Buckle up, because we’re headed to Tokyo!!! Kristina is back and sharing all the info on her trip to Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea. If you are thinking of traveling to these parks, you’ll want to have your pen and paper ready.
Trip Dates: July 15-26, 2024
Post Trip Interview: recorded 8/1/24
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Video POV: Peter Pan’s Never Land Adventure in Tokyo DisneySea’s Fantasy Springs
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VIRGINIA: Welcome back to another post-Trip Report episode of Where I Long To Be, A Magical Trip Report Podcast.
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VIRGINIA: I am your host, Virginia.
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VIRGINIA: As a reminder, next week's episodes will be the last of season two, and then I'll be on a two-week break for some family vacation time.
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VIRGINIA: Season three will start on September 9th.
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VIRGINIA: If you've been thinking about submitting yourself to be a Trip Report guest on the show, there is no time like the present.
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VIRGINIA: The earlier you can reach out, the better so that I can potentially fit you into my recording schedule.
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VIRGINIA: Some people have asked and I realize I hadn't ever really talked about what it involves to be a Trip Report guest.
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VIRGINIA: First and foremost, you really just have to be excited to chat with me about your trip.
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VIRGINIA: Once you are officially a scheduled guest, I will reach out to you about a month before your travel dates to set up a pre-trip interview where we discuss all your plans.
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VIRGINIA: All interviews happen in my online podcast studio, which is sort of like Zoom, but made for podcasting specifically.
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VIRGINIA: I only record the audio, but in the studio, we're able to see each other and have a real conversation.
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VIRGINIA: At the end of the pre-trip interview, before we hang up, we go ahead and schedule our post-trip interview time.
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VIRGINIA: Whether you're someone who has been on a podcast before or not, doesn't matter at all.
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VIRGINIA: The interviews themselves really just feel like a fun one-on-one conversation with me.
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VIRGINIA: After our interviews are over, I do all the heavy lifting with the editing to make both of us sound amazing.
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VIRGINIA: After your interviews are published, you have a super special way to share your trip with family and friends as well as all the friends you haven't met yet.
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VIRGINIA: If you're interested after hearing all of that, the link is in the show notes.
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VIRGINIA: I am currently looking for people traveling the first half of 2025.
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VIRGINIA: With that, it's time to get into this week's post-trip episode.
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VIRGINIA: For anyone who didn't get a chance to listen to Kristina's pre-trip report, Kristina and her husband were traveling to Tokyo and planned to spend a majority of their time in Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea, though they did leave a few days at the end of their trip dedicated to touring some select spots around Tokyo.
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VIRGINIA: This was the place that Kristina had wanted to go for their honeymoon, but because it was not yet reopened for travel after COVID at the time, she settled for a honeymoon in Walt Disney World with the promise from her husband that they would make it to Tokyo within five years.
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VIRGINIA: So here they are, finally heading off on this long-awaited adventure.
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VIRGINIA: And now here's Kristina.
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VIRGINIA: Kristina, you're back stateside.
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KRISTINA: Yes.
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VIRGINIA: Welcome home.
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KRISTINA: Thank you.
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VIRGINIA: Overall, out of five stars, how was your trip?
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KRISTINA: Probably five out of five stars.
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KRISTINA: It was a really great trip.
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VIRGINIA: Okay.
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VIRGINIA: I cannot wait to hear all of the details.
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VIRGINIA: I just edited this week the Pre-Trip interview, so it's fresh in my mind and it just reminded me how excited I was to hear about this.
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VIRGINIA: So let's get into it.
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VIRGINIA: So your trip dates were Monday, July 15th through Friday, July 26th.
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VIRGINIA: And on the 15th, you had hours and hours and hours of flying.
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VIRGINIA: So your actual arrival time was not until the afternoon of Tuesday, Tokyo time.
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VIRGINIA: So just in terms of the transportation from Newark International Airport and getting into Tokyo, how did all of that go?
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KRISTINA: Yeah.
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KRISTINA: So and the day before we actually stayed at my in-laws so that they could drive us to the airport.
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KRISTINA: So we woke up bright and early at three or four in the morning, got ready, packed up, got to the airport, because we're the type that just need to be like three hours early.
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KRISTINA: So we wanted to make sure we were there for our 9 a.m.
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KRISTINA: flight, nice and early.
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KRISTINA: Overall, Air Canada went fine.
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KRISTINA: We got on the first plane and got to Toronto around noon-ish.
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KRISTINA: It was a pretty short, like two-hour-ish flight.
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KRISTINA: And then we had like a three-hour layover or so.
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KRISTINA: And then we got on the second plane.
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KRISTINA: And that one was about like 13 hours long.
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KRISTINA: We tried to nap on the plane, but I'm just not a napper in any regards.
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KRISTINA: So it was more just like keeping my eyes closed for a couple of hours in hopes that I don't come to another country completely exhausted.
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VIRGINIA: Yeah.
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KRISTINA: You know, watching a few movies, trying to periodically stand up so you, you know, don't feel real bad after 13 hours.
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KRISTINA: And I arrived in Tokyo around 3 p.m.
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KRISTINA: on their time the next day.
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VIRGINIA: Okay.
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VIRGINIA: And I think your, your goal was really just to get over to your hotel, maybe buy your, your park tickets and get some food and try to, try to get rested.
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VIRGINIA: So let us know what you did that evening.
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VIRGINIA: And also first impressions of your hotel, which was the, the Toy Story Hotel.
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KRISTINA: Yeah.
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KRISTINA: So when we arrived in Tokyo, we also realized we didn't have a big plan on getting money.
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KRISTINA: So we also did a money exchange quick in the airport just so we had some cash.
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KRISTINA: And we looked at the bus schedule versus the train schedule.
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KRISTINA: And we decided we're just going to go right into it and do the train schedule.
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KRISTINA: So it was a bit daunting the first time trying to navigate the train because you're just trying to figure out, am I on the right platform?
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KRISTINA: Am I going the right way?
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KRISTINA: But once you do it once or twice, it is really straightforward.
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KRISTINA: But that first day we definitely stumbled a little bit and try to ask for help a little bit.
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KRISTINA: But the language barrier made it a little difficult.
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KRISTINA: But we made it all the way up to Ikspiari, which is their Disney Springs.
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KRISTINA: And then you hop on the Monorail loop and we were staying at the Toy Story Hotel.
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VIRGINIA: Just a couple of follow up questions.
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VIRGINIA: So we had talked before you left about you and your husband trying to learn a little bit through Duolingo and also plans to utilize the translating options on your phones.
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VIRGINIA: So did you get to use anything that you learned in Duolingo?
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VIRGINIA: And how smooth was it to use a translation app throughout your stay?
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KRISTINA: I think ultimately what I learned in Duolingo more helped me to not fully read signs, but maybe interpret some of the letters.
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KRISTINA: Maybe pick up some of the words that they're saying, or no very basic keywords like numbers, or they're saying train, or they're saying whatever it needs to be.
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KRISTINA: I definitely didn't try to use it to communicate.
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KRISTINA: I just spoke English the whole time.
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KRISTINA: But when we had to do multiple sentences, we would use Google Translate.
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KRISTINA: And overall, that went well as long as you weren't trying to speak a whole paragraph into Google Translate.
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VIRGINIA: Okay.
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VIRGINIA: All right.
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VIRGINIA: Good to know.
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VIRGINIA: All right.
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VIRGINIA: Well, first impressions of Toy Story Hotel.
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KRISTINA: So we were pretty exhausted, but it was really cool to, once you get off the monorail stop, you kind of walk up hill and then you kind of see the first kind of park of like big figurines and decor and such.
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KRISTINA: So and then you lead right into the lobby, and the lobby is super themed.
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KRISTINA: And so it was just really cool to see all the very deep theming in the Toy Story Hotel.
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KRISTINA: Like the ceiling is a board game and there's just like colored pencils as columns and the guest services is a light bright, you know.
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VIRGINIA: Oh, cool.
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VIRGINIA: Okay.
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VIRGINIA: And were the rooms comfortable?
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KRISTINA: Yeah.
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KRISTINA: The one other surprise, I kind of knew going into booking, it was two single beds.
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VIRGINIA: Okay.
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KRISTINA: I read online that maybe you could push the beds together.
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KRISTINA: But once I got into the room, I was like, there's very clearly an electronic table in the middle.
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KRISTINA: So I guess that could be the one downside.
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KRISTINA: If you're thinking Toy Story Hotel, it is kind of set up for single beds.
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KRISTINA: But other than that, again, very themed.
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KRISTINA: You know, you walk in clouds on the wall, a Buzz Lightyear poster on the wall.
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KRISTINA: You got your Mickey watch on there, and it looks like Andy's bed.
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KRISTINA: And your TV is an Etch A Sketch.
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VIRGINIA: Oh, wow.
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VIRGINIA: Okay.
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VIRGINIA: Were the beds comfortable?
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VIRGINIA: Yeah.
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KRISTINA: I mean, I think the beds were firmer than like home.
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KRISTINA: But I think that's just normal there.
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KRISTINA: So that would be the only thing to state.
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VIRGINIA: But.
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VIRGINIA: Okay.
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VIRGINIA: What about in the bathrooms?
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VIRGINIA: Were they serving up H2O products or do they have their own special line?
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KRISTINA: I don't think they had their own special line, but they did not have at least branded H2O products.
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KRISTINA: They do have like, amenity kits that you could bring home that are branded on the outside, like toothbrushes and hair brushes and stuff, which then Toy Story Hotel on them.
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VIRGINIA: Okay.
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KRISTINA: But yeah, other than that, I mean, there was soap and such provided and it is the ones where they mounted onto the wall, so you can't like take it home.
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VIRGINIA: Okay.
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KRISTINA: So I usually bring my own soaps, but my husband was using primarily the ones that were provided and stuff.
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VIRGINIA: So yeah, that's usually my family too.
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VIRGINIA: I'm like, no, I'm bringing my own things, but the boys are perfectly content to use whatever is provided.
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VIRGINIA: All right.
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VIRGINIA: Well, what else did you get into on that first night?
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KRISTINA: Yeah.
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KRISTINA: So honestly, it was getting there, buying all the tickets for all the different Disney days at guest services.
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KRISTINA: So when you go to guest services, they give you a form and you have to check off.
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KRISTINA: Like each day you want a ticket and how many tickets and to which park you wanted.
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KRISTINA: And whenever you pay for anything in Tokyo, they go through and itemize everything with you again.
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KRISTINA: So they itemize the like six or seven tickets I had, then handed me like each and every ticket as I went along.
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KRISTINA: I guess the other thing of note is because I was staying at the Toy Story Hotel, I only got what they call happy entry for Disneyland, which means I could only enter Disneyland early, but I couldn't enter DisneySea early.
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KRISTINA: So not at the guest services, but when I was checking in to my hotel, because I hadn't done any pre-mobile check-in, they gave me the happy entry tickets there.
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KRISTINA: And then I bought my tickets to Disneyland at the guest services desk.
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VIRGINIA: Okay.
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VIRGINIA: So it was basically just like proof that you could go in early if you happen to have a Disneyland ticket.
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KRISTINA: Yeah.
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KRISTINA: And it was literally just a piece of paper that they eventually collected day of.
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VIRGINIA: All right.
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VIRGINIA: Interesting.
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VIRGINIA: So an early, early to bed night.
