Tokyo Disneyland () is the first Disney park built apart from the the United States, opened in 1983. The park is located in the complex Tokyo Disney Resort. It copies mainly the Magic Kingdom of which it takes again the plan (inspired of Disneyland) and the castle of Cinderella. But the successive additions since the opening gummed the resemblances a little. A particular element is the absence of a train girdling the park, this one makes only the turn of Adventureland and Westernland.

The project and the history

The company Oriental Land Company was founded in July 1960 in order to build a great zone of leisures as well as offices and residences on a maritime space step yet polderized. The creation of the polder lasted of July 1964 with November 1975.

From 1962, the persons in charge of OLC canvassed Walt Disney to build a park with topic of the type Disneyland. But construction with identical of Nara Dreamland by another company without preliminary demand scalded Disney which refused of OLC.

The negotiations began again in 1974, which is often taken as dates official from the beginning of the talks.

In April 1979, an agreement is concluded between Walt Disney Productions and OLC in order to build the first Disney park apart from the the United States, Tokyo Disneyland.

Work begins in December 1980 and ends in the opening of the park the April 15th 1983 in the presence of Card Walker, chairman of Disney.

October 1st 1992, the park accommodates several new attractions of which Splash Mountain in Critter Country created on the occasion and the tree of Swiss Family Treehouse in Adventureland.

In 1996, in fact the country Toontown opens its doors offering the world of Mickey Mouse.

Then it is especially Tomorrowland and Fantasyland which will receive new attractions and restaurants, like:

  • MicroAdventure with attraction Cherished, I narrowed the public .
  • Buzz Lightyear' S AstroBlaster.
  • Pooh' S Hunny Hunt is an attraction on Winnie the bear cub. Built instead of the station of Skyway.
  • Queen off Hearts Banquet Hall is a restaurant on the topic of Alice to the countries of the wonders.

The park

World Bazaar

World Bazaar is a version of covered Main Street the USA. An immense canopy recovers the street and protects the visitors from the bad weather of which abundant snow with the Japan. This " pays" thus do not include/understand many attraction but enormously shops and some restaurants.
To facilitate the location we will use cutting in block of World Bazaar . This " pays" adopt the same architectural style as the Main Street the USA of the Magic Kingdom. An immense colonnade surmounted by the canopy recovering the street acts as frontage to the unit.

The transverse street, sobrement called Center Street , gives access Tomorrowland and Adventureland without passing by the central place. It is a first for the Disney parks, only Disneyland Paris with its arcades allows d'" éviter" the street of Hand Street .

Moreover any vehicle does not borrow the Center Street and the Main Street Vehicles were tiny room to simple slow trains turning on Central Plaza

Northern block

It is the block located on the left of the entry.
  • Main Street House is the equivalent of the City Hall , it is the information center.
  • After Movie First Showcase and Disney Collection is shops on the last Disney productions.
  • Camera Center is the place of appointment for the photographer.
  • Confectionery and the stand Hand Street Daily located at side, are specialized in candies and other sugar refineries.

  • At the end of Center Street , with the angle towards Adventureland, Eastside Cafe is a restaurant of style victorien. (250 places, interior only)

Western block

It is the block located on the right of the entry.
  • Grand Emporium is the largest shop of the park. It was increased in 2001, its name changed Grand Emporium Emporium.
  • Main Street Cinema was a small attraction with six screens diffusing of traditional of Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck. It was removed to increase the Emporium .
  • Towne Clothiers was a shop of Disney clothing, annexed by the Emporium in 2001.
  • At the end of Center Street towards Tomorrowland, Center Street Coffehouse is a small restaurant of style Art déco (1920-1930) with specialities with the shapes of the characters of Disney. (230 places, interior only) .

