Fantasy Springs
| Fantasy Springs | |
|---|---|
| Park | Tokyo DisneySea |
| Land / area | Fantasy Springs |
| Type | Themed port |
| Opened | June 6, 2024 |
| Designer | Walt Disney Imagineering
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| Status | Operating |
Fantasy Springs is the eighth themed port at Tokyo DisneySea at Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan. Themed to magical springs that lead into a world of Disney fantasy, it brings together three areas drawn from Walt Disney Animation Studios films: Frozen Kingdom, from Frozen; Rapunzel's Forest, from Tangled; and Peter Pan's Never Land, from Peter Pan. The port opened on June 6, 2024, with four attractions, restaurants, a shop and the Tokyo DisneySea Fantasy Springs Hotel built inside the park itself.[1][2]
Fantasy Springs is the largest development at Tokyo DisneySea since the park opened in 2001. The Oriental Land Company puts the total investment at about 320 billion yen and the development area at about 140,000 square metres, on land at the back of the park that had previously been used in part as a parking lot.[1][3]
History
A Frozen-themed port for Tokyo DisneySea had been discussed earlier in the 2010s, in a form sometimes described as a Scandinavia port. That idea was set aside, and its Frozen element was later folded into a much larger project. On June 14, 2018, Tokyo Disney Resort announced a new port combining areas themed to Frozen, Tangled and Peter Pan, together with a new hotel inside the port.[3]
Construction began in May 2019 and took about five years. In October 2022 the Oriental Land Company confirmed the names Frozen Kingdom, Rapunzel's Forest and Peter Pan's Never Land, and pushed the opening back to spring 2024, citing delays in overseas production and COVID-19 restrictions. The opening date of June 6, 2024, was announced later, and the port held its grand opening on that day.[1][3]
Access was tightly controlled at first, with entry and the major attractions managed through Standby Pass and Disney Premier Access in the Tokyo Disney Resort app. Those area-entry restrictions were later lifted, and guests admitted to Tokyo DisneySea can now walk into the port and use the regular standby queues, with paid Disney Premier Access still offered for three of the four attractions.
Areas and attractions
Frozen Kingdom recreates the kingdom of Arendelle, with Arendelle Castle and Elsa's ice palace visible on the North Mountain in the distance. The area is presented as Arendelle after the events of Frozen. Its attraction is Anna and Elsa's Frozen Journey, and its dining includes the Royal Banquet of Arendelle, inside the castle, and Oaken's OK Foods.
Rapunzel's Forest is built around Rapunzel's tower, which overlooks the area, and the forest clearing from Tangled. Its attraction is Rapunzel's Lantern Festival, a boat ride ending at the lantern festival, and its restaurant is The Snuggly Duckling, the tavern from the film.
Peter Pan's Never Land is the largest of the three areas in attraction count, with two rides. Peter Pan's Never Land Adventure is a 3D ride in which guests join Peter Pan, Tinker Bell and the Lost Kids to rescue John from Captain Hook. Fairy Tinker Bell's Busy Buggies is a smaller outdoor ride through Pixie Hollow. The area's restaurant, Lookout Cookout, is presented as a hideout built by the Lost Kids, and Captain Hook's ship, the Jolly Roger, is moored in the area.
Running through the port are the springs themselves: rockwork, waterfalls and pools carved, in the port's story, by magical waters, with figures of Disney characters formed in the rock around the entrance area.
Tokyo DisneySea Fantasy Springs Hotel
The Tokyo DisneySea Fantasy Springs Hotel opened with the port on June 6, 2024, as the second hotel located inside Tokyo DisneySea, after Hotel MiraCosta, and the resort's sixth Disney hotel. It is made up of two buildings: the deluxe-type Fantasy Chateau, with 419 rooms decorated with motifs of the plants and animals of Fantasy Springs, and the luxury-type Grand Chateau, with 56 rooms.[4][3]
The hotel stands a two-minute walk from Bayside Station on the Disney Resort Line monorail.[4] Its guests do not need that monorail to reach the port, however: hotel guests with a park ticket can enter Fantasy Springs directly through the dedicated Fantasy Springs Entrance, and Grand Chateau guests can also use the Grand Chateau Gateway. Regular park guests, by contrast, reach the port from inside Tokyo DisneySea itself; the entrance by Bayside Station is the hotel-guest entrance, not the port's main public entrance.[4][5]
See also
- Tokyo DisneySea
- Tokyo Disney Resort
- Anna and Elsa's Frozen Journey
- Rapunzel's Lantern Festival
- Peter Pan's Never Land Adventure
- Fairy Tinker Bell's Busy Buggies
- Frozen Ever After