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KRISTINA: Yeah.
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KRISTINA: I honestly, I don't even remember what we, I think we skipped dinner that night because we ate in the airports and such.
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KRISTINA: Like we had the option of going to the convenience store in our hotel.
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KRISTINA: But I think we just had such a long day.
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KRISTINA: We just, once we got to the room and we're done with all the lobby stuff, it was around nine, nine o'clock ish.
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KRISTINA: So we were just exhausted.
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KRISTINA: So we went right to sleep.
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VIRGINIA: Yeah.
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VIRGINIA: Well, that's good so that you could have a nice, hopefully early start for your very first part day, which was for Tokyo DisneySea.
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VIRGINIA: I know that you were very keen to visit Fantasy Springs and weren't sure whether you'd get it done that first day or the second day.
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VIRGINIA: How did the first day go and did you make it over to Fantasy Springs?
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KRISTINA: Yeah.
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KRISTINA: The first day and probably most of the days, we ended up waking up around 6.30 every morning, five or six just from the jet lag.
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KRISTINA: It tend to mean that we got ready for the parks early.
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KRISTINA: We headed over to the parks at 7.30 to line up and the parks opened at 9.
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KRISTINA: You're just waiting in the outside area until the parks open.
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KRISTINA: Then once the parks opened, everyone's immediately on their mobile phone, on the mobile app, trying to get priority passes, premiere access, and standby tickets.
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KRISTINA: My plan of attack for the first day was, I was going to buy at least one pass into Fantasy Springs and then see what I could get on standby.
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KRISTINA: Because I was nervous if I did standby, maybe it would sell out quicker.
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KRISTINA: I think I ended up buying my access to Peter Pan.
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KRISTINA: I was able to get Peter Pan for midday.
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KRISTINA: Then I can't remember if I ended up also getting standby that day, but I think one of the days, we ended up getting a standby, but it was so late that we ended up just not using it.
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KRISTINA: We spread out Fantasy Springs throughout the trip, but we did a bit every single day.
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VIRGINIA: Just to make sure that listeners and me are clear on exactly how this works, you have to do something on your phone to try to even get into Fantasy Springs, and then there are these multiple ways that you could potentially be able to go into the attractions, and you have to have one of those ways.
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VIRGINIA: Is that right?
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KRISTINA: Yeah.
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KRISTINA: The breakdown is, again, there's standby access, which is just to wait online on that ride at a certain time.
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KRISTINA: That's the bare minimum for you.
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KRISTINA: Then there is premiere access, which is like buying a Lightning lane, and that will also get you into Fantasy Springs.
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KRISTINA: You paid and you get to skip the line.
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KRISTINA: Then 40th anniversary priority pass, there were none available for Fantasy Springs.
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KRISTINA: It would be other attractions and stuff.
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VIRGINIA: That's like getting Lightning lane for other things outside of Fantasy Springs.
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KRISTINA: Yes.
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KRISTINA: You can't go into the land, nor can you make a dining reservation unless you have an attraction first.
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KRISTINA: For Fantasy Springs.
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KRISTINA: Yes.
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KRISTINA: Once you have an attraction and an entry time to Fantasy Springs, you could stay there for the rest of your day if you want to.
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KRISTINA: At that point in time, you can make a mobile order, or as long as you have an entry time, you can make a mobile order for after your entry time.
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VIRGINIA: Okay.
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VIRGINIA: All right.
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VIRGINIA: If that was the first thing you did, how long did you spend in Fantasy Springs that first day?
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KRISTINA: We ended up getting a lot of priority passes for other rides throughout the day.
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KRISTINA: We did a few experiences in the morning, and then we got to Fantasy Springs around 3 o'clock.
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KRISTINA: Then we explored around, looked at the gift shop, ate there, and we stayed there till around 4 o'clock.
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KRISTINA: So we spent about an hour or so in the land.
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VIRGINIA: What other attractions did you see outside of Fantasy Springs?
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KRISTINA: Throughout the day, we ended up, I guess one preference too is it was very hot the entire trip.
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VIRGINIA: How hot?
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VIRGINIA: Can we have a degrees, please?
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KRISTINA: Yeah.
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KRISTINA: So most days it was around 93 and humid, very, very humid, no rain.
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KRISTINA: So it was so hot that in the parks around middle of the day, they make announcements through the loudspeakers saying, make sure you drink liquids, stay indoors, keep cool, because it's so hot.
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VIRGINIA: Okay.
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KRISTINA: So we would go to a lot of indoor attractions as much as we could to beat the heat.
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KRISTINA: So in the morning, we went on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, because I had gotten priority for that, as well as a ride called Nemo and Friends Seariders.
00:17:00.797 --> 00:17:00.957
VIRGINIA: Okay.
00:17:00.957 --> 00:17:06.797
KRISTINA: Which is, I guess, similar to I would describe Star Tours, but Finding Nemo themed.
00:17:06.817 --> 00:17:07.737
VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.
00:17:07.737 --> 00:17:08.857
VIRGINIA: That's interesting.
00:17:08.857 --> 00:17:09.597
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:17:09.597 --> 00:17:13.217
KRISTINA: And then we were also kind of taking this day slow.
00:17:13.217 --> 00:17:17.277
KRISTINA: So we were kind of exploring around, getting snacks.
00:17:17.277 --> 00:17:22.937
KRISTINA: When we first entered the park, we ran into all the characters from Pinocchio.
00:17:22.937 --> 00:17:28.117
KRISTINA: So we saw Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket, the bad guys also as well.
00:17:29.857 --> 00:17:33.957
KRISTINA: So like six characters all in an alleyway.
00:17:33.957 --> 00:17:35.177
VIRGINIA: Oh, wow.
00:17:35.177 --> 00:17:37.717
KRISTINA: Pinocchio's line was a bit too long, so we didn't wait for him.
00:17:37.717 --> 00:17:38.997
VIRGINIA: But okay.
00:17:38.997 --> 00:17:39.177
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:17:39.177 --> 00:17:42.597
VIRGINIA: I can't say I would want to run into those characters in a dark alleyway.
00:17:42.597 --> 00:17:47.477
VIRGINIA: But how exciting to knock out a bunch of characters all at one time.
00:17:47.477 --> 00:17:48.417
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:17:48.417 --> 00:17:52.497
KRISTINA: So yeah, we were kind of doing like whatever we could as we could.
00:17:53.137 --> 00:18:02.597
KRISTINA: One of the places we kept coming back to a lot too was the Mermaid Lagoon area, which is a giant indoor air-conditioned building.
00:18:02.597 --> 00:18:13.137
KRISTINA: So we'd go in there for a bit, maybe check up on our phones for the day, get some ice cream while we're in there, and kind of cool off and such.
00:18:13.137 --> 00:18:13.757
VIRGINIA: Okay.
00:18:13.757 --> 00:18:16.817
VIRGINIA: Was your phone service good your entire trip?
00:18:16.817 --> 00:18:17.057
VIRGINIA: Yeah.
00:18:17.057 --> 00:18:20.197
KRISTINA: Overall, I didn't have really any problems.
00:18:20.197 --> 00:18:24.677
KRISTINA: I have Verizon and we switched over to the International Plan.
00:18:25.697 --> 00:18:28.417
KRISTINA: I just told them the days that we were going to be there.
00:18:29.977 --> 00:18:38.137
KRISTINA: I only really used Wi-Fi in my hotel rooms, but otherwise just use data the whole time, and I didn't have any problems.
00:18:38.137 --> 00:18:38.697
VIRGINIA: Okay.
00:18:38.697 --> 00:18:42.417
VIRGINIA: You've mentioned a lot of snack eating this day.
00:18:43.817 --> 00:18:51.817
VIRGINIA: What did you think overall about the food in both of these parks in comparison to the US parks you've been to?
00:18:52.437 --> 00:19:01.837
KRISTINA: In some ways, there's familiarity, because they serve a lot of American food, but in other ways, they have unique items.
00:19:01.837 --> 00:19:07.637
KRISTINA: An ice pop isn't really unique, but they have Mickey and Minnie ice bars.
00:19:07.657 --> 00:19:12.597
KRISTINA: One is tropical fruit and one is raspberry peach.
00:19:12.597 --> 00:19:16.577
KRISTINA: But then also there's other snacks like gyoza buns.
00:19:16.577 --> 00:19:25.677
KRISTINA: There's definitely more Asian-inspired cuisines, like Chinese and Indian and some Japanese.
00:19:26.237 --> 00:19:28.517
KRISTINA: For that, it was interesting.
00:19:28.517 --> 00:19:30.637
KRISTINA: But then again, it is a Disney park.
00:19:30.637 --> 00:19:35.257
KRISTINA: Again, a lot of it is themed towards America as well.
00:19:35.257 --> 00:19:40.917
KRISTINA: On the first day, probably one of the weirdest snacks I had was a soy sauce churro.
00:19:42.657 --> 00:19:43.637
KRISTINA: Okay.
00:19:43.637 --> 00:19:44.857
VIRGINIA: All right.
00:19:44.857 --> 00:19:45.297
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:19:45.297 --> 00:19:46.657
KRISTINA: It was very sweet.
00:19:46.657 --> 00:19:52.417
KRISTINA: But then it had the aftertaste of soy sauce, which while I was eating it, it was good.
00:19:52.417 --> 00:19:55.857
KRISTINA: But afterwards, I might have regretted a little bit.
00:19:57.097 --> 00:20:04.277
VIRGINIA: So maybe I split it with somebody so that you can try it, but not necessarily have regret after it's done.
00:20:04.377 --> 00:20:04.597
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:20:06.677 --> 00:20:07.877
VIRGINIA: All right.
00:20:07.877 --> 00:20:10.797
VIRGINIA: Anything else on this particular day?
00:20:11.877 --> 00:20:12.477
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:20:12.477 --> 00:20:33.377
KRISTINA: Other highlights was we also went on the Indiana Jones ride there and we went to Aladdin's Magic Lamp Theater, which I went in knowing nothing about, and it ended up being a stage show, slash a screen, slash an animatronic intro thing, slash a magic show.
00:20:33.997 --> 00:20:36.697
KRISTINA: So that was also just a very bizarre experience.
00:20:38.937 --> 00:20:39.117
VIRGINIA: Yeah.
00:20:39.117 --> 00:20:45.337
VIRGINIA: I think I've seen footage of that in somebody's trip on YouTube at some point.
00:20:45.337 --> 00:20:57.877
VIRGINIA: So I know what you mean because it's almost like a museum kind of telling the story of Aladdin through figures, or statues, or whatever they are, but in combination with a stage show.
00:20:57.877 --> 00:20:59.037
VIRGINIA: It's very unique.
00:20:59.037 --> 00:21:01.117
VIRGINIA: The next day you were also at DisneySea.
00:21:01.397 --> 00:21:07.257
VIRGINIA: So what did you do the following day that you had not gotten to do the first day?
00:21:07.257 --> 00:21:07.537
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:21:07.537 --> 00:21:20.377
KRISTINA: So the second day we decided to take our time entering the park, kind of relax, also not overdo it on the second day after we just had two very long days.
00:21:20.397 --> 00:21:26.377
KRISTINA: So we walked around and in the back of the hotel, there's more decor and things to take.
00:21:26.377 --> 00:21:29.177
KRISTINA: It's basically just a place for so many photos.
