Attempting TOKYO DISNEY in 1 Day. HELP ME 😅 

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I really appreciate that you are presenting this from the viewpoint of a "big Disney fan" but not a hardcore apologist who can't acknowledge the reality of how things go at crowded theme parks. Incidentally, not sure if you've ever been to Shanghai Disney, but their Pirates of the Caribbean ride is NEXT-next-level. There is *actual* magic occurring on that ride. That's the only way I can describe it.

The worst time to go is between friday-monday or on japanese holidays. The wait times are way shorter if you go between tuesday-thursday.

Absolutely love your videos and how much love, honesty, and care you put into them. I’m always so excited when a new video comes out! You’re a wonderful storyteller. Thankyou for the once again very helpful video!

We were there last summer, and did 20 rides in one day, plus all the parades, plus sitting down for two meals with basically zero wait time; lucky us and yes we used the DPA, and yes we also spent MONTHS planning about that in advance lol

I love Tokyo Disneyland, but you are absolutely right about the wait times. Really kills the vibe.

The rides are good but they are not worth those wait times. Maybe if you are a big fan!

Seeing your video does not make me miss Tokyo Disney one bit. I am half Japanese and lived in Tokyo for a few years with my Japanese wife and our two kids and we visited Tokyo Disney a few times. One thing I hated about Tokyo is that waiting in a long queue wherever you go is inevitable but the queues at Disney were insane. On our last visit there it was cold and raining and there were so many people in the park that the queues were too long and we ended up going on only two rides. The kids were upset and I was annoyed about the time and money that we spent to go there. We love the Disney parks since we also lived in Florida and were annual pass holders to Disney World but that last Tokyo Disney trip scarred us. We skipped Tokyo Disney our last visit back to Japan so we can enjoy time with our families instead of getting frustrated waiting in crazy long queues. Hats off to you for going through that for 12 hours.

My fave video yet…opening / closing train shots and the sarcasm on point very entertaining. Amazing how much this applies to my recent Disneyworld visit!

Your humour and editing style just makes these videos so enjoyable! Amazing as always :)

Sometimes you are pleased to see what you could be missing and then say not pleased but delighted. Great video as usual

I do the same thing on my final night, as I'm walking out, I turn around and give the castle a smile and quick bow of my head😢

You are a great storyteller! Its fun to watch your videos!

I see why this is your favorite storytelling you’ve done!😂

Yes! I’m also a fan of your storytelling 🎉 I’ll rewatch this before my next visit.. TDR and TDL are our favorites 🎢

EXCELLENT video! Thoroughly enjoyed it! I was at Tokyo Disney last year and brought back A LOT of memories! Thanks for this video!

Thank you for yet another fantastic video!

Love your humour and narration. This pretty much is my kind of nightmare. Stressed out looking at the queues on screen - got to respect your dedication. At least the lines would be polite and orderly in Japan

What a perfect video, love the way you edit and comment. And yes Tokyo Disneyland is too crowded to truly enjoy most of the rides. But the i loved strolling around feeling very nostalgic. I visited the magic kingdom with my parents when i was 12 years old in 1982, and Tokyo made me relive that trip big time.

I love these videos. Your voice overs are just gold!!! Thanks for all you put into these videos! I share them often!

Omg this video was beyond helpful! Thank you so much! I am going to be at Tokyo Disneyland for one day in 2 weeks, and your experience completely answered a bunch of questions for me that you can't really get from just reading a blog. I have been hearing that the food lines were crazy, but looks like I'm going to want to mobile order something as soon as possible haha. Fingers crossed the crowds are a little lighter for me, but in everything I've seen lately the parks just have been packed.

What a lovely and well produced video. Thanks for sharing. I'll be there in October, so your insights were helpful.

Loved your video! Thanks for sharing, it is helping us to lower the expectations about Disney and we are motivated to planning more the next visit to Tokyo Disney. I'm hoping for your video about USJ. 😊

I can't imagine how crowded Fantasy Springs will be, people are insane going to TDR just to visit it when it first opens. I think they'll be in for a rude awakening since TDR has very inconsistent English support. I can understand Japanese so I don't have language issues, but I see many times how long it takes some people to check in due to communication issues. Or even try to ask questions at stores and can't communicate with people. Stuff like that will cause even larger lines as people are unprepared.

