Finally Our Turn: Taiwan - Japan Day 4: Disneysea!

We sat down to plan the night before on how to get to Disneysea. The mrt route looks complicated, with multiple changes of lines. Zaky said that we should reach 1 hour before the door opens, we decided that 45 mins would work and planned to buy bfast on the way, to eat while waiting in the Q.

The alarm was set for 6am. I slept with Nana on the upper deck bcos the tatami mattress was too hard for Daddy Lim and Zaky slept too noisily. The next moment, I saw that the sky was bright. The alarms didn't go off at 6am!

We woke up 45 mins late. We got out of the Airbnb in 30 mins and then realised that the train tickets we got didn't work for the shorter route (lesser train changes) that we intended. Luckily, it worked for the other route or we have to waste JPY480 x 4. 

It was complicated finding our way on the train system. But at the Tokyo station, they nicely drew out the path to the train for the final leg. 

At Maihama Station, we had to change to the Disney Resort line. 

Happy! Happy! Happy!

The train stops at Disneyland 1st. Yes, the crowd is real. The Q at the door. 

The hotels and the hotel guests get to enter the park 30 mins before the public. Too bad, I am too cheapo to spend on Disneyland hotel. 

Maybe most of the people are for Disneyland and Disneysea will have lesser crowd? The MRT still looks fairly crowded though. 

Fat hope.

The Qs were starting to move when we joined. While waiting, Daddy Lim and the kids were busy trying to download the app and join the family group. Once in the park, I was led blindly while I figured out how to snatch the 40th anniversary free pass and also the JPY2k per pax premiere pass. 

I read that there is "no limit" to the number of passes we can obtain but we can only get new passes after we utilised that ones that we have obtained. That effectively means 1 per type bcos the passes get snatched up/ sold out. I managed to get Indiana Jones for the anniversary pass and Soaring for the premiere pass. We at least have 2 interesting rides lined up. 

Once done, we finally start our Disneysea trip proper. Zaky led us to our 1st ride that has a 15-min wait time. We visited 20,000 ft under with Nemo. 

The other pleasant surprise of the trip - Zaky was reading the online map/ app and leading us around. Throughout the day, I simply asked. It was such a refreshing change. 

Disneyland is supposed to be more for kids and there are more thrilling rides in Disneysea. However, most of the rides that we took were really kiddish. 

We even got time to take pictures while on the ride. This was probably bcos the Q for the exciting rides were too long and we refused to Q. 

After a few kiddish rides, we decided to have brunch. The oversleeping messed up all our plans and we started Disneysea with hungry tummies. 

Along the way, we had plenty of snacks as well - churros, popcorn, ice cream...

Then more pictures taking and more kiddish rides. 

We got tired and as the day progressed, the rides seem less interesting. The popular rides continued to have like 120 mins and more Qs, like this Toy Story ride. Why would people Q 120 mins to do some shooting ride. 

We happily chose to rest and eat chicken leg instead. This was like Nana's bucket list for Disneysea. Lol. We hunted very hard for this chicken leg. 

Finally, it was time for the Indiana Jones ride and it was good! It was a luxury to stroll directly to the head of the Q, bypassing the hoards of people in the normal Q. As expected, there were no more 40th anniversary pass for grab after our ride. 

We do more roaming and shopping and Daddy Lim got me this. So cute, right?

We "saw" their parade. Bcos it is Disneysea, their parade is on the "sea". It wasn't much of a parade, the boat sailed by with dancing Mickey Mouse and friends. 

We decided to eat again. Lol. Too tired siol. 

Ooo.. aliens!

They didn't last long. MURDERERS!

The park was already dark by 5ish. It made us feel like we should go home. Lol. We roamed somemore while waiting for the scheduled time for the premiere pass ride. We saw people (quite a few) sitting by the "seaside", probably chomping a good place for the fireworks/ parade. I duno how they do that, the weather was even more chilly after the sun sets. 

It may be quite hard to tell but the Q was still 120mins long when it was time for our premiere pass. What we walked past was lines of people queuing for the ride. 

As we walked past and straight to the ride, it felt so good. I reminded the kids to enjoy the walk bcos it cost SGD20 each to do that. Lol. The ride was really good. 

We decided to leave the park after that. We were too tired, it was too cold and the Qs were still too long. The thought to leave the park with a few thousands people after the fireworks/ parade is also too dreadful. 

The multiple MRT changes to head home wasn't exciting. I read that there are buses to go back to Shinjuku and we saw a bus terminal right "there" upon exiting the park. We told the risk, walked to the Terminal and found a bus heading to Shinjuku leaving in 15 mins. Strike gold! The fare was slightly higher at JPY1k per pax but we rather pay than the tiring MRT trip. 

We made it back to Shinjuku at 7ish. We had dinner at a restaurant near to our Airbnb. The food was cheap and good.

The kids also paid the 娃娃机 shop a final visit. Zaky found a machine that was easy to catch the 娃娃 and ended up with so many "sushi". Pls give them away to your friends and classmates when home. Thank you. 

Zaky doesn't really fancy these; he simply gets thrill from winning. 

We spent the rest of night doing laundry and packing. Tomorrow, we would be heading to the mountains! It was such a tiring day, I clocked 28,500 steps! 

Disneysea is such a happy place. The Japaneses took so much efforts to doll up, donning whatever Disneyland related clothes and accessories. We saw many Japanese carrying Duffy soft toys and some of them looked like they brought these soft toys out to the park simply to "complete the look". We also saw groups wearing exactly the same thing and they looked so cool. 

Disneysea - checked! Happy, happy, happy. 

Mummy Lim