Tokyo Disneyland

We were kind of worried when we got to Disneyland at 10:20AM (the park had opened at 10) and the lines were so long! I’ve been to DIsneyland Paris so many times in my life and I’ve never seen lines that long, not even during peak season. And the day we visited Tokyo DIsneyland was a regular cold Wednesday so I wonder what the lines are like in the summer, woah. Anyway we got in pretty quickly and immediately went to Tomorrowland to check out the Space Mountain and the renovated Star Tours.

Then onto Toontown where we only rode the children’s rollercoaster and then to Fantasyland to visit Peter Pan and Snow White. During the day parade we went on Big Thunder Mountain, Splash Mountain (in which me and Juulia got drenched! wth I was completely sure we weren’t going to get wet but boy was I wrong 😀 And we were the only ones that got wet, so unfair!) and then Big Thunder Mountain again.

We ended our evening with a two rides on Pirates of the Caribbean, before running back to Tomorrowland to go on Monster’s Inc. and Space Mountain before the park closed at 7PM. We managed to ride Space Mountain twice before 7PM and we ended up shopping for half an hour on World Bazaar before catching the bus back to Shinjuku completely exhausted.

I was surprised lots of tricks I have learnt throughout the years visiting Disneyland Paris to work for Tokyo Disneyland as well but they did! Like what order to go through the park in, when to go to which rides, which fastpasses to get and when, when to go eat and when to avoid them and when to shop and when not to! The longest time we waited was like 40 minutes to Splash Mountain and I saw signs on the rides we had gone on saying you had to wait 1,5 hours at some points and usually we waited like 15-20 minutes on each. So the day turned out to be quite successful! The weather was pretty awful though, it was very cold, humid and windy so we were pretty much freezing throughout the day but luckily many of the attractions were inside rides so we could warm up from time to time.

I enjoyed the day a lot but I have to say most of the rides were a lot more boring than in Disneyland Paris or Disney World (not as thrilling and they were a little dated). E.g. Pirates of the Caribbean in Paris has better music, a more logical flow throughout the ride and it actually has a few slopes that make it exiting and not just a boat you sit in. Space Mountain is so thrilling in Paris and it is fun in Tokyo too but it is a lot more laid back and old fashioned. They changed Star Tours to be in 3D which honestly made me a little nauseous since it’s a simulator ride anyway and Big Thunder Mountain was almost as fun but the one in Paris goes faster and occassionally your heart jumps in your throat during the ride. But Splash Mountain was very fun so that was a big plus. And also the timing was kind of bad because they were renovating some rides like the Haunted Mansion and It’s a Small World that I wanted to see.

Overall, one more Disney Park added to my list, three more to go! (Although I still need to visit Disney Sea in Tokyo before my list is complete)