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So disappointing. A good friend of mine experienced pre covid Hyper Japan and raved about how good it was. No queue to get in, tons of food vendors giving out free samples, a retro gaming area and a bonsai tree/japanese garden exhibit to name a few things they experienced. I went with that same friend this year and we had to queue for an hour, there was hardly any food stalls. And practically nothing else but shops. My friend remarked on how different it was from her previous trip and how much worse it had become.

Like most events like this it’s popularity has turned it into a cash grab for the organisers, they oversell tickets and don’t put measures in place to handle so many people, they overcharge for vending space and price out interesting exhibitors and cause the rest to jack up their prices. It’s not worth it.

As other people on TripAdvisor are saying, this place is definitely not worth going to for the price. We weren’t let in on time and were left in the heat in a very dis-organised queue, with people pushing their way into the venue. The staff outside were very rude about disabilities and wouldn’t let me in the priority queue, just to find out later that I could’ve gone there. Fast track and disabled were in the same overcrowded queue and also a mix of pre-paid and unpaid. They need separate queues and a better system in place for getting disabled people in quicker because standing around for so long put me in a lot of pain before even beginning. The event was pretty disappointing for the price and was pretty much a big market of anime stalls, not much to do with Japan as a whole. The markets and food were ridiculously overpriced, with nowhere near enough seating for the amount of people attending, a lot of people had to sit on the floor. They obviously don’t care about disabilities and I won’t be bothering coming back.