Wandering Fel

At one side of the exhibit on level 1, you will be able to see the birthday (or more like creation date) of all Sanrio characters. I love Bad Badzt Maru the most and he was born on the year 1993. Ahh this explains why this character was so popular throughtout my primary school years. I still remembered the first watch that my parents bought for me, it was Bad Badzt Maru's watch. Awww. 

  

Ooh, I am apparently 9 apples tall. I wonder if this can be consider an accomplishment. Probably not since I know that I am considered short out there. Sadz. But there's nothing heels or platform shoes can't do. Hehe. 

At the next-door room, you will be transported right to Kitty's house. Anyeong Kitty and Mimmy, may I self-invite myself to sit at your living room? Oh my, you girls have such a wonderful collection of plush toys at your cabinet. And most of them are the mini version of yourself, what a high love display shown for yourself, I see. Oh no no, no sarcasm implied of course, where is my manner? Hahaha (suddenly imagining self speaking in posh British accent, I do have some fetish for this particular accent, I find them sexy). 

Being awfully close to Mama Kitty with expectation to be adopted into Kitty's household. While at the same, real Mom is helping me taking this picture. Totally unfilial. Deserve to be stoned. Pardon me, Mom. 

There is one particular big section which seems to be very popular with smaller kids (like kindergarden age I suppose). Kids can ride mini car/ train here with their beloved idol, Hello Kitty. While the adults can, uhh, making imaginary call from Hello Kitty's phone booth, which resemble the classic British red phone booth. 

Or hoping to go back to school and ride the school bus together with Kitty and friends. Wait, on second thought, I don't particularly like school. They tend to give weird homework which has zero help in adulthood. And my Mom tends to do nearly 80% of my craft-related homework for me since I'm so damn awful doing it. 

Ooh library, I wonder if it works like some kind of magic library where creatures can fly out from the books. Hmm, I think I start to mix up Harry Potter and Hello Kitty. Harry Kitty, anyone? 

Once you are done checking out all the exhibits at Hello Kitty Island, you can proceed to the last unexplored area in Hello Kitty Island, the souvenir store. You have no other option but to visit the store because this is where the exit door is located. You can find the souvenir featuring other characters from Sanrio such as Rilakkuma and Gudetama too if you are not really a fan of Hello Kitty. 

Hmm there's a weird charm that I cannot explain coming out from this lazy annoying egg named Gudetama. It nearly made me want to buy and collect them all I don't know why. I wonder if he has touched on my lazy hidden talent. 

Admission fees for Hello Kitty Island:

 Individuals: Adults 12,000 KRW/ Teenagers 11,000 KRW/ Children 9,000 KRW

Groups (30 pax or more): Adults 10,000 KRW/ Teenagers 9,000 KRW/ Children 7,000 KRW

Adults: University students and above

Teenagers: Middle schoolers

Children: 25 months to elementary school students

Opening hours: 

July to August: 9AM - 8PM

September to June: 9AM - 6PM

Oh wow, apparently there is a whole huge building dedicated to Hello Kitty right here on Jeju Island. The building consists of three floors and if you are a true fan of Hello Kitty, you will be so freaking ecstatic here. The whole building basically functions as exhibition hall which is themed around Hello Kitty. So do expect to see a lot of Hello Kitty painting, dolls, figurines, goods, etc inside the building. 

There is a huge Hello Kitty statue right in front of the entrance. Do take picture with her before entrance so that you have one less thing in your to-do-list after visiting Hello Kitty Island. Taking picture with the biggest Hello Kitty - checked! 

Upon entrance, you will see a huge tower of plushie, Hello Kitty plushies of course. This place can be a huge cuteness-overdose for guys but guys, chillax, if you are joining a tour group, most likely you do not have to spend hours and hours here because after all,  Jenny, the local tour guide, only allows us 50 minutes to hang around at this place. I'm sure you guys can endure 50 minutes of pinky cuteness overload, right?

Oh, I have totally no idea that Hello Kitty has her own family. Although technically speaking, I should have known that the kitty must have parents right? After all, we are referring to a fully clothed kitty in the first place. Okay, since the whole family member is here, let's go through the family tree briefly. The kitty with red ribbon is Kitty White while the kitty with yellow ribbon is Mimmy White (mwo? I don't even know Kitty has sister O_o!). Their parents are George and Mary White (I thought their name supposedly Japanese since they are all born from Sanrio?). The grandparents are Anthony and Margaret White (now I kinda imagining all Hello Kitty characters speaking in a posh British accent). 

In the middle of studying the family tree of Hello Kitty, Mom said she wanted to go to the washroom. Disturbed but obliging anyway since I'm such a good filial daughter (plus trip sponsored by Mom), I went with her to the 2nd floor where the washroom is located. Turns out there is a cafe at 2nd floor and while 50 minutes seem to be a rather limited time to enjoy yourself chilling out at the cafe, you can still go in and check out what do they have inside the cafe. 

Since our tour group seems to be the first visitors to Hello Kitty Island that day, the cafe is obviously deserted at 10.30AM-ish. Most of our fellow tour participants are still busily taking pictures at level 1. The cafe looks quite spacious with furnitures themed in Hello Kitty's favourite color, pink. It looks pretty much similar to the Hello Kitty cafe which I visited before in Taipei (albeit bigger). 

Food-wise, the cafe offers mostly sandwiches and cakes. Some of the cakes are molded in Hello Kitty's shaped like the three cakes on the middle section of the display. The price of the cakes and the drinks are well, not so cheap, to be honest with you. 

Oh right, these are the cakes in Hello Kitty shape. The cafe in Taipei seems to have wider variety in terms of dessert and beverages selection which revolves around Hello Kitty's face. Hahaha. Oh right, time to visit the washroom. All of us got distracted with the cafe, we forgot about our main purpose to go to level 2 of Hello Kitty Island. 

Do you know that it is a must to visit the washroom of any themed restaurant/ building related? The reason is because the washroom is usually decorated according to the theme. So in this case, as expected, the washroom door has Hello Kitty and even pink color theme (I wonder if the gents also has such decoration but Bro just says the gents has normal Kitty stuff, hmm). 

Ooohhhm, Kitty's mirrors. Let me take a selfie while tidying up my hair. 

Relieved from the urge to pee, we shall continue exploring other exhibits in this huge Hello Kitty Island but since they are picture heavy, I shall show them to you in the next post. Part 2 coming up!