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As a Disney World Florida annual pass holder, I feel I have a little bit more knowledge on how to circumvent the madness of the Disney parks, but the language barrier and general lack of knowledge of both Disney Sea and Disneyland has me 2nd guessing my idea.

My thoughts:

• We don't need to go on rides that also exist in the states
• we will only doing rides a 6 months old baby can go on on my lap
• I'm seriously there for the food and atmosphere more than anything
• I don't understand a lick of Japanese so shows will be only to sit and rest for a while
• we are only in Japan for a limited amount of time and I don't want to spend two days at an amusement park when we could be exploring and going to museums or shrines

So hypothetically we could park hop and see all of the unique rides and food in one day. I'm still trying to research the exact rides we will go on and if it's better to start in one park over the other because of opening/closing times and of course which I can get a "Lighting Pass" for (I know it's called something else 🙈).

Am I crazy? I'll take any suggestions, tips, advice, name-calling for trying to do it all, etc

My cousin is going to Disneyland Tokyo and I want to ask her to look for Tsum tsums, but I don’t know if they still exist. Can someone please confirm? Ty in advance!

Welcome to r/TokyoDisneySea!

We’re here to help you plan your trip and give you as much advice as possible, straight from the reddit community here on this subreddit.

Welcome to r/TokyoDisneySea!

We’re here to help you plan your trip and give you as much advice as possible, straight from the reddit community here on this subreddit.

Possibly wanting to buy a Baymax one. It looks cute and silly at the same time and would totally turn heads in Anaheim, but not if. It's annoying to wear

Mickey the Entertainer Popcorn Bucket - ·3,200 ($20.82 USD not include tax, fees etc.)

I love this one! You get 3 characters and the mat black is a nice design. Last year they had a Minnie Mouse one so it's cool Mickey is featured in this one!

More details: https://www.thegoldenkernel.com/post/tokyo-disney-resort-collectibles-a-look-at-mickey-pluto-and-goofy-popcorn-buckets

I have a trip planned to disney sea next year and I'm anxious if I can fit. I'm 5'8 and about 310 lbs, my size is 24 womens. I'm working to slim my waist/stomach down but I'm still unsure if I'll be slim enough to fit by then. Which rides are pretty snug on a bigger person and which won't I fit entirely?

Welcome to r/TokyoDisneySea!

We’re here to help you plan your trip and give you as much advice as possible, straight from the reddit community here on this subreddit.

Welcome to r/TokyoDisneySea!

We’re here to help you plan your trip and give you as much advice as possible, straight from the reddit community here on this subreddit.

Anybody have any idea why the 8:50pm show was cancelled last night?

As the title states; my partner and I are visiting the park for the first time later this year. We're only going to get one day out of our visit, so any help for understanding how the park operates is welcome! I've been reading up from other people in this subreddit and taking notes.

The main thing is I haven't been to a Disney park in general in like 15 years. I have 0 knowledge of how their apps, online reservations, etc. work, so that's the biggest learning curve at the moment

Been seeing heaps on people but can't find it anywhere for sale.

30th October. This was meant to be a live post but was in bot jail for a few days .. Got there at 10:05 , family of 5, definitely not crowded (calendar showed green yesterday) and rain this morning helped (stoped at 11 and has been very hot since). Queues have been fine, used DPA for soaring and 40 anniversary for Indy (at 10:05 the first available slot was 4.20) Soaring was great, really made done and the artwork in the rotunda really well made. indy is ok, a good rollercoaster but nothing unique imo.

However Frozen is impossible to get to, no DPA and no standby. We did get into Fantasy Spring thanks to DPA for Peter Pan and checked the sights. Peter Pan was awesome.

Now hoping they reissue standby for Frozen (it's 3.30).

Toys Story was a 30 minute wait, ok all things considered.

Nemo (Japanese only, it's ok not great) and Aquatopia (just ok) were 5 mins. 20,000 under was 15 mins. We didn't care for Journey but that was not DPA available.

Overall a nice day, restaurant waits are short. The sights are beautiful so come anyway.

We took internal transfer boat coming back from Fantasy Spring to Med Harbour as had walked previously so made moving to NY area much better.

Does anyone know the story about the crashed plane with the C-P3O reference on the side?

I was at Disney Sea on Sunday and my husband and I kept checking for Frozen on the app. I gave up by 4 pm but my husband kept trying. When we were literally in line for dinner around 6:30 pm we found a 7:55 to 8:45 slot available! So just wanted to post this to let y’all know not to lose hope and keep checking!

Just experienced a Wednesday DisneySea trip. I didn't do a great job researching, but I feel like some information is a bit scattered. Here is what I learned from my experience.

