By land and by sea, the Magic Kingdom and its gang of cartoon citizens have taken over Tokyo, first arriving when Tokyo Disneyland opened in 1983, and completing their invasion when the seven Ports of Call at DisneySea welcomed their first visitors in 2001.
Tokyo Disneyland Attractions
Tokyo Disneyland is a replica of its sister US theme parks, Disneyland in Orange County, California, and Disneys Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida. Although neither it nor DisneySea is owned by the Walt Disney Company, visitors to the Tokyo theme parks would never know it as they gambol through the World Bazaar, Critter Country, Mickeys Toontown, Fantasyland, Adventureland, Tomorrowland, and Westernland, the Japanese counterpart of Orange Countys Frontierland.
Frontier does not translate well into Japanese, but Big Thunder Mountain, Tom Sawyers Island Rafts, Mark Twains Riverboat, and the Country Bear Jamboree certainly do. The only noticeable differences between Disneyland USA and Tokyo Disneyland, in fact, are that the Haunted Mansion has moved from New Orleans Square to Fantasyland, because Japanese ghosts exist only in fairy stories; Main Street USA has been supplanted by...