What it’s like to visit Tokyo DisneySea

I’m on my first ever trip to Japan and while I’m spending the week soaking up as much typical Japanese culture as I can, I wanted to take a one-day break into the fantasy world and see what Tokyo DisneySea was like.I’m a bit of a Disney nerd as I grew up about 20 minutes from Disneyland, which meant I got to go fairly often as a kid. As an adult I’ve come to appreciate their experience design and I still try to visit the California parks about once a year. These days, I mostly go to soak up the vibes more than rides.I know from the history of Tokyo Disneyland that a company licensed park designs from Disney to build parks in Asia separately as a new franchise. I’d always heard DisneySea was their crowning glory among all their parks, and that it was a blank-check, nothing-is-off-limits type of theme park, so I had high expectations going in.I’ll kill any suspense and put my conclusion upfront: DisneySea totally and completely blew me away and lived up to its reputation, with every…