Hep Five Ferris wheel

This guide to the Hep Five Ferris wheel in Osaka opens with a 1990s plan to build a full indoor theme park on the city's busiest shopping street, and the neighbors who killed it before a single track was laid. It follows what the developers did instead in 1998, threading a Ferris wheel through the Hep Five building itself, and what riders pass on the way up from the seventh floor. Look for the red whale swimming in the atrium below before you board.