GETTING INTO THE PARK: I intended to get there by 5:30, but overslept. Got to the park at 6:30. There was already a huge group of lines. They started taking people through bag checkbat 8:00, not 8:30, so, when my wife finally got to the park with the kids at 8:35-8:40, I had to let several groups through (meaning several groups through all the different lines.

By the time we got through bag check and in the park, Frozen's Disney Premier Access was already gone and we could only reserve the Stand-by tickets.

DPA AND OTHER PASS TIP: Pro tip here, but youu can only reserve one DPA, Stand-by, and 40th Anniversary Priority Pass at a time, BUT (and I didn't know this), the next available reservations open up for you in one hour. That means the earliest of birds get best access to DPA throughout the day. So, going back to the GETTING INTO THE PARK note, you should try to arrive as early as possible since passes do run out. You may not even get stand by tickets to the most popular areas' rides (which you need to access thr most popular area, Fantasy Springs.

FANTASY SPRINGS: Definitely the best part of Tokyo Disney and Tokyi DisneySea. The details incorporated into this area is unmatched. Beautifully designed. I'm not fanatic over Disney, but I definitely appreciated everything. Think Star Wars Land in Anaheim with 2x-4x more detail.

FOOD/CONCESSIONS: Mobile Order is the way to go to reserve and get food at various installations. Unless you love popcorn, do NOT rely on the stalls along the park. I have no idea what the obsession is with popcorn in Japan (perhaps it's the most convenient, cost-effective, and efficient snack), but we had a hard time finding a booth that did NOT sell pop corn ONLY. Note, that each stand only carries 1 type of snack/popcorn. For example, if you like caramel popcorn, I saw one near the Agraba section and never again, so grab it up if you want. I tried the roast beef popcorn and thought it was disgusting, but my youngest didn't seem to mind it.

Lmk if you have any questions.

EDIT: I should have included this above (again, info available in various blogs/posts), but you can only start reserving passes once you are physically within the park. This is why it's important to line up and be early to get through the bag check lines, and then on to the park ticket lines. Once you get through those two areas, you will be in the park and then attempt to reserve your various passes for rides.

Welcome to r/TokyoDisneySea!

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I have a weird ask. Would anyone going to Tokyo Disneyland soon be able to acquire an unused food wrapper from the Good Time Cafe and ship to me for a project I’m doing? I’ll obviously pay for shipping for it and all that. It would be super helpful :)

Welcome to r/TokyoDisneySea!

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Going to Tokyo Disneyland late this year and would love to ride beauty and the beast as I've heard it's amazing - however I suffer from motion sickness - very easily. For those that have done it and get motion sickness , did you feel dizzy ? How bad is it ? Any tips or advice ? Is it worth it ?

We’ll be visiting the good time cafe during our trip to Disneyland next year. I’m not sure which sandwich I am going to get. I know it’s not really something that needs to be planned in advance but I wanted to ask which people like more. The Mickey glove chicken sandwich or the Donald foot shrimp sandwich. Both are very cute and if I could eat both I would totally do it. Just wanted to see which people who’ve had both like more.

I keep seeing people here talking about the BatB souvenir popcorn bucket but I'm in DisneySea right now and I can't find it on the map? I showed the staff a picture of Otis and the gang but they said they don't have it, is it sold out? Or only at Disney Land?

Hey guys

I’ll be going with an another traveler to the Disney sea on Tuesday 22 October, whoever wants to join could let me know and we can do it together.

Able to access DPA/SB/Priority pass before going in…

So something weird happened today I’m not sure if this has happened to anyone before- but we were ABLE to buy DPA, SB and Priority pass whilst lining up to go in the park. This was at 08:30, we arrived at 6:30. We only found out because we saw the japanese girls infront of us having access to it, even they were shocked.. Def wasnt the case when we went to Disneyland a few days ago.. Will do a full report soon.

Just returned from a three-week honeymoon in Japan, with a stay at Fantasy Springs to end our trip. We did the one- day vacation package.

