Tokyo Disney Made Easy: The Unofficial Guide to Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo Disneysea

Kevin Yee has managed to distill the information you need to travel to TDR in a clear concise book. As someone who has visited TDR in the past, I can tell you that I wished for a book like Tokyo Disney Made Easy. What took me several trips to learn, the author has captured in one place. The book includes additional insights that were beyond my travels. I look forward to my next trip armed with my copy of Tokyo Disney Made Easy.

Being the only English guide book for Tokyo Disneyland, there isn't much competition. However, the book is full of useful information for the American thinking of visiting the Toyko Disney Resort and wondering of how to handle the difficulties of language, culture and customs. This book can help prepare you for an enjoyable trip. Compared to the great guide books that are available for Walt Disney World, this book doesn't cover as much. But an American used to visiting WDW or Disneyland in California will find this book extremely useful.

By virtue of being the only English-language guidebook to the Tokyo Disney Resort, I expect that Kevin Yee's "Tokyo Disney Made Easy" would be useful for the first-time visitor. But at the same time, the coverage of TDR is not particularly deep - much of the book is devoted to general travel advice, and each attraction receives only a few lines of description, far less than the typical guide to the U.S. parks provides for each one. The guide appears to assume that the reader is already very familiar with Disney attractions (but if you're planning a trip to the Tokyo Disney Resort specifically, there's a good chance that you are?). There are also some outright errors - such as a claim that transit passes for Tokyo subways and buses are valid on the Disney Resort Line monorail (true only for the now-discontinued Passnet system, and not the Pasmo and Suica cards, at least for now), and that the storyline behind the Tower of Terror involves "Lord Hightower" (the ride's in the American Waterfront section of the park - he's a millionaire, not nobility).

I'm a diehard Disney fan, so visiting the two Japanese Disney theme parks (especially Tokyo Disney Sea) is high on my list of priorities. However, the thought of traveling to Asia is very intimidating to me. I studied Italian in high school, and as a result, I can get by in most European countries, and I had no problems when I visited Disneyland Paris (then Eurodisneyland) years ago. But Japan is a different story. I have no basis at all for reading or understanding anything in Japanese. Furthermore, in most ways, Japanese culture is more different from my own than Western European cultures are. So if I were to visit the Tokyo Disney parks, how would I even get from the airport to the hotel? How do park tickets work? Where would I stay? To my delight, this book answers all those questions and many more. This would not be a good resource (or, at least, the *only* resource) for someone who wanted to tour all over Japan. The information it contains is very targeted, but fortunately, it was exactly the information I've been looking for. It explains in great detail exactly how someone not familiar with Japanese language and customs can enjoy Tokyo Disneyland with minimal stress and uncertainty. As a bonus, it also tells you how to make informed decisions on how you spend your money and how you can avoid embarassing oneself or unintentionally appearing rude. So if you want to visit Tokyo Disneyland and don't know where to start, I don't think there's a better resource than this book. I recommend it highly.