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I've been to all 12 Disney Parks in the world. Tokyo Disney Resort is the best run parks and the Japanese people are the best park guests I've ever seen. I can't wait to go back to Tokyo one day soon. Great video.

Two words Single Rider!! My wife and I had no problem separating for some of the rides which meNt saving hours and hours of queuing combining this with a solid fast pass strategy we barely lined up for any rides and got to experience every bit of the park!

some additional tips from me: 1. bring your own bottled water, and fill it inside the park, they have many drinking fountain inside the disneysea such as outside of the toilet (not sure about disneyland), sometimes it is literary next to a cart that sells drinks! 2. buy food or snack from the convenience store (yes I know the vid talked about that), but I can't stress it highly enough. it will be very crowded on lunch or dinner time, or you are stuck in a 2 hours line and hungry, or you can skip lunch or dinner altogether and eat your food that you prepared to maximize your time to ride attractions 3. Most of the time, the timer lies at you. when they said 60 minutes waiting time, it is actually close to 45 minutes. or 120 minutes will be only like 90 minutes wait. 4. prepare yourself for the nightshow, check the time and which part is the front part, because that is the intended way to see the show. come early for better place to view the show 5. go and check each store, some stores might be different one to another

The Shibuya Disney store was an easy place to buy park tickets in advance and had better (and different!) merch than the parks had.

We were at Disneysea last Thursday and it was CRAZY busy, to the point where it was kind of exhausting dealing with the crowds all day. I wouldn't recommend going Christmas week, but that was when we were in Tokyo! The most popular rides had 2+ hour waits and sold out of Fastpasses early so we only did one of the real "E ticket" rides (Indiana Jones, which was awesome). Still a fun day doing the smaller rides and just wandering around seeing the amazing theming. My top tips based on my experience: 1) Get there EARLY. The earliest shuttle bus from our hotel got there at like 10:30, we should have taken the train in the morning. 2) Get a Fastpass immediately for a must-see ride with a long line (use an online line estimator, which you can find in English) then go to another must-see ride with a shorter line (lines only get longer and Fastpasses can sell out before you have a chance to come back). 3) Bring snacks. You'll get hungry walking around and the lines can be long even for churros and popcorn.

Regarding the Priority Access passes; we were trapped on an attraction during a break down for about 10-15 mins before we were evacuated so they gave me and my husband one each. We finally used them a few months later during our last trip to TDS and the CM there did actually ask us where we got it from. So yes please be aware of this :)

almost 5 years later, this video is still helpful. thanks paolo

My top tip for Disney Sea (my favourite park) is: Skip the mad bull run in the morning for the Toy Story fast passes - unless you don't mind being crushed and really want to get on this ride. Instead, I would totally get the fast passes for Tower of Terror (which is usually quieter) and then make a beeline to Journey to the Centre of the Earth and hop in the standby line (still pretty short in the morning). I did this last time and it meant I did two of the major rides (ToT and JttCotE) before 11am, freeing up my time for the rest of the rides and shows. I was able to go back later in the day to try my luck with the standby line and managed to get a shorter wait time (about 2 hours)

As a Disney fan, having been to Disney World many times. Disney Sea is a dream vacation to me, so if I go I'll use this as a guide for sure!

I went to Disneysea last week and I used the disney app. I was able to enjoy the rides and shows without lining up too much because of the fast pass. One of the best days of my life!

Tokyo DisneySea is one of the most amazing places I've ever seen! Can't wait to be back there in less than one month! Great tips - the parks can get super busy which can be a bit of a bummer. But being prepared helps a lot! :)

additional advice: If you are really really in a tight budget, you can make your own obento. you can go out of the park (unlike in Universal Studios Japan) you can eat in the car if you have. that's what we do. unlike in USJ, you have no choice but to eat inside, no foods bought outside are allowed. we also bought our ticket in the konbini, 7/11 specifically. Avoid weekends and red calendar or holidays.

You are the most practical travel youtuber. Thank u

I went to disneysea last august while on holiday in Japan. Can't remember the day of the week, but we got the 5pm or later evening ticket and the park was so empty we went on basically everything in just one evening! (though unfortunately journey to the center of the earth was closed for maintennance)

Another tip: Use the Single Riders line to cut in front of everybody!

