Over the coming week, we'll be taking a side trip to Japan for a look at some of the details found within Tokyo DisneySEA. I last visited the Tokyo Disney Resort nearly seven years ago, before I owned a digital camera or had the foresight to thoroughly document the storytelling details of the parks. It's all the more reason to plan another vacation to the Far East in the near future.
The Tokyo DisneySEA park opened in 2001, raising the bar for theme park storytelling to extraordinary heights. As a counterpoint to its sister park, Tokyo Disneyland, Tokyo DisneySEA is divided into seven distinct ports of call: Mediterranean Harbor, American Waterfront, Port Discovery, Lost River Delta, Arabian Coast, Mermaid Lagoon and Mysterious Island.
The stories of these lands are interwoven and even extend beyond the park itself to the adjacent Hotel Miracosta, where the map pictured above can be found. It charts a course laid out by the Society of Explorers and Adventurers (S.E.A.) as they ventured between the four corners of the world on their voyage of discovery.