00:21:29.417 --> 00:21:32.697
KRISTINA: It's like a Toy Story land just for photos.
00:21:32.697 --> 00:21:41.177
KRISTINA: So we went there, we went to our hotel gift shop, kind of shopped around getting ideas for souvenirs and stuff.
00:21:41.177 --> 00:21:48.197
KRISTINA: Then around 8.30, nine o'clock, head over to the park so that we didn't have to wait in the line.
00:21:48.197 --> 00:21:50.977
KRISTINA: We could just walk in.
00:21:50.977 --> 00:21:55.477
KRISTINA: Then on that day, again, it was kind of varied.
00:21:56.417 --> 00:21:59.517
KRISTINA: We got on line to meet Duffy.
00:21:59.517 --> 00:22:01.797
KRISTINA: So we did that that day.
00:22:03.337 --> 00:22:09.997
KRISTINA: We walked around the American waterfront in the Cape Cod areas while we were doing that.
00:22:09.997 --> 00:22:20.077
KRISTINA: Also that morning, I had gotten a standby pass for the Rapunzel ride, the Tangled ride for the afternoon.
00:22:20.097 --> 00:22:20.957
VIRGINIA: Okay.
00:22:20.957 --> 00:22:22.937
VIRGINIA: So how was that?
00:22:22.937 --> 00:22:24.497
KRISTINA: That one was really cute.
00:22:24.697 --> 00:22:25.917
KRISTINA: It's pretty short.
00:22:25.917 --> 00:22:28.617
KRISTINA: It's not a very long boat ride.
00:22:28.617 --> 00:22:38.177
KRISTINA: But it's cool because it's indoors and outdoors, and it has that lantern scene that everyone wants in a Disney ride about Tangled.
00:22:38.177 --> 00:22:42.537
KRISTINA: So, and I got a standby pass, but it was about a 20-minute wait.
00:22:42.537 --> 00:22:44.697
KRISTINA: So that was not bad at all.
00:22:44.697 --> 00:22:45.037
VIRGINIA: Okay.
00:22:45.037 --> 00:22:45.357
VIRGINIA: Yeah.
00:22:45.357 --> 00:22:46.757
VIRGINIA: Not bad at all.
00:22:46.757 --> 00:22:49.357
VIRGINIA: Is it a boat ride, you said?
00:22:49.357 --> 00:22:49.877
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:22:49.877 --> 00:23:05.117
KRISTINA: So I guess the closest thing I would describe it to is that Avatar boat ride where it's like a not very long boat ride, but akin to Disneyland's It's a Small World Again, where it starts out outdoors and then you go into a show building.
00:23:05.117 --> 00:23:05.717
VIRGINIA: Sounds cool.
00:23:05.717 --> 00:23:09.077
VIRGINIA: She needs to get representation here.
00:23:09.077 --> 00:23:13.937
KRISTINA: I mean, they always end up taking the ideas from those parks, so maybe they will.
00:23:15.457 --> 00:23:16.477
VIRGINIA: Crossing my fingers.
00:23:16.477 --> 00:23:17.737
VIRGINIA: Did you make it in?
00:23:17.737 --> 00:23:25.117
VIRGINIA: Was this the park that had the journey under to the center of the earth or whatever that was called?
00:23:25.117 --> 00:23:26.377
KRISTINA: Yes.
00:23:26.377 --> 00:23:28.897
KRISTINA: That was actually one of our last days.
00:23:28.897 --> 00:23:29.897
VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.
00:23:29.897 --> 00:23:30.757
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:23:30.757 --> 00:23:34.137
KRISTINA: But I didn't end up riding it.
00:23:34.137 --> 00:23:36.857
KRISTINA: I initially set off to ride it.
00:23:36.857 --> 00:23:40.617
KRISTINA: I looked up ride footage and I guess just some background.
00:23:40.617 --> 00:23:42.397
KRISTINA: I'm not really one for drops.
00:23:42.737 --> 00:23:43.917
KRISTINA: I don't do drops well at all.
00:23:43.917 --> 00:23:46.657
KRISTINA: I can't even really handle pirates.
00:23:46.657 --> 00:23:47.577
KRISTINA: Okay.
00:23:47.577 --> 00:23:55.797
KRISTINA: So I initially went in thinking, okay, it's just like a slightly bigger drop than like the cars ride in Disneyland.
00:23:55.797 --> 00:23:57.957
KRISTINA: I think I could do it.
00:23:57.957 --> 00:24:02.517
KRISTINA: Then my husband saw the drop once and said, no, you're going to hate this.
00:24:02.517 --> 00:24:07.457
KRISTINA: Because the drop is outdoors, so you can actually see the drop.
00:24:07.457 --> 00:24:09.497
KRISTINA: He's like, you're not going to like that drop.
00:24:09.497 --> 00:24:11.197
KRISTINA: You're not going to have a fun time.
00:24:11.317 --> 00:24:13.457
KRISTINA: I don't know if you should do it.
00:24:15.137 --> 00:24:15.497
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:24:15.497 --> 00:24:24.297
KRISTINA: When he finally did it, I convinced him to go on and I said, listen, you report back to me and let me know if I could handle it.
00:24:24.297 --> 00:24:32.897
KRISTINA: He got off the ride and he said, listen, there'd be really cool animatronics and you would love that part, but you would have not liked the drop because it's very fast.
00:24:32.897 --> 00:24:43.637
VIRGINIA: Well, I'm glad he at least went on it so we could hear how it is, but good on him for knowing you and what you would like well enough to say, yeah, that's not for you.
00:24:43.637 --> 00:24:44.137
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:24:44.577 --> 00:24:47.797
KRISTINA: I do always like walking through the cues and stuff.
00:24:48.377 --> 00:24:55.757
KRISTINA: I'll always walk through the cues and still get the experience of the quote unquote scarier rides even if I don't go on them.
00:24:55.757 --> 00:24:57.177
VIRGINIA: Okay.
00:24:57.197 --> 00:24:58.817
VIRGINIA: I interrupted you.
00:24:59.317 --> 00:25:01.977
VIRGINIA: What else did you get done on this day?
00:25:01.977 --> 00:25:02.517
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:25:02.517 --> 00:25:07.077
KRISTINA: Then we got a few more character meet and greets throughout the day.
00:25:07.557 --> 00:25:12.477
KRISTINA: We saw Panchito from the Three Caballeros walking around, so we met him.
00:25:12.477 --> 00:25:17.357
KRISTINA: We were able to bump into Mickey Mouse, so we met him as well.
00:25:17.357 --> 00:25:21.337
KRISTINA: He was a wait, but Mickey's always worth it.
00:25:21.337 --> 00:25:34.417
KRISTINA: We even unplanned went to the Teddy Roosevelt Lounge and sat down and drank some non-alcoholic drinks and just took in some air conditioning there.
00:25:34.417 --> 00:25:39.337
VIRGINIA: Where is the Teddy Roosevelt Lounge within Tokyo DisneySea?
00:25:39.337 --> 00:25:42.657
KRISTINA: There is an SS Columbia ship.
00:25:42.657 --> 00:25:48.517
KRISTINA: It's not really a ship, it's just a building in water, but it looks like a ship.
00:25:48.517 --> 00:25:54.697
KRISTINA: It's at the American Waterfront, and one of the level of the ships is this Teddy Roosevelt Lounge.
00:25:54.697 --> 00:26:08.357
KRISTINA: You go in and there's giant pictures of Teddy Roosevelt and the bar has bears as the columns of the bar, and there's little glass things of memorabilia of Teddy Roosevelt.
00:26:09.657 --> 00:26:12.697
VIRGINIA: Okay.
00:26:12.697 --> 00:26:15.457
VIRGINIA: Well, it's a good place to get some air conditioning, right?
00:26:15.497 --> 00:26:16.017
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:26:16.017 --> 00:26:16.917
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:26:16.917 --> 00:26:21.777
KRISTINA: Again, it's kind of fun to see their takes on American things.
00:26:21.777 --> 00:26:22.437
VIRGINIA: Right.
00:26:22.437 --> 00:26:23.477
VIRGINIA: Yeah.
00:26:23.477 --> 00:26:23.797
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:26:23.797 --> 00:26:32.177
KRISTINA: And we even squeezed in another ride on Peter Pan because I was also able to get a standby pass for that one.
00:26:32.497 --> 00:26:37.557
KRISTINA: So we waited the 40 minutes on the second day to ride Peter Pan again.
00:26:37.557 --> 00:26:40.717
VIRGINIA: How similar is it to our Peter Pan?
00:26:40.717 --> 00:26:41.457
KRISTINA: Very different.
00:26:41.457 --> 00:26:50.377
KRISTINA: So for backstory to their Disneyland has a Peter Pan ride that's similar to our Peter Pan ride.
00:26:50.377 --> 00:26:57.337
KRISTINA: But the one at DisneySea, I describe it best as similar to the Spider-Man ride in Universal.
00:26:57.337 --> 00:27:04.537
KRISTINA: But the closest thing I would describe to in Disney is like a Remy Ratatouille's Adventure type thing.
00:27:04.537 --> 00:27:17.837
KRISTINA: Although I don't feel like that comparison is as similar because it's more you're following along Peter and he's taking you to Neverland and flying through London and it's 3D screens.
00:27:17.837 --> 00:27:22.637
KRISTINA: But there's some physical set pieces as well that interact with it all.
00:27:22.637 --> 00:27:24.177
KRISTINA: So it's really cool.
00:27:24.177 --> 00:27:25.577
KRISTINA: It's a really good experience.
00:27:26.177 --> 00:27:27.037
VIRGINIA: It's neat.
00:27:27.037 --> 00:27:27.517
KRISTINA: So yeah.
00:27:27.517 --> 00:27:32.877
KRISTINA: So I was happy out of all the Fantasy Springs rides that I was able to ride that one twice.
00:27:32.877 --> 00:27:33.597
VIRGINIA: Yeah.
00:27:33.597 --> 00:27:35.977
VIRGINIA: Anything else of note that particular day?
00:27:35.977 --> 00:27:38.257
VIRGINIA: Because we've got miles to go here.
00:27:38.277 --> 00:27:39.017
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:27:39.017 --> 00:27:40.737
KRISTINA: I think that's pretty much it.
00:27:40.737 --> 00:27:47.617
KRISTINA: The only other thing of note is I think that was the day we also got a pass for Tinkerbell's busy buzzy's.
00:27:47.617 --> 00:27:51.777
KRISTINA: But it was so late at night, we skipped that one.
00:27:51.777 --> 00:27:54.957
KRISTINA: So it's the only ride we didn't do at Fantasy Springs.
00:27:55.337 --> 00:27:55.657
KRISTINA: All right.
00:27:55.657 --> 00:28:01.637
VIRGINIA: So Friday, July 19th, you were heading over into Disneyland Park.
00:28:01.637 --> 00:28:04.537
VIRGINIA: So how did that day go?
00:28:04.537 --> 00:28:04.737
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:28:04.737 --> 00:28:07.297
KRISTINA: So that was also another early morning.
00:28:07.297 --> 00:28:17.837
KRISTINA: We had happy entry and we asked the cast member when we should get there and she said around 7.30 for again, about a nine o'clock opening.
00:28:19.437 --> 00:28:23.757
KRISTINA: And it worked in our favor because we were there so early, we got to wait in the shade.
