Fans queued from 4 a.m. to enter the Space World amusement park in southwestern Japan on Sunday before the facility closes its gates for the last time after 27 years of business.Space World, which opened in April 1990 in the city of Kitakyushu in Fukuoka Prefecture, drew 2.16 million visitors at its peak in fiscal 1997. However, customer numbers have since been declining and its operator decided to close the park at the end of 2017.Families with children were among those lined up in front of the gates before the park opened at 8 a.m. Shingo Aramaki, a 26-year-old graduate student from neigh…READ FULL ARTICLE
