Tokyo Disneyland

Wow! this was the most memorable trip in Japan! Disneyland is really an amazing place! Each and every ride we took was great! The person coming to Tokyo should not miss this place.

To plan our trip we visited Disneyland website. On this website you will find two park names, Disneyland and DisneySea. We had planned to go to disneyland. You need to go to Maihama station through JR Keio Line to visit Disney parks. Both the parks are just in front of this station.

Ticket to Disneyland for adults was 5800 yen.

This place is so big that we could not cover all the places in one day! We tried the Jungle cruise first, it was quite funny and enjoyable boat ride with some mock scenes of wild animals created across the artificial river path.


























We were bit late for the parade...but managed to get the place. This event is really worth! It has everything which can lure people of all ages :D. All the disney characters, dancing boys and girls and the music of "ALOHA"! People were already waiting for the parade about 1 hr in advance with there video cameras.






















We also visited ToonTown, Big Thunder Mountain, Tom Sawyer Island, Splash Mountain and Beaver Brothers Explorer canoes. Also Electric parade in the evening was fantastic one to end our day with lots of memories!














Disneyland is supposed to be very much crowded on weekends and you may even have to wait in queue for around 2 hrs! So the most important tip i would like to give you is take the fast pass of the most ride which you want to finish first. Check the details of fast pass here. Also Disney passes are available in all Family marts and AM PM shops.


Overall, it was completely enjoyable day and I would love to visit again!

Hakone

This was our second trip during golden week. This place, called Hakone, is about 80kms from Tokyo. You need to reach a place called Hakone-Yumoto which is entry point for Hakone. To save money you should buy a Hakone Free Pass which may cost 3410 yen to 5500 yen depending on the station you buy it from.

We reached Hakone-Yumoto at around 8:45am and got in to Hakone Tozan Line (Railway photo). Speciality of this railway was that it was going up the mountain in zig zag way. It was going up in one direction and then further up in reverse direction by changing the track.

After Tozan Line there is a cable car and then you need to take ropeway. The ropeway gives you beautiful views of nature. You can see Fuji mountain quite clearly. With Hakone Free pass all these rides are free. (You actually pay for this free pass in advance :) ).

You also get to see hot spring outlets from ropeway car. The fumes coming out shown in lower photo could be of sulphur. (Photo captured using 12x zoom from Ropeway Car)

After ropeway you can catch a bus towards Ashi Lake. Also there is second ropeway going towards Ashi lake, but unfortunately it was closed for renovation. We preferred to walk for 45min than wait for bus and it was really worth walking!

Finally we reached Ashi lake. This cruise ride is also free with your Hakone Free Pass. It can take you from Togendai to Hakone Machi and then to MotoHakone. We got down at moto Hakone and took a bus towards Chokokonomori. Every ride in Hakone was free with Hakone Free pass. Also for museums and gardens there is a discount when you have Hakone Free pass.



We finished our one day trip to Hakone with nice dinner at Tachikawa.
For more photos check following album

Hakone