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| Manufacturer | Togo | ||||||||||||
| Product | W Racing Coaster | ||||||||||||
| Builder | Senyo Kogyo | ||||||||||||
| Type | Steel - Twin - Stand-Up | ||||||||||||
| Riders per train | 24 | ||||||||||||
| Propulsion | Chain lift hill | ||||||||||||
| Height | 38.1 metres | ||||||||||||
| Length | 680 metres | ||||||||||||
| Duration | 1:22 | ||||||||||||
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Milky Way (Japanese: ミルキーウェイ) is a Togo twin stand-up and sit-down roller coaster located at Greenland at Arao, Kumamoto, Japan. Milky Way opened in 1991 as 'Ultra Twin'. Later at an unspecified time, it was renamed again to 'Fujin-Raijin'. In 2007, the ride was renamed to its current name.
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Milky Way is a racing roller coaster. One side is pink, the other blue. The pink side is Sit-Down and named Orihime (Japanese: 織姫) and the blue side is Stand-Up and named Hikoboshi (Japanese: 彦星).
Trains
4 trains with 6 cars per train. In each car, riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows, for a total of 24 riders per train. Originally when it opened, both trains were stand up. However, since then, one side became a sit-down. Thus, rider's have the option of standing up or sitting down.
External links
- Milky Way on the Roller Coaster DataBase.
- Hikoboshi on the parks webstie (Japanese)
- Orihime on the parks webstie (Japanese)