Land of the Rising Mickey
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Next, I headed for one of my local train stations.

Just after I passed through the turnstiles, I saw this on the wall -

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The poster encourages riders to visit Tokyo DisneySea and to be sure and use Japan Railway to get there. No surprise here. OLC and JR have a successful love affair that dates back to the construction of the Keiyo Line (from Tokyo Station to Maihama Station and beyond), well over a decade ago.

I had some business at Ikebukuro, Tokyo Prefecture's second largest urban center. When I took the escalator up from the platform at Ikebukuro Station I saw a number of these -

It's an amazing poster, a version its art is currently used at DisneySea's official site, but you ain't' seen nuthin' yet...

My mission complete at Ikebukuro, I was off to Shinjuku, Tokyo largest urban center. When I exited the platform at Shinjuku station, Japan's busiest, I saw a number of these, double the size of the previous one.

But we're not done doubling... Then there was this incredible thing (It took some patience to get an unobscured shot.) -

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