Tokyo Disney Resort

I spent the last two days at Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo Disneysea.  Both parks have all the features everyone loves about Disneyland--they're clean, have great rides, lots of other things to do, and that happy feeling you can only get from, well, the Happiest Place on Earth.

It was also nicely decked out for Halloween.

But the food wasn't that good.  (They call this pancake a waffle, and give you like a teaspoon of syrup.)

And there must be either regulations or Japanese preferences keeping them so, because all the fast and exciting rides are slower and less exciting than their counterparts in the states.  The drops are shorter, the coasters are slower, and the water is drier.  (They have to spray water on you at Splash Mountain to get you wet, because you don't make much of a Splash.)

Disneysea is way better than Disneyland in Tokyo.  The buildings, the rides, the atmosphere, are all just a step above.

Maybe because it's newer?  The rides are better, too.  The Journey to the Center of the Earth was, in fact, a great ride--my favorite of the park.  (Perhaps that's because I don't have anything to compare it to, and Tower of Terror and Indiana Jones suffer her when comparing to Anaheim.)  On the other hand, as a single rider I didn't have to wait at all for the Indiana Jones ride.  I got to blow right by the FastPass people and ride it lots in no time at all.

Want to know what really sucks at Tokyo Disney. It costs like three bucks to ride the monorail between the two parks.