I'm not sure about you, but back in my day there were 3 major sources of magic as a kid: Christmas, Harry Potter, and Disney. Last Friday, a few friends and I decided to indulge in a healthy combination of two of these.
Quick Statistics:
Tokyo Disney originally opened in 1983, and was the first Disney theme park to open up outside of the US. It today consists of two parks, DisneyLand and DisneySea (see what they did there?), which together welcome roughly 25 million visitors a year. It's not actually in Tokyo, but in Chiba (千葉) which is a little over an hour train ride out of Tokyo.
So three friends and I decided on Wednesday that we should really go to DisneySea to see all of the Christmas decorations before it was too late, and Friday we were off. That's one of the things I love about Japan: you can decide last minute that you want to go somewhere, and with the train system here it takes minimal planning to go almost anywhere. Tokyo Disney sells a pass that just gets you into the park after 6pm, which was perfect since some of us had class that day. That park was fantastic, the decorations were awesome, and for seem reason things just seemed to go inordinately well that evening. I'll let the pictures tell the story though (sorry for the lack of picture-containing posts recently).
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| The train going to different areas of the Disney resort was pretty well branded. |
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| Entrance to the park |
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| The enormous Christmas tree in DisneySea. |
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| The Little Mermaid area of the park from afar. At night it is really stunning. |
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| King Triton and his dolphins in holiday garb. |
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| A room in a castle of the park talking about the motion of stars and planets. Every park should have some science! |
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| A two-tiered Merry-Go-Round in Agrabah |
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| A Christmas Show happening in the park. Don't ask why, but in Japan Mickey's voice is significantly higher than Minnie's. |
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