FRIDAY - CHIBA 
TOKYO DISNEY RESORT

Port Discovery has a few attractions. This one is Aquatopia. It's about as much fun as Autopia. The boats are on tracks.
This was a pretty neat little trick. It looks like Tokyo Bay is leaking into the park through a gap in the wall. At least I think it is an illusion.
The DisneySea Electric Railway runs back and forth between Port Discovery and American Waterfront.
A big old Mayan temple is part of...
...the entrance to the Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Crystal Skull. It is similar to the Disneyland attraction.
Paco made a film to give you safety tips.
This port is called Lost River Delta. This is El Rio Perdido.
Here we are at the Arabian Coast.
As uninspiring as the Disneyland park was, being mostly the same attractions as everywhere else, DisneySea is a newer park and was much better themed.
It looks like a mosque, but it's a carousel. Maybe if all mosques had carousels in them, there wouldn't be so many nutty Islamic extremists.
Mermaid Lagoon is for the kids.
This is the inside of Mysterious Island.
There is an attraction themed after 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, but it's not like the beloved old WDW ride. It's not even underwater. Just an illusion.
This was a cool ride, Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Part of the queue area.
There was a lot more queue area that was blocked off.
These are the elevators that take you down to the ride. It is somewhat like Dinosaur at Animal Kingdom or the Indiana Jones rides. You start out with a leisurely ride exploring the caverns in the center of the earth, but then it speeds up as you get to some nasty places with monsters, fire and lightning storms (which startled the hell out of me). It is a clever ride, one that I would like to see here in the States.
Dinner was here at the Cape Cod Cook-Off. I had a nice fried codfish sandwich. At the counter along with things like salt, pepper and ketchup was something called gum syrup. I don't know what it is or what it is used for. I tasted it. It's kind of sweet.
There is the Mediterranean Harbor at dusk.
Time to hop the monorail back to the Disneyland Park.
The lights are on.
Space Mountain was lit in multiple colors.
You can't go wrong with a Disney castle lit at night.
"it's a small world" was nice at night too.
I don't recall that I did many attractions after I returned to the park. I did go into the Mickey Mouse Revue. I don't think I'd seen this show for at least thirty years.
The curtain looks familiar.
And there's Mickey and his orchestra of familiar old Disney characters. The show is the same but in Japanese. At the end, when they sing the Mickey Mouse Club theme, rather than singing "M-I-C K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E", they sing "Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mickey Mouse". Maybe the English letters don't translate well. Mickey does thank everyone speaking in English at the end though. Also, "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" sounds funny in Japanese.
Cinderellabration was just wrapping up at the park. The center plaza in front of the castle had scenes from Cinderella and these colorfully lit arches.
Time to head back to the train.
Hey, the musical Wicked (which I really want to see one of these days) is playing somewhere in Tokyo.
Even though most of the signs in the subways also have the station names written in a Latin alphabet, even when they are not you can still find your way around because the lines all have a letter designation and the stations a number.
These were some really tasty goodies. They were little wafer sandwiches with strawberry filling.

TO TOKYO