Aug 28 (Japan Today) - Where, and how, will you spend New Year's Eve? There is one place where the party goes on throughout the night and the new year is rung in to the sound of fireworks, the Tokyo resort in Chiba that makes up two of Japan's top three theme parks, and the New Year's Eve Passport as the special ticket is known, will go on sale next month.
Visitors with the pass will be able to enter either Tokyo Disneyland or the neighboring Tokyo DisneySea from 8 p.m. on Dec 31, although the conditions state that visitors are only allowed to stay on site for a mere 26 hours of merrymaking, far longer than the usual 1-Day pass. Can we expect to see people falling asleep on rollercoasters, since they can manage it too easily on trains, and snoozing in their Disney-fied curries? For those who can resist the call of the Land of Nod, and the chill of the early hours of a January morning, the parks will be open for business as usual throughout the early hours with revellers able to see in the new year in style.
Unlike normal day passes that expire when the park closes, visitors will see the park by night, which will hopefully be a glorious whirlwind of lights and colors from dusk until dawn, and not just look like Universal Studios Japan's zombie-infested Halloween horror nights as sleep-deprived attendees traipse the park emitting groans. Possibly best of all, instead of osechi dishes to eat, you can tuck into the park's delicious themed snacks and fast food.