This is the video i've been looking for, great narrative and gives a much clearer picture with all those timestamps. Thank you! It's missing a shop visit, to buy merch. What time would you suggest to visit the shops?

first time viewer here! 🙋‍♀️ LOVED ur storytelling!! i was engaged throughout the whole video and found ur commentary funny, amusing and touching. keep up the good work :)

This video was really well edited!!! Loved it and sad that the park was so busy when you went D:

Nice job. Always appreciate your content. Heading to Porto and Madeira soon thanks to you.

Hilarious video. We will make it there one day. Would love to see a Universal video 🙈

My husband and me were there in 2017 and I think it’s the Disneyland with the most visitors, there were way too many people inside. Most rides had waiting times around 2-3 hours, the longest was Toy Story with over 5 hours! We had one day for Disneyland and one for Disney sea and we didn’t expect to ride and do everything in just one day, but we also didn’t expect to be able to do so little things. I think we only were able to ride 5 rides and watch the parade in Disneyland and only 6 rides in Disney sea … and these were almost only smaller rides like jungle cruise and pirates of the Caribbean… My husband was so disappointed, that he booked for Disneyland Paris after our Japan vacation and now we are almost every year in Disneyland Paris 😂

These rides look incredible! And love your humour 😂

Very enjoyable video - thanks for your effort! Just took my family to Tokyo Disney last week and fortunately, it was somewhat quieter than on the day you went. However, it was still rather stressful being on the app all the time trying to optimise my family members experience and not wanting to let anyone down 😂😅

I was at Tokyo Disneyland a week before you! 🤩 Thurs 3/8. My amount of planning is… (1) what rides are closed at which park (land/sea) then decide which park to go to. (2) We accept that Disney will be busy, so never on Fri-Sat, or a national Holiday! (3) take the train and just go about our day! (4) since we’re from Japan, we now skip the parades and fireworks to wait in line for rides that are usually long

Your videos are always so helpful!! Please do a video on USJ!!!

Great video. Would love to see a video from Universal Japan, especially around wait times etc for Nintendo world! Thanks

It was explained theoretically, and it was interesting. Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea need experience to go around really efficiently. I've entered the park about 250 times, but I get nervous every time, and at the same time I'm excited☺️

Thanks for sharing. Would love to see your Universal studio video

Imagine being a Disney superfan/castmember and knowing all the tips and tricks. And being able to hack the system in U.S.A. Then going to Tokyo and realizing everyone here is just like you.😮 Welcome to Japan 🇯🇵

Don’t go on a weekend or holiday, be at the gates 90-120 min before opening time, and for goodness sake, RUN at rope drop! Run until you can’t breathe, and then keep RUNNING! Or just pay for a timed entry later, especially if you do not have Happy entry 15 minutes before general admission. Do not miss the second park, Disney Sea, but you need a minimum of 1 day per park. Although the beauty and the beast ride is great, I don’t think it’s the best thing in the parks. They have other excellent rides, but some of the shows and parades are amazing.

Thank you for a great video! Definitely would love to see your take on USJ.

Hope you had fun! Disneysea is pretty fun!

Yes!! I want to see a USJ video!!

You are amazing, such a great video and so well told 😅😂 speaking from experience, we just cracked up laughing the whole way through this seeing the sea of Japanese heads!

Thanks for the video! I also appreciated the photo of you at the World of Motion post show “Transcenter” in front of the 1989 Oldsmobile Aerotech II. (I’m an Epcot nerd)

It’s really important which month you go. If you go during school holiday in Japan, wait times are too long so I don’t even think about going. On the other hand, if you go during school times, especially Mid April or Mid January, crowd is much less due to many school related events, exams, start of new academic year etc

Thanks for great video! I am gladly subscribed to your channel. 😁😁😁

Thank you for the amazing video! It was incredibly entertaining and informative. I really appreciate the effort you put into creating content that is both enjoyable and educational. If possible, I’d love to see a video about Universal Studios as well. Keep up the great work! 😊👍

I attended Disney/Epcot in Orlando in November 1996 and there was very minimal waiting, never more than a few minutes for anything and I never paid to lessen the waiting time‼️. However, after having seen this video. I never want to go to any of them again. I do not have the patience to wait in line, plan everything out as you did via an app for which you must pay to skip the lines‼️ I’m glad you were able to do this, but that’s not for me - Thanks for the heads up 🙏😱

