Tokyo Disney Photo Dump

"f86sabre" (f86sabre) 04/08/2016 at 21:09 • Filed to: Travel, Disney

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We wrapped up our time at Tokyo Disney Friday night. The kids did awesome. Here my son is piloting his racer around the Disney Speedway.

The parks, Magic Kingsom and Disney Sea, are fantastic. Great rides, amazingly clean and the staff was, to a person, phenomenal. They must get paid bonuses based on smiles and the amount of waving they do. Language was never a problem. Most spoke some English and those that were limited used hand gestures to get their point across. It rained on the day we were at Disney Sea, but panchos and a lets have fun attitude saved the day. You haven’t lived until you’ve ridden a high speed, looping coaster in the driving rain.

If you get a chance visit Disney Sea. It is unique in the Disney world and has some very cool rides. Also, there is a full bar in the very cool Theodore Roosevelt Lounge. Good times there. The Magic Kingdom is largely a carbon copy of the California park, but improved and modernized.

I hold that the best time to be at a Disney park is in the dark. I was amazed at how dark they let some areas get. That helped emphasize the lights on the attractions. Also, crowds go way down after the Electric Light Parade. Our kids were troopers and we closed the parks down each night hopping from ride to ride.

We stayed at the Tokyo Bay Hilton, which is a partner hotel, while it was more expensive than what I would have wanted to spend, it was on par with staying on property at Disney World. Since the park tickets are about 60% the cost of the US parks we came out a bit ahead.

One thing that was odd though, there was very little Tokyo Disney branded merchandise. Just tins of candy, some Easter ornaments, and that was about it. No shirts and no Mickey ear hats were to be found on the park.

pjhusa > f86sabre 04/08/2016 at 22:07

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I’ve skipped the Disneyland in Singapore and will skip the one in Hong Kong only because I went to Disney World (FL) two years ago.

deprecated account > f86sabre 04/08/2016 at 22:15

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Pretty much a carbon copy of Disney World in FL, surprisingly. I love the second to last picture of Space Mountain though.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > f86sabre 04/08/2016 at 22:56

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I have always been a huge 20,000 Leagues fan, so I like Disney Sea.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > deprecated account 04/08/2016 at 23:00

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But it is so much more pleasant to be in Japan. It’s just far more polite there, Japanese tend to have two kids at most and very well behaved.

f86sabre > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 04/09/2016 at 10:59

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They did a good job with that and Journey to the Center of the Earth.

deprecated account > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 04/09/2016 at 12:44

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And I bet Japanese people are far more willing to vaccinate their kids....

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > f86sabre 04/09/2016 at 12:44

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Yeah, I feel like Japan has an extra touch. The Ghibli museum in Mitaka by Ikea is really awesome too, no rides though.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > deprecated account 04/09/2016 at 12:48

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Japanese do what’s best for everyone, somehow their kids are generally so well behaved it’s amazing. I see really young kids on the train, hold hands, get on, sit quietly and maybe play a video game. The public seems to help help as needed like a big family. I didn’t think of the anti vac people, it’s really amazing how stupid they are. I live in Marin and they exist among really well off people who are basically rich neo hippies.