I wasn't sure what to expect from Disney Sea. Most reviews say that it is good, but not quite as good as Disneyland, despite drawing similar crowd numbers. Inferior park, same stupid crowds? Sounds great. Again we got the trains to Maihama (the Disney resort train station) with no problems. We bought 2 day passes to the Disney monorail, and waited a few minutes for it to arrive. When it did, everything about it was sickeningly Mickey Mouse. Mickey was on the out...

Ah Disneyland. It would really be as magical as the brochures say it is, if the crowds would all pack up and find some other damn park to inhabit. It was crowded. Very very crowded. For those of you who have Google Earth, punch in the coordinates of Tokyo Disneyland and zoom in. You will see a million small dots in the park, being the people, and that is what the park was like today. On the whole it was a great day, but it was let down a little by the crowds. The...

Today will be an extremely short blog entry. Basically, today was simply a rest day to get ourselves ready for the next 3 days of insanity as we do Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo Disney Sea. We will be buying 3 day passes, and will most likely end up doing Disneyland tomorrow, and then Disney Sea on Thursday, and then on Friday we will decide which park we should do on the 3rd day. Today basically we took our time in the morning, and took the train to Yokohama Bay, w...

Angela's 3rd birthday today, as well as a fairly full schedule. We set out at 9am to go to Yokohama Zoo, known as "Zoorasia". It was a fair distance out of central Yokohama. Firstly by train to one of the outer stations, and then we changed to the bus for the remaining 20 minute ride out to the zoo. The zoo is in a very green area surrounded by bushland, which is why it was a decent trek out of town. We paid our small fee to get in, and as far as attractions go i...

It's going to be a short entry today. Basically because we didn't do anything worth writing about. Basically today was a rest day. We boarded thee Shinkansen to Yokohama, which is a decent 2hr 45min trip. I'm glad we have the rail passes, as each one of these Shinkansen trips would be costing us about $150 - $220 per ticket, and more if we chose to reserve seats. Departed at Yokohama, and walked the 3 blocks west to the hotel. We checked our baggage and walked ba...