Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea

Tokyo Disneyland is a great theme park. It is laid out very similar to the park in California with much of the same rides. It caters pretty well to English speaking people, but all of the commentary on the rides is in Japanese. I went in late August and it wasn't too crowded. It has fast passes like the original Disneyland and you can cut your wait times drastically if you use them correctly. At night there was the Electric Dreamlights parade, which is amazing, there are hundreds of thousands of lights on all the floats. After watching the parade everyone moves over to the castle and watches some awesome fireworks. The park is very clean, much like you would expect from any Disneyland.

Disneysea is a different Disney experience. You take a Disney train from the park entrance to the DisneySea entrance. This park is very original and different from the other Disneylands. It has themed areas like the other one, but these include Mermaid Lagoon, Arabian Coast, Mediterranean Harbour and Lost River Delta. Mermaid Lagoon has Ariels underground palace built above ground and underneath it is an area with many rides and a store built like a whale, you feel like you're underwater. This park also has the Indiana Jones Ride, which is very similar to the ride in California. There is many interesting rides here like Journey to the Center of the Earth and the Terror of Terror.

At night in the Mediterranean Harbor, on the water, there is a show called BraviSEAmo, an amazing show that uses barges, fountains, pyro effects and fireworks.

I'd say Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea are must visits when going to Tokyo, but if you can only spend one day, I'd say choose DisneySea for a really unique expereince. The tickets aren't too expensive I believe, it cost me about 9800 yen for a 2 day pass for both parks. But unlike Disneyland in California, once you choose a park you have to stay in that park, you cannot jump to the other one.

Well, well, having 2 kids really makes your vacation really fun exciting and exhausting. One thing about it though, it makes you forget your age. Well that's what Mickey, Minnie, Donald mostly do to us, and our kids are the instrument. Disney Sea is not a different theme park compare to Disney Land, MGM and Epcot or any other Disney attractions. It was a bit different because it seems like they jammed MGM, Epcot and Disneyland all together, and the theme is obviously eveolved around Ariel, I was hoping they'll have Finding Nemo instead of Arabian Coast... what do you want from a desert attraction? it's supposed to be in land?... anyway, the park was divided into 6 theme attractions: Mediterranean Harbor, American waterfront, Port Discovery, Mysterious Island, Mermaid Lagoon, Lost River Delta, and the Arabian Coast. As all Mickey lover knows, with each theme attractions, there are restaurants, rides and shopping to do, but generally all the attractions are called ports, and most of them are surrounded by body of waters(that's probably I like it, being a Sailor) what really get me was the rides, like the stormrider, The whirpool, Raging spirits, Journey to the center of the earth, and of course we have to ride some for the kids too, like the Blowfish Balloon race, Sinbad, Caravan Carousel, Flounder's Flying Fish Scooter... we didn' able to experience all the rides of the long wait in line, and a bit crowded, who would know that there's a lot of people during Christmas day?... and most of them like the cool rides ;), so my advice was to get fast pass(duh?)... okay that's already given, but my actual advice is to take dramamin, I don't get dizzy when it comes to ride, but tagging with kids, they will drag you from one point to another, and of course the crowd in the line... even though it was cold, you can smell the odor... argh! anyway dramamin will help a lot; we did go to some theaters, it was Aladin and i forgot the other one becuase I fell asleep, becuase we don't have a clue what they were talking about even though it looked funny... the entertainers speak Nippongo... so we ended up hitting some rides again, again and again. By the time we get to Tower of terror, the wait in the line was 2 1/2 hours... so we have to skip. There's a lot of rides that we didn't get to enjoy, just like I said it was winter, it was cold and gets dark quick(1600), I was exhausted... the foods are okay, but really expensive and only in small portion... you really don't want to eat a lot anyway... I know my review is a bit vague, but I really don't want to detail everything, because the best way to enjoy an attraction like this is to explore it yourself, I don't want to spoil the fun. But just like I said if you guys did go, use fast pass, take dramamin, wear comfortable clothes(you'll be surprise with the crowd), and take breaks in between, don't rush...M I C K E Y... M O U S E!!!!