00:28:24.137 --> 00:28:28.417
KRISTINA: So I was glad we were not standing in the sun for like an hour and a half.
00:28:29.657 --> 00:28:40.657
KRISTINA: So got into Disneyland, got a pass for Baymax and got on the Baymax Whip ride right off the first bet in the morning.
00:28:40.657 --> 00:28:45.677
KRISTINA: And then headed over to our second premier pass, which was Monsters Inc.
00:28:46.057 --> 00:28:46.977
VIRGINIA: And Monsters Inc.
00:28:46.977 --> 00:28:53.757
VIRGINIA: is that similar to the Disneyland or I guess it's Disney California Adventure version?
00:28:53.757 --> 00:28:58.297
KRISTINA: Kind of, but there's an interactive element where you have a flashlight.
00:28:58.297 --> 00:29:03.177
KRISTINA: And it's interesting because it's not a game where you earn points.
00:29:03.177 --> 00:29:08.657
KRISTINA: It's just a game where you aim your flashlight at the Monsters Inc.
00:29:08.657 --> 00:29:13.797
KRISTINA: helmets and it makes characters kind of interact or pop out or such.
00:29:14.657 --> 00:29:15.217
VIRGINIA: Okay.
00:29:15.217 --> 00:29:15.777
VIRGINIA: All right.
00:29:15.777 --> 00:29:22.077
VIRGINIA: So sort of like the RIP shooting range in Adventureland.
00:29:22.077 --> 00:29:22.877
VIRGINIA: Yeah.
00:29:22.877 --> 00:29:25.017
VIRGINIA: You're causing something to happen within the scene.
00:29:25.017 --> 00:29:25.437
VIRGINIA: Got it.
00:29:25.437 --> 00:29:26.177
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:29:26.177 --> 00:29:31.577
KRISTINA: Also that morning, early morning, we went to Gaston's Tavern just for some snacks.
00:29:31.577 --> 00:29:39.457
KRISTINA: So I had an apple cinnamon churro and we had potato barrels and a nice meat pie and stuff.
00:29:39.457 --> 00:29:42.257
KRISTINA: So the theming was really fun there.
00:29:42.597 --> 00:29:48.017
KRISTINA: There was a Best Chen Clef Award hanging up in all of Gaston's trophies.
00:29:48.017 --> 00:29:52.997
KRISTINA: There was even his big giant arm chair that he has next to the fire.
00:29:52.997 --> 00:29:55.737
KRISTINA: So we were having fun with that.
00:29:55.737 --> 00:29:56.757
VIRGINIA: Cool.
00:29:56.757 --> 00:30:01.037
KRISTINA: But yeah, to breeze through a few more things, we went on Star Tours there.
00:30:01.037 --> 00:30:09.297
KRISTINA: That is the same as everyone else's Star Tours, but I guess you should note that all these rides are completely in Japanese, no English.
00:30:09.497 --> 00:30:12.817
KRISTINA: So that being the biggest difference.
00:30:12.817 --> 00:30:13.497
VIRGINIA: Okay.
00:30:13.497 --> 00:30:14.277
VIRGINIA: All right.
00:30:14.277 --> 00:30:23.137
VIRGINIA: So on rides that are the same as we have here in the US, obviously you could understand what was going on.
00:30:23.137 --> 00:30:32.937
VIRGINIA: The rides that we don't have in the US, did you feel like you still got a good sense of the story even without understanding the words that were being said?
00:30:33.257 --> 00:30:33.437
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:30:33.437 --> 00:30:38.597
KRISTINA: Overall, you can just know from the actions and the characters what's going on.
00:30:38.597 --> 00:30:43.257
KRISTINA: But I would always joke on the Peter Pan ride because there was a free show.
00:30:43.257 --> 00:30:48.997
KRISTINA: Peter would say we needed to help Wendy with something and that he needed all the Lost Boys.
00:30:48.997 --> 00:30:53.037
KRISTINA: I don't know why she needed help and throughout the ride she seemed fine.
00:30:53.037 --> 00:30:57.197
KRISTINA: So I don't know, we were helping Wendy for something, but I'm not sure what we helped her with.
00:30:57.757 --> 00:30:59.717
KRISTINA: Similarly, The Aladdin Show.
00:30:59.717 --> 00:31:04.817
KRISTINA: I'm not sure if I entirely knew the plot, but they would have visual aids and stuff.
00:31:04.817 --> 00:31:07.937
KRISTINA: So you knew enough of what was going on that you weren't lost.
00:31:07.937 --> 00:31:10.397
KRISTINA: Other than that, we went on star tours.
00:31:11.297 --> 00:31:27.497
KRISTINA: We didn't eat, but we looked at what people call Sunny Eclipse Japanese Cousin, which is Tony Solaroni, and he is a pizza-making alien from the planet Spudmoni.
00:31:28.477 --> 00:31:36.077
KRISTINA: So he just is happily making pizza above the counter to this Tomorrowland restaurant.
00:31:36.077 --> 00:31:39.557
KRISTINA: So we saw him and his giant pizza-making machine.
00:31:41.337 --> 00:31:43.337
VIRGINIA: So does he sing any songs or anything?
00:31:44.397 --> 00:31:46.537
VIRGINIA: No, he's like his only skill is pizza.
00:31:46.537 --> 00:31:49.057
KRISTINA: His only skill is pizza.
00:31:49.057 --> 00:31:54.177
KRISTINA: And it's just him controlling a big machine to make all the pizzas at the restaurant, I guess.
00:31:54.177 --> 00:31:55.057
VIRGINIA: All right.
00:31:55.057 --> 00:31:57.717
KRISTINA: But yeah, we also we went on Buzz Lightyear.
00:31:57.717 --> 00:32:02.857
KRISTINA: And then that day we had the famous Mike Melon bread.
00:32:02.857 --> 00:32:04.097
VIRGINIA: I don't know about this.
00:32:04.097 --> 00:32:12.037
KRISTINA: So the Japanese are known for eating melon bread, which is just a bread that's slightly sweet, typically to the flavor of melon.
00:32:12.737 --> 00:32:17.877
KRISTINA: And so in Japan, they have one that looks like Mike Wazowski.
00:32:17.877 --> 00:32:21.357
KRISTINA: And it's like Mike Wazowski's face and eye and stuff.
00:32:21.357 --> 00:32:22.317
VIRGINIA: Cool.
00:32:22.317 --> 00:32:23.497
VIRGINIA: All right.
00:32:23.497 --> 00:32:24.997
VIRGINIA: Is there any kind of filling or anything?
00:32:24.997 --> 00:32:27.037
VIRGINIA: Or it's just bread?
00:32:27.037 --> 00:32:30.137
KRISTINA: It's filled with like a custard, like a light custard.
00:32:30.137 --> 00:32:33.737
KRISTINA: And obviously it's melon-forward in flavor.
00:32:33.737 --> 00:32:34.137
VIRGINIA: Okay.
00:32:34.417 --> 00:32:36.377
VIRGINIA: That actually sounds really good.
00:32:36.377 --> 00:32:37.717
KRISTINA: Yeah, it was really nice.
00:32:37.717 --> 00:32:40.837
KRISTINA: And I'm glad it's one of the things that people talk about.
00:32:40.917 --> 00:32:42.517
KRISTINA: And I was glad I tried it.
00:32:42.517 --> 00:32:47.677
VIRGINIA: Yeah, it sounds like glad you tried it and glad it turned out to be as good as people made it out to be.
00:32:47.677 --> 00:32:48.717
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:32:48.717 --> 00:32:50.777
KRISTINA: But yeah, we went on a bunch more rides.
00:32:50.777 --> 00:32:58.037
KRISTINA: We went on Roger Rabbit Spin, which is normally in Disneyland, but it's in this Disneyland too.
00:32:58.037 --> 00:33:00.437
KRISTINA: We went on It's a Small World.
00:33:00.437 --> 00:33:05.637
KRISTINA: We went over to the castle, and their castle is Cinderella Castle.
00:33:05.637 --> 00:33:07.737
KRISTINA: But upstairs, you can just go.
00:33:07.737 --> 00:33:11.957
KRISTINA: It's a walk around experience, similar to how Disneyland is.
00:33:11.957 --> 00:33:17.697
KRISTINA: So we did the walk around experience and just went to the second floor of the castle.
00:33:17.697 --> 00:33:27.097
KRISTINA: We went on Pooh's Honey Hunt, which is their Winnie the Pooh ride, but it's a trackless ride, so it's better than ours.
00:33:29.657 --> 00:33:39.997
KRISTINA: We went on Snow White Scary Adventure, which we used to have and Disneyland used to have, and Tokyo still has it scary.
00:33:39.997 --> 00:33:40.857
VIRGINIA: Okay.
00:33:40.857 --> 00:33:43.397
KRISTINA: And yeah, we walked around.
00:33:43.397 --> 00:33:58.617
KRISTINA: I think dinner had a interesting food of note, which is we went to Captain Hook's Pizza and had seafood pizza, and then a egg and chicken salad pizza.
00:33:58.617 --> 00:33:59.337
VIRGINIA: Okay.
00:33:59.337 --> 00:33:59.657
VIRGINIA: All right.
00:33:59.657 --> 00:34:00.577
VIRGINIA: What kind of seafood?
00:34:01.057 --> 00:34:09.737
KRISTINA: It was like shrimp and then it was mostly just shrimp and then it had veggies, so nothing too crazy or out of the ordinary.
00:34:09.737 --> 00:34:10.377
VIRGINIA: Okay.
00:34:10.377 --> 00:34:12.077
VIRGINIA: I could, I could wrap my head around that.
00:34:12.077 --> 00:34:16.157
VIRGINIA: What about the, you said, egg salad?
00:34:16.157 --> 00:34:16.577
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:34:16.577 --> 00:34:20.997
KRISTINA: It's egg and chicken salad and it didn't have sauce.
00:34:20.997 --> 00:34:26.317
KRISTINA: It just kind of had like mayo as the sauce layer, which was bizarre.
00:34:26.317 --> 00:34:26.577
VIRGINIA: All right.
00:34:26.577 --> 00:34:28.957
VIRGINIA: When they made the pizza, which came first, the chicken or the egg?
00:34:32.097 --> 00:34:33.437
KRISTINA: Age-old question.
00:34:33.437 --> 00:34:33.837
VIRGINIA: Yes.
00:34:33.837 --> 00:34:35.377
VIRGINIA: We'll never know.
00:34:35.377 --> 00:34:36.077
VIRGINIA: All right.
00:34:36.077 --> 00:34:41.137
VIRGINIA: So anything else in, in Disneyland for that day?
00:34:41.137 --> 00:34:49.417
KRISTINA: I think that was pretty much the main events and just wrapped up passing by the Club 33 door in Disneyland.
00:34:49.717 --> 00:34:52.497
KRISTINA: You know, just had a picture with it.
00:34:52.497 --> 00:34:57.097
VIRGINIA: And look around and see if you could find anyone to scoot you in with them.
00:34:57.097 --> 00:34:58.177
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:34:58.177 --> 00:34:59.717
KRISTINA: No one to be found.
00:34:59.717 --> 00:35:00.517
VIRGINIA: Darn it.
00:35:00.517 --> 00:35:01.757
VIRGINIA: All right.
00:35:01.757 --> 00:35:02.097
VIRGINIA: All right.
