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2023 March - Tokyo, Japan (Day 5)
ooooh.... this was a day in the place next to the happiest place on earth! (self-proclaimed)
Tokyo Disney Sea! https://www.tokyodisneyresort.jp/en/tds/
But first, we need to head out from the hotel. And went to get some breakfast at Mister Donuts.
Slowly made our way to the Disney Resort, got a day pass ticket for the transport train outside.
And then promptly had the fright of our lives because apparently, Disney doesn't do walk-ins now. Everyone needs a pre-bought ticket. We did not pre-buy a ticket. The girl in the info centre said, no on-day tickets for sale. We stood there trying to locate some online travel agents that had immediate ticketing, but we had no luck. Suddenly though, the girl behind the counter received a call, then she said they were allowed to sell some walk in tickets. And so, that's how we got in.
Do I buy expensive kits that have absolutely no use in every day life? No. Do I put them on to take selfies? Absolutely. My cardigan is from the Duffy and Friends Line. My friend gave me a Gelatoni face mask, and since Gelatoni is a cat, I put on the Gelatoni head band, LOL.
Admittedly, we did very little planning for the park. Fast passes are non-existent now, it's all paid fast pass (WTF money suckers) and the app they had was really shitty.
So apparently, you have to pay to reserve a time slot for a ride. And say, you pay for one pass now, within one hour from now you can't buy another pass. We mucked around on the app for a long time. I used all my 5 credit cards. 2 needed pre-authorisations that went through, but when it came to actually paying for the fast pass, it couldn't go through. So we had to walk all the way back to the entrance to get a fast pass to one ride (a Toy Story one) and then we walked around the place to see.
The app annoyed me so much I needed ice cream to sooth my soul. LOL
I'm feeling a bit lazy so I'm not going to sequence the photos properly and exactly. I'll just keep them from obviously-day-time and obviously-night-time.
The parade is in the lake, so nobody can go near the parade.
Random postcard that I decided not to buy and send (sent another one) and instead, I'll keep this photo as record instead.
From some ride or another, while we were still queueing.
The Toy Story ride was pretty fun. My arm is still cramping even a week after.
Ferry rides! We went on it too when itstarted to rain rather heavily.
When we were queueing for one ride or another.
The inside of the queue; almost our turn.
My friend wanted the pop corn bucket but we didn't want plain salted popcorns. So we bought the bucket and asked to swap for another flavor; we got a ticket and went to the curry popcorn stand for curry popcorn!
In the end, we paid for 2 fast passes and managed to queue for some 3 or 4 rides/games. Wasn't too bad. Though, my friend was a scaredy cat, and I wanted to go on some more exciting rides but she was staunchly against that.
Random merch, I thought this China Mickey was cute. Didn't buy.
This was at Ariel's land. I guess, if you are going to Disney Sea, you MUST go to Ariel's something.
The night parade was... hard to understand. I understand Ariel being there. I can sort of link how Peter Pan and Wendy are in it (tieing in with Captain Hook - sea!). I don't understand why Aladdin and the Genie are part of the Disney Sea night parade. Frozen too! And Rapunzel - why? There was this other newer one of a tribe or something (I don't know the newer shows) that looked either Hawaii-ish or some sort of tropical aboriginee tribal people so yeah, okay. But the others? I don't get it.
Oh, and in case anyone's wondering "What's Duffy?" so the story is... Mickey has to go sail out (when did Mickey become a sailor? I thought that was Donald?) and Minnie was sad she couldn't join in. So she made Duffy to keep Mickey company. How the Duffy and Friends came into being is beyond my understanding as well. But anyway.
Final fireworks somewhere that we didn't notice.
And it was time to leave the over-inflated wonderland and go back to the real world where prices are more acceptable. We had Oden for dinner! It was DELICIOUS! We originally wanted to find a streetside stall place, but given it was raining and the temperatures dropped significantly, we went somewhere indoor.
Tokyo Disney Sea! https://www.tokyodisneyresort.jp/en/tds/
But first, we need to head out from the hotel. And went to get some breakfast at Mister Donuts.
Slowly made our way to the Disney Resort, got a day pass ticket for the transport train outside.
And then promptly had the fright of our lives because apparently, Disney doesn't do walk-ins now. Everyone needs a pre-bought ticket. We did not pre-buy a ticket. The girl in the info centre said, no on-day tickets for sale. We stood there trying to locate some online travel agents that had immediate ticketing, but we had no luck. Suddenly though, the girl behind the counter received a call, then she said they were allowed to sell some walk in tickets. And so, that's how we got in.
Do I buy expensive kits that have absolutely no use in every day life? No. Do I put them on to take selfies? Absolutely. My cardigan is from the Duffy and Friends Line. My friend gave me a Gelatoni face mask, and since Gelatoni is a cat, I put on the Gelatoni head band, LOL.
Admittedly, we did very little planning for the park. Fast passes are non-existent now, it's all paid fast pass (WTF money suckers) and the app they had was really shitty.
So apparently, you have to pay to reserve a time slot for a ride. And say, you pay for one pass now, within one hour from now you can't buy another pass. We mucked around on the app for a long time. I used all my 5 credit cards. 2 needed pre-authorisations that went through, but when it came to actually paying for the fast pass, it couldn't go through. So we had to walk all the way back to the entrance to get a fast pass to one ride (a Toy Story one) and then we walked around the place to see.
The app annoyed me so much I needed ice cream to sooth my soul. LOL
I'm feeling a bit lazy so I'm not going to sequence the photos properly and exactly. I'll just keep them from obviously-day-time and obviously-night-time.
The parade is in the lake, so nobody can go near the parade.
Random postcard that I decided not to buy and send (sent another one) and instead, I'll keep this photo as record instead.
From some ride or another, while we were still queueing.
The Toy Story ride was pretty fun. My arm is still cramping even a week after.
Ferry rides! We went on it too when itstarted to rain rather heavily.
When we were queueing for one ride or another.
The inside of the queue; almost our turn.
My friend wanted the pop corn bucket but we didn't want plain salted popcorns. So we bought the bucket and asked to swap for another flavor; we got a ticket and went to the curry popcorn stand for curry popcorn!
In the end, we paid for 2 fast passes and managed to queue for some 3 or 4 rides/games. Wasn't too bad. Though, my friend was a scaredy cat, and I wanted to go on some more exciting rides but she was staunchly against that.
Random merch, I thought this China Mickey was cute. Didn't buy.
This was at Ariel's land. I guess, if you are going to Disney Sea, you MUST go to Ariel's something.
The night parade was... hard to understand. I understand Ariel being there. I can sort of link how Peter Pan and Wendy are in it (tieing in with Captain Hook - sea!). I don't understand why Aladdin and the Genie are part of the Disney Sea night parade. Frozen too! And Rapunzel - why? There was this other newer one of a tribe or something (I don't know the newer shows) that looked either Hawaii-ish or some sort of tropical aboriginee tribal people so yeah, okay. But the others? I don't get it.
Oh, and in case anyone's wondering "What's Duffy?" so the story is... Mickey has to go sail out (when did Mickey become a sailor? I thought that was Donald?) and Minnie was sad she couldn't join in. So she made Duffy to keep Mickey company. How the Duffy and Friends came into being is beyond my understanding as well. But anyway.
Final fireworks somewhere that we didn't notice.
And it was time to leave the over-inflated wonderland and go back to the real world where prices are more acceptable. We had Oden for dinner! It was DELICIOUS! We originally wanted to find a streetside stall place, but given it was raining and the temperatures dropped significantly, we went somewhere indoor.