Write a short paragraph about the Tempozan Harbor Ferris Whe

Write a short paragraph about the Tempozan Harbor Ferris Wheel. You must include the location, wheel diameter, and time for one rotation, but should also include any other interesting facts about the wheel. Cite your sources.

Solution

Tempozan Ferris Wheel is located in Osaka, Japan, at Tempozan Harbor Village, next to Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan, one of the largest aquariums in the world. The wheel has a height of 112.5 metres (369 ft) and diameter of 100 metres (330 ft).

The wheel has colored lights that provide a weather forecast for the next day. Orange lights indicate a sunny day, green lights a cloudy day and blue lights indicate rain.

There were 36 cars, each fitted with 40 revolving chairs and able to accommodate up to 60 people, giving a total capacity of 2,160.^[9] The wheel carried some 38,000 passengers daily and took 10 minutes to complete one revolutions, the first involving six stops to allow passengers to exit and enter and the second a nine-minute non-stop rotation, for which the ticket holder paid 50 cents.

Source : Wikipedia