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.