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		<title>Is This The World&#8217;s Greatest Roller Slide? [Saturday Timewaster]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or perhaps not. You be the judge. For today&#8217;s Saturday Timewaster, I take you to the greatest non-watery slide I&#8217;ve ever seen. In a land where there are still teeter-totters, swings, and other supposedly &#8220;dangerous&#8221; playground equipment, this stands out above all the rest. Welcome to the roller slide of Naikai-Machi&#8217;s Central Park (中井町の中央公園). The [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Or perhaps not. You be the judge. For today&#8217;s Saturday Timewaster, I take you to the greatest <em style="text-align: left;">non</em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: left;">-watery slide I&#8217;ve ever seen. In a land where there are still teeter-totters, swings, and other supposedly &#8220;dangerous&#8221; playground equipment, this stands out above all the rest. Welcome to the roller slide of Naikai-Machi&#8217;s Central Park (中井町の中央公園).</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span id="more-11803"></span><a href="http://www.town.nakai.kanagawa.jp/forms/info/info.aspx?info_id=4495"><img class="size-large wp-image-11804 aligncenter" title="nakaichuuoupark" src="http://www.tofugu.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/nakaichuuoupark-580x608.jpg" alt="nakaimachi chuuoukouen" width="580" height="608" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>The location of the slide is circled in pink</em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The park that this roller slide is in is quite big. There&#8217;s a lot to do here. There&#8217;s some sports fields, there&#8217;s a &#8220;Park Golf&#8221; course, which is basically something in between mini-golf and regular golf. Also there&#8217;s a water-thing, free parking, and then a play area, which includes the giant roller slide.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">[yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SszOmZOS8b8'] <em>Is that Tiger Woods I see in the background?</em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">But really, I think, it&#8217;s the <em></em>roller-slide that would get me here. Remember &#8220;Discover Zone&#8221; from when <del>we</del> I was a kid?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">[yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDsVsh65FH8']</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">They had a roller-slide too, and I thought that was the best. I&#8217;d search and search for it, but it was super hard for me to find (my sense of direction wasn&#8217;t good then either). If only Discovery Zone&#8217;s roller slide was like this one, though&#8230; things are always more fun when you have a chance to fall out of them from highish places.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Oh, and to answer the question in the title &#8211; this probably isn&#8217;t the greatest roller slide in the world, but I imagine it&#8217;s still a ton of fun. I would like to become a child again and go here. Aw, what am I saying. I&#8217;d ride it over and over as an adult, too &#8211; pushing the kids in line out of the way just because I&#8217;m bigger and stronger than they are. So buff.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">If you want to visit this place, it&#8217;s located in Nakai-Machi in Kanagawa Prefecture. Click on the image below to get the location in Google Maps.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%E7%A5%9E%E5%A5%88%E5%B7%9D%E7%9C%8C%E8%B6%B3%E6%9F%84%E4%B8%8A%E9%83%A1%E4%B8%AD%E4%BA%95%E7%94%BA&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=35.330077,139.218793&amp;spn=0.042679,0.064588&amp;sll=35.791083,142.261963&amp;sspn=10.534684,16.534424&amp;geocode=FdkuGwIdNU9MCA&amp;vpsrc=0&amp;gl=us&amp;ttype=now&amp;noexp=0&amp;noal=0&amp;sort=def&amp;hnear=Nakai,+Ashigarakami+District,+Kanagawa+Prefecture,+Japan&amp;t=h&amp;z=15&amp;start=0"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-11805" title="kanagawa" src="http://www.tofugu.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/kanagawa-580x430.jpg" alt="" width="580" height="430" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">P.S. Want to ride the roller slide of social media? <a href="http://twitter.com/tofugu">Follow Us On Twitter</a>. P.P.S. More of a swings person? Okay, then <a href="http://facebook.com/tofugublog">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/104312813398330413148/posts">Google+</a> is where you&#8217;ll want to be.</p>
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