Kobe – A theme park on an island in western Japan will open an attraction featuring popular role-playing video game series Dragon Quest next spring, its operator said Thursday. The attraction at the Nijigen no Mori theme park on Awaji Island in Hyogo Prefecture will let visitors enjoy going on an adventure in the reproduced world of Dragon Quest. Nijigen Nomori Co., the park's operator, said the attraction will be built in an area of some 8,000 square meters, using rich nature and digital imaging. Fees and other details will be announced later, according to Nijigen Nomori, a unit of staffing company Pasona Group Inc. The attraction was designed by Square Enix Co., which produces the Dragon Quest series.

A Japanese theme park is creating floating sleeping capsules to allow visitors to drift along to different attractions while they snooze. Huis Ten Bosch, in Sasebo, Japan, is developing the novel service with the upper half of the two-storey spherical structures designed as a bedroom and the lower section a bathroom. By the end of the year, the Dutch-themed park hopes guests will be able to stay overnight in the capsule while travelling to an island where they can explore its various attractions. The operator aims to draw tourists with its adventurous attractions and augmented reality technology across the 39,000sqm uninhabited island in Omura Bay, four miles southwest of its main theme park area in Nagasaki. According to Bloomberg, there are plans to use the island for survival games where toy guns can be used.