Minnie's Style Studio
| Minnie's Style Studio | |
|---|---|
| Park | Tokyo Disneyland |
| Land / area | Toontown |
| Type | Character greeting facility |
| Opened | September 28, 2020 |
| Designer | Walt Disney Imagineering
|
| Status | Operating |
Minnie's Style Studio is a character greeting facility in Toontown at Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan. It presents Minnie Mouse as an internationally famous fashion designer and lets guests tour her workplace — her office and workroom — before meeting her in her photo studio, wearing an outfit of her own design that changes with the seasons. It opened on September 28, 2020, as the Toontown element of the largest expansion in Tokyo Disneyland's history. As of November 2026 it was operating daily, with the official greeting schedule listing it from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. through November and December 2026.[1][2]
History
Before the studio opened, Toontown already had character houses — including Minnie's House — but no separate, purpose-built Minnie greeting building of this kind. Work on the new facility formed part of the expansion programme announced in the late 2010s, a development of about 47,000 square metres spanning Fantasyland, Tomorrowland and Toontown that the Oriental Land Company described, on completion, as the largest expansion of the park ever, delivered three years after first breaking ground.[1]
The studio was originally scheduled to open on April 15, 2020, the park's anniversary date, alongside the Enchanted Tale of Beauty and the Beast ride in the new Fantasyland area and The Happy Ride with Baymax in Tomorrowland. Tokyo Disneyland closed in late February 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the opening was postponed indefinitely. In mid-September 2020 the Oriental Land Company confirmed a new date, and the whole expansion opened together on September 28, 2020, with entry to the new attractions and the greeting experience initially limited through an entry request system on the Tokyo Disney Resort app to avoid congestion.[1][3] Toontown, the land the studio sits in, is presented by Kodansha Ltd.[1]
Experience
The fiction is that guests are visiting Minnie at work. Pre-opening coverage from Disney, relayed by Theme Park Insider, described the studio as the place where Minnie does her award-winning work as an internationally famous fashion designer, and the official description of the greeting sets the route: visit her office, pass through the workroom, then enter the photo studio for a photograph with Minnie, who greets guests wearing her latest design.[4][5]
The interior is dressed as a working studio rather than a stage set. Contemporary reports noted Minnie's signature bow worked into the tray ceiling and paintings of Minnie through the ages on the walls, and early-access reviewers summarised the premise as a designer who creates outfits and shoots photographs in the space guests walk through.[6][7]
The defining feature is rotation. Wikipedia's summary of the park notes that Minnie appears in a rotating selection of seasonal outfits, and that promise was part of the facility's appeal from its first autumn: the outfit and the photo-studio backdrop change with the four seasons, so a greeting in spring does not look like a greeting in winter.[8] Together with Mickey's House and Meet Mickey across the land, the studio gives Toontown a matched pair of permanent, purpose-built greetings for Mickey and Minnie — his at home, hers at work.
See also
- Tokyo Disneyland
- Toontown
- Minnie's House
- Mickey's House and Meet Mickey
- Enchanted Tale of Beauty and the Beast
- List of Tokyo Disneyland attractions
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Tokyo Disneyland Expansion Areas to Open on September 28. Oriental Land Co., Ltd.. Retrieved 2026-11-15.
- ↑ Disney Character Greeting Schedule - Minnie's Style Studio. Tokyo Disney Resort. Retrieved 2026-11-15.
- ↑ Minnie's Style Studio. Disney Wiki. Retrieved 2026-11-15.
- ↑ First Look Inside Disney's New Minnie's Style Studio. Theme Park Insider. Retrieved 2026-11-15.
- ↑ First Look at NEW Minnie Mouse Meet and Greet at Tokyo Disneyland. Inside the Magic. Retrieved 2026-11-15.
- ↑ First Look at NEW Minnie Mouse Meet and Greet at Tokyo Disneyland. Inside the Magic. Retrieved 2026-11-15.
- ↑ Review: Tokyo Disneyland's New Big Hero 6 Attraction and Minnie's Style Studio. MOSHI MOSHI NIPPON. Retrieved 2026-11-15.
- ↑ Tokyo Disneyland. Wikipedia. Retrieved 2026-11-15.