A note on Japanese park guests

Japanese tourists are really weird.

I say that with a lot of love.

People come into the park with suitcases.

One of the strangest things about kicking around the Tokyo Disney Resort is that the majority of tourists are women. This was true for every one of my visits here. I've never been in the summer, so it might be different then, but from an anecdotal standpoint, a full two thirds of the visitors are women. A sidebar to that is that most of the employee's at the resort are also women, but that's not the point of this post.

The guidebook in Japanese isn't so much a guide to the rides, but a catalog of what's new that season and all the shops carry the same merchandise. There's no prepro artwork (which is what I like to collect) there's no posters or large maps of the attractions, there's just cute things. And there's a lot of cute things made out of plastic or plush.

And the Japanese go crazy with it all. When leaving the park, it's not odd to see them carrying bags as big as they are, suitcases laden with swag, wearing cute hats, cute character cloaks, cute character gloves.

I swear, Disneyland was made for the Japanese. It is truly strange to behold.