maybe ally…Goes to Tokyo Disneyland!

Hi Guys & Dolls! Hoping everyone is having a wonderful day. As promised today’s post is all about Tokyo Disneyland!! I’ll be taking you through all the basics, the foods & the rides. It was an incredible experience to go to this park. It’s quite small and feels just like Disneyland in California. We got to ride some unique rides and visit old favorites in a unique way.

We got there on a cold winter day so we had coats on. It makes things a little tricky on some rides but we managed just fun. Now if you aren’t staying on property you’ll have to take the JR Rail to the stop that provides a monorail for DisneySea or Disneyland (although if you are going to land, just WALK it was like 10 mins. and saved us so much time!). Once you’ve had your Disney day you can either walk back or just take the monorail and loop around. It’ll take some time but your feet will love you.

Read below for all the deets I can think of about this park! If there is more shoot me a comment and I’ll answer there!

THE BASICS:

Ticket Tiers & Prices:

1-Day Passport: Tokyo Disneyland or Tokyo DisneySea can be enjoyed for one day.

Prices (in Yen. meaning: ¥7500 = $75 etc…) :

• Adult ¥7,500

• Junior ¥6,500

• Child ¥4,900

Senior Passport: (Ages 65 & over, not for both parks)

Price: Ages 65 & over, ¥6,800

There are two “Passports” (tickets) that can be used for the afternoon and evening. They are as follows:

Starlight Passport: For use from 3 p.m. on weekends and holidays

Prices:

• Adult¥5,500

• Junior¥4,800

• Child¥3,600

After 6 Passport: For use from 6 p.m. on weekdays

• Adult¥4,300

• Junior¥4,300

• Child¥4,300

2-Day Passport: Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea on 2 consecutive days.

• Adult¥13,400

• Junior¥11,800

• Child¥8,800

3-Day Magic Passport: Enjoy Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea on 3 consecutive days.

• Adult¥18,100

• Junior¥15,800

• Child¥11,800

4-Day Magic Passport: Enjoy Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea on 4 consecutive days.

• Adult¥22,800

• Junior¥19,800

• Child¥14,800

Now the 3 and 4-day passports allow for park hopping but only after you’ve chosen which park you’ll go to on which days prior. For example, Day one we went to Disneyland, Day two was DisneySea and days 3 and 4 were both park hopper days. Armand and I got the 4-day pass because we wanted to explore both Disneyland and Disneysea and a slower pace. We’d never been before so we had to take it all in. In the end, do you need all four days? No. DO THREE DAYS! One day for each park then your 3rd-day park hop and do things you didn’t get to in the days prior.

GET THERE EARLY! I can’t stress enough how getting here early is beneficial to your time here. When we arrived there were already at least a few hundred people there. Even for parades or shows get there early. It is of the culture in that Japanese people tend to be very patient with everything. Oh, you can wait 4 hours for a Flight of Passage ride? Try 8 waiting for the Fireworks show to get a good viewing spot. Tokyo Disney literally sells blankets because people do this. Get everywhere…early.

Get yourself a park map in English (they will be labeled) and take a look at the map, get your barrings and then head over to one of the popular rides for an FP then standby the others. If you are worried about language barriers Guest Services has English speaking CM’s available to help you out, although I don’t think you’ll need them. Don’t get caught up in that truly. If you point or have learned some basic words you’ll be fine all around the park. We had little to know trouble purchasing food or getting on rides.

THE FOOD:

Oh My! All of the food! All of it is so cute! Tokyo Disneyland made it a point, like other parks to make their food very Instagram friendly. From burgers with Mickey’s face on them to Alien Dumpling (pictured below) with cream filling the possibilities were endless with your food.

Usually, because of the language barrier, you’ll find yourself either pointing to what you want (there are lots of English menus with photos) or if you learned a bit of the language saying a number helps too. CM’s in this park will not take money directly from you. Be ready to place your money in a tray. They will take from the tray and return any change within the said tray. Also, I’d learn pretty quickly about the denomination of each coin or cash. It'll help you prepare for the sale and get off the line faster.

If you’d like an item from special event maps and guides are provided at the front of the park that’ll list what’s available and where to get it! It’s a good opportunity to pick up souvenirs!. I will warn like the parks in the states these items will cost you more…A LOT more. So if you are into collecting exclusive merchandise be ready to spend money!

I was quite happy that nothing ever felt too greasy or too heavy. Something that the Japanese have over most of the world is that they eat a lot more cleanly than most. I’ve had stomach issues for years and literally nothing bothered me. Happy Ally!!!!!

THE RIDES:

As a plus-size woman, I will tell you right off the back that some of the rides were harder to get on than others. This is a park made for the people of the country. I had a hard time on the Monsters INC. ride the most. Still, a fantastic experience was had. It was easy to get on rides. Like with food, all you need is to gesture what number your party is and in some cases, they’ll WALK YOU to your row! They go all out. It was insane.

The best ride there hands down is Pooh’s, Hunny Hunt. A close second is Monster’s INC: Ride & Go Seek!

Best Tip: Arrive at rope drop! Don’t underestimate people willing to wait. A lot of folks who live in Tokyo are very willing to wait for rides, food & shows so you’ll be waiting in a line. It is what it is. The best tip I can give you is to choose which of the two popular rides you want to beeline it to in the morning and FP the other. For Example, Armand and I ran to Monsters INC, Ride & Go Seek! for an FP and then ran to Standby Pooh’s Hunny Hunt. You can do that way or the other but once you are done with both you are free from the line chains and will be able to enjoy the park at your leisure. As stated before it’s just like Disneyland in California so if you’ve been you’ll be good to go.

This was definitely the easier of the two parks to navigate thanks to it being so small and being an almost exact copy of Disneyland in California.

Just like it’s California counterpart Fantasyland proved quite popular with our longest wait being Peter Pan’s Flight! It just so happened to not be a crazy day. We got really lucky with the weather too as it was no lower than 50* for most of the day. Simply perfect.