We were there the same day you were!! I’m so disappointed that I didn’t run into you. I was freezing!! Not used to the cold weather since I’m from Hawaii. I’m looking for myself in your video just in case you caught me. hehe...

I have a tip for tourist to get cheaper tickets and safe. You can try to get tickets from sites like traveloka, i bought it there and it saves me around 300yen, you can get the ticket at the other exit of maihama station(not the disney exit). It is safe because the company that bought those tickets purchase "group tickets" which is actually cheaper. Also if you want to safe money but still eat disney foods, go to restaurants that sell burgers! it is not that expensive actually especially if you did not get the set menu! In DisneySea, foods in cape cod cook-off are not expensive (min. 500 yen i think) ! also you can eat while watching shows there !!!!! so it is a good deal. I hope those helps too!

Your tips are so useful , thank you so much and hope you have a great wonderful day in tokyo

We can't wait until Disneyland is open again so we can try to get some cheap tickets! Thank you for sharing.

Going to Japan in May. Considering how much work goes into visiting Disney, I'll pass and just go see the country instead. However, still love your video and all of the work you put in to showing us Japan!

I love this channel so much. I'm half-Japanese and live in Tokyo but I still enjoy watching these videos. I love the positivity from you and wish more KZfaqrs smiled in their videos the way you do. Keep it up!

Know this video will be helpful before I watch it because I went to disneysea last time I visited and planning to visit disney next year I go.

Best time to ride is during night electric parade since everyone will likely watching the show.

I went back in late may 2017, during the weekday. when going to disneysea i suggest doing Toy Story Mania first then either go to Center of the earth or Pooh Hunny hunt, also when i went nemo searider just opened and wait times spiked to around 1.5- 2hours but during lunch time (12pm) the line wait dropped to around 50 mins also as a first time visitor when going to the toy story mania. do not go to the left hand side queue, when we got to the front we realized it was a fast pass queue. I ended up not using any fast passes. on average the popular rides were around a 40 - 50 min wait i didn't plan on going to Tokyo Disneyland, but decided to on another day. didn't buy tickets in advanced just bought tickets at the gate. Didn't actually check the operating times for the day and ended up coming to the park one hour early. I'm pretty sure the wait times are depending on the month. i have heard or read that the park can be extremely busy

Love it that you always have so much energy!! I like all the foods in all of your videos!!

Thank You Paolo, this video made our day at Disneyland Tokyo so much easier yesterday. The fast pass hack was the best. Favourite ride was Space mountain and now wish I went a fast pass on that ride first so might have had a chance to go again. We only had to wait in one line that was longer than 20-30mins, Big Thunder Mountain about an hour, because we didn't get there early enough before the fast pass sold out. The robotics and holograms at this park were amazing. Thank you again.

this hurt my brain as much as logic back in college. much appreciated

Great video Paolo! I have only ever been to the Disneyland park in Paris, but this looks a lot nicer and bigger. Really happy you listed the exclusive rides as well, as this was something I wondered myself. Hope you and Maiko had fun, look forward to the next video from you guys!

Yes very accurate. We got the app ... and then we were able to take advantage of the special they ran this year. Only a certain amount of people in the park and we got in! Was so much fun.

Actually a quick correction: Journey to the Center of the Earth is exclusive to Tokyo Disneysea, you probably were thinking of Journey into Imagination with Figment or possibly Test Track (As they both use the same ride system)

I just got back from Tokyo 3 weeks ago. This video would’ve been so helpful a month ago 😭

Omg this video couldn’t have come out at a better time! I’m going to Tokyo by the end of this month and I’ve been watching a lot of your videos as a guide to plan my trip. Seriously, without your help, I wouldn’t even know where to start. So, thank you Paolo, from the bottom of my heart. 💗 (PS: I’m hoping I’ll bump into you in person when I’m there. Finger crossed.)

Appears we were in Tokyo Disney around the same time. I wish I would have seen your video before my visit because your tips are spot on.

Holy shit that is complicated. So difficult just to have a good time at Disney.

