Day 8, August 18, 2010
After waking up early and saying our goodbyes to Miho and her dad, we hopped on a city bus and made our way to the Shinkansen (Bullet train). The ride was only about 2 hours or so, and we were in Tokyo station at about noon. From there we hopped on a different rail service to Disneyland!
There are two Disney parks in Tokyo, adjacent and connected to each other by a monorail. There is Tokyo Disneyland, which is almost exactly like Disneyland in LA (which Jamie actually has not visited), and then Disneyland Sea which we were told catered more to adults. It was still for children in many ways and of course there were many of them, but we could drink beer or wine within the park at certain places. Also the quality of the shows /events was really top notch and a couple of them also may have been aimed at adults.
The park is divided into different “Coasts”, like American coast (they have a Cape Cod!), Meditteraenean coast, Arabian coast (Alladin themed), and under the sea indoor area (never made it that far, a captain Nemo area with 20,000 leagues under the sea/journey to the center of the Earth, and a futureland type area. We only really managed to get on 4 ride type attractions (and Journey to the Center of the Earth took us 90 minutes…), but we saw a few excellent shows, one taking place in a sweet theatre with a moving stage (It was a Big Band/swing revue, very excellent). (we went to this one only because jamie loves gambling and it's a lottery to get a ticket)
The evening ended with a neat fireworks/animatronic/light/water show in the central water area of the park. It was pretty neat! (it was about the love affair or water and fire. the water was this massive fountain shaped like a girl with pigtails and the fire was this massive dragon the breathed fire. wow. not only love between fire and water-at least they are both element- but love between people and dragons. Oh disney)
While I don’t remember it being as exciting as Disneyworld was in my youth. Obviously we are much older now and we kind of just went to the park on a whim (vs. driving 20 hours to get there…), so the anticipation level was 0. But I also remember Disney world having lots of little gags here and there around the park, sort of in-park street performers. We saw one really funny custodian going around, but that was it.
Anyways, we had a buffet dinner in the park (delicious) and made our way back to our original hotel, the Sakura Jimbocho, which is just a really nice place with great staff. A very fun and tiring day!
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