Tokyo DisneySea

Monday, April 6, 2026

Hello. I am doing voice to text because I am very, very tired after our day at Tokyo DisneySea. I just went through and put up 83 pictures – which is such a small amount of what I took – and I still need to go one by one and add them to this page. Anyway, I’m trying to be expedient.

I am not even going to try to put the pictures into the words. It just takes too much time. Sorry about that. I’m going to talk for a few minutes and then there will be 90 pictures to look at (Keith added 7 pictures to my 83).

The first thing I have to talk about is lines. It just cannot be imagined how long the lines are here. The Anna and Elsa Frozen ride was at 220 minutes the entire day, until they cut it off and said only those who had paid the premier access could be in line. Who gets in that line? That’s almost 4 hours. That’s insane. What is even more insane is that all the other big rides also have lines in excess of 180 minutes. What the heck?

We didn’t get on Frozen because we couldn’t possibly see ourselves waiting in that line. We bought a fast pass for Peter Pan and then found out that its single Rider line was really short- that was okay. We bought a fastpass on the Tangled girl ride. Just after we got in line the ride went down. They gave us a multi-experience pass so we could go on anything except Frozen or Soarin’, but there was nothing else that we wanted to go on. Eventually Tangled came back up and we got in line. Unfortunately, they seemed to have given premier passes to every single person in the 180-minute line. That made for a very long line of returnees. We also bought a fast pass for journey to the center of the Earth.

Walking past all those people filling up a line that’s going to take between 3 and 4 hours to get through to get on our premier access ride is a weird feeling. It costs between $9 and $12 for the premier pass for each of those rides, but considering how long they were and that we only had one day, it was a no-brainer.

DisneySea is huge and beautiful. We were just walking in the morning and looking and looking and looking, and it was just magical. I don’t even know what all of the areas are called. There was an old-timey America place and a Cape cod place and a Castley place and Arendelle (which might have been the prettiest one) and a Jules Verne place and the Agrabah place and the Mediterranean and the kind of dragony place. I don’t even know what else there was, oh, there was the Nemo part. There was a Little Mermaid area that we walked past a bunch of times but never took the time to get in there and do anything.

One thing we found interesting was that many, many, many, many, many, many, many young women dress alike and/or wear school uniforms to the park. When we asked the internet what was going on, it told us that they may be already out of school and are remembering a youthful time, they may still be in school and want to be part of the group and show how good of friends they are, or some other reason that I can’t remember. You can rent school uniforms just to wear to Disney. I don’t know if people rented them or just still had them, but a really lot of people were wearing school uniforms. I grabbed a picture of three girls dressed pretty similarly so you could get the idea.

I saw a guy with Wisconsin on his shirt. So, I went up and told him I was from Wisconsin. He seemed to like that. I do not have any idea if the Japanese people speak English, but they sure don’t want to speak English to us. Anyone’s native language to them. I love the way the ride operators mime to us to take our backpacks off and to pull the safety bar down. They just rattle on in Japanese like maybe we’re getting some of that. We are not.

We went to a magic show in Japanese. Obviously we could see the magic without knowing what the guy was saying, but apparently he was really funny because the audience laughed a lot.

On the Finding Nemo ride, it was really funny to hear Mr. Ray singing in Japanese. Hearing the Japanese actors who do not sound anything like the American actors was pretty funny too.

That’s it. I got to go click 90 pictures up into here. I hope you enjoy and can make heads or tails of it.