Getting to the park at LEAST an hour before it opens is a must. Most that I know that regularly visit, say try to get there 2 hours before opening if you can. Regarding Fastpasses, at Tokyo Disneyland, the best strategy is as soon as you get in the park, get a Fastpass for Monsters Inc or Pooh's Hunny Hunt, then go wait in the standby line for the other. At DisneySea, if you've ridden Toy Story Mania at Disneyland in California or Walt Disney World, you can skip it because it's the exact same ride. If you do that, then my strategy would be to get a Fastpass for Tower of Terror (TDS version is totally different as it doesn't use the Twilight Zone theme), then get in the standby line for Journey to the Center of the Earth. Also, regarding when not to go... AVOID GOLDEN WEEK! And regarding tickets... if you're going multiple days, you can buy 1 day, 2 day or 4 day tickets. If you get the 4 day ones, you have to choose which park you want to visit the first day, then visit the other park the 2nd day. Park hopping is now allowed until days 3 and 4. Yeah I've been planning a trip to the Tokyo parks in my head for YEARS so I've done a lot of research. Also for great info on the parks in English, check out TDR Explorer. They have a website and a channel here on YT.

Finally! Disneyland and DisneySea

AGH I’ve been waiting for you to make a Disney video! Love it!!

good info, thanks! We'll be there in April 2020!

Hi Paolo. I really love your videos. Very informative and useful, especially when you make maps. Every time I need to search something about Japan especially relating to Tokyo, I would directly go to your channel. Hahaha. Thank you so much. I am a Filipino living in Tokyo :)

This is so helpful! Thank you! I'll go there in December and I can't wait!😁

I've been patiently waiting for this video from you!!! Domo!

Great video again 👌 you really put so much information in your videos so thank you 🙏 there are so helpful for us vista Japan 🇯🇵 from the uk 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Wow, seeing this I just realised how "empty" Disneyland Paris is.

Thanks Paolo! Your videos are seriously one of the best, if not the best, for foreign travelers to learn more about Japan before arriving there. Informative, entertaining and unpretentious (unlike many others! :D) and pitched at the right speed. Would you be doing a tips and tricks for Universal Studio? Thinking of visiting it next year. Cheers mate and continue rocking on with all the good work. Love the "toe"kyo emblem, btw.

I went there last October and it was freaking fun Disney Sea love Japan!!!!💖

Friendly tip for people buying tickets online from overseas, the site and Tokyo Disney do not process or accept Visa, I’d recommend using a MasterCard

Thanks for this great video! Just one tiny correction - Journey to the Center of The Earth is unique to Tokyo and does not exist in WDW.

Hey dude, Tokyo Disneyland looks amazing here.....cool! Love it, man! 😃👍

Hey Paolo Thanks so for your Amazing 😉 Tips I Will Definitely Follow your Tips When I Plan My Trip

1:40 Feb - March is not the busiest time because it's still very cold plus school holiday starts mid-March. Feb - March is only for uni student :) I like your videos! - Hachan from Japan

yo pao! you forgot the single rider hack. saves you a lot in the wait time. i think the indiana jones and the temple ride are both can be accessed easily with a single rider lane :)

Going to Japan with my boyfriend in two weeks time! It’s our first trip together. I’m binge watching your videos to plan for our trip!

Amazing tips. We should have watched this video before going there. We spent hours queuing to go on rides. Thanks for sharing :)!

Incredibly informative. Some handy tips there. :)

Where was this when we visited for the first time in August?! Hahaha, love your videos dude, keep them coming!

Finally Disney review by Paolo 🙏🏼

Now everybody going to disnelyland Wednesday and Thursday after watching this video 😀 and no people on week end 😊

Your videos are so descriptive!! Thank you!

Is there an updated Disney video?

Great vidio!! Nice information and complete!

Journey into the center of the earth is only found in Tokyo. But there are rides like test track and cars which use the same ride system as that.

Nice one Paolo! Great work as usual 👍

Love you videos so much dude. Keep up the amazing work

I got your merch for my boyfriend for Christmas. He is a fan. Thanks for the tips!!! Can't wait to visit in March. Have a good Christmas 🎄!!!!

Thanks your video is very detailed and informational.

When went, we did 3 days from Tuesday through Thursday, busy but not crazy.

Will visit toyko disneyland this November i appreciate this video. Very very helpful. :)

Thank you, Paolo. Makes me want to book a trip to TD.

