Tokyo Disneyland!

Today was amazing! I spent the entire day at Disneyland in Tokyo! I'm in Japan touring around for a week after a school trip to Hiroshima to study about the Atomic Bomb... but back to Disney.

Tokyo Disneyland is a lot like it's other counterparts. It has a World Bazaar (like Main Street USA, only covered), Tomorrowland, Toontown, Fantasyland, Critter Country, Westernland, and Adventureland. These lands contain many of everyone's favourite rides such as the Mountains (Space, Splash, and Thunder) as well as It's A Small World, Pirates of the Carribean and many more!

To get to Disney I got up at 6:30am, and left the hostel at 7am. I walked to Yoyogi Station and took a train to Tokyo where I took another train to Disneyland (thank goodness it's all on the JR Rail Pass). I was there by 8:30, well before the 9am opening.

The park opening wasn't as big as I expected, but all the major characters were there to take pictures with guests as they entered. Right away I went to Space Mountain and worked my way through the lands. I made sure to grab an excellent picture of the castle on my way, though! You can see it was kind of cloudy (it was a little chilly too) but it worked in my favour since it discouraged other guests from visiting the park. Throughout the day I never waited in a line more than 25 minutes!

The rides were amazing, and many of them were very similar to those in other parks. The only difference is that they were all in Japanese! It made it difficult to understand, but fortunately I could remember their English counterparts, so I knew what they were saying. I guess it pays off to be a Disney geek!

Tokyo Disneyland is so colourful and wonderful. Everyone there loves Disney. Not that the guests in America hate Disney but the Japanese really love it. Everyone had some sort of souvenir, the big popcorn bins, or ears (they even had hair clips that were Minnie or Tigger ears!). I ended up following suit and got a very cute Winnie the Pooh, hunny pot popcorn bin.

While I was there I made sure to check out the 3pm parade. Here's a sample of what it was like. The floats were amazing and some of the parade's song was actually in English... I loved it. Even better, there was no pushing to get to the front, the people in the front four rows all sat down and I was tall enough to see over the heads of the people in front of me... so I got an excellent view!

Above is the entire parade music... I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. One of my favourite parts that's not on my video is around 19:20, when they bust into High School Musical song to celebrate Tokyo Disneyland's 25th year!

The Electric Lights Parade at night was just as incredible. Lots of high-tech, colourful floats decorated with millions of lights. Afterwards I watched the fireworks and then headed out to get on tons more rides. I stayed until the closing of the park. It was great, there was almost no one around and it seemed as though the park was there for only me. I loved it!

I think the best part of today was that it was the first time I got to visit a Disney park since knowing I was hired by Disney. I was walking around the entire day not only thinking how magical it is, and how happy I am to be at Disney but thinking that I get to be a part of the magic in just 2 months! I can't believe it. I'm going to be working at Disney and for one year I can visit Disney parks as much as I want. YAY!