Tokyo Disney Resort Announces Special Programs For Fiscal 2015

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Tokyo Disneyland® Park and Tokyo DisneySea® Park announced their annual schedule for fiscal year 2015 (April 1, 2015 – March 31, 2016). The two Parks will continue to offer Guests distinctive, Disney-style experiences over the upcoming year with a variety of new entertainment, special events and programs. Please see below for more details (in chronological order).

April 2 – June 23, 2015

“Disney’s Easter”

This regular springtime event will also be offered at Tokyo DisneySea for the first time in 2015, so Guests can enjoy Easter at both Parks.

  • At Tokyo Disneyland, the setting for the whimsical Easter-themed event is the secret Easter garden. Guests will be able to participate in a new way in the main entertainment, a parade featuring Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse in new costumes.
  • Tokyo DisneySea will offer a stylish Easter with beautiful flowers, Easter eggs and bonnets. In the main entertainment, presented in Mediterranean Harbor, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and their Disney friends have come up with an ingenious plan to show off their best Easter fashions. Guests can enjoy the bright and colorful Easter event in Tokyo DisneySea style.

April 24, 2015

Tokyo DisneySea Mermaid Lagoon Theater

“King Triton’s Concert”

Mermaid Lagoon Theater will be renovated with screens inside the theater, as well as with a new stage, lighting and other equipment. A new musical show, set in the world of the Disney film The Little Mermaid, will be presented here.
In the show, King Triton presents a musical concert with the familiar Disney characters Ariel, Flounder and Sebastian who bring to life the beautiful world under the sea through their music, songs and dynamic performances.

June 24 – July 7, 2015

“Disney Tanabata Days”

  • The Japanese star festival known as ―Tanabata‖ will be celebrated at Tokyo Disneyland with traditional decorations in World Bazaar. Guests can write their wishes on ―Wishing Cards‖ to be hung from the grand centerpiece. Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, dressed as Hikoboshi and Orihime, the two star-crossed lovers of this festival, will greet Guests along the parade route.
  • At Tokyo DisneySea, Guests will find traditional Tanabata decorations in the New York area of American Waterfront and in Mediterranean Harbor, Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse will appear in a greeting show dressed as Hikoboshi and Orihime, the festival’s two star-crossed lovers. Guests can enjoy Tanabata in a unique Tokyo DisneySea style.

July 9 – August 31, 2015
“Disney Natsu Matsuri”

Natsu matsuri means ―summer festival‖ in Japanese and Guests will be able to enjoy the hot summer with the Disney characters in this energizing special event. Decked out with Japanese banners and lanterns, the Plaza in front of Cinderella Castle will be the venue for the festival. Booths selling festival goods, cold drinks and other items will add to the festive atmosphere. In the main show, everyone will get soaking wet as they enjoy the group dancing and the summertime heat.

“Disney Summer Festival”

Enjoy this mid-summer festival of tropical fruit and Latin rhythms. The main venue is Mediterranean Harbor which will be transformed with banners in vivid colors and juicy tropical fruit decorations for a cheerful and bright summer mood. While volumes of water spray around the area, everyone can join the Disney characters in singing and dancing to the rhythmical music of the tropical summer carnival led by Minnie Mouse. And in Lost River Delta, Guests can enjoy the fun and cheerful program, ―Fruta! Fruta! Fiesta!‖ which celebrates the rich harvest of fruit.

July 9, 2015

“Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade Dreamlights”
This nighttime parade will be presented with a brand new float featuring Rapunzel and Flynn Rider from the Disney film Tangled. Also, seven other floats, including the pirate galleon from Peter Pan, will be revamped. With these changes the parade will lend even more sparkle to the Park after dark.

Summer 2015

Stitch Encounter

Tomorrowland, themed to space and the future where the unknown and lots of adventures await Guests, is the location of this new theater-type attraction inspired by the Disney film Lilo & Stitch. Children and adults alike will enjoy the humor and surprises of the ―communications‖ they can have with Stitch who appears on a large screen in the theater.

September 8 – November 1, 2015

“Disney’s Halloween”

Again in 2015, each Park will offer in its own way a ―Disney’s Halloween‖ event.

  • At Tokyo Disneyland, the Disney characters will be joined by the Halloween

    ghosts for a happy Halloween fair. Dressed in their costumes for the parade, Mickey Mouse and his friends together with the jack-o’-lanterns and ghosts will make the fair even more exciting and fun.

  • Tokyo DisneySea will offer the event with a new theme for a ―cool‖ but ominous Halloween with the Disney villains. The Park will be transfigured into an other-worldly place where Mickey Mouse and his Disney friends along with the villains spread a gorgeous and stylish Halloween. Guests can enjoy a show on the waters of Mediterranean Harbor that creates a frightfully cool Halloween from the world of the villains.

November 9 – December 25, 2015

“Christmas Fantasy”
Tokyo Disneyland is at its loveliest during the Christmas season. Guests will find a 15-meter-tall Christmas tree at the center of World Bazaar, as well as holiday photo locations, garlands and other decorations in each themed land. This time, Mickey Mouse and the other Disney friends will appear in a new parade featuring characters found only during this season.

“Christmas Wishes”

In each of the themed ports, Christmas trees and other monuments put up by the Disney friends with their Christmas wishes will create a heartwarming and romantic atmosphere in the Park. This year, a brand new daytime show will be presented at Mediterranean Harbor and holiday entertainment will be presented at American Waterfront. A nighttime show will feature Christmas trees on the waters of Mediterranean Harbor creating a fantastic atmosphere. Guests are sure to enjoy a Christmas event full of variety.

January 1 – 5, 2016

New Year’s Programs at Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea

Both Parks will celebrate the start of the year with colorful Japanese-style New Year’s decorations at the entrances, merchandise featuring the zodiac animal for the year and traditional New Year’s cuisine. The Disney characters will be dressed up in kimono to welcome Guests in Japanese style.

January 12 – March 18, 2016

“Anna and Elsa’s Frozen Fantasy”
This special event will be themed to the Disney film Frozen. In addition to entertainment programs, Guests will find decorations of ice and snowflakes that help transform the Park into a world inspired by the film.

“Disney Princess: Welcome Little Princesses”

Young Guests participating in this program will be able to enjoy various activities like meeting the Disney Princesses and becoming a make-believe princess will allow the Guests to immerse themselves in the world of the princesses.

“Sweet Duffy”

Guests can enjoy the gentle and heartwarming world of Duffy in this program that offers merchandise with cute designs, tempting sweets and photo spots where delightful keepsake photos can be taken.