Shortly after arriving in our room we left for Disneyland by Metro. We entered Shinagawa Station through the central gate and took an escalator down towards the JR Keihin-Tohoku line and there it went wrong again Danielle was blocking the walkers on the right side of the escalator. But the Japanese are polite and nobody complained. Within a couple of minutes we entered the Metro which was the fast connection towards Tokyo Station, at Tokyo Station we need to change metro to the JR Keiyo Line to get to the Disneyland Resort which meant a walk from about 700 meter below the ground.

45 minutes after leaving our hotel we were almost inside the park, that was about 15:00 o’clock local time. First we changed our printed tickets for regular tickets which is easier due to the size and 2 minutes later we walked through the gates in the direction of World Bazar, this is the same as Main Street USA but with a roof and side streets.

We walked towards Tomorrowland to check out the first waiting lines, we wanted to do as much rides as possible today because it would be the day with the lowest crowd. But after seeing the waiting lines for Monsters Inc. Ride and Go Seek 100 minutes, Space Mountain 150 minutes, Buzz Lightyear AstroBlasters 130 minutes and Star Tours 3D 80 minutes we knew we won’t do a lot of rides today.

From there we entered Toontown where we went on Roger Rabbit Cartoon Spin which had a wait-time from about 50 minutes, during the wait we tried a FaceTime call to Belgium which worked out pretty well for a distance rom about 9.300 kilometer in a crowded area. Normally we don’t wait longer as 30-40 minutes because we get irritated by the other people in line but here everyone is so easy ad polite you really don’t get frustrated.

So this made us decided to try out some longer waiting lines. At Pooh’s Hunny Hunt the line was 120 minutes so we decided to go back to to the Monsters Inc. ride and wait for 120 minutes. During this wait we saw a lot of interesting things like a lot of school girls and as Disney characters dressed up girls which must be ill tomorrow because they showed too much skin for the temperature and the strongly blowing wind today, crazy people. Also everyone looks as ut but that’s probably because we were the longest 2 people in line and the only 2 non-asians. Also we got a FaceTime call from our little nephew which made the wait look a bit shorter and in the end we waited ‘only’ 90 minutes.

The ride was worth the wait it was a lot of fun shining with your flashlights and these ‘activated’ the monsters. From there we walked to the other side of the park through the shops, the merchandise isn’t so nice as in the american parks so that would save us some money, 🙂 After a quick bite at a churros cart we found out that Pirates of the Caribbean had a wait of only 30 minutes which in the end only took us 30 minutes. After we left the ride it was 18:30 o’clock, only 60 minutes to the most beautiful evening parade of all we’ve seen, the Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade Dreamlights.

This also meant that the first spectators were already finding there spots, we decided we didn’t want to sit down and watch so we had some more time left. This because the first 4 rows stay seated during the whole parade, so we needed a spot in row 5. After something which looked like dinner at the Lucky Nugget Café we found our spot 30 minutes before the parade started. And we had a great spot as you can see on the pictures.

After the parade we went to back to the World Bazar where the crowds where low because the parade was still running through the park. Directly after the park ran empty since the fireworks where cancelled because of the wind. After wandering to the park to get rid of the crowds at Maihama Stations we visit the Ikspiari, a modern shopping mall near the metro station before we went back through our hotel.

At 21:10 we boarded the JR Musashino Line towards Tokyo, in Tokyo we walked back the 700 meter to the Yamanote Line (Outer Loop) which brought us back to Shinagawa Station. And we also mentioned that most stairs help you count kCals!

After getting some groceries at the 7eleven we went to our room where Danielle prepared tomorrow and I wrote the first of the 2 post about our vacation.

At midnight I was to tired to continue and we both went to bed to sleep till 6:00 hour before we woke up.