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10D9N Spring Japan Trip: Voyage Boat Ride, Tokyo Disneysea

When you are tired, you just feel like taking a nice comfortable ride at a theme park. Sometimes, the most tiring activity to do in a theme park is queueing and well, if you visit Tokyo Disneysea, you can't escape from queuing. Anyway, we have reached the point in our adventure when we were tired. We were wandering around the New York area of Tokyo Disneysea...

...when we see a queue which we initially thought was for Duffy store. But the queue turns out to be for a boat ride around main themed areas Tokyo Disneysea named Voyage Boat Ride.

Queue for voyage boat ride at Tokyo Disneysea

We figured that the queue would move pretty fast because by right a boat should be able to cater at least more than 10 people at one time.

Inside the queue of voyage boat ride at Tokyo Disneysea Japan

While queuing we took our time to check out the decoration surrounding us. It kinda makes us feel that we are in a bait shop and we queue for fishing trip.

American Waterfront house at Tokyo Disneysea Japan

Turns out the boat is big enough to cater more than 20 people. Phew, we were super grateful knowing that we did not have to queue for hours to ride the boat.

Voyage Boat Ride at Tokyo Disneysea Japan

Let the voyage starts. Tut-tut!

Leaving for a voyage trip at Tokyo Disneysea Japan

First stop, the bridge to New York where Tower of Terror is located.

New York scenery at Tokyo Disneysea Japan

Don't you feel like singing Bare Necessities when you are on board of the boat with this kind of view? Forget about your worries and your strife~~~~

10D9N Spring Japan Trip: New York Harbor, Tokyo Disneysea

If you often visit theme parks, you will notice that they start to look more or less the same in one way or another. For instance, there is a New York area in both Universal Studios Japan and Tokyo Disneysea. Even though both theme parks interpret "New York" in a slightly different way. New York is portrayed in Tokyo Disneysea as part of American Waterfront port-of-call. The first section of American Waterfront is actually the fishing village of Cape Cod.

Fishing village of Cape Cod Tokyo Disneysea Japan

There is a bridge separating the fishing village and the second part of American Waterfront which features New York Harbor and New York city (in a vintage design). The Tower of Terror is one of the iconic building in New York area of Tokyo Disneysea.

Tower of Terror and Fishing Village of Cape Cod Tokyo Disneysea

Crossing the bridge where the New York Harbor is located on the right side of the bridge.

10D9N Spring Japan Trip: New York Harbor, Tokyo Disneysea

At the New York Harbor, the gigantic ship, SS Columbia is docked peacefully. There is a show inside SS Columbia named Turtle Talk whereby Crush from Finding Nemo will bring visitors to look through an underwater window. Crush can only speak in Japanese though at Tokyo Disneysea. XD

Other than the Turtle Talk, there is nothing much you can do at SS Columbia. Well, I guess you can also take picture with the ship.

You can also view Mount Prometheus here. If you wait for a while, the mountain will start spewing out smoke.

Mount Prometheus at Tokyo Disneysea Japan

Just like this...

American Waterfront at Tokyo Disneysea Japan

You can catch up a music performance at the plaza beside SS Columbia if you know the timing. The music performance seems pretty fun even though we only managed to see the ending part. XD

10D9N Spring Japan Trip: Welcome to the American Waterfront, Tokyo Disneysea

Welcome to America, where people is living the American dream. Hmm, wait, I thought we were still in Tokyo Disneysea. What's with the change in the setting? If you are confused, do not fret as we are still in Tokyo Disneysea in Japan. American Waterfront is a themed area inside the theme park. I totally have no idea the background story of why there is American theme inside Tokyo Disneyland. Well, probably because Disney is after all an American. Haha.

American Waterfront area is divided into two section, the New York harbour and the New England fishing village. We were nearer to the fishing village so we decided to check out the village first.

Cape Cod Fishing Village at Tokyo Disneysea Japan

The village's name is Cape Cod and the village is pretty much lively and bustling with crowds. There is one particular restaurant which has a long queue at its door. It's probably because of the Cook Off concepts where diners can select who win the battle (?). I'm just guessing though because with that kind of queue, it will be dinner time by the time I come inside the restaurant. XD

Restaurant in Cape Cod Tokyo Disneysea Japan

Another restaurant spotted nearby with the same length of queue. The Japanese is really admirable in queuing.

Restaurant in Cape Cod Fishing Village American Waterfront

As there seems to be not many places that we could visit without queuing for hours, we proceeded to the harbour section of American Waterfront. This is the view taken from the bridge separating the harbour from the fishing village.

Cape Cod Fishing Boat Harbour Tokyo Disneysea

One particular icon lies on the New York Harbour is definitely the SS Columbia, the massive cruise ship from the industrial age. There are some kind of music performances held in the area in front of SS Columbia so if you are interested, you can go watch the show.

New York Harbour at Tokyo Disneysea Japan

For now, let's pose with the massive boat, the bridge and the Tower of Terror at the background before we proceed further.