(Updated 8/10) How Many Times Can We Switch Hotels? - Tokyo Disney TR May 2025

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Loving your report so far! And please thank Trevor for recording the parade! Main Street Electrical Parade is my favorite, especially the music. Baroque Hoedown always makes me smile!

 

[Araminta18]

Loving your report so far! And please thank Trevor for recording the parade! Main Street Electrical Parade is my favorite, especially the music. Baroque Hoedown always makes me smile!

Thank you for reading! I definitely will -- I agree the music is fantastic, definitely one of my favorite parts of the parade

 

[Araminta18]

First Ride at DisneySea - Monday May 26, 2025 (part 2)​

Trevor and I decided to split up and each take a different line, just to see.

The thought was that whatever line moved faster, we'd join together.

About 5 min or so before it was time for Happy Entry, a bunch of the characters came out and were waving at us in the line! That was neat - I didn't really get any good picture but it was fun to see. Got everyone all excited.

Then it was time and we were pouring in! Though pouring was the wrong word in my case - Trevor's line moved so much faster than mine that by the time we clocked it it wouldn't have really worked for me to move over, and for whatever reason my line just DID NOT MOVE. I think the folks trying to get in were having all sorts of issues - it took me a full five minutes to get in after Trevor. Which doesn't sound like much but when happy entry is only 15 minutes...goodness! Trevor went on ahead to the Toy Story area and when I finally made it in, I headed that way too. On the way, I saw Duffy and some friends!


They had a bunch of characters out in the piazza area meeting and greeting, which was cool. But we had better places to be!

The plan was to ride rides with fastpasses, starting here and working our way around the park. Also I'm an idiot - we had fastpasses and they didn't open the rides up early, we needn't have rushed! Oh well. We did play around a bit in the Carnival Corral:

They had little fun games in there - free of charge - that were fun to play around with. No one was playing in there for early entry, as you might expect.

Right on time, at 9 am, the line opened up and we hopped on in!

It was essentially the same as in DisneyWorld, with slight theming differences.

I thought the yoyo was cute.

Our goal was to work together to try and increase our scores - we did pretty good this first time:

140s isn't bad!

And since the line was short, we decided to go back around, why not! I noticed the theming a bit more this time:

Andy's bed!

The cars come out of the air vent! Love it.

 

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From Toy Story to the Tower - Monday May 26, 2025 (part 3)​

One more theming picture -

Presto library book from the Pixar short!! Love it.

On the ride, we both did better this time:

167,100! It was good enough to get one of us best in car:


Spoiler alert, it was Trevor. Dang it!

We got off the ride at 9:20, and we had a standby pass for the capsule toy machine at Tower of Terror, so off we went. Except as we were leaving Toy Story I realized I didn't have my ears on! Thankfully the cast member was able to find them and bring them to me, though once she brought them I had to fill out a whole form on an ipad, but I got my ears back!

Thankfully Tower of Terror was pretty close by, so off we went to try the capsule toy machine!

There was a bit of a line again, but once we got in it turned out it was the same prizes as before in Adventureland - the tote bags.

Prettier machine though!

We weren't going to do it again but Trevor decided he wanted to try and get a Baymax bag for himself:

And he got super lucky - his first try, and it was Baymax! Calling that one a win.

So with the bag secured, we decided it was time to ride Tower of Terror. Warning, the next bunch of pictures is just going to be all of the theming around Tower of Terror - it is FANTASTIC.

The story is that the Tower is the home of Harrison Hightower, and he's an explorer who heads all over the world.

That's how you know you've made it - stained glass window of yourself.

 

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Tower of Terror Queue - Monday May 26, 2025 (part 4)​

More theming! The fastpass line was super short, but just enough time to look around at all the theming in the lobby.

Harrison Hightower III brough back the idol Shiriki Utundu that was supposedly cursed, and then one day he just disappeared!


So many pictures of himself in his own fancy mansion...geez Harrison!


Reminds me of both Jungle Cruise and Caribbean Beach resort pool

At the merge point, they bring us together into a little anteroom where the cast member gave a little spiel and there was this poster:

Harrison Hightower getting the cursed idol.

Then into the pre-show room, which I realize now we never filmed. It was a library/office:

Fancy desk!

With another window of Harrison Hightower. Seriously dude, not ALL the art has to include you.

and the idol!

The pre-show is all in Japanese, but essentially what I got from it was that Harrison didn't believe in the curse, brought the idol back, and then the idol crashed his elevator. BUT the cool part is that at the end of the show the idol disappears! I'm sure it's gotta be mirrors but it looked AMAZING. So neat.

