We’re planning to go to Disneyland and DisneySea this December. We want to go to both of them, but sadly we are only going to stay in Tokyo for 4 days, then move to Osaka the following days. We still want to explore some places in Tokyo aside from those two. I’m counting out day 1 because it is our arrival day, so I’m putting Disneyland on day 2, then DisneySea on day 3. (Gotemba is day 4 btw). Is it a good idea to just stay on DisneySea for half a day (afternoon)?
Thanks in advance! 😀
7 comments
If you’ve been to any other Disney parks, especially the US ones, you may want to swap your itinerary so you do a full day at DisneySea and a half-day at Disneyland.
We just got back a few days ago from our trip and we did 1.5 days at DisneySea and 1 day at Disneyland. We’ve gone to both Disney World and Disneyland before so we were familiar with most of the rides in Disneyland and prioritized the ones we don’t have in the states.
DisneySea seemed much bigger to me and felt totally different from the US parks. We weren’t even able to do ALL the rides in our 1.5 days because the line ups, especially on our full day which was a Friday, were very long.
Fitting in Disney into a 4 day window is a bit unreasonable.
Tokyo Disney or Disney Sea aren’t really great half day experiences. Especially in December when it’ll be busy (December is prime family/date time). You might be able to do 1 thing and that’s it and it’s a bit of a commute to Maihama from the rest of Tokyo so you’d lose a bit of time in transit alone.
Also visiting the theme parks the day after arriving is brutal and I wouldn’t recommend that. Theme parks are exhausting for the average person in their normal timezone. Add in jetlag and it’s going to be a rough day.
I’d probably cut both of the Disney days if you’re only in Tokyo for realistically 2 days (arrival day 1 and day 4 don’t really count).
Either don’t do the themeparks or do something else with the rest of your trip plans to allocate more time in Tokyo because you’re essentially doing nothing but visiting Tokyo for a couple of theme parks and one of them is a carbon copy of Disneyland/Magic Kingdom almost.
I’m all for people making time in their plans to visit the parks that doesn’t cut into actually exploring Tokyo/Japan, they are fun and people do like them. But in your case it’d be a waste imho. Half day or not.
We went to DisneySea in April and we had planned to go the full day and only ended up being there until about 3pm. We went on a Tuesday so it wasn’t very busy and we got to the park right when it opened. We went on all the rides we wanted and had lunch and snacks. If you go on a weekday and get there at opening time I think a half day is doable! Some of the rides may have longer lines if you go in the afternoon.
FYI, I found it impossible to purchase the half-day ticket online. You may have better luck or others may be able to suggest how to do it successfully.
Do they still do that afternoon ticket for a cheaper price? Did that when I went a decade ago
I just did this same thing, do priority pass for all the ones with long lines that you really want to ride (it is $$ though) stop to eat any yummy snacks when you see it!
I wouldn’t stress to much about it if you don’t get to see everything, have fun 😁
I think you’ll regret it. I’d prioritise sea over land if you have to.