A popular Tokyo amusement park on Monday closed its doors for the last time after being in business for more than nine decades, with part of the site set to make way for a 'Harry Potter' theme park.
An employee of Toshimaen amusement park wearing a protective mask disinfects a seat of a wooden carousel"Carousel El Dorado" which was built in Germany in 1907 and is believed to be one of the oldest working carousels in the world.A popular Tokyo amusement park on Monday closed its doors for the last time after being in business for more than nine decades, with part of the site set to make way for a"Harry Potter" theme park.
Junko, a 62-year-old park keeper who has worked intermittently at Toshimaen since the 1970s, said she had assumed it would be there till the end of her life."I wanted to enjoy that place together with my daughter." "It was a spot I had taken for granted because it had been there from the time I was born, so I can't believe that it will be gone," she said.
"It's regrettable and sad, I can't stop wishing for a delayed closure of the park or for it to survive," said Akiyoshi Tomizawa, 54.
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