Exploring Ikspiari - Departure Day - Journey to Tokyo Disney Resort - Part 98 - 4/18/16

"It's the day we go back to America...oh no! Here are photos of the shuttle papers for Hotel MyStays Maihama from April 2016."

"Waiting for the shuttle one last time!"


"DUFFYRAIIIIIL!"


"We will say Bon Voyage to the store Bon Voyage OH MY GOODNESS I DIDN'T SEE THE CEILING MICKEYS!!!"


"Goodbye, Columbia! I love you!"


"We have Krispy Kreme in America, too, but I don't remember seeing donuts this cute. They also gave us a cup of water without us even asking. SO NICE!"


"They had a preview for Zootopia...I don't think there was any sound but it didn't need it. It looked cute!"


"Oh my goodness, the bookstore had this old Duffy book my human had wanted for forEVER!"




"Also waffles! Green tea!"

Ikspiari again - Journey to Tokyo Disney Resort - Part 74 - 4/15/16

"We got back a little bit before the shuttle was going to come, so the human asked her friend if we could look at the Disney Store a bit and then catch the shuttle.  She did not have a jacket and did not want to walk!"


"I promise she is not lazy, but we ended up walking 8 miles or something that day."


"Hey, I remember this tower!"

Buying Tickets in Ikspiari - Journey to Tokyo Disney Resort - Part 69 - 4/15/16

"It has been a little while, hasn't it? But we are taking the shuttle from Hotel Mystays Maihama to Maihama Station again!"


"It is like a mirror! I am a Pepper's Ghost!"


"We got breakfast at the convenience store again."


"Oh my goodness the human read 'choco' on the packaging for the pastry and it had chunks of chocolate and was SO SO SO GOOD!"


"If you see a lumpy pastry that says チョコ on it....BUY IT!  OH MY GOODNESS"


"We needed tickets for Tokyo DisneySea for Monday, April 18, 2016......remember that you can't buy tickets unless they're for days in the future.  We did.  No problem! Can you believe my human randomly got TWO different Chip and Dale tickets?  Her friend got two (purple) Daisy tickets too.  WOW!"

Journey to Tokyo Disney Resort - Part 9 - Ikspiari - 4/12/16

"It has been a while but this is Shellie May again to talk about our trip to Japan. YAY! And also the human is here... We are picking up from here.

"So we got off at Maihama Station. Happy 15th Anniversary, Tokyo DisneySea!"

"Um...it's a little dark..."



I guess we should have taken an effort to eat somewhere more Japanese, but The Honorable Rat rated Kua Aina very highly and I was so excited to read they had boba tea.




"The human was surprised at how small the drinks were, but thought the food was a perfect size! Even big!"

"Ikspiari is like a mall. The human used to LOVE Mentos so we tried to win some!"

"We got the minimum number...aw. But oh! Isn't this funny?"

"I feel so fancy!"

"DISNEY STORE!"

"The Cast members greeted us a lot, and a UniBearsity bear waved to me! And I waved to them too!"


I took this days before I saw a sign in the very back saying not to take photos of merchandise. Oops. But I love Baymax so I DID buy the Big Hero 6 Tsum Tsum, which came with a bag in it, so I think that it's OK to post!


"I think everything the human bought had Baymax on it....she even managed to ask how much something cost in Japanese! It was a Baymax tissue case and of course she got it. Tee hee."

April is still squarely in Easter time at the Disney Resort.




"Time to start walking back to our hotel."


Tokyo Disney Resort reminds me a bit of Disneyland Anaheim because the "real world" is very close by.



Bon Voyage!




It was so busy inside. At least two CMs were doing nothing but restocking! (I'm not sure I ever bought anything there, even though we stopped by a couple times.) 

Then we doubled back to the New Days convenience store to pick up some breakfast for the next day. (I used my katakana skills to find something called a "cream bun," which is one of my favorite Chinese pastries, I know.) The walk back to the room was only supposed to be about 1 km, but it felt a lot longer...but we made it back! When I opened my bag from New Days, I was shocked to find a straw in the bag, for my milk. So thoughtful!

Journey to Tokyo Disney Resort - Part 4 - 4/12/16

"Oh my goodness! We were SO EXCITED, my human and I woke up at 3:50 a.m.! (Also I think maybe we felt a tiny earthquake that night? My human is blaming jet lag but I think we were just excited!!!! And then we got up at 7:00 a.m. and eventually we got dressed and then the vending machines downstairs had WATER for 110 yen! All the time!!!! So convenient!!!!"

"Okay okay. My human said I need to try to calm down. Okay! So we thought we would have a rest day before we went to the theme parks. So we walked to Ikspiari and went to the ticket center! Yaaaay!"


"The humans did not buy their tickets online. It was not that hard to buy tickets for the next day at the ticket center....the Cast Member did not know much English, and my human did not know much English, but they figured it out! Yay! Now, where is the conbini (コンビニ, convenience store).... Oh! We looked everywhere but it was right by Maihama Station!"


"Japanese pastries! My human can read a little katakana, so she knew チョコ was choco, for chocolate!(Bonus! パン, pan, is bread!)"


"Then we took a train! It was pretty crowded!  They weren't shoving people in or anything, but it was still pretty crowded! Oh! This is in a station. I wonder if this is free. Tee hee."