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The original was posted on /r/japantravel by /u/loveislandbruv on 2024-12-08 19:14:20+00:00.

Hey everyone, my boyfriend and I visited DisneySea during our one week stay in Tokyo on Nov 26th and it was amazing!! I’ll preface this by saying we are not huge Disney fans, we appreciate it and were excited to go but we were NOT about to show up any earlier than 8:45am to get in the park considering it was a one hour journey from Shibuya and we had a fun cocktail bar night out the night before.

Even though we arrived at that time and there were already hundreds of people in line in front of us (actually got into park at 9:17am), we still got to do everything we wanted and left the park around 6:30pm.

We are from California, so we are used to a single park ticket costing $200 USD a head. Considering the DisneySea tickets were only $65 each, and we didn’t have any kids with us, we decided we will splurge on the Premier Access to skip those crazy likes and it was WELL worth it.

We used Premier Access to skip the line for: Tower of terror Journey to center of the earth Soarin Toy Story mania

We used the anniversary pass on Indiana Jones

We single rider’d Ragin spirits (definitely recommend this, the ride is so short and I feel like it doesn’t matter who you sit by)

The only thing we waited in line for was the carousel (15 min) as we killed some time waiting for our Indiana Jones slot, and luckily as I was refreshing the premier access page on the app around 3pm I landed premier access to the Frozen ride!!! At that point in the day I had totally given up on seeing fantasy springs and I was ok with it since we showed up to the park pretty “late” and I didn’t even think there would be any more passes for the day.

So we got to do the frozen ride and explore fantasy springs later in the evening and omg it really was magical!

All in all, we got to get good sleep the night before, got to the park at 8:45am, did 7 of the most popular rides without waiting in a single line and even got to see fantasy springs without really any prior planning. I think being proficient with the app and obviously being willing to spend $ on fast passes is really crucial to having a solid experience. On top of the tickets, we spent 9000 yen each (~$58 USD) to not waste a moment standing in line bored out of our minds and it was totally worth it, especially when the rest of our Japan trip took such a toll on our feet!!

I saw a lot of posts here prior to actually going that made me thing if I didn’t show up to the park at 7am I was basically going to be out of luck with fantasy springs and waiting in lines all day but I just wanted to give some hope to others that that doesn’t have to be the case :) it also helped we went on a weekday I believe! Thanks all for all the tips in here, helped us have an amazing day

EDIT: I should add that as soon as we got in the park there were premier access passes available for Peter Pan and frozen for quite some time. We opted for something else at the time naively thinking they’d be available later but then after 10am they were gone until 3pm or so when I luckily snagged a frozen pass. I did not see standby passes available for anything all day long.