Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Night Bus --> DISNEY

I went to Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo Disney Sea!  ^__^

For those who don't know, Tokyo Disney Sea is another amusement park affiliated with Disneyland, only it's geared towards older people.  It's over there where high thriller rides like Tower of Terror and The Indiana Jones ride are.  You can also tell they put a lot of effort into making the park look out of this world - they built a life-size volcano for it.



My friends and I went to Disney by the night bus (夜行バス).  It's a popular way to get around Japan, but it's also probably the least comfortable.  Basically what it is is a charter bus that you ride late at night to arrive at your destination early in the morning, being able to spend the whole day there.  The bus we took is one of the cheaper kinds - no bathroom attached.  Instead, during our 6hour+ trip we stopped 2 times at rest stops.  Inside the bus it was really tight - the seats were two-seater, but if you leaned your seats back all the way you would be touching the other person's knees.  We were all able to sleep on the bus (the only thing you really could do was sleep), so when we arrived at Disneyland at 6am, we were all up and ready to go.


Going into Disney was a cool experience in itself.  There was a mass of people waiting in line.  They first let people in who were staying at the Disney hotels (and so paid more money to be let in a half an hour early).  Even though the intercoms were telling people to not run but walk, no one listened (also the first time I saw Japanese people blatantly not following directions).

But I had a wonderful at Disneyland.  We managed to only have to wait around 30 minutes for any ride (which considering the crowd that was there was a miracle).  The rides were similar to Disneyworld or California's Disneyland, but some were definitely better.  The Winnie the Pooh especially was really cool - the carriages were electronically programmed so there wasn't any rail that they followed.  Instead, the carriage moved on its' own in whatever way it was programmed to go.  So cool.  ^_^



Disney Sea was even more amazing.  Because we don't have one in America, I was really looking forward to that place.  Going into the park was awesome, because our first view was the huge landscape Disney created:


The downside of having such a huge park of this size was we had to walk a lot.  Later in the day we learned that there were cabs, a ferry, etc. that you could take, but since it would require more waiting time . . . we just walked the whole day.  The lines were also significantly longer, and we could only get two fast pass tickets, but we all still had a lot of fun.


One of the most memorable memories I have about that park is going on the Tower of Terror.  I remember before when I was really little going on it, and I was absolutely terrified of the ride.  If you don't believe me, there's a picture of that time somewhere in the house.

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