After the pre-show, you get dumped again into another line - in the "basement" or storage room of the tower, with all the artifacts that Harrison had acquired (stolen... ).


Similar to the boiler room at Disneyland, with the upstairs queue.

 

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Terror!! - Monday May 26, 2025 (part 5)​

After you wound your way through the storage area, you came into a little antechamber before boarding the elevator, with more storage.

The room we were in had fancy art.

Then finally, the ride! Even with fastpass, it was still about 25 minutes between the waiting and the preshows, from the time we entered the line to the time we got on the elevator.

Definitely a bit more tame, with the shoulder belts. Fun effects though! We liked it, even Trevor with his fear of heights.

The gift shop was themed to the pool area -

But the gift shop only had a couple pins and a small idol plushie thing that was related to the ride - the rest was pretty standard Tokyo Disney resort merch that we'd seen yesterday in Disneyland. I was beginning to notice that most rides had no themed merchandise, which seems like a lost opportunity to me!

We thought about going around again, but with the kind of long wait we decided to press on. I actually had entered the lottery for Big Band Beat for the 11 am show, and while we ended up winning (crazy lucky!) we decided to skip it for today and keep going around the park. Too excited to see the park to sit in a show right now!

The one thing that threw me off is that there wasn't like a set path we could take that would take us all around the park - we'd have to do some backtracking or whathaveyou. But we were looking around a bit more at the waterfront area we were in:

Food and Wine festival was going on, but none of the dishes really appealed, especially with the long waits. The short lines from yesterday at Disneyland (like just a couple people for popcorn) had not carried over!

The area was cool though - the whole steamship!

We then decided to head for Journey of the Center of the Earth as our next ride - I couldn't wait! That took us back a little bit to the Tower:

Such a cool silhouette.

And past the Electric Railway. We thought about trying to ride the railway but the line was like 20 minutes so...no. Especially cause then we'd have to backtrack to the ride.

As we kept going, we arrived the the area with the Italian ship:


I love the theming with the lava flow all dried and down the mountain. So neat!

We explored a little bit (not a ton), just stopping to get one of our included drinks at the quick service in the area - the line was super long for ordering but when we asked the CM at the pickup place if we could redeem our beverage tickets there (cause we weren't sure) she just directed us to the pickup window so we didn't have to wait. Brilliant! Trevor got ginger ale, and I got orange.

Then, it was finally time!

 

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Journeying to the Center of the Earth - Monday May 26, 2025 (part 6)​

I'd been pretty good about avoiding spoilers for Journey but got slightly spoiled a little bit before we left, but only a little bit. I knew there was a monster animatronic thing at the end, but was looking forward to riding it. The queue - which seemed to parallel the standby line where there was theming - was cool. You're inside the mountain but they have their lab/office stuff out:


The fastpass line was super short so we didn't really get to look around! It was literally 1 minute from entering the queue to the merge point. This merge point lines you up at one of 4 actual elevators to take you down to the loading area:

The elevator is long and thing but super tall, and they have great sound effects and fans going so it really feels like you're descending down into the earth.

Once you get off the elevator, you're split into two lines (the first two elevators go to one, the other two to the other) that feed the ride vehicles. This is where it can take a little bit - it took us about 10 minutes. But it's pretty cool - you see the cars go whizzing past you and you really feel like you're down inside the earth.

I thought the vehicles were super cool. and then we got lucky and put in the front row!

Guys, it was so fun! It's a dark ride, with fun animatronics, as you go through the center of the earth and then you disturb this large animatronic monster thing that roars and you TAKE OFF super fast as you head back to the loading area. Describing it does not do it justice - we really enjoyed it, so much so that we went back around for round 2! We got lucky again - front row for the second ride! Though we switched sides as there's things to see on both sides of the car and so we each got to see both sides. So fun. Really the only downside is the ton of stairs you have to go down as you exit.

We got off a little after 11 am, and we were a bit hungry! Conveniently we were near one of the restaurants that had a "must eat" item on our list: the sausage gyoza bun from Nautilus Gallery. The line was kind of long, but thankfully, mobile order had immediate spots available! We walked in and right as we were heading to pick up our food, someone left a table right on the water so you bet we snagged that!

Our view!

