Tokyo Disney Resort

The Tokyo Disney Resort (東京ディズニーリゾート) (local nickname TDR^[1]) is a theme park and vacation resort located in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan, just east of Tokyo. The resort is fully owned and operated by The Oriental Land Company (a subsidiary of the Keisei Electric Railway Company) under a license from The Walt Disney Company, which constructed and designed the resort and its various attractions through its Imagineering research & development arm.

Tokyo Disney Resort

Cinderella Castle in Tokyo Disneyland
Industry	Amusement parks and resorts
Founded	April 15, 1983; 41 years ago (1983-04-15)
Headquarters	Urayasu, Chiba, Japan
Key people	Kyoichiro Uenishi (President)
Owner	The Oriental Land Company (Keisei Group) under license from Disney Experiences (The Walt Disney Company)
Website	Official website

35°37′47″N 139°52′58″E

The resort opened on April 15, 1983, as a single theme park (Tokyo Disneyland), later developing into a resort with a second theme park (Tokyo DisneySea), six Disney hotels, six non-Disney hotels and a shopping complex (Ikspiari). Tokyo Disneyland was the first Disney theme park to open outside the United States and the resort is the only Disney Parks resort in the world not owned or operated by The Walt Disney Company in any capacity.

Attractions

Map of the Tokyo Disney Resort as of 2008

Tokyo Disney Resort consists of Tokyo Disneyland, Tokyo DisneySea, and Ikspiari, which is a variation of the Downtown Disney and Disney Springs shopping, dining, and entertainment areas found at the Disney resorts in Anaheim and Lake Buena Vista respectively. It also contains Bon Voyage!, a large Disney goods specialty shop.

Like other Disney resorts, the Tokyo Disney Resort includes several Disney-branded hotels; the resort's three "Deluxe" Hotels are the Disney Ambassador Hotel, the Tokyo DisneySea Hotel MiraCosta and the Tokyo Disneyland Hotel. The Resort also includes the "Moderate" type Tokyo Disney Resort Toy Story Hotel and the "Value" type Tokyo Disney Resort Celebration Hotel. There are six other hotels located on the Tokyo Disney Resort property. These, however, are not Disney-branded hotels and are owned by other companies, similar to the Hotel Plaza Boulevard hotels at Walt Disney World.

All facilities are linked by the Disney Resort Line monorail, with the exception of the Celebration Hotel which is connected to the resort area via a free 15-minute shuttle. The Tokyo Disney Resort is headed by Toshio Kagami, who is the representative director (CEO) of the Oriental Land Company.

Theme Parks

• Tokyo Disneyland, the first theme park built at the resort. Tokyo Disneyland opened on April 15, 1983 and is mostly based on its sister castle parks Magic Kingdom and Disneyland.
• Tokyo DisneySea, the second theme park to open at the resort. Tokyo DisneySea opened on September 4, 2001 and is themed after nautical exploration, adventure, and different ports of call from around the world.

Shopping

• Bon Voyage! - The resort's official Disney goods speciality shop.

Ikspiari

Ikspiari

Ikspiari (イクスピアリ, Ikusupiari)
Ikspiari Main Gate
Coordinates	35°38′02″N 139°53′11″E
Opening date	July 7, 2000; 24 years ago (2000-07-07)
Owner	The Oriental Land Company
No. of floors	4

Ikspiari Level 2 Shops

Ikspiari (イクスピアリ, Ikusupiari) is a shopping, dining, and entertainment complex at the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.^[2] The complex is operated by IKSPIARI Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the owner, The Oriental Land Company,^[3] it is the Japanese equivalent of the Downtown Disney complex at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, Disney Springs at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, and Disney Village at Disneyland Paris, France. Ikspiari is close to Maihama Station on the Keiyō Line from Tokyo, and is also served by Resort Gateway Station on the Disney Resort Line.

Ikspiari opened on July 7, 2000. At the complex, the 12th non-US Rainforest Cafe opened in July 2000.^[4] On August 31, 2015, Create Restaurants Holdings Inc. fully acquired RC Japan Co., Ltd., the Rainforest Cafe franchisee, at the complex.^[5]

Hotels

Disney hotels

Official Hotels

Name	Image	Opening date	Theme	Number of rooms
Deluxe hotels
Disney Ambassador Hotel		July 20, 2000	Art deco	504
Tokyo DisneySea Hotel MiraCosta		September 4, 2001	Portofino	502
Tokyo Disneyland Hotel		July 8, 2008	Victorian	701
Tokyo DisneySea Fantasy Springs Hotel		June 6, 2024	Magical château	475
Moderate hotel
Tokyo Disney Resort Toy Story Hotel		April 5, 2022	Toy Story franchise	595
Value hotel
Tokyo Disney Celebration Hotel		June 1, 2016	Disney animated films	702

Official non-Disney Hotels

• Sunroute Plaza Tokyo
• Tokyo Bay Maihama Hotel
• Tokyo Bay Maihama Hotel Club Resort
• Hilton Tokyo Bay
• Hotel Okura Tokyo Bay
• Sheraton Grande Tokyo Bay Hotel

Incidents

Main article: Incidents at Tokyo Disney Resort

See also

• Disney portal
• Trains portal
• Transport portal
• Japan portal
• Tokyo portal

• Large amusement railways
• Rail transport in Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
• Tourism in Japan

References

1. Example of nickname "TDR": JapamTimes (2012-05-10). "OPINION: A tour bus tragedy". JapamTimes. Archived from the original on 2014-05-05. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
2. "In Brief". Travel Trade Gazette UK & Ireland. October 2, 2000. Archived from the original on September 30, 2015. Retrieved August 20, 2015.
3. "Company Overview of IKSPIARI CO., LTD". Business Research. Bloomberg. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved August 20, 2015.
4. Morell, John (July 31, 2000). "Newest Rainforest Cafe Opens At Disney Tokyo". Highbeam. Amusement Business. Archived from the original on March 12, 2016. Retrieved August 20, 2015.
5. "create restaurants holdings to fully acquire RC Japan from Oriental Land". Reuters. August 4, 2015. Archived from the original on August 19, 2015. Retrieved August 20, 2015.

External links

• Tokyo Disney Resort web site in Japanese and English
• Resort Map in Japanese
• Tokyo Disney Resort travel guide from Wikivoyage
• Joe's Tokyo Disney Resort Photo Site