22 Sept 2023

Got to Disneysea around 11... probably should have got moving earlier but hey

The little Disney train that took us from the main Park Resort entrance around to Disneysea had Mickey silhouette shaped windows and hand strap dangles.

Everything in Japan is cute but doubly so at Disney. It's a magical place. I have loved every visit to a Disneyland I've ever had. It's like dress-up-make-believe-land. I have never seen so many people wearing matching outfits, and almost everyone was wearing ears/hat/headband thing of some sort, usually themed/coordinated with outfits and groups. We saw a group of lolita girls who even had different height platform shoes so that they could all be the same head-height. People were in full cos-play costumes. It was awesome.

First ride was the Journey to the Centre of the Earth which was awesome fun. We all loved it. Black lit, fluro mushrooms and creatures and beautiful stuff, then 'oh no, the rails broke and we're going where we shouldn't!', down into dinosaur land, darkness etc till a bit jump out of the mountain at the end. Cool stuff. The long queue was broken up by cool little set pieces of steampunk type scientific cataloguing, drawing, researching bugs and mushrooms and stuff.

I went on Tower of Terror by myself. The queue was nearly an hr but went through beautifully set up scenery that told the story of Harr Hightower as an adventurer who died mysteriously in the hotel tower after bringing back a cursed totemy-thing from Africa. The 'hotel' gardens were full of cool statues and gargoyles and the 'hotel' foyer was all covered in dust - a decaying classic hotel entrance with the desk and pigeon-holed mail etc.

We had pumpkin-something flavoured churros cause there was a lot of halloween themed stuff going on.

Violet and I did Raging Mountain together - 360 spinning roller coaster themed like aztec ruin dig.

We all did the Aladdin magic carpet ride which was super cute, and our final ride was the Indiana Jones one which was possibly the best. Crystal skull (not anyone's fav) was fun, great atmosphere, animatronic Indy's shouting at us in Japanese while we 'drove' around in a big jeep thing trying to avoid traps (blowdarts, drops, flames, giant round boulders).

It poured with rain and we got soaked but it was still magical. It looked absolutely stunning as we were leaving, in the dark, with it all lit up with colourful lights. 

We went to 'Good Munchies' burger place which turned out to be amazing. Cute, nice atmosphere, great burgers, good service. 

19,464 steps

13.08 klms