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'''Niigata Joypolis''' (新潟ジョイポリス) was a [[Joypolis]] amusement theme park opened by Sega. The second of the Joypolis venues to be opened by Sega{{ref|http://www.sega.co.jp/sega/atp/niigata/data.html}}, it proved to perform poorly, and by April 1998 had its operations outsourced to foreign company Magic City Co. Ltd. as part of a restructuring.
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'''Niigata Joypolis''' (新潟ジョイポリス), later '''Magic City @ Niigata Joypolis''' (マジックシティ@新潟ジョイポリス) was a [[Joypolis]] amusement theme park opened by Sega. The second of the Joypolis venues to be opened by Sega, it proved to perform poorly, and by April 1998 had its operations outsourced to foreign company Magic City Co. Ltd. as part of a restructuring.
  
Under the new ownership, the park was renamed to "Magic City @ Niigata Joypolis", adopting different décor and electronic card payments for its attractions in the process. It closed permanently sometime in 2000 due to low visitor numbers.
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Under its new ownership, the park was renamed to Magic City @ Niigata Joypolis, losing several of its original attractions and its original décor on the ground floor, and gaining several new restaurants as well as an electronic card payment system in the process. It closed permanently in January 2001, later becoming a shopping complex.
  
 
==Major attractions==
 
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Niigata Joypolis GhostHunters.jpg|Ghost Hunters
 
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Niigata Joypolis MadBazooka.jpg|Mad Bazooka
 
Niigata Joypolis MadBazooka.jpg|Mad Bazooka
Niigata Joypolis Psychadern.jpg|Psychadern
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Niigata Joypolis Psychadern.jpg|Psychadern, House of Grandish
Niigata Joypolis Shop1.jpg|Shop exterior
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NiigataJoypolis Outside.jpg|Magic City era exterior
 
Niigata MagicCity Joypolis Inside.jpg|Magic City era interior
 
Niigata MagicCity Joypolis Inside.jpg|Magic City era interior
 
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Revision as of 16:33, 14 March 2021

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Niigata Joypolis
Location: 新潟県新潟市八千代2丁目5番7号 新潟交通万代シティ, Japan
Opened: 1995-12-09[1]
Closed: 2001-01-16[1]

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Niigata Joypolis (新潟ジョイポリス), later Magic City @ Niigata Joypolis (マジックシティ@新潟ジョイポリス) was a Joypolis amusement theme park opened by Sega. The second of the Joypolis venues to be opened by Sega, it proved to perform poorly, and by April 1998 had its operations outsourced to foreign company Magic City Co. Ltd. as part of a restructuring.

Under its new ownership, the park was renamed to Magic City @ Niigata Joypolis, losing several of its original attractions and its original décor on the ground floor, and gaining several new restaurants as well as an electronic card payment system in the process. It closed permanently in January 2001, later becoming a shopping complex.

Major attractions

Gallery

Promotional material

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 http://www.sega.co.jp/sega/atp/niigata/ (Wayback Machine: 2001-06-02 08:41)


Joypolis venues
Current
Tokyo Joypolis (1996) | Shanghai Joypolis (2014) | Qingdao Joypolis (2015)
Former
Shinjuku Joypolis (1996-2000) | Niigata Joypolis (1995-2001) | Yokohama Joypolis (1994-2001) | Fukuoka Joypolis (1996-2001) | Kyoto Joypolis (1997-2002) | Umeda Joypolis (1998-2018) | Okayama Joypolis (1998-2018) | Joypolis VR Shibuya (2018-2020)