00:35:02.097 --> 00:35:09.097
VIRGINIA: So Saturday, July 20th, you were back in Disneyland for, I think, most of the day and then you had dinner plans that night.
00:35:09.097 --> 00:35:13.757
VIRGINIA: So what else did you do in the Disneyland Park before dinner?
00:35:13.757 --> 00:35:21.157
KRISTINA: So actually, I ended up moving our dinner because I was like, I only have two days in Disneyland and I have four in DisneySea.
00:35:21.157 --> 00:35:29.557
KRISTINA: So I last-minute switched it because the dinner was in our hotel and it was very easy to switch and get a new reservation for.
00:35:29.557 --> 00:35:36.537
KRISTINA: So we were spending the whole day in Disneyland, but we rope-dropped waffles.
00:35:36.537 --> 00:35:45.357
KRISTINA: We went over to the Great American Waffle Cone and we got a Mickey Mouse waffle first thing in the morning.
00:35:45.357 --> 00:35:46.457
VIRGINIA: All right.
00:35:46.457 --> 00:35:51.777
VIRGINIA: The same as we have in the US or anything special and unique about theirs?
00:35:51.777 --> 00:36:00.497
KRISTINA: Well, I guess I should specify because I had this talk with my brother recently that they're not hotel park size like the small ones.
00:36:00.497 --> 00:36:05.097
KRISTINA: They're like sleepy hollow size like the bigger Mickey waffles.
00:36:06.417 --> 00:36:13.597
KRISTINA: I guess one other thing about Tokyo Disneyland is they don't do a lot of variety in terms of choices.
00:36:13.617 --> 00:36:18.937
KRISTINA: Usually only have like two or three choices for the whole quick service or wherever you are.
00:36:18.937 --> 00:36:29.977
KRISTINA: So they just had one waffle and that waffle came with berries in one ear and like a butter with like maple in the other ear and that's like the only way you could get the waffle.
00:36:29.977 --> 00:36:34.897
VIRGINIA: Did they have syrup on the side and things like that that you could add if you wanted?
00:36:34.897 --> 00:36:37.197
KRISTINA: Yes, they did have syrup and butter on the side.
00:36:37.857 --> 00:36:44.497
VIRGINIA: Okay, so after rope dropping waffles, you must have been full, but what did you do next?
00:36:44.497 --> 00:36:54.537
KRISTINA: Yeah, so then we went to the Tiki Room there, which is Stitch themed and is the only ride that they actually give you a translation device for.
00:36:54.537 --> 00:36:56.957
KRISTINA: Or I shouldn't call it a ride or traction.
00:36:56.957 --> 00:36:58.597
VIRGINIA: Sure, sure.
00:36:58.597 --> 00:37:03.217
KRISTINA: So that ride, we had a nice translation device so we could understand everything Stitch was saying.
00:37:04.877 --> 00:37:05.537
VIRGINIA: Interesting.
00:37:05.537 --> 00:37:13.117
VIRGINIA: Okay, it's very interesting to me that they deemed that that one was the one where you actually need a translation, okay.
00:37:13.117 --> 00:37:20.597
KRISTINA: Yeah, so basically the birds think Stitch is this like Tiki god and that they must appease the Tiki god.
00:37:20.597 --> 00:37:24.417
KRISTINA: And Stitch is just causing havoc as he always does.
00:37:24.417 --> 00:37:25.417
VIRGINIA: That's Stitch for you.
00:37:26.277 --> 00:37:29.177
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:37:29.177 --> 00:37:35.837
KRISTINA: And then we went over to the country bears because they had a summer layover there for their country bears.
00:37:35.837 --> 00:37:39.337
KRISTINA: So it was like summer vacation themed.
00:37:39.337 --> 00:37:49.937
KRISTINA: So it was fun to hear the Japanese bears doing covers of various country songs that we know well.
00:37:49.937 --> 00:37:53.277
KRISTINA: Some of them in English, most of them in Japanese.
00:37:53.277 --> 00:37:54.037
VIRGINIA: Give us an example.
00:37:54.697 --> 00:37:56.997
KRISTINA: Yeah, like Achey Breaky Heart.
00:37:59.337 --> 00:38:00.057
VIRGINIA: Classic.
00:38:00.057 --> 00:38:01.177
VIRGINIA: All right.
00:38:01.177 --> 00:38:04.937
KRISTINA: Another bear was dressed up like Elvis, and he was singing Elvis.
00:38:04.937 --> 00:38:07.497
KRISTINA: So again, always understandable.
00:38:07.497 --> 00:38:12.497
KRISTINA: They would make it so you were like, yep, I know exactly what's going on here.
00:38:12.497 --> 00:38:17.077
KRISTINA: Then we passed by Splash Mountain and just kind of looked at it and stuff.
00:38:17.077 --> 00:38:18.657
KRISTINA: We didn't end up going on.
00:38:18.657 --> 00:38:20.337
KRISTINA: We decided not to.
00:38:20.337 --> 00:38:26.437
KRISTINA: We then went over and did Buzz Lightyear again, just to see if we could beat our score.
00:38:26.437 --> 00:38:33.437
KRISTINA: We went over to the Haunted Mansion, which fun fact, their Haunted Mansion is in Fantasyland.
00:38:33.437 --> 00:38:36.077
VIRGINIA: That's an interesting place to put it.
00:38:36.077 --> 00:38:40.937
VIRGINIA: Does it look out of place or does it look like it blends in based on the way they've done it?
00:38:40.937 --> 00:38:48.657
KRISTINA: Well, it's the Walt Disney World Haunted Mansion, and when you're at the back of the castle, it's often to the left.
00:38:48.657 --> 00:38:54.297
KRISTINA: So it's never going to feel normal to me because it's just like you took the Haunted Mansion and put it someplace else.
00:38:54.297 --> 00:38:56.897
VIRGINIA: You moved it, okay.
00:38:56.897 --> 00:38:57.057
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:38:57.057 --> 00:38:59.657
KRISTINA: Other than that, again, just more exploring.
00:38:59.657 --> 00:39:05.497
KRISTINA: I think we went on star tours again just to see what different ride experience we have.
00:39:05.497 --> 00:39:14.217
KRISTINA: I will note that one of the rides, the ride ends up in Bat 2 at the end of the ride, which is funny because they don't have a Bat 2.
00:39:14.217 --> 00:39:24.277
KRISTINA: But yeah, and then we took some pictures with some Fastpass machines that are no longer in use, but they were cute, so we had to take a picture with them.
00:39:24.277 --> 00:39:27.637
VIRGINIA: So how late did you end up staying at the park that day?
00:39:27.637 --> 00:39:27.897
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:39:27.897 --> 00:39:31.457
KRISTINA: So for most of the days, we didn't stay until the end of the night.
00:39:31.457 --> 00:39:40.177
KRISTINA: Most of the parks were open from like nine till nine, and we always ended up getting tired around like seven or so.
00:39:40.177 --> 00:39:44.477
KRISTINA: So we usually would always end up leaving a bit early on most park days.
00:39:44.477 --> 00:39:48.957
KRISTINA: Disneyland at this time didn't have any shows except for the electrical parade.
00:39:49.497 --> 00:39:55.577
KRISTINA: So I felt like I didn't need to stay up late for the electrical parade that I've seen at Walt Disney World before.
00:39:55.577 --> 00:40:01.057
KRISTINA: So that was the only experience I chose to really skip.
00:40:01.057 --> 00:40:01.557
VIRGINIA: Sure.
00:40:01.557 --> 00:40:01.777
VIRGINIA: Yeah.
00:40:01.777 --> 00:40:09.657
VIRGINIA: If you've seen that a number of times, unless you were just feeling extremely nostalgic and wanted to stay for that, I can understand that choice.
00:40:09.657 --> 00:40:10.117
VIRGINIA: All right.
00:40:10.117 --> 00:40:21.797
VIRGINIA: So the next day, Sunday, July 21st, you were back over at Tokyo DisneySea, and you had a very early dinner scheduled this day based on when you were able to get a reservation.
00:40:21.797 --> 00:40:29.537
VIRGINIA: So 3:50 PM, which it sounds like if you're getting tired at that time of night, that was probably not such a bad dinnertime for you.
00:40:29.537 --> 00:40:35.077
VIRGINIA: So heading back over into Tokyo DisneySea, what did you focus on for this day?
00:40:35.077 --> 00:40:35.377
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:40:35.377 --> 00:40:39.437
KRISTINA: So this was actually the day we moved our buffet to as well.
00:40:39.437 --> 00:40:44.717
KRISTINA: So we woke up and did breakfast buffet because we were curious what it was going to be.
00:40:45.437 --> 00:40:53.477
KRISTINA: So we stayed in our hotel, had breakfast buffet, and I mentioned in the last one that, so I'm allergic to strawberries, not highly allergic.
00:40:53.477 --> 00:40:55.737
KRISTINA: I'm not going to have a reaction or anything like that.
00:40:55.737 --> 00:41:02.957
KRISTINA: So but I did skip the strawberry breads that they had and the strawberry jams that they had for offer.
00:41:02.957 --> 00:41:04.817
KRISTINA: But I did have-
00:41:04.817 --> 00:41:18.757
VIRGINIA: Just to note for listeners, because I don't think we've said it yet on this episode, but this was Lotso Cafe in the Toy Story Hotel, which is themed after Lotso and has a strawberry theme to it, hence so many strawberry items that are available there.
00:41:18.757 --> 00:41:19.137
KRISTINA: Yes.
00:41:19.317 --> 00:41:21.617
KRISTINA: They did like theming their food.
00:41:21.617 --> 00:41:29.237
KRISTINA: They had a ham and egg salad that looked like ham.
00:41:29.237 --> 00:41:36.917
KRISTINA: They had a macaroni salad that looked like the doll from Toy Story 4.
00:41:36.917 --> 00:41:44.457
KRISTINA: So some of the food was themed to look like something, and others were just classic buffet foods.
00:41:44.457 --> 00:41:56.837
KRISTINA: Since Japan doesn't really do breakfast, they had an American side where they would have eggs, and they would have someone serving pancakes and things of that nature.
00:41:56.837 --> 00:41:59.937
KRISTINA: Then the other side was just lunch or dinner foods.
00:41:59.937 --> 00:42:05.677
KRISTINA: They had pasta, and they would have seafood soup for breakfast.
00:42:05.677 --> 00:42:07.457
KRISTINA: So very different.
00:42:07.837 --> 00:42:10.677
KRISTINA: So we just ate the buffet food.
00:42:10.677 --> 00:42:14.437
KRISTINA: I mostly stuck to normal, ordinary.
00:42:14.437 --> 00:42:19.837
KRISTINA: I had pancakes, which they stamped with a strawberry design, which was fun.
00:42:19.837 --> 00:42:23.077
KRISTINA: But otherwise, I mostly stuck to eggs and stuff.
00:42:23.077 --> 00:42:27.577
KRISTINA: I had some pasta and a bao bun just to be a little different.
00:42:27.577 --> 00:42:30.797
KRISTINA: But I was also not trying to stuff myself.
00:42:31.357 --> 00:42:36.697
KRISTINA: And then we also used that day in the morning after breakfast to do laundry.
00:42:36.697 --> 00:42:39.937
KRISTINA: So we put some laundry in before the buffet.
00:42:39.937 --> 00:42:47.537
KRISTINA: And then we came back to the laundry room afterwards and then moved our stuff to the dryer just because we knew we had such a long trip ahead of us.
