Japan’s Gulliver’s Kingdom opened in 1997 with $350 million in loans; a court auction sold it for about $12 million
Gulliver’s Kingdom, a theme park based on Jonathan Swift’s novel, stood at the foot of Mount Fuji in Yamanashi Prefecture, according to The ParkDB and WebUrbanist. Its star attraction was a statue of Gulliver, 45 meters (about 148 feet) long, per Middle Edge. The park opened in July 1997, near the end of Japan’s theme … Read more