Tokyo, Japan Trip July 29-Aug 2, 201. Part 1: Magic Kingdom!

Joseph and I had a lovely time in Tokyo.  We were able to go with our good friends, Tiffany and Brian.

The four of us laughed, sang and talked our way through Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo itself.  It was our first vacation with other people not family and we had a really good time. 

We spent 3 full days in Japan.  The first two days at Disneyland and the last full day in the city of Tokyo.  The other two days were spent shopping in the airport duty free shops and wandering around the two airports waiting for our flights.

Day 1

After Starbucks and something slight to eat, Joseph and Brian got our tickets into the parks.   

Magic Kingdom!!  We went on so many rides and Joseph was saying that the rides were not updated like in Florida.  Japan basically has kept the rides as true as possible.  Each of us got to choose one ride that was non-negotiable--per park.  Even if the line was 140 minutes...The rest of the rides were voted upon or some went on one ride and others went on another.  No biggie.

there were 4 of these along the Space Mountain que. Japanese people are scardy cats?

Toon Town!

Ding, Ding, Ding Went the Trolley!

waiting in line for Winnie the Pooh has never been so much fun

Space Mountain was a blast.  Faster and darker than the Florida version.  Pretty fantastic.   Big Thunder Mountain, Monster's Inc., Toon Town shenanigans, The Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pinocchio, The Jungle Cruise, Winnie the Pooh (AWESOME), and The Tiki Room were just a few of the main rides we went on that day.  Oh, and some shopping to get our head gear before our day of fun.

 

Tokyo Disneyland has a pretty keen bit of advertising unique to these parks:  popcorn.  All over each park are different kinds of popcorn.  Delicious tasting, gimmie more, popcorn.  Curry, soy sauce, corn soup, honey, strawberry, sea salt, black pepper, caramel, milk tea, and apple cinnamon were some amazing flavors.

Among our groups favorites were honey, caramel, curry, soy sauce and strawberry.  We had a good time stopping at each different flavors cart and tasting it.  Gotta admit though, when Brian first mentioned this a few months ago, we had our doubts.  Upon taking up our quest to try all of the flavors, we began with Brian first buying a box and sharing to each of us having our own boxes.  It was super fun and yummy!

We can now say we have tried and tasted all of the various flavors of popcorn Tokyo Disneyland has to offer.  Boo-yah.

After an enjoyable albeit tired day at the Magic Kingdom we were hungry.  Near the hotels were a lovely shopping area complete with restaurants.  We happened to arrive about 10pm when most of the restaurants are closed or not serving anything anymore, so we ate the T.G.I. Fridays.  Delicious.  Not a Korean T.G.I. Friday's either.  An American one.  Complete with Jack Daniel's shrimp and chicken.  Yum, yum, yummy.

Until tomorrow...