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Tokyo Disneyland cheat sheet

worked out from 48 days of our own wait data33 rides

Arrive for 09:00 and ride Enchanted Tale of Beauty and the Beast, The Happy Ride with Baymax and Splash Mountain first. Leave Pooh's Hunny Hunt until after 8pm, when its queue drops to about 22 minutes. The park's queues peak around 17:00 at 25 minutes and are lowest around 20:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Thursday
Busiest weekday
Monday
Quietest month
September
Busiest month
November

Each ride's own quietest and busiest day, tallied and weighted by how long its queue runs. For a dated answer use the crowd calendar, which scores every day of the year.

The shape of the day

Average queue across the park, hour by hour

  1. 09:0024m
  2. 10:0024m
  3. 11:0023m
  4. 12:0021m
  5. 13:0022m
  6. 14:0024m
  7. 15:0023m
  8. 16:0023m
  9. 17:0025mpeak
  10. 18:0023m
  11. 19:0017m
  12. 20:0014mquietest

Arrive for 09:00. Queues climb to their peak around 17:00 and fall back through the afternoon; the last hour or two is the quietest the headliners get all day.

Ride these first

The headliners: longest queues, worst by late morning

  1. 1Enchanted Tale of Beauty and the Beast ~93 min typical · up to 125 at peak · worst around 10am93m
  2. 2The Happy Ride with Baymax ~73 min typical · up to 92 at peak · busiest right at opening, so go straight there or leave it to the last hour73m
  3. 3Splash Mountain ~56 min typical · up to 68 at peak · worst around 4pm56m

Straight to these from the gate, in this order. Every minute before the park fills is worth three later.

Leave these until later

Rides whose queues collapse late in the day

  1. 1Pooh's Hunny Hunt~50 min typical · about 22 min after 8pm22m
  2. 2Haunted Mansion “Holiday Nightmare”~49 min typical · about 23 min after 8pm23m
  3. 3Monsters, Inc. Ride & Go Seek!~47 min typical · about 28 min after 8pm28m
  4. 4Big Thunder Mountain~45 min typical · about 27 min after 8pm27m
  5. 5Snow White's Adventures~16 min typical · about 9 min after 8pm9m

Save them for the last two hours, when the coach parties have gone and the queue is a fraction of the afternoon's.

Fill the gaps with

Walk-ons at any hour, and the single-rider lines

Usually under 10 minutesDonald's Boat5mChip 'n Dale's Treehouse5mTom Sawyer Island Rafts5mOmnibus6mMickey's PhilharMagic8mStar Tours: The Adventures Continue9mGoofy's Paint 'n' Play House9mMinnie's House9m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Beaver Brothers Explorer Canoesrunning 50% of the park's open hours50%
  2. 2Goofy's Paint 'n' Play Houserunning 59% of the park's open hours59%
  3. 3Stitch Encounterrunning 66% of the park's open hours66%
  4. 4The Enchanted Tiki Room: Stitch Presents “Aloha E Komo Mai!”running 78% of the park's open hours78%

If one of these is the reason you came, ride it the first time you see it running rather than saving it. The full picture is on the reliability page.

On the day

Your day-of sheet

The same park, for one date: the forecast, the hours, and your ride order

With a free account you get this sheet for a date: the crowd forecast for the day, its published hours, a ride order worked out against that day's wait curve, and a printable version to take in.

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  • Your rides, in order

    Sequenced against the wait curve, so the headliners land in their quiet windows.

  • quiet till 111pm · 66m

    Your date, hour by hour

    How the wait climbs on the day you picked, and the window it stays low.

Everything above is each ride's own recorded queue over recent weeks, sampled every few minutes through the park's opening hours - not an opinion. A ride with too little history is left out.