Our
4th day of vacation was spent in one of the happiest places on earth! Yes, you
guessed it right, in a Disney theme park. Tokyo is home not only to
one park, but two. There’s the universally loved Disneyland, and of course the
park that can only be found in Japan, the DisneySea. With only one day to spare
for a theme park, hands down, it’s DisneySea. Why? Because it’s the only
DisneySea theme park in the world and it might take us years before we visit
Japan again. Even if both of us haven’t been to any Disneyland park yet, we
know that we’ll get to visit it somewhere else in the world some other time.
So
what makes DisneySea special? As the name suggests, its overall theme is nautical. It’s not much about castles and faraway land,
but more of ports, harbors, and lagoons. And unlike Disneyland, the overall
intention for DisneySea is a park that caters to adult patrons, hence the
faster and scarier rides
Archie
had to go to work that day so we were left to ourselves for the day and we’ll
just meet him for dinner. We left the house early, but due to some detours, we got to DisneySea just before lunch. While en route to the park,
it started to pour down (as the forecast the day before told us) and it dampened my spirit more. We’re late in getting there and it’s raining. Sad. =(
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| Mickeys all over the train |
Still
wanting to make the most of our day, Adrin cajoled me out of my bad mood. His
efforts proved to be effective that’s why as soon as we got our tickets, we
started shooting here and there. It was quite a challenge to take a picture of
each other while at the same time shielding us and our cameras from the rain.
Not to mention the very cold weather that cripples our hands whenever we remove
our gloves to take a picture. Persistent as we were, here are our pictures at
the entrance of the park.
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| Me and my umbrella before DisneySea's Aquasphere |
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| The Disney characters that we saw right at the entrance :) |
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| Mt. Prometheus - DisneySea's central attraction |
As we walked farther into the park, we saw a garden of tulips and we can't help taking pictures. It's my first time to see this flower planted into the ground.
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| Mediterranean Port |
We decided to have lunch before the rest of the visitors that day invade the restaurants. We chose a Chinese place at the Mysterious Island area of the park.
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| Mysterious Island right behind Mt. Prometheus |
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| Our lunch |
Right after eating, we went on our tour and reserved for slots in one of the rides via "Fast Pass". While waiting for our turn, we roamed the nearby Mermaid Lagoon.
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| Outside Mermaid Lagoon |
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| Scandalized? Haha |
Inside the colorful structure is where we found the few rides for enjoyment of children. While taking pictures and checking out the kiddie rides, Adrin and I got separated from each other and for a very long 10mins. I cannot find him through the crowd. I was hugely relieved when I saw him from afar (also looking for me), and reached for his location with such urgency before he walked farther as he looked for me.
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| The Sleepy Whale |
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| Inside Mermaid Lagoon |
After taking our ride, we continued exploring the park and saw the Arabian area in tribute to Aladdin.
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| Adrin rubbing lamps at Agrabah |
After getting lost in Agrabah, we stopped to buy some Milk Tea Popcorn at the Port Discovery and reserved for another ride. Adrin also convinced me to buy the uber cute and furry Mickey earmuffs!
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| Unique flavor eh? |
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| Port Discovery |
While waiting for our next ride, we went to the Jungle Trails to have some photo ops with the Disney characters. Since we've already seen some of them earlier, we chose to have a picture with Minnie Mouse this time.
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| While waiting for our turn at the Jungle Trails with my earmuffs |
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| Our only photo together at DisneySea |
We had two more rides (one of which we had to line up for two hours), and after that last ride, the park is all set to close for the day. We rushed into the exits and proceeded to meet Archie for dinner at a Kaiten sushi place near his office. We're one hour late of our meeting time and when we saw Archie, he was relieved that we got to the right train station.
Kaiten is a kind of sushi place where conveyors are placed between tables, and customers can get the items which are running on the belt. Customers can also place orders of sushi they like should it not be available in the rounding lot. Since Archie frequents the place, he told us that our target plates is 30 based on his average of 10 plates for his visits. Not really big eaters, we only managed to down 23 plates (including the 2 plates used for our tetra pack juice). Sorry to let you down Archie! Haha.
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| Attack! |
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| Different types of sushi |
Yummy yummy food. And real cheap too. It was a good way to cap our night! =)
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