One frustrating tip, only certain foreign credit cards are accepted on the Japanese Disney web site to buy tickets. At least this is what I found. Tried my Visa, MC, and Amex to no avail. You have to have enroll your card with an additional level of security. To make matters worse, not all cards are enrollable. I even called customer service and they confirmed that most foreign credit cards are no longer accepted. So ended up buying tickets at the Shibuya Disney Store. Might actually be a better alternative since you get the actual ticket rather than a voucher which you have to turn in for a ticket.

5:33 I think you mean Disney World... Lol. I'd love to hear more about the Italian family-style restaurant. These tickets sound kind of cheap, at least cheaper than Florida's prices.

Yayy for fast pass! But unfortunately I didnt get the toy story pass and its already long long queue since morning 😭. I was already tired from walking around disneyland the day before but still have fun at disney sea! And oooh how I love chocolate flavor popcorn ❤

Love your videos Paolo!! We’re coming to Japan in a couple of months and can’t wait! We’ll be well prepared thanks to your channel 😊

Wow you are amazing. Thank for the tips

I went in November 2017 and we were able to get on Indiana Jones and tower of terror multiple times. The wait time was super low. Also got to see the Christmas show and try all the Christmas food and drinks. Didn't even go to the restaurants lol I think we went on a Monday or Tuesday. We actually took the overnight bus from osaka directly there was super great!!!

Awsome awsome tour man

I think they have that French restaurant at Disneyland in Florida, the escargot was delicious!

I will be going there June next year and I’m so excited 😆 and nowadays i keep watching your videos to plan my trip to Japan :D

I wish I had known these when I went to Tokyo Disney Sea

Unfortunately nowdays the only way to truly enjoy Tokyo Disney Sea is to get a Vacation Package with Fast Passes. These packages aren't cheap but you are guaranteed admission to the popular attractions. For me at least this lowers the stress level and makes for a more relaxing visit. If you go that route, get the package that includes 6 Fast Passes per person. Without a Vacation Package, you will have to arrive early, strategize what attractions you want to ride, make a mad dash to get fast passes and time your waits at other attractions so you don't miss your Fast Pass windows. As with any Disney park around the world, the more you plan ahead, the better time you will have. As Paolo said, reservations are a must for sit down restaurants. Counter service is the other option, but lines at some can be surprisingly long. Standing in line is a Japanese thing - they're used to it.

It's Disney World in Florida - Disney Land is in California. And no, there is not a Journey to the Center of the Earth attraction in Disney World

You forget to mention klook. . You should hve ask klook to sponsor ur video . Nice video sgain

I do enjoy your blogs. New subscriber here. More powers

Hey Paolo! I've been watching your videos for a while now but I felt like I should leave a comment eventually :) I love your videos, not only are they super relaxing because of your excitement and friendly personality that really shines through, but also because they're really helpful. I've been to Tokyo a couple of times already but I didn't even know about half of the restaurants/izakaya/snack places or even the hacks for Tokyo Disney (Sea). I'll definitely print out your handy maps and visit all the recommended places to eat myself through the menu ;) Keep up the great videos! :)

You’re an awesome 😎 KZfaq channel.

A helpful video as always! ❤️

ya a tokyo amusement park video; thanks so much

Awesome videos as always!

Eyy! Right when I'm going there!

Love it! We just came back home to Hawaii from Tokyo and used all your videos to help us get around and for reference on what to do in each city we visited! So bummed though bc we saw on insta you were at Tokyo Disney like 2 days after we left and were in shibuya! Lol hope to run into you on our next trip! Thanks again for the helpful awesome vids!

Thanks Paolo, my prayers have been answered. Merry xmas

Where was this video when I needed it 😭

Hi Paolo.. please do a vlog for mt.fuji/hakone and USJ. 😊

Fastpass works really well here in Florida for Disney World

Subscribed!!! Super helpful video!!

Damn! I didn't realize Paolo uploaded this video. Could've saved me few weeks ago when I went DisneySea.

Huge help! Thanks, Paolo!

Awesome ! Was waiting for a video on this from you. Can’t wait to go next May :) thanks !

Thanks for the vid man!

Seems like this is way outdated too! Can u make an updated video pleaseee!! Love ur videos!! And Wolfie is the cutest kiddo everrrrr