Japan 2023, Day 7 Tokyo Disneyland

I am overwhelmed where to start. I have over 180 photos and videos and we packed so much into today. This was one of the best Disney Park days I’ve ever had.

We check out of the Celebration Hotel and took the bus to the Disneyland Hotel. We dropped off our luggage and headed to wait at the gate to get early entrance into Disneyland.

Waiting for early entrance. A perk of staying at the Disneyland Hotel.

The above picture is of the Beast’s Castle.

It’s the entrance to the latest ride to open at Tokyo Disneyland, Beauty and the Beast. This is where we started.

The queue is beautifully designed and you see the teapot and the candelabra arguing with the Beast (his shadow) in Japanese. I think they’re telling him to get his shit together. (I’m not super familiar with this movie. Not my fav.)

Exterior queue for Beauty and the Beast ride

As the actual ride starts you enter the story at the feast (Be Our Guest song) then the a Beast and Belle are getting to know each other. The animatronics are top notch and the ride vehicles are trackless vehicles designed to look like big dishes.

At the end you dance with Belle and the now transformed Beast in a large ballroom. I enjoyed the ride. I’m not a big fan of this particular Disney movie but Mike is. I think I’d have enjoyed it more if I was a super fan like him. Still, it was fun so we did it again.

The sun was blazing so we stopped by a little shop and I got some sun protection beyond our sunblock. I got a Mickey towel cape thingy and Mike got a parasol.

We then headed over to ride Winnie the Pooh’s Hunny Hunt. This was a ride we were so excited to experience our last trip here. It was just as fun this time and we made some friends while standing in line. We also got stickers!

I just love this ride. Trackless technology again and wonderful design and animatronics.

Haunted Mansion had a short wait so that was our next stop.

Splash Mountain was our next ride. It was really special to ride this one since they’ve shut down all of the USA versions to make them into a Princess and the Frog ride. A couple of days ago they shut down the Anaheim Splash Mountain.

By this point it was time for lunch. We had a weird but delicious beef sandwich where the “bread” were two Mickey shaped rice patties. It was great! We also had a Kirin Lemon soda which was also delicious and our favorite! The crème brûlée churro we had was mediocre at best.

To allow our stomachs to settle after lunch we took in a couple of shows. The Country Bear Jamboree and The Tiki Room with Stitch from Lilo and Stitch.

These guys are also hidden in the Winnie the Pooh ride in Anaheim

A cast member came up to us in the tiki room and asked if we spoke English and provided us with translators for the show.

Star Tours had a 5 minute wait so we rode that. Always fun.

We headed over to the Jungle Cruise next, mainly so I could grab some pictures of hippos to post on Steve Haas’s Facebook Page.

Mike wanted to do the Baymax ride (just like the Mater ride in Cars Land at Disneyland Anaheim) so we hopped in the one hour line. We’ve seen videos of people dancing with specific dance moves to the five or so songs that rotate through. We danced on the ride.

I started to fade 15 minutes into waiting for Baymax (I always call it Betamax) so thankfully we headed back to the hotel to get our room keys and rest a bit. Our luggage was waiting for us in the room which was a nice touch.

After a well deserved nap we headed back into Disneyland and rode Thunder Mountain.

We were ready for dinner by this point so we went to Belle’s Village just outside the Beast’s castle and ate at Gaston’s Tavern. No photos (well one of the aftermath as a joke I took for Mike) but Mike had croissant with a sausage inside with a chicken bone handle, for some reason and I had a French toast sandwich. We split a Carmel apple churro.