We both woke up before the alarm went off this morning and that on vacation! We stayed in bed a bit before we got out to shower and get dressed. At 8:30 we left the hotel and we found out that the sun was shining bright this morning! We walked to the Yamanote line platform at Shinagawa Station, transferred at Tokyo Station and at 9:05 we arrived at the Tokyo Disneyland Resort for the last day of Disney fun during this vacation.

Since the weather was really nice we started with some pictures and went to the last ride we really had on our wish list: Journey to the Center of the Earth! The waiting line was 160 minutes but there were still fast passes available for 15:10-16:10 which made the choice obvious.

With the FastPasses in the pocket we wanted to try our luck in the lottery. You must be wondering now why we would use a lottery in a theme park during your vacation. That’s quite simple in Tokyo DisneySEA there is one bigger show/musical called Big Band Beat which is very popular. To be fair to the guest and to avoid hours long waiting lines to get a seat they’ve developed a lottery system to select who is allowed to join and who is not and it even pre-selects your seat. We tried or luck and after a couple of touches to select the show we wanted to participate (the 17:30 one) and scanning our tickets we heard the music and the screen showed: CONGRATULATIONS!!! And a moment later our tickets came out, all Cast Members told us that we were really lucky to have seats for a show!

After winning the lottery we went to Cape Cod Cook-off, a restaurant serving burgers and Duffy themed food. During your dinner you’ll seat in a theater where Duffy & Friends are performing on stage. The wait was about an hour according to the cast member at the start of the line. While waiting we saw something interesting, TDR has seats for Duffy installed throughout the park so you can make a picture from Duffy in a lovely setting, I asked a group of girls or I could take a picture with their Duffy.

And as the cast member informed after about 60 minutes it was our turn to order food, we both ordered a hamburger and a Happy Duffy dessert and afterwards we were brought to our seats in the theater. While we were eating we’ve seen 3 different mini-shows with Duffy, Shellie May, Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Daisy. After lunch we continued with what we started the day with, we made a lot of pictures.

At about 14:00 we proceed to the harbor to find a good spot to see the Legend of Mythica, everything went well till 14:30 when the announcement came that the show was cancelled due to bad weather. All the Japanese guest response with a short: “Jeeeeh” and then they walked their separate ways to the exit, the stores, restaurants or back in to the park without being visibly angry or upset. That’s something I really like about the Japanese so much respect for each other.

After this I felt like I wanted to try popcorn, popcorn in Tokyo Disneyland Resort is something special, it’s distributed all over both parks and in a lot off different flavors. I don’t like sweet popcorn or probably I don’t like popcorn in general but these flavors made me curious so I tried the Black Pepper Popcorn! And I’ve to admit it was delicious. I soon finished my box and it was time for Journey to the Center of the Earth, I only remembered a little bit from 2010 but it was better as I remembered!



Since I got my own popcorn Danielle wanted here own taste too and went for the season special Soda Popcorn. These tasted a bit after a watermelon and the popcorn had a slightly green color. And while Danielle was enjoying her popcorn I took some pictures and we had a FaceTime call with little Jop (our nephew).

We wandered through the park until it was our turn to enjoy the Big Band Beat in the Broadway Music Theatre. The show was really amazing, Mickey really blew us way with his drumming and dancing skills! Unfortunately it wasn’t allowed to take pictures. This was the last thing we did in Tokyo DisneySEA and we took the Resort Liner to Tokyo Disneyland because we both wanted to see a bit more from this park too.

We entered the park and soon I fond another popcorn cart supplying Soy Sauce Butter Popcorn, this as also delicious. While I ordered and looked for a nice spot to watch the Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade Dreamlight Danielle watched the Oh Minnie, Oh Minnie! show. And at 19:30 sharp the parade started with even more floats as on monday. We both love this lengthy parade.

We skipped the fireworks because I wanted to make some pictures through the park until a cast member came to me and told that a Gorillapod isn’t allowed to be used inside the parks. A bit strange in my opinion although I can understand that they don’t allow full tripods. While we left the park Danielle found Honey Popcorn and we got some snacks for on our way back to the hotel in Disney style.

At 21:55 we got back in our hotel to pack our trolleys for our Shinkansen trips the next 2 days. We don’t want to travel through Japan with 2 weeks of clothing in 4 suitcases.

The original plan was to visit Tokyo Disneyland again but due to the weather we’ve changed this. We’ve decided to stay in bed a bit longer and explore Tokyo by Metro today. At 9:30 we got in the first metro thinking that it won’t be really crowded anymore but we were wrong it was as crowded as the last 2 days.

The first metro brought us to Ginza, an upscale area in Tokyo. We wandered a bit through the area but nothing was opened yet and while the rain came pouring down we decided to go to a Japanese Donuts place called Mr. Donut near Shimbashi. We took the metro to get there to make sure we didn’t have to walk through the rain too much.

After having  a couple donuts for breakfast we decided to go to the biggest Tommy Hilfiger Store of Asia in Meiji-Jingumae.  We took the Tokyo Metro line Ginza towards Omotesandō and then changed to the Chiyoda line towards Meiji-Jingumae. For everything there are signs, you always know where to walk when you go up or down the stairs as you can see on the pictures below, it’s quite easy but you have to look at it because sometimes the direction are the other way around. On some stations the platforms are secured by automatic gates probably for safety reasons if platforms get to busy to ensure none is pushed from the platform.

What an experience to shop in Japanese store, all clothing is resized so I’m back to XL again, for woman they only carry S-M-L and the sizes do not compare to the size in Europe/US at all. The employees spoke perfect english and were really helpful, no questions kept unanswered and if we asked something which they could not answer they went to the manager to check. And they never used the word no! And  we were lucky because we saved a bit because Tommy Hilfiger is a registered Tax Free shop.

After this shopping adventure we both were a bit hungry and we looked in foursquare for a sushi place, we found a lot but one looked really interesting, it wasn’t an old-fashioned conveyor belt sushi, it was the modern version a so-called bullet train sushi restaurant. We needed to order the food on a touchscreen and within a couple of minutes the ordered food stopped in front of you. Beside the fact that it was a really funny experience it was also inexpensive, 2 pieces of Nigiri costed 105 Yen (0,75€).

After the lunch we walked through the area before we headed to Akihabara by metro, we all found out that there are not so crowded metro’s in Tokyo.

Akihabara is an area which is also called Electric Town and is famous for the electronics & anime/manga shops. In Akihabara we looked around in the Yodobashi Camera Store which is a huge Electronics store. And afterwards we explored the area.

Due to the heavy rain we decided to go back to the hotel and rested a bit before we went out for dinner. We looked at some places I’ve been before during business trips and Danielle selected the Miyako a small japanese restaurant at the Takanawa exit (north). Danielle went for a noodle with pork and seafood, I went for a hot plate with baked eggs, a piece of pork (japanese style schnitzel) with rice and miso soup.

After dinner we walked back to our hotel to get some sleep!