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| Crowds at Entrance Gate 7 |
Today, it is the 177th day of the Shanghai World Expo 2010. There remains 7 days to reach the end of the Expo. Visitor enthusiasm persisted even though it was raining hard yesterday. One of my friends experienced a rainy day in his second visit to the Shanghai Expo last month and said that the rain made their Expo activities become difficult. Due to the hot weather in Shanghai summer, many people planned their Expo visits in September or October. It was cooler after mid September. The weather, however, was bad in most days. This pushed the number of visitors to the highest level in October. On the last day using standard-day tickets (160 yuan each), visitor counts reached 837,500 yesterday. From today onwards, admissions require peak-day tickets (200 yuan each). As of today, the accumulated visitors exceeded 70 millions which was the expectation from the Expo authority for the entire period of Expo 2010. This figure is the highest visitor volume in the world record of a single Expo.
A 62-year-old Japanese housewife, Tomiyo Yamada, is a super fan of world expositions. She has been given the name of "Expo Grandma" because of her high attendance records to world expositions. She has been visiting the Shanghai Expo each day since the opening on May 1, 2010. Yamada greatly enjoyed her first experience at Expo 1970 in Osaka of Japan. She then made a world record of Expo attendance by visiting 243 times at Expo 2005 in Aichi of Japan. She has moved to Shanghai with her family to facilitate daily visits in Expo 2010. Her husband has purchased the tickets for all 184 days for Expo 2010.The Expo Grandma is keeping a diary for her Expo journey. Her diary is full of Expo stamps, photographs and signatures.
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