While Tokyo Disneyland celebrates the festive season with its Christmas Fantasy program each year, its counterpart Tokyo DisneySea has Christmas Wishes. In this post we’ll look at some of the food, merchandise, decorations and shows available at Tokyo DisneySea over Christmas 2015.
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Christmas is one of Tokyo Disney Resort’s biggest seasons, running from early November through to Christmas Day 25 December each year. The 2015 Christmas season began on 9 November, with Disneyland’s Christmas Fantasy theme being “Christmas Storybooks”. In this post we’ll look at the decorations, merchandise, parades and food available at Tokyo Disneyland for Christmas 2015.
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Halloween has rapidly increased in popularity in Japan over the past few years. Shibuya, one of the most vibrant suburbs of Tokyo, is known for attracting huge crowds on the night of Halloween.
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Christmas is a popular season at Tokyo Disney Resort (TDR), with both Disneyland and DisneySea getting into the festivities with
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There are many places in Japan to view Mount Fuji (富士山), one of which is Mount Tenjo above Kawaguchiko (河口湖), or Lake Kawaguchi, in the region known as Fuji Five Lakes. Mt Tenjo is accessible by cable car and offers spectacular views of Mt Fuji, as well as featuring several activities. It is also famous for being the site of the folk tale, Kachi Kachi Yama.
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Halloween is an exciting season at Tokyo Disney Resort (TDR), with both Disneyland and DisneySea getting into the spirit with spectacular decorations, shows, menus and merchandise. This year, Disney’s Halloween begins on 8 September and goes through until 1 November. Here is a guide to the food, shows and merchandise on offer at Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea over Halloween 2015.
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Kani Doraku (かに道楽) is a famous crab restaurant found in several locations around Japan. Easily identified by its iconic giant, moving crab billboards outside many of its restaurants, it is also known for its huge range of delicious crab dishes.
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Kogetsu (鼓月) is a Japanese sweet shop and cafe in Kyoto. One of its three stores is located in the beautiful district of Gion, where it is one of several cafes specialising in green tea matcha parfaits.
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Daily Chiko (デイリーチコ) is a small ice-cream shop famous for its giant soft serves made of every flavor that they sell. Located on the basement floor of the Nakano Broadway shopping centre, what looks like a modest ice-cream shop has become one of Nakano’s major attractions. We made the pilgrimage to Nakano Broadway to try Daily Chiko’s Tokudai Soft Cream (特大ソフトクリーム).
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Shinjuku Takano is a purveyor of couture gift fruits and gourmet fruit dessert creations, and has been around since 1885. As the name suggests, its main store is in the Tokyo suburb of Shinjuku. It takes up several floors, with each level dedicated to something different (but always fruit-related), from expensive fruits in gift boxes to take-away treats, gourmet jellies, and a fruit parlour serving gorgeous parfaits made from seasonal fresh fruit. The top floor of the Shinjuku Takano flagship building is the Takano Fruit Parlour – a must for any parfait lover, and anyone with a taste for fresh fruit desserts.
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