More cheese than hunny...

Cynics beware! Tokyo Disneyland is frikkin' awesome!

It's about as Japanese as cherry pie and hot dogs, except for the huge queues at rides. Japanese people seem to have the capacity to wait in line far longer than their western counterparts. Apparently waits over an hour are not unusual at the popular rides, although we only had to queue for 30 minutes which was about as long as we were prepared to wait before muttering "f!@#k this" and pissing off.

The "After 6 passport" is a sweet deal - 2,900 yen per person, all rides included, for between 6pm and 10pm. Tokyo Disneyland really comes alive at night, and hell! that's even cheaper than Karaoke!

If you are not into cheese, Tokyo Disneyland won't fill your balloon, but it's more of the fine brie variety than your processed Kraft slices. The rides far exceeded even my lofty expectations and highlights included "Poohs Hunny Hunt" (Matt just liked the sound of it, dodgy bugger), "Splash Mountain", "The Haunted Castle" (which, although not remotely frightening, was a visual feast of holograms and computer wizardry) and the vertigo inducing "Alice's tea-cups". Oh! And I can't forget the chocolate-laden Mickey waffles and the pyrotechnic Disney Parade "Blazing Rhythms", weaving its way through Fantasy Land (the parade that is, not my waffle).

It gets really packed though (unlike everything else in Tokyo, of course !@#$), even on a Monday night, and 4 hours doesn't really allow you to see everything (an excuse to come back another time?). But it was good to return to my childhood for a few hours (natsukashiiiiii!) and convert Matt, a self-confessed cynic of all things amusement park, into a believer...