Disney Sea is Tokyo's 'second gate', kind of like California Adventure in Anaheim. It's set up similar to Disneyland, but instead of 'lands' they have different water-related areas. For example, American Waterfront, Arabian Coast, Mystery Island, Disney Harbor, Lost River Delta, or Mermaid Lagoon. Disney Sea has a reputation for being a very couple-oriented theme park, which it definitely was, especially because it was the day after Valentine's Day. They had a thing called "Season of the Heart" where they basically make a bunch of cheezy love and friendship oriented areas like Sweetheart Fountain, Bridge of Friendship, or Precious Post (this one was cool...if you mail something from there, it'll be delivered exactly on White Day.) So here's a picture of Hannah and me on Friendship Bridge. Apparently by putting our hands in the box and shaking, we're showing that we'll be friends forever..or something like that.
There are a few rides that are the same as ones in America with only smaller changes to the storyline to make it work in Japan. (i.e. Tower of Terror and Indiana Jones) Mystery Island, however, is a little different since it's made up of a couple rides that have nothing to do with Disney. There's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Both are interesting rides, though 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea freaked me out because I'm not so cool with deep sea (or deep sea appearing) things. Port Discovery isn't very Disney oriented either. There are rides called Storm Rider and Aquatopia. I guess it's supposed to be like Tomorrowland but with water instead of 'future'. Here's what Port Discovery looks like...
We ate lunch at a restaurant in Port Discovery called Horizon Bay. Yummy grilled salmon and seafood salad! While I'm on the topic of food, I continued my sampling of strangely flavored popcorn that's so popular here. This time I had Strawberry and Cappuccino flavors, but I like Honey from Disneyland the best. I also had a sesame churro and sea salt ice cream, both were pretty good, though the sea salt ice cream was a little strange. I'd say that this park is more suited for just enjoying someone else's company rather than running around trying to do everything. You can do almost everything without rushing and without even getting any fastpasses. Most of the interest is in the way things look and how they're done. Check out Mermaid's Lagoon...
There were also a couple of shows. The shows here are pretty funny, mostly because the character voices are exactly the same but in Japanese. The water element makes them interesting, though also very hard to take pictures of. During the day there was 'Legend of Mythica' which was a lot of different boats shaped as different animals that moved around and people dressed in bright costumes who ran onshore to dance. XD In the eventing there was BraviSEAmo! which is a water and fire show. It's not quite as fun to watch as Fantasmic, but it's definitely pretty. Dinner was chicken and roast beef at Cafe Portifino in Mediterranean Harbor. =) Yummy yummy. Lastly, we went shopping. I got these hilarious cups that have buildings of each 'land' on them made out of the genie from Aladdin. The cup says "Tokyo Digenie Sea" on it, which I didn't understand until I read it out loud. (In Japanese they say 東京ディズニーシー, which is pronounced Tokyo Dizinee Shee...which, when you say it like a Japanese person, ends up sounding like Di'genie'. Haha. Okay, enough with the lame jokes.) Overall, a very fun, relaxing time.
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