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Aerial Photo Update July 24, 2009
The Tokyo Disneyland photos from my helicopter flight in February 2008 didn't turn out the way I wanted them to. This time I was luckier: below are some proper aerial shots of Oriental Land's brilliant Disneyland park! You can now clearly identify the new Monsters Inc Ride and discover Big Thunder Mountain, Splash Mountain, Space Mountain and the Jungle Cruise from above.
What pictures can't capture is the fantastic work of the staff on the ground. Visiting Tokyo Disney Resort is a spa treatment for the mind due to its enthusiastic, engaging and polite Japanese employees.
[additional 2009 aerials added on April 02, 2013]
Tokyo Disneyland from above
Entrance
Tokyo Disneyland castle
Cinderella Castle, with Westernland in the background
Big Thunder Mountain, Tokyo Disneyland
Westernland meets Critter Country
Splash Mountain flume ride on the left, Haunted Mansion ghost train on the right
Jungle Cruise
Pirates of the Caribbean building
Tomorrowland aerial view
Space Mountain, Tokyo Disneyland
Tokyo Disneyland scenery
The best attractions Disney ever built, all in one picture (including DisneySea)
Tokyo Disneyland aerial view
Tokyo Disney Resort from above
Tokyo Disneyland's Monsters Ride has opened
Monsters ride vehicle with Russian tourists
Monster with Japanese fans
Review February 19, 2008
I have never seen visitors as happy as in this theme park. The Japanese really embrace their Disneyland and have made it the busiest theme park on earth. This overwhelming passion everywhere will make you forgive a 100-minute queue for a 3-minute Fantasyland ride.
Japan’s amazing Disneyland comprises updated and predominantly better versions of all the popular rides in the two American Disney parks.
Particularly outstanding: 'Winnie the Pooh’s Honey Hunt', situated in Fantasyland. No joke! It’s insanely good. There are rides with the same name in Hong Kong and Orlando, but this one is different and much better. Kids aged 5-99, give it a go! A track-free, magnet-driven honey pot drives you randomly through different rooms portraying a dream of Winnie the Pooh. Your pot even hops around with Tigger. This ride is a jewel, exclusive to Tokyo Disneyland.
Other highlights include a great version of the 'Splash Mountain' flume ride, an atmospheric 'Big Thunder Mountain' roller coaster, an awesome 'Pirates of the Caribbean' dark ride featuring Jack Sparrow (a stunningly life-like animatronic), a very good 'Haunted Mansion' ghost castle, a 'Space Mountain' roller coaster, a 'Star Tours' flight simulator and of course the Disney castle, similar to the one in Florida.
The staff in Tokyo Disneyland is the best of any Disney park in the world and takes good care of non-Japanese visitors as well. No complaints, no improvements, nothing to add: a great day awaits you over there! But don’t you dare miss DisneySea next door, the best theme park in the world.
Tokyo Disneyland aerial
Tokyo Disneyland, seen from the adjacent DisneySea park
Smiling Japanese Disney fans
World Bazaar, Tokyo Disneyland's equivalent to Main Street
Cinderella Castle
Something you wouldn't see that often in Europe
Theme Park Guy in Japan. Man, that looks weird!
Pooh's Hunny Hunt ride entrance
In the Hunny Hunt queue
Tokyo Disneyland's legendary trackless Hunny Hunt ride
Splash Mountain, with DisneySea's volcano in the background
Splash Mountain log flume ride
Inside Splash Mountain
Splash Mountain dark ride sections
Final drop
Getting splashed exposes the true you
Atmospheric restaurant
Haunted Mansion
Monkeys in the Jungle Cruise
Skeleton in Pirates of the Caribbean
Pirates' prisoners luring the dog with the key to freedom
The beloved Johnny Depp animatronic at Pirates of the Caribbean
Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin ride
Roger Rabbit ride vehicles
Space Mountain building
Space Mountain coaster
In the Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters queue
New attraction in the making
Packed Disney store
The child and the balloon
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