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Entertainment

Bringing you many exciting forms of entertainment, including beautiful state-of-the-art visuals and 3D computer-animated video

Enjoy your visit to facilities in English, Korean or Chinese for a more detailed tour wherever you see the multilingual symbol. You need to buy a earphone that is 200 yen, tax included, except at the Grand Odyssey. Purchase is available at any of the facilities or the entry gate.
Please note that facilities are subject to closure or a change in operating hours without notice due to weather conditions or other reasons.

Thriller Fantasy Museum

Thriller Fantasy Museum

Thriller Fantasy Museum Illumination
The lights in tempo with the music seem to make entire Thriller Fantasy Museum dance.

Ghost Wedding The Carillon Museum
The time is medieval Holland. The carillon player was in love with the princess. But the two were not wed and met a tragic ending. Though centuries have passed, the care that the two shared for each other continues on to the current day. Visitors must pass a number of tests for the couple, heading to the church where the wedding was to have been held.

Melody in the Dark Orgelhuis
It was Holland in the nineteenth century. Two music box makers argued over which of two music boxes produced a more beautiful sound. The spirits of those music box makers have roamed the earth ever since, seeking a resolution to their argument.
  


  


Location Thriller Fantasy Museum
Suggested time Thriller Fantasy Museum Illumination:about 8 minutes
Ghost Wedding The Carillon Museum, Melody in the Dark Orgelhuis,MJ World, Japanese Ghost Story Hall:about 10 minutes
Fee Ghost Wedding The Carillon Museum, Melody in the Dark Orgelhuis,MJ World:Toku-Toku Ticket or 500 yen cash
Japanese Ghost Story Hall:Toku-Toku Ticket or 300 yen cash
Accessibility Ghost Wedding The Carillon Museum, Melody in the Dark Orgelhuis:This attraction is not open to guests in wheelchairs, pregnant women or children under four years of age.

Mysterious Eschermultilingual

The Mysterious World of Woodblock Artist M.C. Escher
A symbol of the Netherlands, woodblock artist M.C. Escher is famous for using optical illusions in his art. Experience the unforgettably mysterious world of his genius through 3D images.

Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898~1972)
This remarkably talented twentieth century Dutch woodblock artist expressed three-dimensional images in the world of two-dimensional surfaces using a technique called trompe-l’oeil, which creates optical illusions. Art museums ignored his unique art style for decades until a Dutch art museum held an exhibition in 1968. Since then, Escher has had a firmly established reputation throughout the world.

Location Nieuwstad
Suggested time 20 minutes
Seats 254
Fee Toku-Toku Ticket or 400 yen cash
Accessibility Visitors in wheelchairs are asked to enter from the emergency exit at the back of the first floor. Note that the second floor exhibits cannot be accessed by wheelchair.

Grand Odysseymultilingual

Become a Character in a Movie!
The children’s space adventure “Grand Odyssey,” popular at the 2005 World Exhibition in Aichi, has been completed after adding new scenes. The complete version debuted at Huis Ten Bosch. Each visitor’s face is scanned and instantly digitized using computer processing, making the Grand Odyssey the first theater in the world to use the Future Cast® System.
Every visitor becomes a performer acting in the movie “Grand Odyssey.” Mini posters are available in the shop as mementos of your performance.

[Future Cast System]
This is the world’s only visual entertainment system that casts visitors as movie characters.

Location Nieuwstad
Feature length 15 minutes, total time: 40~60 minutes
Seats 80
Fee Toku-Toku Ticket or 500 yen cash

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Horizon Adventure Plusmultilingual

Experience the Extreme Floods of the Netherlands!
Experience the violent floods from Holland’s history in a powerful sensory theater. Visitors feel like they’re about to be engulfed as mist, lightning, waves, rain and deluges of water approach with frightening realism, all brought to life by special equipment.

[Enormous Stage Set]
The natural menaces experienced by the people of the Netherlands are reproduced against the backdrop of an enormous stage set, 59 feet high and 171 feet wide. This production uses diorama to realistically recreate the Netherland’s scenery, powerful video images, an acoustic system and 800 tons of actual fresh water.

Horizon Adventure has reopened. The newly digitized show and special effects provide each and every visitor with an up close and personal experience of a life time.

Location Nieuwstad
Suggested time 20 minutes
Seats 220
Fee Toku-Toku Ticket or 600 yen cash
Accessibility Although the moving seats cannot be accessed by visitors in wheelchairs, the production can be viewed from behind the seats.

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HUIS TEN BOSCH IFX Theater Kiraramultilingual

If there were no moon…
Mitsubishi Pavilion’s “If There Were No Moon,” which met with acclaim at the 2005 World Exhibition in Aichi, reappears more captivating than ever in this powerful, expansive screening area. The importance of the global environment is conveyed through beautiful computer graphics using Japan’s cutting-edge technology together with intense video and powerful acoustics that change with the story.

[IFX Theater]
The name IFX is an acronym representing the elements Imagination and Infinity (“I”) as well as Effects (“FX”), to represent a theater where you can experience space stretching out infinitely all around you.

Location Nieuwstad
Suggested time 20 minutes
Seats 200
Fee Toku-Toku Ticket or 500 yen cash

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Super Trick Art

A Mysterious and Unique Labyrinth of Art
This venue displays the fascinating artistic technique called “trick art,” in which the two-dimensional world is drawn in three dimensions. Adults and children can together enjoy observing and touching the world of optical illusions created using perspective and lighting.

[Trick Art]
Images on flat surfaces are expressed three-dimensionally in this fascinating art style. All the works on display are distinctive in that they are drawn, frame and all, on the wall. This means visitors can touch, photograph and otherwise explore the works. Experience the fun of seeing what you know are pictures as three-dimensional.

Location Nieuwstad
Fee Toku-Toku Ticket or 300 yen cash

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Domtoren

HUIS TEN BOSCH’s Landmark Tower
This landmark 344 foot tall tower recreates the tallest church tower in the Netherlands. Ride an elevator 262 feet to the top and enjoy the sweeping panorama of Omura Bay and the streets of Huis Ten Bosch.

[Earthquake Measures]
High-tech equipment applied in Japan for the first time is installed in the tower of Domtoren.

Location Utrecht
Suggested time 20 minutes
Fee Toku-Toku Ticket or 400 yen cash
N.B. There are no restroom facilities in the observation room.

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Other Entertainment

Flight of Wonder
Travel along with a flying witch for an adventure on this ride

Kindergym
An indoor playground for parents and children to enjoy together

Child Kingdom
Children's outdoor play ground

Magic Mirror Maze
A world illusions in the largest maze in Japan

Carousel
A dreamland merry-go-round featuring Dutch music

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