Jasmine's Flying Carpets
| Jasmine's Flying Carpets | |
|---|---|
| Park | Tokyo DisneySea |
| Land / area | Arabian Coast |
| Type | Aerial carousel (spinner ride) |
| Opened | July 18, 2011
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| 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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]
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).[4] 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.[5]
A ride lasts about 1.5 minutes (90 seconds).[6] 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
- ↑ The Magic Carpets of Aladdin. Wikipedia. Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ Jasmine's Flying Carpets to land at Disney Tokyo. Health Club Management. Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ The Magic Carpets of Aladdin. Disney Wiki. Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ Jasmine's Flying Carpets to land at Disney Tokyo. Health Club Management. Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ Jasmine's Flying Carpets. Tokyo Disney Resort. Retrieved 2026-11-14.
- ↑ Jasmine's Flying Carpets. Tokyo Disney Resort. Retrieved 2026-11-14.