Man, I have to say that this video really impressed me! I hardly ever push the subscribe button even on channels I regularly watch for years, but apart from being insightful, your editing style and comical touches were so brilliant that I laughed out loud many times and I just had to immediately sub. (Also bonus points for that subtle "TDL was a whole other beast. But that's normally the beauty..." line haha, I see what you did there.) Re: the experience itself, it's sad that while TDR still remains the supreme of all Disney parks, even there it is increasingly harder to experience one gate fully in one day. Watching these kinds of videos reminds me of my MASSIVE luck that I probably did 3-3 days worth of attractions in just 1-1 days in Land & Sea back in Jan 19 (so still the paper FastPass era). It involved some immense planning but in DisneySea we did both Toy Story Mania and Tower of Terror twice(!), Journey, 20,000 leagues, Sindbad, Nemo, Aquatopia, Raging Spirits, Big Band Beat 1st row, Fortress, Jumping Jellyfish, Flying Carpets and ate at Magellans + Hemingways at night (Indy was closed) and we actually also explored the park without rushing to attractions. I think our biggest wait was 15mins lmao. As for Disneyland, our massive-massive luck included finding three tickets on the floor coming out of Monsters Inc, so with extra FastPasses we've done both Hunny Hunt and Monsters 3 times, 2 Splash, 2 Big Thunder Mountain, 2 Space Mountain, Alice, Mark Twain Steamboat, Pirates, Philharmagic, Celebrate Fireworks show, Jungle Cruise, It's a Small World, Snow White, Haunted Mansion, Western River Railroad, that silly Stitch show and Buzz Lightyear ride (Star Tours was closed). Insane to think about and as much as I want to go back I'm afraid that we'd have to book a week there to actually top this and re-experience all of the things I have listed above, lol. But then again, I was extremely lucky - in USJ we've done Harry Potter 5 times and I got selected for Olivanders, too. Should've bought a lottery ticket aswell. 😂

yes to the universal studios video!

Yes, we would be very interested in a USJ video as we are planning to visit for the first time this May! And especially for Super Nintendo World. Here's hoping the new Donkey Kong area (and mine cart ride!) will be open in time for our visit.

I watched video with my young daughter. While She enjoyed all Disney things in video, I enjoyed the funny & entertaining voice over (& also all Disney related stuff 🤫). In your videos there everything for everyone.

Fyi: the crowd calendar isn't really accurate because it doesn't account for possible biases such as seasonal events and Space Mountain closing. These crowds aren't a 3; they're more of a 6 or 7. Big Thunder Mountain and Hunny Hunt being closed also really inflated the wait times because both have high capacity and are really popular. Another reason why the park was really crowded was because it's spring break and Tokyo Disney is mainly targetted towards young adults (high school/college age) and not young children. To really avoid crowds, it's best to check the Japanese school schedules for holidays and avoid weekends at all costs. We also made the mistake of going to USJ during a weekend and were unable to enter nintendoland. Lastly, just don't go to the park if Hunny Hunt is closed. TDL is also just not as good as DisneySea, so if you have one day, just go there instead.

Very nice video: indeed the parks have been getting worse with time, especially the wait times for food. Hopefully they find a way to improve the experience instead of focusing only on the prize$.

I've been to Disneyland 6 times between the late 90s and the early 2010s. I think that it was the best experiences possible and I (unfortunately) never want to go back

Your sentiments exactly matched mine when I went to Disneysea lol

Fantastic video, and very brave idea 😅

So glad I found your channel. We’re Disney Park fans and avid travelers. Can’t wait to see more videos from Asia.

Excellent video, very fun and easy to watch

Man what a MESS. I’m so glad you posted this because I was torn if I should go there or not. Now I know that I will absolutely avoid it at all costs. And a 3/8???? Ooof. Too $$$ and too many people. Loved the storytelling.

Another great video. Would love to see Universal

I know you suffered, but this was one of the funniest videos.😂😂.

This is my favorite park day travel log ever

I Love Sun set

The transformation of Beast still leaves me in awe and wonder. HOW DID THEY DO THAT?

Pls i want that universal video as well

You make that 80 min queue for beauty and the beast I saw so short 😂 I went to splash mountain instead with a much shorter queue and did the Disney premier for beauty and beast later

Thank you … a lesson learned!

Can you tell me again what I nees to dowland and where tocpay to skip all the waiting time?

