Tokyo Disney Made Easy [Paperback]

Kevin Yee (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2008

Want to visit the Tokyo Disney Resort but unsure how to do it? Don't know the customs? Worried about not speaking Japanese? This book provides explanations of likely situations. You'll learn where to go, what to say, and what to expect during every part of the trip, including the airport, transportation to the resort, hotels, and of course the parks themselves. Language and cultural differences no longer form an insurmountable hurdle. Visit the world's most exciting Disney parks in comfort and ease, confident you'll know what to do at each step.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Kevin Yee is a well-known online columnist and blogger about Disney theme parks, with a quarter of a century experience in talking about, working in, and critiquing the theme park model.

Product Details

• Paperback: 172 pages
• Publisher: Ultimate Orlando; 1 edition (July 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 097737582X
• ISBN-13: 978-0977375820
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,240,593 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kevin Yee worked for 15 years at Disneyland in a variety of roles (restaurant lower management, entertainment) and has written regularly about Disney theme parks since 1997 on Web sites, magazine articles, and blogs. He lives in Orlando, where he visits the Disney parks twice a week with his family.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Look on The Internet For Better TDR Information, September 2, 2008

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M. Gunter (Tampa, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tokyo Disney Made Easy (Paperback)

I bought this book because it was the only Tokyo Disney Resort Guide book I could find. I should have kept on looking! This book was really not useful at all. More & better information can be found on Disney websites and message boards. Kevin Yee, it seems, has only been to Tokyo Disney once before and it shows. I don't understand how you can write a travel guide with only being at the destination once prior.

There was no information on staying in Tokyo and visiting the parks, little information on dining in the parks (That could not be found on the parks English website), no information on tours and no help in planning your day other than arrive early & grab a Fastpass for Pooh.

Planning a trip to Tokyo Disney seems like planning a trip to Mars for me, it's so foreign. So, a book called Tokyo Disney Made Easy should have made me feel better: it didn't! The only area this book was helpful was in the words & phrases we'd hear or need to know at the parks. Thanks Kevin for teaching me how to say 2 people and 3 people in Japanese!Tokyo Disney Made Easy

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Pretty much useless., August 2, 2009

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MomofTwo (Okinawa, Japan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tokyo Disney Made Easy (Perfect Paperback)

I will say I do live in Japan so I have easy access to information about Disney. However, I don't speak Japanese so I thought a book in English would be a benefit. This one wasn't. It had no information at all that was useful. Ill stick to the information I get off the web.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful But Not Perfect, July 13, 2008

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J. Silversmith - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tokyo Disney Made Easy (Paperback)

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).