00:42:47.537 --> 00:42:49.597
VIRGINIA: Very efficient of you.
00:42:49.597 --> 00:42:50.177
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:42:50.177 --> 00:42:51.717
KRISTINA: I mean, I don't want to lose.
00:42:51.717 --> 00:42:56.197
KRISTINA: I mean, it was hard enough to be like, okay, I'm going to sacrifice some park time.
00:42:56.197 --> 00:42:59.277
KRISTINA: So I was like, all right, I need to make it worth my time.
00:42:59.377 --> 00:43:03.297
KRISTINA: And so Laundry Day was buffet slash Laundry Day.
00:43:03.297 --> 00:43:06.677
VIRGINIA: So what time did you end up making it over into the park?
00:43:06.677 --> 00:43:06.997
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:43:06.997 --> 00:43:18.037
KRISTINA: So we ended up making it to the park around 11 o'clock or so, which did mean that the passes and stuff were really sparse.
00:43:18.037 --> 00:43:26.657
KRISTINA: But you're still able to make some passes at various attractions, just not as good as selection you would if you were there right when the park opened, of course.
00:43:27.437 --> 00:43:27.937
VIRGINIA: Right.
00:43:27.937 --> 00:43:36.657
KRISTINA: But we walked in and again, there was just a bunch of characters, and we had just also bought an autograph book.
00:43:36.657 --> 00:43:45.857
KRISTINA: So we walked over and got to meet Donald, Daisy, Goofy, Clarice, Pluto was even there.
00:43:45.857 --> 00:43:52.497
KRISTINA: We actually didn't end up meeting with Pluto, but we just knocked out a whole bunch of characters all in one go.
00:43:52.497 --> 00:43:54.077
KRISTINA: So that was really nice.
00:43:54.077 --> 00:43:58.057
KRISTINA: Then we finally decided to wait on line for Toy Story Mania.
00:43:58.057 --> 00:44:00.477
KRISTINA: So we did Toy Story Mania.
00:44:00.477 --> 00:44:01.657
VIRGINIA: Who won?
00:44:02.757 --> 00:44:04.597
KRISTINA: My husband won.
00:44:04.597 --> 00:44:13.497
KRISTINA: I'm always trying too hard, I think, to get the high level targets that I think I always end up with the smaller scores.
00:44:13.497 --> 00:44:16.197
VIRGINIA: Yeah, same here, same here.
00:44:16.197 --> 00:44:20.497
KRISTINA: But then we went on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea again.
00:44:20.497 --> 00:44:22.637
KRISTINA: I guess I didn't really describe that ride.
00:44:22.637 --> 00:44:30.477
KRISTINA: I would describe it like riding our Peter Pan where you get into a car that's mounted to the ceiling.
00:44:30.497 --> 00:44:31.537
VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.
00:44:31.537 --> 00:44:48.197
KRISTINA: But it looks like a submarine car, like it's got four sides, and then they just do a bubble effect on the window of this car that you're going through, and it's like a dark ride, and so they make you feel like you're exploring under sea in this dark ride.
00:44:48.197 --> 00:44:49.757
VIRGINIA: Okay.
00:44:49.757 --> 00:44:51.837
VIRGINIA: That's not what I pictured at all.
00:44:51.837 --> 00:45:02.077
VIRGINIA: For some reason, I thought it was going to be like a submarine sort of under the water adventure, like the Nemo thing at Disneyland.
00:45:02.077 --> 00:45:08.457
KRISTINA: I guess they decided to do it differently, because I'm assuming theirs was built later, and it was kind of fun.
00:45:08.457 --> 00:45:12.657
KRISTINA: And we learned on the last day that you can actually control.
00:45:12.657 --> 00:45:14.957
KRISTINA: There's like a light that comes off the ride.
00:45:14.957 --> 00:45:21.377
KRISTINA: There's like a little joystick, and you can control the light while you're going on the ride and like pointed around at the scene.
00:45:21.377 --> 00:45:22.357
VIRGINIA: So that's cool.
00:45:22.897 --> 00:45:25.377
KRISTINA: And then we went gift shopping.
00:45:25.377 --> 00:45:35.417
KRISTINA: We went to all the gift shops kind of again, since we're kind of wrapping up on our Disney adventure, just finalizing on what souvenirs we want to actually buy.
00:45:35.417 --> 00:45:40.277
KRISTINA: And then we went over to our early dinner reservation.
00:45:40.277 --> 00:45:40.537
VIRGINIA: Okay.
00:45:40.537 --> 00:45:42.877
VIRGINIA: And you said it was called Canalettos.
00:45:42.877 --> 00:45:44.897
VIRGINIA: Does that mean that it's an Italian place?
00:45:44.897 --> 00:45:45.297
KRISTINA: Yes.
00:45:45.297 --> 00:45:48.117
KRISTINA: So it was in the Mediterranean area.
00:45:48.117 --> 00:45:56.677
KRISTINA: Kind of one of the benefits is that there's a balcony you could sit out on and watch the gondola rides go by on.
00:45:56.697 --> 00:46:02.337
KRISTINA: But again, it was just so hot that we chose indoor seating for this one.
00:46:02.337 --> 00:46:05.717
KRISTINA: I mean, the detailing in there is still really great.
00:46:05.717 --> 00:46:08.257
KRISTINA: And they sat us right where you could see the kitchen.
00:46:08.257 --> 00:46:15.957
KRISTINA: And it's similar to like the Italy Pavilion where there's just like a big open kitchen and like a pizza oven that you could watch.
00:46:15.957 --> 00:46:18.197
KRISTINA: So we just got some pizza.
00:46:18.837 --> 00:46:27.457
KRISTINA: We got some pasta and it was probably one of the better pizzas that we got after that other experience.
00:46:27.457 --> 00:46:30.717
VIRGINIA: After your seafood pizza and your egg chicken salad pizza.
00:46:30.717 --> 00:46:30.997
VIRGINIA: Okay.
00:46:30.997 --> 00:46:33.077
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:46:33.077 --> 00:46:37.677
KRISTINA: So we decided to go with the basic, you know, basic pizzas.
00:46:38.517 --> 00:46:39.357
VIRGINIA: Okay.
00:46:39.357 --> 00:46:54.797
KRISTINA: And then after we ate, we went on the venetian gondolas, which is a big gondola ride where there's actually someone rowing your gondola around the waterways of DisneySea.
00:46:54.797 --> 00:46:55.697
VIRGINIA: Oh, wow.
00:46:55.697 --> 00:47:01.877
KRISTINA: As you go past other guests, they encourage all of them to say ciao to each other.
00:47:01.877 --> 00:47:08.237
KRISTINA: So just a whole bunch of Japanese tourists saying ciao to each other, which is a lot of fun.
00:47:09.657 --> 00:47:20.117
VIRGINIA: Is it getting you from one place to another within the park, or does it have a set route so you're getting out of the gondola at the same place that you got into it?
00:47:20.117 --> 00:47:20.677
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:47:20.677 --> 00:47:26.117
KRISTINA: I guess I fast-forward through some of the other transportation we took in the park.
00:47:26.117 --> 00:47:36.297
KRISTINA: This one, it was just a loop, but in DisneySea, there is a boat, one that loops, one that gets you from place to place.
00:47:36.297 --> 00:47:40.917
KRISTINA: There's two different routes and there's multiple places you can get on.
00:47:40.917 --> 00:47:50.957
KRISTINA: Then they also have a monorail of sorts, a trolley car that also gets you from one point to another in DisneySea as well.
00:47:50.957 --> 00:48:08.437
KRISTINA: There's some things that work as transportation and other things like this gondola where it's just a nice view because you go to the Mediterranean area and then it looks out on the volcano mysterious island and then it comes right back to the Mediterranean harbour.
00:48:08.997 --> 00:48:10.837
KRISTINA: It's just very scenic.
00:48:10.837 --> 00:48:19.357
KRISTINA: Then in Disneyland, I didn't realize their train is only in their frontier land and it does a loop.
00:48:19.357 --> 00:48:22.337
VIRGINIA: Oh, it loops frontier land, not the park.
00:48:22.337 --> 00:48:22.697
KRISTINA: No.
00:48:23.037 --> 00:48:26.617
KRISTINA: It's like not transportation, it's just a ride.
00:48:26.617 --> 00:48:27.257
VIRGINIA: It's just a ride.
00:48:27.257 --> 00:48:27.497
VIRGINIA: Okay.
00:48:28.177 --> 00:48:29.477
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:48:29.477 --> 00:48:40.237
KRISTINA: It's similar to Disneyland, where you end up in a tunnel and you're looking at scenes of dinosaurs, which I never understood from Disneyland, but is also now in Tokyo.
00:48:42.477 --> 00:48:42.877
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:48:42.877 --> 00:48:48.617
KRISTINA: Other than that, after the gondolas, we went on Indiana Jones again.
00:48:48.617 --> 00:48:55.897
KRISTINA: We went back to the Mermaid Lagoon, got some cold air, ate some seashell ice cream.
00:48:56.297 --> 00:49:05.557
KRISTINA: It was sea salt in a cone that's shaped like a seashell that held your ice cream together, a bit of raspberry cream.
00:49:05.557 --> 00:49:08.257
KRISTINA: That was one of our favorite desserts of the whole trip.
00:49:08.257 --> 00:49:09.897
VIRGINIA: That sounds very tasty.
00:49:09.897 --> 00:49:12.337
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:49:12.337 --> 00:49:17.277
KRISTINA: Then we kind of, this is the only night that we stayed all the way until the fireworks show.
00:49:18.177 --> 00:49:30.637
KRISTINA: So we stayed the whole time and then when we got to like an hour before the show, we asked the cast member where we could stand and she gave us a good spot to stand.
00:49:30.637 --> 00:49:41.037
KRISTINA: I would describe this like watching the Epcot waterway shows where it's just you're in the Mediterranean Harbor and you find a spot along the waterway to like watch the show from.
00:49:42.197 --> 00:49:51.757
KRISTINA: And then it's similar to when you're watching Fantasmic where they have boats that kind of circle around and stuff that have characters on it.
00:49:51.757 --> 00:50:00.997
KRISTINA: And then they kind of have like a barge that they roll out that's in the middle that has, you know, screens and whatnot, decor, you know.
00:50:00.997 --> 00:50:08.077
KRISTINA: And then sometimes the fireworks would shoot out from that or fireworks would shoot out from the side.
00:50:08.077 --> 00:50:19.017
KRISTINA: I think the story was that like Peter Pan and his crew come out on their ship and then they're talking about like heroes and stories as they always do with all these shows.
00:50:19.017 --> 00:50:27.057
KRISTINA: And then you eventually see like Moana and you see Aladdin and you see Miguel from Coco.
00:50:27.057 --> 00:50:35.357
KRISTINA: So I think they were picking characters to represent each one of the areas of DisneySeas because there's like the Lost River Delta.
00:50:35.357 --> 00:50:36.277
KRISTINA: So I was thinking Coco.
00:50:36.637 --> 00:50:40.537
KRISTINA: And so they kind of do that.
00:50:40.537 --> 00:50:42.117
KRISTINA: And so that was a fun show.
00:50:42.117 --> 00:50:47.777
VIRGINIA: That sounds really cool, like a mashup of some of my favorite Disney things.