Great video, easily the second best video I’ve ever watched about queuing at Disney (iykyk). Maybe not your intention but has absolutely convinced me not to go to Disney when I’m in Japan next year. Disney has such a problem now - I was at Disneyland Paris last year and found it so busy, but it was nowhere near this. They are simply allowing too many people into the park when it is like this. Considering how expensive Disney is, I would have been gutted to have this experience.

Love to see your usj video

Would love to see a Universal Studios vlog.

Please make the Universal Osaka video! This was the most entertaining Tokyo Disney I’ve seen!

I got the chance to go to Disney World once when my friend got off work and she had guest passes and in two hours she took me on 5 different but exciting rides at the Hollywood studios park, you definitely need somebody familiar or have a really good game plan to get the best out of Disney

Great video and narrating, I was really immersed. Just wanted to ask - as someone who has never been. Do you pay for entry to the park, and then also pay for the fast pass to enter attractions?

nice video😃

also when you enter the park you have to book, the free parade seating (so unlikely to get it). 40 th aniversary lineskip, priority line skip,entry request and lunch in that order also you do know you can go to rides after the fireworks they close at 10

Those lines look like a bit of a nightmare for me. I can only imagine this in Japan’s extreme humidity or rainy season…

Big Fan ❤

Thanks for sharing this. I visited Japan parks and have always wondered, how come people are willing to wait for so long, in any case, i guess the paid fastpass does it job well. If everyone thought of gettjng it, then it wont work. But the ratio to people willing to wait in line for hours and hours on end is crazy

I would love to see a video on Universal Studios!

What day did you go? I'm going on a Thursday in September on September 19, this seems insane

Is this a weekday or weekend? Or it is the same level of crowd whether it is weekday or weekend?

Wonderful video! I am happy to be part of a growing 'Suitcase Monkey Youth' movement 😂. If it takes years, if not decades, of Disney Park experience/fandom to know how to make the most of this trip then I can only imagine what a dreadful experience this ends up being when going in cold for the first time - and then how exponentially worse it must be if it were a family with young children going for the first time. 😓 For this Suitcase Monkey destination I am extremely happy to watch this video, but will this time take a hard pass on participating myself.

I really love visiting Disney parks, love the immersion, the theming and “Disney bubble” but the heavy app use just pulls you out of all that. Having to micro manage your whole trip… it’s putting me off going and I’m a fan. Everyone always says how much better TDR is but it looks like it’s the same experience there. Really loved Efteling as it was so much more relaxed and so pretty and tidy.

Well narrated video from the Magical Kingdom. We always have wonderful time there. Well worth the wait. (Tokyo) (Shanghai ) (Paris) (Anaheim) (Orlando). Judy, Looked what you missed. Sending you Best Wishes😀 🐭 to you and Judy from Jim and Harriet

Great video

This was very entertaining! The main point is that you did enjoy your day. I was curious however about how much the day cost? Regardless I love Disney also but would pass on this one if I ever visited Japan. I still see Orlando as the main one. Will I visit the one in California or Paris hmmm not sure about that either. What we realize now is that even one park day requires a recovery day (slow day) so it does eat up a lot of time when you want to see other things in a newer location.

Video on USJ please

can yu sitll go to disney sea and tokyo disney with the same ticket? or u need to buy 2?

Universal video please!!

Sorry I missed it, but did you go on a weekend or during the week?

Was this a weekend ? Went on a Saturday everything was 3 hours. Just got on pirates then left.

what a lovely video! I'm going to Tokyo Disneysea in a couple weeks, and I'm wondering if it's even worth it to get in line so early ...? Would you say your wife experienced a much worse line when she woke up to get into the park, or was it about the same? If it's not worth it to get there early I'd much rather get another hour of sleep!!

I went to Disneyland in California the summer of 2018. Tomorrowland was stuffed shoulder to shoulder to the point that people couldn’t even walk anymore. Cast members (aka crowd control) arrived with lighted wands waving the crowds towards the exits and screaming “keep moving” over and over again. 20 minutes later we were free’d from my claustrophobic nightmare and I decided I would never go back. Magic lost.

In my Japan trip I think I liked USJ better than Disney Sea. The rides were more exhilarating and shorter wait times. The waits are so long for the kid rides at Disney

If you only had time for Tokyo sea or Disney which would you recommend? Also go Ally Mcbeal 😊

Drop by HK Disneyland, our wait times are significantly shorter 😆

Have you done a Disney SEA video?

🐵 I'd love to see a Universal studios video!