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Tokyo Disneysea cheat sheet

worked out from 48 days of our own wait data29 rides

Arrive for 09:00 and ride Anna and Elsa's Frozen Journey, Soaring: Fantastic Flight and Journey to the Center of the Earth first. Leave Toy Story Mania! until after 8pm, when its queue drops to about 48 minutes. The park's queues peak around 10:00 at 46 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
Saturday
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. 09:0032m
  2. 10:0046mpeak
  3. 11:0044m
  4. 12:0038m
  5. 13:0041m
  6. 14:0044m
  7. 15:0045m
  8. 16:0042m
  9. 17:0039m
  10. 18:0036m
  11. 19:0025m
  12. 20:0013mquietest

Arrive for 09:00. Queues climb to their peak around 10:00 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. 1Anna and Elsa's Frozen Journey ~135 min typical · up to 181 at peak · worst around 10am135m
  2. 2Soaring: Fantastic Flight ~132 min typical · up to 149 at peak · worst around 10am132m
  3. 3Journey to the Center of the Earth ~131 min typical · up to 149 at peak · worst around 10am131m

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. 1Toy Story Mania!~107 min typical · about 48 min after 8pm48m
  2. 2Raging Spirits~69 min typical · about 27 min after 8pm27m
  3. 3Rapunzel's Lantern Festival~53 min typical · about 17 min after 8pm17m
  4. 4Peter Pan's Never Land Adventure~45 min typical · about 13 min after 8pm13m
  5. 5Fairy Tinker Bell's Busy Buggies~39 min typical · about 23 min after 8pm23m

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 minutesDisneySea Transit Steamer Line (American Waterfront)5mDisneySea Transit Steamer Line (Lost River Delta)6mThe Leonardo Challenge7mSindbad's Storybook Voyage7mBig City Vehicles7mCaravan Carousel9m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Lost River Delta (Miguel: until 1:00 p.m.)running 29% of the park's open hours29%
  2. 2Venetian Gondolasrunning 29% of the park's open hours29%
  3. 3Fairy Tinker Bell's Busy Buggiesrunning 83% of the park's open hours83%
  4. 4Lost River Delta (Miguel: from 1:30 p.m.)running 83% of the park's open hours83%

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.