Disney sea!

Last time I posted I had said that I would be going to Tokyo for the weekend.  I had been very busy with the last week of school, since I had to study for a final exam.  That wasn’t very fun, but first let me talk a bit about my awesome weekend.

                Friday, immediately after class was over I headed to my host families house and made sure that I had everything packed to go on an airplane from kobe to Tokyo.  The travel time by plane was only about 1 hour.  However, they planned to leave the house like 1 hour before the plane leaves.  I was a little worried that we wouldn’t make it in time.  It seemed crazy.  We got to the airport 30 minutes before the plane was supposed to leave.  But according to my family that’s an ok thing to do, that you can make it to the plane in time like that.

                Getting on a plane in japan is better than in America.  Security is very reasonable and reminds me of American airports in the 90’s, to the point where you can keep your shoes and belt on as you go through the metal detector archway, and that step felt much quicker to me.  After that, there’s a place that prints out a sort of receipt for you – not a boarding pass.  But on the back of this receipt there are coupons for various stores like in my case mcdonalds.  Getting on the plan required scanning your printed boarding pass except that as opposed to America, you do it yourself.

                Onboard the plane, even though we were only going from one place in japan to the next, we took a plane newer and about the same size as the one I took from America to japan.  Also onboard, the music stations offered were interesting because as far as I know, American airlines unlike this Japanese airline do not have kids music stations. 

                Other than that there wasn’t much more remarkable about the plane flight.  Except that my host family paid for it entirely which was extremely nice of them.   It was in the evening when we arrived so we just checked in at the hotel and spent the night there.

                I thought that the next day was for the wedding and that the day after at Disney sea would be to make up for me having to go to a wedding, but it turned out that Saturday, the first day, was the Disney sea day.

                Disney sea was an amazing place.  It wasn’t overly Disney themed like Tokyo Disney probably would have been, but it was more of an epcot or universal studios sort of place where they had amazing scenery and attractions that may or may not have been Disney films, but weren’t all from cartoons.  Although they did have some Aladdin content and were adding a toy story area only a few days after we left.

                We didn’t do the tower of terror since everyone except for the father hate that sort of thing, but we did do a 3d Aladdin movie theatre, 20,000 leagues under the sea ride, and an Indiana jones ride.  There was also some people mover ride focusing on the adventures of some character named Sindbad.  It was like a mix between pirates of the carribean and it’s a small world.  We went to a proper broadway style theatre and saw 30-40’s style jazz band music by perhaps the only non-asian, English speaking people in the park.  We also took a gondola ride which was fun, in the European area of the park.

                In the park there was some fun food to try as well.  Every area had a different flavor of popcorn.  What I saw was pepper popcorn, strawberry popcorn, and curry popcorn.  Unfortunately I did not get to try the curry popcorn.

                We saw basically every attraction in the park that wasn’t scary and also not the water attraction since it was a cold day out already.  I bought some souvenirs there and had a great time.  I took a lot of pictures that you can view online now.