Southern block

It is the block located on the left before the central place. While continuing on Hand Street :
  • House off Greetings is a shop of postcards.
  • Victoria' S Jewelry Box is a shop of jewels, but, money, pearls and other stones.
  • Silhouette Studio is a shop which proposes portraits or Disney characters cut out on paper.
  • The Disney Gallery is a exposure-shop located on the floor. It is possible to take courses by the Disney artists.
  • Disney' S & Co. is a shop of Disney clothing.
  • Refreshment Corner is a restaurant of hot-dogs and soda, held by Coca-Cola, with the angle of the street with terrace on the central place. decorated like a to dine. (180 places, interior and outside) .
  • Home Blind is a shop of articles of houses, located outside, on the central place after the Refreshment Corner .

By taking Center Street :

  • Magic Shop is a shop of articles of magic.

Block is

It is the block located on the right before the central place. While continuing on Hand Street :
  • The Toy Kingdom with the intersection with Center Street is another shop on the Disney characters.
  • New Century Clock Shop is a shop of watches decorated with Disney characters.
  • Penny Arcade is a gaming room to old.
  • Restaurant Hokusai was the first restaurant to be served as the Japanese specialities in the park. (270 places, interiors only) .
  • Pastry Palace is a shop victorienne of cakes and other pastry makings.
  • Ice Cream Cones is a snack bar of coolings and ices. (160 places, interior only) .

By taking Center Street :

  • The Storybook Store is a shop of books, cassettes, Cd and dvd.
  • Uptown Boutique is a shop of clothing and jewels for women.
  • Mickey' S Moderne Memories is a shop on the events of the Disney parks.

While skirting World Bazaar by outside:

  • Sweeheart Cafe located on the central place is an Italian restaurant. (120 places, interior and outside) .
  • The Bebop Hop is a shop of sport located at the back of the block and dealing with Tomorrowland.

Adventureland

It is the world of exoticism and the voyages mainly in the Tropics.

  • Pirates off Caribbean is celebrates it attraction with pirates taking by storm a port, the engagements finishing by the explosion of the fortress. Attraction is located just beside World Bazaar. Outside evokes the frontages of New Orleans Square.

At side, several shops and restaurants recall the " pays" New Orleans Public garden of Disneyland on the Louisiana:

  • The Golden delicious Galleon the kingdom of the buccaneers and other corsairs.
  • Blackbeard' S Portrait Deck for portraits disguised as pirates.
  • Crystal Arts for objects out of crystal.
  • Small Perfumery for perfumes.
  • the Gourmet for objects of kitchen.
  • Royal Street Veranda proposes fruit juices.
  • Blue Bayou Restoring is a restaurant located inside attraction Pirates off Caribbean (as with Disneyland Paris). (230 places, interior only) .
  • Café Orleans is a restaurant in terrace. (190 places, interior and outside) .

  • the amphitheater of Adventureland Stage very often proposes spectacles changing.

Another zone of shops is organized between the amphitheater and the entry of Jungle Cruise, more on the topic of exoticism.

  • Chiba Traders proposes productions of local craftsmen of the prefecture of Chiba.
  • Safari Trading Company , of the objects of savanna and the African jungles .
  • Tiki Tropic Shop , of the products of the Polynesia.
  • Adventureland Bazaar proposes objects of the South America until the Mexico.

  • Jungle Cruise is a cruising in the jungles with robots. It is the counterpart of the attraction of Disneyland.

  • Western To rivet Railroad is the train of the park, it leaves a station located just at the top of the landing stage of Jungle Cruise.

  • the Crystal De luxe hotel is a restaurant giving on the central place and included in this country, in spite of its style victorien nearer to World Bazaar. (440 places, interior and outside)

At the same time as the addition of this attraction, several restaurants opened with the back Crystal De luxe hotel in a decoration of port of a Polynesian island.

  • Boiler Room Bites is specialized in the barbecues ( from where its old name of Boiler Room Barbecue ). (170 places, interior and outside) .
  • Clouded To travel proposes in a tropical style of the Chinese specialities. (260 places, interior and outside) .
  • Squeezer' S Tropical Juice Bar is a fruit juice bar.
  • The Gazebo located along the Hook De luxe hotel is a snack bar of drinks, crepes and ices. (110 places, outside only)

  • The Enchanted Tiki Room is a singing spectacle with birds robots. The version here is called Get the fever! and takes again topics of Las Vegas.

