Day five, Tokyo DisneySea!

Great Globe Fountain just inside the ticketing gates of DisneySea

Mikey in front of the entrance to The main park of the park.

View of the volcano through the main entrance arch.

We spent our last park day in Japan at DisneySea leisurely strolling around, occasionally hitting a ride but mostly just savoring our last bit of time here.

We did have two “todo’s” that we hadn’t yet done; The Venetian Gondolas and touring the SS Columbia.

We’d been watching the gondolas load and unload from our window all week long. We finally got to ride them!

Great view from the gondola. Notice the gondolier’s pole sneaking into the left side of the photo…

The SS Columbia offered some wonderful views, and some views beyond the park.

In many places throughout the park you can see the Sea of Japan. It looks as if it runs right up to the Seawall of the Park. It’s a great illusion. Here you can see the actual seawall.

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Clearly DisneySea is our favorite park of the two. It’s not a contest. But if it was,
Mikey and Art’s Golden Mickey Ear Awards for Outstanding Achievements

Best overall rides, DisneySea
Best overall food, Disneyland Tokyo
Best overall park design, DisneySea
Best full meal, Magellan’s, DisneySea
Best Snack (Savory category) Pork Rice Roll, Disneyland Tokyo
Best Snack (sweet category) Gelato at Mediterranean Harbor (Little Green Men Mochi, runner up. It’s an honor just to be nominated.) DisneySea
Best quick service lunch, Waffle Sandwich, Disneyland Tokyo
Best Dark Ride, Pooh’s Hunny Hunt Disneyland Tokyo
Best Water ride, (slow category) Sindbad’s Storybook Journey DisneySea
Best Water Ride (big drop category) Splash Mountain Disneyland Tokyo
Best Coaster, Journey to the Center of the Earth DisneySea. (Just had a 15 minute discussion with Mike on whether or not this was a coaster or a dark ride. It got tense. We take these awards very seriously.)
Best overall Land or Port of Call, Split decision, Mike: Arabian Coast, Art: Mysterious Island. Both DisneySea
Best interaction with people on a ride: the stranger sitting next to me on Tower of Terror grabbed my leg out of fright. This happened on two separate occasions. They were very apologetic in a charmingly Japanese way. DisneySea
Special Award for being incredibly pleasant, gracious and friendly, all of the guests at the parks. Both Parks.
Best Cast Member Interaction, Security Woman checking my backpack points at the little octopus hanging from my bag and says with a huge smile, “Hank!” Disneyland Tokyo
Best Visual Effect, disappearing idol, Tower of Terror DisneySea
Most Magical Moment, getting our own boat on the Sindbad ride
Biggest Rookie Moment, we kept forgetting to have dinner early and nearly all the food carts and restaurants shut down around 8pm.

And the Golden Mickey Ear Award for Best Overall Park goes to: DisneySea

Toilet Talk

I’ve hesitated to write about the toilets because, well, it’s toilets. Butt these really deserve a shoutout. Our hotel has a high tech (high tech for American Standards) toilet. These were also in the parks.

These were intimidating at first. Mike and I were squeezed into our little toilet area in our hotel room looking at the controls, trying to get it to work. No luck. We even used the Google Translate app to try and decipher the buttons.

We tried every single button. Even the Ass and Things button. We could not get the damned thing to work. Finally nature called and I tried the buttons while sitting down on the toilet. “Hey Mike! Hey Mike!! You have to be sitting down!!” Thank god you have to be seated for it to work. Otherwise Mike and I would have been squirted in the face while trying to figure it out.

Ok. Toilet talk over. Here’s some more pictures of our last day at DisneySea. And a video clips from Sindbad.