Tempozan Ferris Wheel
Giant harbor ferris wheel whose nightly lights change color to forecast the next day's weather.
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This guide to the Tempozan Ferris Wheel in Osaka opens with a nightly weather trick built into a hundred thousand lights, and traces how the wheel came to make that prediction. It follows the wheel back to its 1997 opening beside Osaka Bay, when it briefly held a record before a rival wheel in Tokyo took the crown. From one of the sixty glass cabins, on a clear turn, you can pick out Mount Ikoma to the east and the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge to the west.
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