00:50:47.777 --> 00:50:51.277
KRISTINA: Yeah, it was definitely worth staying back and watching.
00:50:51.277 --> 00:50:51.637
VIRGINIA: Right.
00:50:51.637 --> 00:50:54.397
VIRGINIA: Monday, July 22nd.
00:50:54.397 --> 00:50:57.497
VIRGINIA: Originally, you were going to pick a park based on what you had to do.
00:50:57.497 --> 00:51:05.857
VIRGINIA: But it sounds like because you bought all your tickets at the beginning, you knew for a fact you were going back to Tokyo DisneySea for this last park day.
00:51:06.157 --> 00:51:16.657
VIRGINIA: So did you do anything on the last park day that you had not done any of the other days in terms of attractions, snacks, meals, that sort of thing?
00:51:16.657 --> 00:51:17.057
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:51:17.057 --> 00:51:21.757
KRISTINA: So I actually got there early to line up to get in.
00:51:21.757 --> 00:51:29.997
KRISTINA: I got the passes that I needed for that day so I could finally do the frozen ride, which was the only thing I didn't do in Fantasy Springs.
00:51:29.997 --> 00:51:40.057
KRISTINA: And then once I got all my passes for the day, we actually stepped out of the parks to go to Ikspiari because it was on the Monorail Loop.
00:51:40.057 --> 00:51:46.577
KRISTINA: So we hopped right on the Monorail Loop and spent some time at their Disney Springs.
00:51:46.577 --> 00:51:47.237
VIRGINIA: Okay.
00:51:47.237 --> 00:51:48.077
VIRGINIA: How was that?
00:51:48.577 --> 00:51:52.657
VIRGINIA: Did you find a lot of unique things there?
00:51:52.657 --> 00:51:53.037
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:51:53.037 --> 00:52:01.557
KRISTINA: So it's like a multi-level outdoor mall, and each level is kind of different types of shopping.
00:52:01.797 --> 00:52:08.357
KRISTINA: So like the bottom floor felt like food courts and more like pick up and go type foods.
00:52:08.357 --> 00:52:10.217
KRISTINA: Some were brands from there.
00:52:10.217 --> 00:52:12.897
KRISTINA: Then I saw like things like Baskin Robbins and Starbucks.
00:52:12.897 --> 00:52:15.417
KRISTINA: So mix.
00:52:15.417 --> 00:52:19.237
KRISTINA: The second floor and the third floor were more shopping.
00:52:19.237 --> 00:52:28.337
KRISTINA: So there were again some clothing stores that we would know, even though there may be Japanese brands like Uniqlo and things like that.
00:52:28.337 --> 00:52:32.497
KRISTINA: I felt like there was other American brands too, but I can't quite remember.
00:52:32.497 --> 00:52:38.457
KRISTINA: Then obviously some Japanese or general Asian brands that I didn't quite know.
00:52:38.457 --> 00:52:44.557
KRISTINA: We're not much for shopping, so we just walked around the stores and then left.
00:52:44.557 --> 00:52:48.817
KRISTINA: They did have Gachapon machines, which are pretty popular in Japan.
00:52:48.857 --> 00:52:51.017
VIRGINIA: You mentioned it.
00:52:51.017 --> 00:52:54.757
KRISTINA: The little trinkets and such, so we did that.
00:52:54.757 --> 00:53:04.217
KRISTINA: They have a Disney store there, so it was fun to just see what was different from the Disney store than the parks, which it was drastically different.
00:53:04.217 --> 00:53:06.197
KRISTINA: I will say I was a little disappointed.
00:53:06.197 --> 00:53:10.757
KRISTINA: It felt like not the stuff that you see primarily online.
00:53:10.757 --> 00:53:14.557
KRISTINA: It was more just like trinkets and whatnot.
00:53:14.557 --> 00:53:22.197
KRISTINA: Some of the stuff was nice, but other stuff, it just felt like I could buy it off of like Amazon, like kind of lower quality, unfortunately.
00:53:22.197 --> 00:53:27.977
KRISTINA: But other than that, they did have a lot of stuffed animals and plushies and cute stuff.
00:53:28.157 --> 00:53:31.597
KRISTINA: But somehow I left the Disney store without buying anything.
00:53:32.757 --> 00:53:33.197
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:53:33.197 --> 00:53:38.117
KRISTINA: Then other highlights is we had a look at the Rainforest Cafe, but we didn't end up eating there.
00:53:38.117 --> 00:53:45.337
KRISTINA: They have a Red Lobster, which is funny because they're like going bankrupt and there's a Red Lobster in Japan still.
00:53:47.557 --> 00:53:57.437
KRISTINA: Then yeah, there's one area of the mall that's like food and shopping and stuff, but it looks like an indoor area themed to a theater.
00:53:57.857 --> 00:54:01.617
KRISTINA: That was just cool to walk around all those places.
00:54:01.617 --> 00:54:03.397
KRISTINA: Then yeah, the top floor was just food.
00:54:03.397 --> 00:54:07.917
KRISTINA: We were just getting a feel of what was there before we went back to the parks.
00:54:07.917 --> 00:54:08.317
VIRGINIA: All right.
00:54:08.737 --> 00:54:15.777
VIRGINIA: Your final hours in Tokyo DisneySea, any new experiences on this last park day?
00:54:15.777 --> 00:54:16.377
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:54:16.377 --> 00:54:19.237
KRISTINA: We met Thumper from Bambi's Girlfriend.
00:54:19.237 --> 00:54:22.637
KRISTINA: I don't know if she has a name, the Girl Bunny.
00:54:22.637 --> 00:54:23.037
VIRGINIA: Yeah.
00:54:23.037 --> 00:54:24.417
VIRGINIA: I don't know if she does have a name.
00:54:25.817 --> 00:54:28.397
KRISTINA: We met her in Cape May area.
00:54:29.177 --> 00:54:35.437
KRISTINA: We, again, got most of our shopping done, so we bought all our souvenirs and stuff.
00:54:35.437 --> 00:54:49.477
KRISTINA: Then we went to the Frozen ride, which I had expected it to be a clone of the Epcot ride, but turns out it was more story than I was expecting, a lot more animatronics and stuff.
00:54:50.757 --> 00:54:51.697
VIRGINIA: Okay.
00:54:51.697 --> 00:54:53.557
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:54:53.557 --> 00:55:02.957
KRISTINA: We waited about 40-ish minutes on that line, but at least they make you feel like you're walking through the castle and so that was fun.
00:55:02.957 --> 00:55:07.337
KRISTINA: But yeah, then we ended the night at that park.
00:55:07.337 --> 00:55:07.937
VIRGINIA: All right.
00:55:07.937 --> 00:55:21.297
VIRGINIA: You were checking out of your hotel on Tuesday, July 23rd, and we're going to be spending some time in other parts of Tokyo until you departed on Friday, July 26th.
00:55:21.297 --> 00:55:30.337
VIRGINIA: So that really gives you three days basically to check out everything that Tokyo has to offer.
00:55:30.337 --> 00:55:35.737
VIRGINIA: So we don't really have very much time left, but I just wanted to know what were the highlights for you?
00:55:35.737 --> 00:55:42.877
VIRGINIA: What would you recommend that people make time to go see if you are heading in the direction of Tokyo?
00:55:43.557 --> 00:55:47.117
KRISTINA: I picked different prefectures that I thought were the best.
00:55:47.117 --> 00:55:51.717
KRISTINA: Honestly, there's so many in Tokyo that that's probably the best way to do things.
00:55:51.717 --> 00:55:59.057
KRISTINA: So we spent one day near Toyosu Market, which is a fish market there and there's like a food hall.
00:55:59.057 --> 00:56:07.777
KRISTINA: Like if you've ever been to Seattle and gone to Pike Lake Market or like Boston and gone to those types of markets, that but for Japanese food.
00:56:07.777 --> 00:56:10.157
KRISTINA: So that was really fun.
00:56:10.157 --> 00:56:14.997
KRISTINA: Another day we spent near the Sky Tree, the Tokyo Sky Tree.
00:56:14.997 --> 00:56:23.017
KRISTINA: There's a Sky Tree and there's the Tokyo Tower, but I chose the Sky Tree because it was by a Pokemon Center and the mall.
00:56:24.097 --> 00:56:29.017
KRISTINA: For anyone who knows Doraemon, it had Doraemon, so that was also fun.
00:56:29.257 --> 00:56:36.917
KRISTINA: Then the other area that we focused on is Shibuya, because Shibuya is the big part of the city.
00:56:36.917 --> 00:56:40.137
KRISTINA: I would say it's the equivalent to Times Square.
00:56:41.917 --> 00:56:48.337
KRISTINA: There's the big crossing there, and again, more malls, more shops, things of that nature.
00:56:48.337 --> 00:56:51.237
KRISTINA: So we also went there.
00:56:51.237 --> 00:56:57.557
KRISTINA: Then we stayed in Choda City, which is where the Imperial Palace is.
00:56:57.557 --> 00:57:02.537
KRISTINA: So we went to the Imperial Gardens, and then we also went to a shrine while we're there.
00:57:02.537 --> 00:57:16.197
KRISTINA: So I mean, I would just recommend, there's one big shrine that everyone goes to, but you could just check out any of the shrines throughout Japan that are towards the attractions, and the Imperial Gardens were fun.
00:57:16.197 --> 00:57:17.417
VIRGINIA: Very cool.
00:57:17.417 --> 00:57:22.377
VIRGINIA: You were staying at the Mitsui Garden for these nights.
00:57:22.377 --> 00:57:23.597
VIRGINIA: How was that as a hotel?
00:57:23.717 --> 00:57:31.177
VIRGINIA: Because I remember when we spoke about it before, you were saying that you thought it was a chain, like a pretty standard chain for them.
00:57:31.177 --> 00:57:39.377
VIRGINIA: So would you recommend if somebody's looking for a place to stay in parts of Tokyo, if they see that chain, is it a good one to aim for?
00:57:39.377 --> 00:57:41.477
KRISTINA: My coworker recommended it to me.
00:57:41.477 --> 00:57:50.597
KRISTINA: She had been there in the past, and it's just a standard hotel where you can include breakfast on your hotel stay if you want to.
00:57:50.597 --> 00:58:00.657
KRISTINA: We opted originally not to include breakfast, but then you can always pay on at any point, and it's like a small breakfast buffet, and they have coffees and stuff in the lobby.
00:58:00.657 --> 00:58:07.417
KRISTINA: Very small lobby, but a few times we would stay down and cool off before going up to our room.
00:58:07.417 --> 00:58:15.977
KRISTINA: Then even in the afternoon, they had snacks and coffees and teas, which we never stayed for, but it was nice to know we had that free option.
00:58:17.317 --> 00:58:19.297
KRISTINA: The rooms overall were nice.
00:58:19.297 --> 00:58:26.397
KRISTINA: It was weird because we got a non-smoking room, but we were two doors down from the smoking room.
00:58:26.397 --> 00:58:28.677
VIRGINIA: So you could smell it from your room?
00:58:28.677 --> 00:58:29.597
KRISTINA: No, we couldn't.
00:58:29.597 --> 00:58:33.817
KRISTINA: But when we first passed it, we were like, is this going to be a problem?
00:58:33.817 --> 00:58:36.437
KRISTINA: Then we got to our room and we never noticed it.
00:58:36.937 --> 00:58:37.877
VIRGINIA: Okay.