We were planning to have real lunch slightly later so we only got one bun to share. Which we kind of regretted when we got it and it smelled so good:


I don't know how to describe it - it was savory and fresh and yummy. If you're in DisneySea, grab this! I think it was one of my favorite things I'd eaten so far on the trip - this and the Berry Cheer drink from Disneyland. We also discovered that water bottles were included in our beverage ticket, at least at this place, so we each got an included water bottle!

So yea, it was a lovely little break - sitting and eating and enjoying the view. The boats that you can ride on went through periodically, which added some fun kinetic energy:


Once done eating, we decided to use our fastpass to ride 20000 Leagues Under the Sea! This one we had NO idea what it was like - no spoilers or nothing. The ride entrance was that spiral that you can see in the picture above, so it was a slight walk to get over there - it took us past the "drill" drilling into the mountain for Journey:

This whole area is so well-themed, it feels so far removed from the rest of the park. A+

 

[Araminta18]

Under the Sea in Two Different Franchises - Monday May 26, 2025 (part 7)​

The fastpass line for 20000 Leagues was a walk on, though it was a bit of a walk down that spiral. The ride vehicles are like little submarines, with a window in front and one on each side, with a small, two-person bench in front of each window. We got sat on the right hand side window.

We had NO IDEA what this ride was, and all the narration was in Japanese, so....yea. We kicked off and we realized we had little flashlights we could use to look around outside our window, so we were looking around then we got attacked by a giant squid, and then there were alien-looking Atlanteans (?) I think. It was more fun than I expected - and sitting on the right hand side was good if you can't get the front, cause the way the ride track goes, we saw everything the front saw, just a little bit later. Fun! We wanted to try and ride it again and get front row, but not right now.


One more shot of the drill cause it's cool.

Next up, we were going to use our fastpasses at the Nemo & Friends SeaRider!

There was no line to get to the merge point, but we waited about 5 minutes outside. Which I didn't mind - we were looking around at this fun area.

The sea is coming through the gates!!

Once inside the building we waited another five min or so - they do this little pre-show about how you're gonna get shrunk down to the size of a fish. There's a fun effect where they "shrink" an example ship in front of you:

This is it big - the version I took of the "shrunk" one didn't turn out.

It feels very similar to Star Tours, actually, with the rows to board and the seat belt and the effects. The only difference is it's 4d - you get sprayed with water at one point. It was cute and fun, but nothing special. I wouldn't wait for it but it was fun with a fastpass. And they did have a fun little otter poster there at the exit:


Aquatopia had a long line and no fastpass so we skipped it in favor of continuing to do fastpass rides. Next one kind of in our path was Indiana Jones, so we started heading that way. We were passing popcorn stands on the way but all the lines were long so we just didn't stop.

As we started heading that way, the temple for Indiana Jones started coming into view!


We got a little bit distracted looking at the theming there by the bridge - there was a byplane with a fun name:

C-3PO!

As we got off the bridge and were pretty close to Indiana, we ran into some characters!


No idea if they have names, but they're the monkeys from The Jungle Book, I think (that go about with King Louie). There was no line/no crowd really, so that was a fun little bonus!

 

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Putting My Driving Skills to the Test - Monday May 26, 2025 (part 8)​

Then we were basically at Indiana Jones! This is apparently very similar to Indiana Jones at Disneyland but themed slightly differently. I remembered very little about Indiana Jones at Disneyland, so I was excited!

There was a pretty long standby wait, but, fastpass! The fastpass line basically runs parallel to the standard line, and it's definitely a loooooong walk.

Pretty cool though! You wind up and through this big room.

Love this little bit of theming on the emergency exit.

The fastpass merges into the regular thing pretty near the load area - you just have to go down the stairs.

8 minutes later, we were on the ride!

We got front row, and I got to be the driver!!!

The ride was fantastic - all the effects seemed to be working and it was just awesome. Really enjoyed it. Honestly I'm not going to be sad when Indy replaces Dinosaur at Disneyworld.

We got off at about 12:35, and it was finally time for Fantasy Springs! I'd placed a mobile order for lunch at the Royal Banquet of Arendelle at 12:50, so it was time to head over. That did mean we had to skip one of the fastpass rides that was in between us at Indy and Fantasy Springs (Raging Spirits) but we'd come back. Anyways, Fantasy Springs!

Walking in to the land was just crazy.

Anna and Elsa over there with some "snow"!

And as we got closer, over to the left there's Peter!

And Rapunzel! I love how her hair is the path for the water. There's Pascal there off to the left.

This is it zoomed out a bit. The characters in the rock work is just fantastically done - really love it.