• We were able to pick-up our packet the night before. We were staying at the Hilton Tokyo Bay (switching our initial staging location of Hyatt Regency) and we walked across the street in the pouring rain at 8:00p.m. the night before. We were met outside the Bayside monorail station by two cast members who asked if we were staying at the hotel---they had a clipboard with guest names---and I informed them we were staying the next day and wanted to pick up our vacation package now.  They asked for my name, withdrew a cellphone from their pocket, and made a call.  They told us to wait off to the side and that our packet would be brought to us. About 10 minutes later, a solitary and well-dressed cast member walked towards us in full rain gear and an umbrella.  The wind had picked up considerably by this time and as she approached I couldn’t help but laugh at the cloak-and-dagger quality of it all.  She asked for my name and reservation email, and upon checking it, asked me to confirm the same and sign for the folder, which was sealed in silver tape, and thankfully, plastic.  It was straight out of All the President’s Men.  I didn’t remember paying for the “Disney Noir Rainy-Day Courier Delivery Option” but I was happy to have it all the same. 
• The Vacation package contains/requires you to carry a lot of paperwork. It feels like being a diplomat during the Cold War. The next morning we checked out of the Hilton and checked-into Fantasy Springs. There they gave us even more paperwork for our DisneySea day: Two proof of stay documents (which were encased in plastic, signaling their importance) and two early entry passes (entry at 815 A.M. through the Fantasy Springs entrance adjacent to the hotel). When we entered Fantasy Springs, the rides were not immediately open, but once they were, we were given wristbands at our first ride---which happened to be Rapunzel. Great!  No more paperwork, right?  Just flash your wristband and go right?  Wrong.  To enter Fantasy Springs you still need your critical proof of stay, and to access the priority line you still need to scan your physical park ticket.  The cast members never even checked our wristbands once they took the trouble of giving them to us.  We laughed at this throughout the day (why do we have these again?) and treated the wristbands as a souvenir. 
• We checked in at 730 am, but could not obtain our room key until 4:30. We left our luggage at the bell desk and made it to the Tokyo Disneyland entrance plaza at 8:00am. It was pouring rain, blowing wind, and for the first time all trip...cold. This kept the crowds down. We rode everything we wanted and were back at Fantasy Springs by 7:30 p.m.
• When you consider breakfast at 7:00 am, checkout, and being at the entrance for early entry at 8:15, the turnaround is very quick at Fantasy Springs. I can hardly call it a hotel experience, which explains its spartan set-up. This is basically a convenient place to store your luggage and sleep between your park visits. You are paying for access to Fantasy Springs, not a classic resort experience. Maybe we would have felt differently during a longer stay, but if we were staying longer we would likely stay at the Hilton across the street and buy a day ticket through the app. Mira Costa appeared to be a nicer, more integrated stay experience.
• There is a feature at Fantasy Springs where you just leave your luggage in the room and they pick it up and store it for you. We set this up through the TV in the room, but curiously, they make it clear that you need to photograph the screen to show cast members your information when retrieving your luggage. This saved a step the next morning, but it was odd that a new hotel would not have this aspect of their system integrated into their normal operations POS system.  Screenshot your TV or lose your luggage seems to be...an odd way to administer what is essentially the chief service of the hotel.
• The parks were great. We did and rode everything we wanted and had time to spare. We got lucky on the crowds. All the resorts (Disney and non-Disney properties) utilize a airport limousine service that is laughably cheap considering it drives you and all your luggage to the terminal for under 2000 yen apiece. IT was a great way to end a long journey.
• The FOMO is real, they know it, and they make you pay. The primary value of the vacation package is access to Fantasy Springs. Although it is technically a part of DisneySea, aesthetically and functionally it acts as a separate "gate" (to use theme park vernacular) and entry through this gate requires an additional buy-in through the vacation package. Whether this is important enough to justify the significant premium and trouble is a matter of taste. For what it is worth, we are both former cast members and have not been to a Disney property in over 10 years. I was a ride operator at Disneyland. As such, while I enjoy a good ride, I tend to see the machine and have not been truly surprised by a ride since I was a child. The attractions at Fantasy Springs broke that streak. I audibly gasped during Peter Pan and Frozen. Maybe you score standby to one of those with a single day ticket to DisneySea, but it would be a tall order to score both.
• Our favorite experience over the two days was the 90 minutes we spent sitting on a bench in DisneySea sipping on sangria and watching the elaborate Cosplay extravaganza happening at the park. This was a true surprise to us as the Disney parks outright forbid elaborate adult costumes but here it appeared to be the primary reason for attending for many, many people.
• Vacation packages and nearby hotel stays aside, buying a ticket the day of, hopping on the subway, and spending the day absorbing the vibes at DisneySea while going on a couple rides is a perfect way to spend a day in Tokyo, and I would argue, provides a more authentic local experience than a morning at a Team Labs, or an hour at Shibuya Sky, which also require advance reservations and can get very crowded. Individual park tickets are just not that expensive, especially compared to other experiences around the City.
• I think the vacation package is worth doing, especially if you place a high value on accessing Fantasy Springs. But it is not necessary. You can have a perfectly good time building a stay a la carte, but it does require more luck doing it that way (luck on crowds, luck on access, etc.) For this trip we were not willing to chance it, but next time we will.