00:58:37.877 --> 00:58:39.197
VIRGINIA: Thank goodness.
00:58:39.197 --> 00:58:40.057
KRISTINA: Yeah.
00:58:40.097 --> 00:58:44.277
KRISTINA: One quick fact is yes, Japanese people still enjoy to smoke.
00:58:44.277 --> 00:58:52.317
KRISTINA: If you do stay at a hotel or a place, most places have a smoking room for people to enjoy.
00:58:52.317 --> 00:58:54.737
KRISTINA: So just keep that in mind as well.
00:58:54.737 --> 00:59:02.417
KRISTINA: But we didn't really have a lot of foot traffic or issues or anything like that, even being so close to that room.
00:59:02.417 --> 00:59:05.057
KRISTINA: Then it was just a nice standard Tokyo room.
00:59:05.057 --> 00:59:12.537
KRISTINA: Tokyo rooms are pretty small, but we just needed a bed to sleep in, and a TV maybe to watch at night and stuff.
00:59:12.657 --> 00:59:14.337
KRISTINA: So a shower.
00:59:14.337 --> 00:59:25.857
VIRGINIA: Well, this is quite a big adventure you took yourselves on, and I'm so excited that we got a chance to sit down and break the scoop on your trip.
00:59:25.857 --> 00:59:32.117
VIRGINIA: I know that you are going to be putting up different content that you took while you were on this trip.
00:59:32.117 --> 00:59:52.137
VIRGINIA: So listeners, you will be able to head over to Kristina's Instagram, and the link is in the show notes, to check out all of the photos, reels, and I think we said during the pre-trip, it will probably be months of content you will be getting out of this based on how Kristina likes to take photos and capture those moments.
00:59:52.137 --> 00:59:55.277
VIRGINIA: So I'm really looking forward to seeing all of that.
00:59:55.277 --> 01:00:01.377
VIRGINIA: I guess my only other question, I have two final questions, is how was your travel for the return?
01:00:01.377 --> 01:00:03.097
KRISTINA: It was also pretty smooth.
01:00:03.097 --> 01:00:09.457
KRISTINA: It was smoother than the way there because it's like an hour shorter on both those flights.
01:00:09.457 --> 01:00:13.477
KRISTINA: We went through it once, so we mentally prepared.
01:00:13.477 --> 01:00:16.437
KRISTINA: Again, we didn't really sleep much, but we just stayed awake.
01:00:16.437 --> 01:00:21.277
KRISTINA: We got on a plane at 5.30 Tokyo time.
01:00:21.277 --> 01:00:25.857
KRISTINA: We arrived in Canada at 4.30 on the same day.
01:00:25.857 --> 01:00:36.697
KRISTINA: We time traveled backwards, laid over in Toronto again, and then we came back an hour or so, and we were in New Jersey.
01:00:37.057 --> 01:00:44.057
KRISTINA: Another thing of note is that the customs was in Canada on the way back.
01:00:44.057 --> 01:00:47.957
KRISTINA: So when we arrived in the US, we didn't have to go through customs.
01:00:47.957 --> 01:00:49.077
VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.
01:00:49.077 --> 01:00:50.097
VIRGINIA: That's very interesting.
01:00:50.097 --> 01:00:51.097
VIRGINIA: Okay.
01:00:51.097 --> 01:00:51.497
KRISTINA: Yeah.
01:00:51.497 --> 01:00:55.477
KRISTINA: And I guess it was easier.
01:00:55.477 --> 01:00:59.957
KRISTINA: It was still US customs, but it was just convenient that way.
01:00:59.977 --> 01:01:05.837
KRISTINA: And when we were first flying to Japan, we went with the QR code option.
01:01:05.837 --> 01:01:10.817
KRISTINA: And had we known in the US, you can also do a QR code.
01:01:10.817 --> 01:01:16.297
KRISTINA: It basically just speeds up their process for asking questions and seeing your passports and such.
01:01:16.297 --> 01:01:18.757
KRISTINA: So keep that in mind when you travel in general.
01:01:18.757 --> 01:01:24.737
KRISTINA: Sometimes countries have QR code options or a mobile app or something of that sort.
01:01:24.737 --> 01:01:25.777
VIRGINIA: Okay.
01:01:25.777 --> 01:01:26.997
VIRGINIA: Very good tip.
01:01:26.997 --> 01:01:27.557
VIRGINIA: All right.
01:01:27.557 --> 01:01:28.677
VIRGINIA: Final follow up question.
01:01:28.677 --> 01:01:33.157
VIRGINIA: You mentioned that on your arrival day, you made sure to get some cash.
01:01:33.157 --> 01:01:36.517
VIRGINIA: So did you end up using cash?
01:01:36.657 --> 01:01:42.177
VIRGINIA: And if so, what kind of things did you use cash for so people can be prepared?
01:01:42.177 --> 01:01:42.517
KRISTINA: Yeah.
01:01:42.517 --> 01:01:48.517
KRISTINA: So we did a mix of cash and a Suica card and our Visa card.
01:01:48.517 --> 01:01:54.357
KRISTINA: So Suica is a convenience card that most places take in Japan.
01:01:54.357 --> 01:01:58.417
KRISTINA: And you can go into your Apple Wallet and add a Suica card.
01:01:58.417 --> 01:02:02.357
KRISTINA: And then you can just keep adding money to your Suica card through your Apple Wallet.
01:02:03.617 --> 01:02:09.957
KRISTINA: You will get conversion fees if your card has conversion fees for those sorts of things.
01:02:09.957 --> 01:02:12.277
KRISTINA: Otherwise, it was a nice convenience.
01:02:12.277 --> 01:02:19.017
KRISTINA: As far as cash, we primarily use cash to pay for all of our train chips.
01:02:19.017 --> 01:02:30.437
KRISTINA: So all of our train trips, we would go to the machine, press the English button, click on the station we needed to go to, and then inserted the yen that we needed to pay.
01:02:31.137 --> 01:02:36.317
KRISTINA: It didn't really seem to take our Suica card, and we could never figure out how to use it with the trains.
01:02:36.337 --> 01:02:48.757
KRISTINA: So maybe someone else out there will have better luck with that, but we just ultimately paid in cash, and we used our Google Maps to know which train we needed to take to which stations at what time and where.
01:02:48.757 --> 01:02:50.357
KRISTINA: So it was very smooth.
01:02:50.357 --> 01:02:55.197
KRISTINA: Other than that, we pretty much bought everything on Suica or our Visa cards.
01:02:55.197 --> 01:02:59.257
KRISTINA: I have a Disney Visa card, and I was able to use that throughout the parks.
01:03:00.037 --> 01:03:07.817
KRISTINA: And people warn you that if you go to the non-touristy parts of Tokyo, you have to pay in cash.
01:03:07.817 --> 01:03:16.717
KRISTINA: But honestly, I think we stuck to mostly tourist areas that we were never without an option where we couldn't just use our card or a Suica card.
01:03:16.717 --> 01:03:19.457
KRISTINA: So that wasn't too much of a problem.
01:03:19.457 --> 01:03:24.557
KRISTINA: The only other thing I had to pay for in cash was for stamps for postcards.
01:03:24.557 --> 01:03:31.377
KRISTINA: But that also makes sense because governmental stamps, they would probably want to just have cash.
01:03:31.377 --> 01:03:38.957
KRISTINA: I should note that there are no ATMs in the parks, except for in Disneyland.
01:03:38.957 --> 01:03:40.137
KRISTINA: It's the only place.
01:03:40.137 --> 01:03:43.917
KRISTINA: Our hotel did not have an ATM either.
01:03:43.917 --> 01:03:48.977
KRISTINA: We needed cash also to get coins to pay for our laundry.
01:03:48.977 --> 01:03:52.317
KRISTINA: So that was the one other place we needed cash.
01:03:52.317 --> 01:03:59.057
KRISTINA: So if you don't come prepared, you won't be able to do laundry unless you went to Disneyland that day to get cash.
01:03:59.057 --> 01:03:59.877
VIRGINIA: Okay.
01:03:59.877 --> 01:04:04.677
VIRGINIA: When you use the cash to do laundry, the machines can give change and that sort of thing.
01:04:04.677 --> 01:04:06.657
VIRGINIA: That was easy enough.
01:04:06.657 --> 01:04:10.637
KRISTINA: There was a change machine in the laundry room.
01:04:10.637 --> 01:04:14.897
KRISTINA: So you would get the exact change and you would only put the exact change in the machine.
01:04:14.897 --> 01:04:17.457
KRISTINA: It wouldn't even take a different size coin.
01:04:17.457 --> 01:04:19.237
KRISTINA: You had to use the right size coin.
01:04:19.777 --> 01:04:20.637
VIRGINIA: Okay.
01:04:20.637 --> 01:04:26.197
KRISTINA: The machines dispensed the detergent so you didn't have to put detergent in.
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VIRGINIA: Okay.
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VIRGINIA: What I'm getting from this is if you're planning a trip to Tokyo and you will be there long enough that you want to do laundry and things like that, that you really should be doing a little bit of research as to how much cash you think you'll need and planning ahead so that you don't have to rely on the one ATM in Disneyland to be able to access cash.
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KRISTINA: And overall, I think we withdraw no more than like 200 US dollars because the yen is so cheap right now.
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KRISTINA: So you don't need a ton of cash and we had extra yen leftover from the 200, 300 that we withdrew.
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KRISTINA: And that was for two weeks of vacation.
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KRISTINA: So keep that in mind.
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VIRGINIA: Yeah.
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VIRGINIA: It's not bad at all.
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VIRGINIA: All right.
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VIRGINIA: Well, that's all we have time for today.
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VIRGINIA: Again, photos, all of that sort of stuff will be on the podcast Instagram page.
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VIRGINIA: We'll have a few photos there and then you'll also go over to Kristina's Instagram to get the entire haul.
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VIRGINIA: So anything else you want to share before we say goodbye?
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KRISTINA: I think the only other thing is I've already have friends and followers asking questions about the trip.
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KRISTINA: So if you guys have any questions and want to DM me or ask them in the comments, I'm an open book about how my experience went.
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KRISTINA: And as it was mentioned, I'll be posting for a very long time about this trip because I have so many pictures and stuff.
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KRISTINA: And I'm sure I didn't cover everything in the podcast of what I did.
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KRISTINA: So hopefully I'll help you think of things that you may not have thought of doing on your trip.
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KRISTINA: And that's fun too.
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VIRGINIA: Well, thank you so much, Kristina, for joining me.
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VIRGINIA: It was such a pleasure to see you again.
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VIRGINIA: And I can't wait to follow along with all the content.
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KRISTINA: Thanks for having me on here.
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VIRGINIA: Talk to you again soon.
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VIRGINIA: Bye.
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VIRGINIA: All right.
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KRISTINA: Bye.
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VIRGINIA: Thank you, Kristina, for all the details you provided and for being a part of the podcast.
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VIRGINIA: I had so much fun learning about the Tokyo parks from you.
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VIRGINIA: And this definitely has only increased my desire to make it over there myself.
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VIRGINIA: Thank you all for listening.
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VIRGINIA: If you enjoy the show, don't forget to tell a friend about it.
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VIRGINIA: The more the merrier here in the Where I Long To Be podcast community.
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VIRGINIA: Have a magical day and keep daydreaming about where you long to be.