  • Located a little further, after being last under a railway bridge, the restaurant-spectacle Polynesian Terrace currently proposes two spectacles (since the February 21st 2005). The first in the morning uses the characters of Lilo and Stitch. The evening the traditional spectacle continuous to be represented, it is Mickey and Minnie with the Polynesian paradise. (230 places, interior only)

Westernland

Westernland is the Japanese version of Frontierland, only the name was changed and one finds traditional attractions of this country.

With the entry of the " pays" on the central place, a block of buildings accommodates several restaurants.

  • Côté places central the Plaza Pavillon Restoring is another restaurant of style victorien. (400 places, interior and outside) .

Other side it is the western which is with the honor with:

  • the Diamond Horseshoe Re-examined a spectacle of cabaret (cancan) presented apart from meal. Since year 2000 of the different spectacles are given in this cabaret per hour of the meals. The topic often changes, currently two spectacles are presented, Pecos Goofy' S Frontier Revue with Dingo and since the February 8th 2005 Horseshoe Roundup with the characters of Toy Story 2.
  • Slue Foot Sue' S Diamond Horseshoe is the name of the restaurant being useful within the cabaret. (220 places, interior only) .
  • Pecos Bill Cafe is a snack bar proposing of the American traditional dishes like the tortas and others " pie". (60 places, outside only)

Opposite the decoration western continues with several shops, spectacles, restaurants and an attraction.

  • Trading Post is a shop on the cowboys and the Indians
  • Westernland Picture Parlor is a shop where one can be taken in photograph in a behavior and a decoration of western.
  • General Blind is a shop of confectioneries, coffees, and other softnesses
  • Country Bear Theater is a laughing spectacle of singing bear. The decoration changes according to the seasons.
  • Western Wear is a shop of clothing of Far West.
  • Mile Long Bar is a sandwichery. (660 places, interior and outside, divided with Hungery Bear Restoring ) .
  • Hungry Bear Restoring is the place of restoration of the famished bears.
  • Westernland Shootin' Gallery is a shooting range to the foot of Big Thunder Mountain

  • the mountain of Big Thunder Mountain springs just afterwards. A train traverses with sharp pace a gold mine given up in a decoration worthy of the Large Canyon.

  • Behind the mountain the restaurant Lucky Nugget Cafe proposes sometimes spectacles in addition to roasted and fried chicken meals, along the river. (400 places, outside only)

  • Tom Sawyer Island is an island surrounded by the Rivers off America , only a raft makes it possible to join it. It contains several attractions

    • Tom Sawyer Island Adventures is a whole of plays like: a paddle mill, a hut in a tree, a fort of log or stones unstable.
    • The Canteen is a point of restoration on the island

  • Mark Twain Riverboat is a sour cruising the Rivers off America on board a paddle steamer worthy of the the Mississippi.

Critter Country

Critter Country is a country which was added with the opening of Splash Mountain in October 1992.

  • Splash Mountain is a cruising within a mountain in the world of Brother Rabbit, inspired by the film Mélodie of the South. A dive top of the mountain in a water fall is the nail of attraction. It is possible to buy the photo catch in attraction.

the Disney legend indicates that the mountain was called Chick-HAVE-Pine Hill . It was re-elected following an accident which exploded the stopping of the Brothers Beavers ( Beaver ) and which flooded the mountain completely.

  • Beaver Brothers Explorers Canoes is a cruising in the canoe around Tom Sawyer Island on Rivers off America. attraction formed part before 1992 of Westernland.

  • Just at the entry of the country, Grandma Sarah' S Kitchen is a restaurant of American kitchen, dug in a cave. (520 places, interior and outside) .

After the mountain a zone with hillside lodges in others " terriers" :

  • Rackety' S Raccoon Saloon is a snack bar which makes it possible to benefit from the tables out of wooden
  • Hoot and Hooler Hideout is a shop of objects out of wooden related to the topic of the country.

