Tokyo Disneyland

Our original plan was to go Disneyland for 1 full day. We ended up going 3 times. 1st was from 4-10pm then the next day from 11am-6pm. Our last time was on our last day from 6-10pm. We covered almost all the attractions except for the Mark Twain riverboat, Beavers paddle canoe, Splash Mountain which we didn't want to sit, Swiss Family tree house and Mickey's and Minnie's house.

Attractions

Top of the list are Big Thunder Mountain, Winnie the Pooh, Haunted House and Peter Pan. Bottom of the list are Snow White and Pinnochio. The rest like Pirates, Space Mountain, Monsters Inc, Buzzlightyear, Star Tour, Daytona and Gadgets Coaster are ok.

To beat the long queues, either go early and get as many fastpasses as possible or go after 6pm. Average queue time in the day was 90 mins. After 8pm, it ranged from 5-15 mins.

Food

We tried quite a lot of stuff mainly from food wagons because it was cheaper. Almost everything was oiishi. The smoked turkey legs from Chuck Wagon (Westernland) was a winner. My girls loved it so much that we ate it twice.

Another good eat for lunch was the fried chicken from Lucky Nugget Cafe (Westernland). The set consisting 2 chicken pieces, potato wedges and coleslaw was very satisfying.

These 2 were our main meals, the rest of the time we just snacked. The Mickey-shaped steam pork bun from the Boiler Room Wagon (Adventureland) was ok but the miso pork tortilla sandwich was wicked. The meat was very tasty and they sprinkled noodle bits that tasted like Mamee all over the sandwich. We also tried the hot-dog from World Bazaar. Besides being huge, it was pretty normal.

Ice-cream was everywhere. We had the Mickey-shaped popsticle, ice-cream sandwiched between 2 Mickey-shaped biscuits and ice-cream cone from Soft Landing (Tomorrowland). The favourite was the mango and milk twirl from Soft Landing. The green tea flavour is supposedly good but it was not available.

There was a wide variety of pop-corn flavours. We only tried shoyu which Daren and the girls loved. I prefer sweet pop-corn. Our final snack was this fried pastry filled with sweet potato paste that was excellent. We were the last customers at this Village Pastry wagon (Fantasyland).

Shopping

Compared with Hong Kong Disneyland, Tokyo has more of everything (food, stationery, toys) except apparel. The choice of T-shirts especially for kids was very limited. For momento, the kids got a pen, notebook and a torchlight from Monsters Inc.