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{{Infobox attraction
| name = Jasmine's Flying Carpets
| park = [[Tokyo DisneySea]]
| land = Arabian Coast
| type = Aerial carousel (spinner ride)
| opened = July 18, 2011
| duration = About 1.5 minutes
| status = Operating
}}

'''Jasmine's Flying Carpets''' is an aerial carousel ride in Arabian Coast at [[Tokyo DisneySea]], the second park of the [[Tokyo Disney Resort]] in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan. Guests board four-person magic carpets and circle above a garden setting drawn from Disney's 1992 animated film ''Aladdin'', raising, lowering and tilting their own carpet as they fly. It is the Tokyo version of the carpet-spinner concept also found at the [[Magic Kingdom]] as [[The Magic Carpets of Aladdin]] and at Walt Disney Studios Park in Paris as Flying Carpets Over Agrabah, but it is a separate attraction with its own name, setting and design, built specifically for Arabian Coast.

== History ==
Jasmine's Flying Carpets opened on July 18, 2011, as part of the celebrations for Tokyo DisneySea's tenth anniversary.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Magic Carpets of Aladdin |website=Wikipedia |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Carpets_Over_Agrabah |access-date=2026-11-14}}</ref> The Oriental Land Company announced the ride in January 2011 as an investment of roughly ¥2 billion, sponsored by NTT Communications Corporation, which would bring the park's attraction count to 27.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jasmine's Flying Carpets to land at Disney Tokyo |website=Health Club Management |url=https://www.healthclubmanagement.co.uk/health-club-management-news/Jasmines-Flying-Carpets-to-land-at-Disney-Tokyo/237663 |access-date=2026-11-14}}</ref> It was placed in Arabian Coast beside [[Sindbad's Storybook Voyage]], on a waterfront site where the circling carpets can be seen from the bridges and the opposite shore of the port — a deliberately kinetic addition to a port whose other attractions are mostly indoors.

The opening came four months after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami of March 2011, which had closed the resort for a period that spring; the new family ride formed part of the park's tenth-anniversary programme as attendance was rebuilt.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Magic Carpets of Aladdin |website=Disney Wiki |url=https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/The_Magic_Carpets_of_Aladdin |access-date=2026-11-14}}</ref>

== Experience ==
Sixteen carpets, each seating four guests in two rows of two, are mounted on arms around a central hub. Once the ride begins, the carpets rise to a height of up to about five metres (16 feet).<ref>{{cite web |title=Jasmine's Flying Carpets to land at Disney Tokyo |website=Health Club Management |url=https://www.healthclubmanagement.co.uk/health-club-management-news/Jasmines-Flying-Carpets-to-land-at-Disney-Tokyo/237663 |access-date=2026-11-14}}</ref> Guests in the front row control the carpet's height with a lever, while guests in the back row can tilt their carpet forwards and backwards, so a fully occupied vehicle is flown co-operatively. The resort describes the setting as a flight over Jasmine's garden, and the ride area is dressed as a lush courtyard garden rather than the market-square setting used by the Magic Kingdom version.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jasmine's Flying Carpets |website=Tokyo Disney Resort |url=https://www.tokyodisneyresort.jp/en/tds/attraction/detail/220/ |access-date=2026-11-14}}</ref>

A ride lasts about 1.5 minutes (90 seconds).<ref>{{cite web |title=Jasmine's Flying Carpets |website=Tokyo Disney Resort |url=https://www.tokyodisneyresort.jp/en/tds/attraction/detail/220/ |access-date=2026-11-14}}</ref> There is no height requirement, although guests must be able to sit upright unaided, which keeps the ride open to the young children Arabian Coast chiefly serves. Together with the [[Caravan Carousel]] it gives the port a pair of gentle outdoor rides balancing its two indoor anchor attractions, Sindbad's Storybook Voyage and [[The Magic Lamp Theater]].

== See also ==
* [[The Magic Lamp Theater]]
* [[Caravan Carousel]]
* [[Sindbad's Storybook Voyage]]
* [[Tokyo DisneySea]]
* [[List of Tokyo DisneySea attractions]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Attractions]]
[[Category:Tokyo DisneySea]]
[[Category:2011 establishments in Japan]]