Fantasyland

It is the world of the fairy tales and especially characters of traditional films of Walt Disney.

  • the entry in this country is done by the Château of Cinderella , counterpart of that of the Magic Kingdom.

    • Cinderella Castle Mystery Tour is an attraction (open in 1986) where a guide leads you in the rooms of the castle. The Magic Miroir invites the visitors to fight the forces of the evil: the unpleasant ones of Disney. According to an advertisement of January 30th, 2006, it closed definitively on April 5th, 2006
    • a shop, The Glass Slipper proposes crystal works created under your eyes.

Two buildings frame the castle, one on the left, the other on the right, delimiting a long place with the horse-gears and other side, the bottom of the park.

On the left

  • The Aristocats is a souvenir shop on the characters of Disney: headstocks, clothing, books and discs are with the honor.
  • Snow White' S Adventures is attraction on Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs
  • Fantasy Gifts is another souvenir shop Disney.
  • Peter Pan' S Flight is celebrates it attraction on the flight of Peter Pan since the roofs of London to the island of the lost children.
  • Captain Hook' S Galley is a pizzeria being next to Peter Pan' S Flight
  • Troubadour Tavern is a drink snack bar and ices. (210 places, outside divided with Captain Hook' S Galley)

On the right

  • Baby Undermines is a shop on the Disney objects dedicated to the babies.
the name comes from the title of the song sung by the mother of Dumbo. The shop was called before 2001 Tinkerbell Toy Shop .
  • The Mickey Mouse Revue is an attraction coming from the Magic Kingdom which makes it possible to see and hear a concert given by the characters of Disney under the direction of Mickey, the whole in audio-animatronics.
  • Fantasyland Camera Shop is a shop of photographer.
  • Pleasure Island Candies is a candy shop very right exit of the island of Pinocchio.
  • Pinocchio' S Daring Journey is an attraction on Pinocchio identical to that of the other Disney park presenting the history of the famous puppet.

The place and bottom of the country

The place counts the three usual horse-gears of the Magic Royaumes of Disney.
  • Dumbo' S Flying Elephants is a horse-gear on board Dumbo. It is the version first of Disneyland which exists here with 10 elephants and not 16 flying elephants.
  • Cinderella' S Golden Carousel is a horse-gear of 90 wooden horses gilded and painted with the hand.
  • Alice' S Tea Party is the version of the Magic Kingdom of this horse-gear of cups. Here the central teapot is violet.
  • Close to the cups of Alice and in front of It' S.A. small World several coaches propose coolings ( Cleo' S ), food ( Village Pastry ), or articles Disney ( Stromboli' S Wagon ).

We will describe then this section on the basis of the left (Critter Country).

  • Bizarrement attraction Haunted Mansion belongs to this " pays" since the opening of the park. It takes again the architecture of that of the Magic Kingdom. It is a house haunted by 999 phantoms.

  • Queen off Hearts Banquet Hall is a restaurant on the topic of Alice to the countries of the wonders.

Until 1998 this site accommodated the restaurant Alpine Haus associated with the Skyway .

  • It' S.A. Small World is a cruising in the middle of headstocks of the whole world singing the joy. Outside is that which was re-used with Disneyland Paris but without the landing stage.

  • Pooh' S Hunny Hunt is an attraction on Winnie the bear cub open in 2001.

    • has side the Pooh Corner proposes articles on the characters of attraction.
In 1998 the station of Skyway was destroyed and spaces it left unutilised several years.

Toontown

Opened in 1996 with identical of that of Disneyland (separately which it underwent an axial symmetry), this country proposes the city of the characters of Disney. It is also cut out in two parts: the city and the residential street.

  • Jolly Trolley makes it possible to connect the two parts on board a mini-tram.

  • moreover 6 coaches selling foods and drinks are disseminated in this country.

The city includes/understands:

  • Roger Rabbit' S Because Toon Spin a voyage on board Benny the Taxi.
  • Gag Factory and Toontwon Five & Dime of the shops.
  • Huey, Duey and Louis Good Time Coffee a restaurant in terrace (430 places, outside only) .

