DisneySea

Today we have a hopper pass to explore DisneySea and Disneyland. This is Michaels first time at a Disney park and my fourth time (I've done California, Florida, and Hong Kong Disney parks). The transport plan worked perfectly, arriving with five minutes to spare with the bus from Tokyo Skytree Station being comfy and getting us there by 8.50am. it took just under an hour to get into the park.

We did three rides in DisneySea today. We paid for a fast pass for the Tangled animatronic boat ride, which was the one ride I really wanted to do... And it's a good thing we did. By the time we arrived, it was at a 220 minute wait, and we literally were in and out within 15 minutes at most. It was quite an emotional ride for me, as the song from Tangled played whilst Michael and I signed our marriage documents on our wedding day. It was beautiful, but quite a short ride, so I'd be pretty bummed if I hate to wait over three hours for three minutes.

The next ride we did was the Sinbad's Storybook Voyage. This is one of the older animatronic rides, but I'd heard online that it was a super underrated, no que ride. Which was bang on. We were on the ride in 5 minutes, and it lasted almost 10 minutes and was fantastic! Very colourful, dynamic, and amazing animatronic puppetry.

The final ride we waited around 50 minutes for, and it was the 20,000 leagues under the sea ride. This was designed to feel like you were in submarines underwater. It sure felt like that... Making Michael and I crazy dizzy!!! It's also designed for short people, so we both had to really crouch to see anything. Still, the effect was super cool, and next time if we were in the seats facing the front instead of the sides, we probably wouldn't have gotten so dizzy.

The rest of our time was spent wandering around the park to take on the themed buildings and areas. We had to get Disney churros, which aren't as thick as they were when I was a kid (shrinkflation hits everything). We bought snacks with us so have just been snacking and grabbed a hot dog for lunch, before heading on the monorail over to DisneyLand for the afternoon.Read more