DisneySea

“Welcome to Tokyo DisneySea – Where adventure and imagination set sail”….so began our adventure this weekend to DisneySea.
As you enter the magical world, you are greeted with a spectacular fountain of the earth. The mammoth globe has sheets of water cascading through the seas surrounding the continents as the globe rotates on its watery base. It’s a real, breath taking entrance to the land of the world oceans. The water theme is continued throughout this Disney set on the coast of Japan.
It doesn’t have as many rides as I remember from DisneyLand but it makes up for it with spectacular settings. The central mountain for DisneySea is Mount Prometheus. They have done a spectacular job making it fit into the “land” it is a backdrop for. When you are in the Mediterranean Harbor, it is an old volcano with ropy lava cascading into the harbor. Shift a little, moving into the American Waterfront, and it becomes a tree covered mountain. Further on, it’s a part of the Lost River Delta and finally an active, spouting volcano as the backdrop for Mysterious Island. The buildings, of course, are very authentic looking, and filled with stores and restaurants for your pleasure (and lightening of the pocketbooks).
Kaz and Kazumi went with us for the day and we had a wonderful time. It was great knowing what was being said to us and being able to know what the signs said. The restaurants where centered around the theme area but definitely with a Japanese twist….Italian pasta dishes all have far more shellfish included and mysterious island had some mysterious dishes to the American palate.
Some of the rides were pretty traditional but there were a few surprises. The Aquatopia cars gave the appearance of being water based bumper cars without the bumping. It looked like you were being drug around the water in a set path, finally ending up back at the beginning. In actuality, you were seemingly randomly moving about the water, forward, backward, spinning, stopping, not following any one car at any given moment. Somehow, when you were brought back to the beginning, you ended up in the same car order as you had started. No idea how that worked.
You’ll have to start planning for a trip over to Japan to enjoy this adventure. It’s well worthwhile!!!!