The residential street consists of:

  • Mickey' S House , the house of this adorable mouse.
  • Minnie' S House and Meet Mickey , after the visit of its house one can meet celebrates it souriceau.
  • Chip and Dale' S Treehouse , the hut in a tree of Tic and TAC.
  • Gadget' S Go Coaster a Russian mini-mountain invented by the friendly mouse of Tic and TAC.
  • Donald' S Boat the boat of Donald baptized Miss Daisy .
  • Goofy' S Bounce House a house where the children can rebound on the pieces of furniture and the walls.
  • Toon Park a zone of plays for children at the entry of the country.

Tomorrowland

This country is devoted to the future and takes again same architecture and general provision that the Magic Kingdom.

Since the central place of the park, a bridge spans the river. Two futuristic buildings (for the years 1960) with each one a spur launched towards the sky frame the bridge and the driving way with Space Mountain. It is in the right part, that the principal changes occur compared to its elder. It is possible to turn over in World Bazaar while skirting this building. The two futuristic buildings on both sides of the entry accommodate the majority of the shops, restaurants and attractions. An avenue skirts the unit. Other side of this way, four large houses lodge attractions (of which Space Mountain) and a zone accommodates near Fantasyland the track of race which as with the Magic Kingdom was curtailed for the construction of Toontown.

A variation of attraction Monsters, Inc. : Mike & Sulley To The Rescue! should open in 2009 in this Land.

The building of left

  • Imageworks is a shop of personnalisables objects that they are the cellphones or of the Tee-shirts.

  • Starcade is a gaming room.

  • Tomorrowland Terrace is more the great restaurant of the park and offers at the end of the building, close to Fantasyland, of hamburgers and salads. (1260 places, outside and interior)

  • Space Place Foodport is a restaurant in terrace with the foot of Starjets . (100 places, outside only)

The building of right-hand side

With the difference of the other parks, a space in terrace on the first floor of this building is accessible to the visitors. That of Disneyland is not useful sometimes that queue for Space Mountain.

  • In 2001 an attraction opened in this building it is Buzz Lightyear' S Astro Blasters which makes since fury. Located in the avenue separating the two buildings, it is advised to avoid the zone so much the queue is long.

  • Planet M became in 2001 the official shop of Buzz the flash and the characters of Toy Story.

  • Pan Galactic Pizza Port is a pizzeria located on the floor. (590 places, outside and interior)

  • Cosmic Encounters is a shop on the futuristic objects and other toys for children.

  • Soft Landing is a counter for fresh drinks and ices.

  • Plaza Restoring , this restaurant is located along World Bazaar and proposes hamburgers and salads. (730 places, outside and interior)

The avenue and houses

  • Meet the World was located in the house nearest to World Bazaar. It was a rotary theater telling the history of the Japan and its meetings with other civilizations. The appearance points out the international exhibitions of Années 1950. Attraction closed the June 30th 2002 and remains for the moment without future.
attraction should also have existed in the house of the Japan of EPCOT.

  • Star Turns is celebrates it attraction based on Star Wars. Here it takes seat in a building worthy of the offices built in the Années 1980 - 1990 with the Japan. The roof is tilted and a bridge with a canopy connects the building to that opposite. The colors are brilliant gray metallized and blacks. Pipes and canopies give to the building a futuristic aspect.

  • Showbase 2000 is a theater under a white concrete aerofoil. A spectacle on the topic of the heritage of Walt Disney is currently presented. It is the second since 2001.

  • Stellar Sweets is a candy shop which uses the old building of the Skyway and which accommodates already a commercial space.

Skyway was a cable car connecting Fantasyland to Tomorrowland. Because of the costs of maintenance attraction closed in 1998. The station of Fantasyland was destroyed to be replaced by an attraction on Winnie the bear cub.

  • Grand Circuit Raceway is a track of race of miniature cars like that of the Magic Kingdom.

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