Tokyo's DisneySea

We left around 8am to pick up TTki's Mom's Nieces and their friend. We didn't get to Shinagawa till around 9:30 something. When we arrived, we still had to wait a little while because the girls were taking forever to get ready. Then after that we picked up their friend and headed to Chiba to DisneySea. The car ride after we picked them up wasn't long at all. We were there before I even knew it.

The cost was 4,300 yen, because I had a special discount, but to me that really wasn't much of a discount. I think the normal price was 5,300 yen I think.

From the moment you walk in, you can tell it's grand. There is a HUGE GLOBE in the courtyard area. And there was pluto and Mickey greeting people as they walk in. It was the celebration of halloween there and it was also the 3rd anniversary of its opening. So I guess we went at a perfect time. TTki's Mom's nieces are specialists at the Disney Theme parks. They go quite often, but it was my first time and it was also TTki's mom first time. Her initials will be MTki so I don't always have to refer to her as TTki's Mom.

Then there is a huge area where there is a lake and a mountain in the background. It was a great place to take a picture, which we did. From there we took a Gondala ride around the lake and behind the scenes of a show. It was pretty cool because it's sooo huge compared to the dinky one that we have in Anaheim. It's so spacious, which is rare since it's Tokyo.

After the Gandala, we were walking around touring the place at the American Waterfront. There were some I think American people beating on Trashcans as drums. They were pretty good. They really got the crowd into it and they were speaking Japanese. Then we all bought ukiwah bun, which is a shrimp bun. It was pretty good, but still very hot when we were eating it.
After eating we were off to the rides. The first one we did was a little boat ride aquatopia. It was lame. In Anaheim, you can at least control the speed at which you went places, but here you couldn't control anything. Then we went onto Stormrider. That was more interesting. It's like a Star Tours ride, but instead you're riding into the middle of a category 5 hurricane.

After that we headed to the Mysterious Mountain. There we went on a Journey to the Center of the Earth. It was actually a very surprising ride, which I think that's why they call it Mysterious Mountain. Around that time, Noonish, there was the Big Parade. It lasts for about 45 minutes and it goes all the way around the park. So it's rather long, and the same song plays over and over and over. They break off the dancers into different sections so everyone gets a good view of what's going on. That's nice I think.

After that, we went on a few more rides. Throughout the day we went on Indiana Jones and the temple of the Crystal Skull; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the center of the Earth.. again, Sinbad's Seven voyages - it's a small world.

We saw a couple of shows too. There were two parades, the little mermaid show, the aladdin show - very good, Mystic Rhythms - funny because it's loud and very musical but everyone in the group was sleeping except for me and one of MTki's nieces.

We had an Italian Lunch most of us got the Disney Dramatic Special. It was only around 10 bucks and it was good too. It came with pasta, Salad and drink, which would normally be overpriced, but I think it was reasonable. Not too bad overpriced.

We left at 8:05pm right when BraviSeaMo was just beginning. That's the night time fireworks spectacular. We wanted to beat the traffic to get home. We arrived back in Shinagawa not too much later and got dinner together. We went to a place really close to the JR Osaki West Exit to eat Ramen. It was pretty good. Now that I think about it, that really isn't a lot to do, but since it's spread over a large area, it seemed long. The lines weren't long at all either. I think the longest I had to wait was like 15 minutes and that was for the show to start. That's pretty nice to not have to wait long, even though there was a lot of people on a Wednesday. Don't people work here???