We took the monorail to Disney Sea around 7:15am.
This park is certainly one of the best theme parks in the world. When I describe this park from our 2017 trip I usually mention there’s not a place to stand in this park that doesn’t have a stunning view. Despite some scaffolding around a couple of parts right now, this is still true.
We started our day like the last time we were here, with the ride The Journey to the Center of the Earth.
A couple of things. First, Disney Sea is divided into “ports of call” rather than lands like a traditional Disney park, like Fantasy Land, Tomorrow Land, etc. In preparation for this trip I read the book Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne. The port of call Mysterious Island is Jules Verne inspired. The book was…dated. But it did end with the adventurers being jettisoned out of the center of the earth much like happens at the peak of this ride.
To get to the ride vehicle you take an elevator down deep into the earth. (The elevator has fans imbedded in to the walls so it seems like you’re going down fast.) you then enter the ride vehicle which is the same technology as Test Track at WDW Florida and the Cars ride at Anaheim Disneyland. It moves quickly.
Inside you see bizarre flora and fauna as you traverse through caves. You finally see some weird large eggs and discover a huge underground monster mother of the eggs which you quickly race away from, shooting out of the volcano. Great ride.
Still early, we went over to Discovery Port and rode Nemo & Friends Searider. Think a supersized Star Tours virtual ride with the cast of Nemo. “New technology” allows the Searider to be shrink down to the size of a tropical fish in which you then explore the ocean reef.
This is a really fun ride. The last time we were here there was a Hank the Octopus hidden along a bridge. I couldn’t find him so I asked a cast member about it. She used a translator to tell me, “he used to be there. He must have gone for a walk.” Priceless.
Disney Sea is located right on the water, Tokyo Bay, and from many parts of the park you can actually see the ocean. It looks like it’s right on the water. In fact, there’s a monorail and road between the park and the water but they use some clever tricks to make it seem closer. like this.
This sea wall seems to be leaking from the sea but it’s just an effect to make it seem like it’s high tide.
Aquatopia was our next ride.
This is a ridiculous ride where you are scooted around on the water in trackless vehicles. The water is maybe 2-3” deep but looks a bit deeper from a distance. Silly ride.
From Discovery Port we took the Electric Railway, a little two car elevated trolly to the American Port.
This port is a combo of Long Beach from the 1920’s and Cape Cod. It is beautiful in its own way. We came here to do Tower of Terror.
This version is just fantastic. The story goes an explorer/collector, Prof. Hightower, has gotten a hold of a cursed idol statue. The idol takes revenge on Hightower…via a haunted elevator…? It’s better in Japanese. The pre show is super cool. Keep your eye on the idol…
We took a boat ride to Mysterious Island Port and then walked over to one of my all time favorite rides, Sinbad’s Storybook Voyage. Super catchy but not annoying song, great animatronics including a cute baby tiger Shandu, and terrific overall design. Best canal ride of any Disney park, hands down. If you’ve got 12 minutes to burn I got a pretty good video from our last ride. Here it is.
And some photos from the ride.
We also rode 20000 Leagues, a weird “underwater” ride kind of like submarines at Disneyland California but the water is just in the window of the vehicle. The little subs look like this.
We were both a little nappy so we headed back to the Disneyland Hotel via the monorail and took a nice long nap.
When we came back to the park we decided to grab seats for the Every Dream Has a Wish (every dream has a wish…? Must make more sense in Japanese…) water show. It was pretty spectacular. I have a video of it I still have to upload. I’ll insert the link when I have it.
Fireworks, music, boats and projections. Despite the corny line it was a fun experience.
We decided to grab a quick bite at an Italian restaurant before heading over and riding Sinbad again. We slowly meandered out of the park snapping tons of photos. Full moon.
A really fun part of leaving the park was waving goodbye to the people in the windows of the Mira Costa Hotel. They used their phone lights to wave at us exiting pedestrians and we waved back at them. They’d match the moves we made with our phones. A few made a heart with two phones so we did the same. Super silly and fun. We’re gonna try to catch some video of it tomorrow night.
Another great theme park day in a great theme park.
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