huge building!

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We ended at this door in our last post, and after a short briefing, the doors opened and we were in the Great Hall!

Lots of familiar characters too!

Next up, we exited the Great Hall and moved in other exhibits where we saw the famous moving staircases! It's interesting that everything looked so real except for the ceiling!

Next up, we see the setup for the rooms! Fans of the movies would definitely find these familiar.

At the end of this section, there was an interactive activity where they showed us how Quidditch matches were filmed and we can participate as audience in the filming as well! It was definitely fun as we were asked to cheer and boo at various scenes, and the recording was edited into the movie snippet for our viewing at the end.

With that, that's all for my sharing for the magical Harry Potter Studio Tour Part 2. As someone who has read all the books in the series, and watched all the movies in the theatres, it was indeed a joyful experience to relive some of these memories and better understand how some of the stuff happened behind the scenes. The studio was much bigger than what I expected so buckle up for more exciting stuff later on!

Let me know in the comments if you have been here too, and what are your thoughts about this place?

Finally, thanks for reading my post in the community under World Map Pin! More to come I promise! :)

P.S. I have also tried to document my posts in one table so it's easy to reference too!

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