Line-skipping at Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea saves you time ready in line for rides, which implies extra for necessary issues: snacks! This information explains how one can use Precedence Go and Premier Entry, the replacements for FastPass at Tokyo Disney Resort. Right here’s a comparability of the free vs. paid companies, experience rankings, Fantasy Springs recommendation, and extra. (Up to date October 13, 2024.)
Let’s begin with the fundamentals of the brand new Precedence Go. Oriental Land Firm (OLC), the proprietor and operator of Tokyo Disney Resort, debuted the free Precedence Go line-skipping service in commemoration of Tokyo Disneyland’s fortieth Anniversary. That ended again in April, however Precedence Go was prolonged indefinitely. In keeping with TDR, “the accessible interval will probably be introduced as quickly as it’s decided.”
Precedence Go is offered freed from cost, and permits company of Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea the power to get pleasure from sure sights with a diminished wait time. Precedence Go is offered for eligible experiences utilizing the Tokyo Disney Resort App as quickly as company enter the park.
Visitors will have the ability to enter the attraction from a ‘quick lane’ line (previously FastPass) at a specified time and revel in their chosen expertise with a diminished wait time. This service will present choices for a way company expertise Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea, providing comfort and added flexibility for individuals who want to personalize their expertise and get probably the most out of their go to.
With fundamentals out of the best way, listed here are extra granular particulars that ought to reply your questions on how Precedence Go works at Tokyo Disney Resort. Together with our experiences utilizing Precedence Go on a number of events in 2024…
When you’re aware of the outdated FastPass system, Precedence Go is mainly that however with a unique title. It’s additionally all-digital, however that half truly isn’t new. Again in Summer season 2019, Tokyo Disney Resort launched digital FastPass–we had been there the day in July when it went stay!
The distinction is that FastPass wasn’t all-digital. Even then-new rides like Hovering Unbelievable Flight had FastPass machines put in for paper FastPass. (They had been virtually ineffective, although, because it was virtually inconceivable to stroll to the FastPass machine earlier than FastPasses had been totally distributed for the day through the app. I ponder if anybody on the market even has a paper FastPass for Hovering?) There’s additionally an area that was supposed for FastPass distribution outdoors Enchanted Story of Magnificence and the Beast!
In any case, Precedence Go works the identical method and with just about the identical insurance policies as paper or digital FastPass. Every Park ticket can be utilized to acquire a Tokyo Disney Resort fortieth Anniversary Precedence Go for one individual, and solely after that ticket has been scanned into the park.
If one member of a celebration has not scanned into the park, however everybody else has, that particular person won’t be able to make Precedence Go experience reservations. Entry to an expertise will probably be permitted for one visitor per fortieth Anniversary Precedence Go. Visitors ages 3 and below will have the ability to entry the expertise with an accompanying one who has obtained a Precedence Go.
Precedence Passes might be cancelled and rebooked for various sights in the event that they haven’t been used. If an attraction is quickly unavailable throughout a Precedence Go redemption window, it’ll swap to a “A number of Experiences” cross, which works at numerous completely different rides. Return home windows are 60 minutes, and late or early arrivals should not allowed.
Heck, even the 120 minute rule applies–which means that company can get hold of their subsequent Precedence Go after the beginning time of their final Precedence Go or 120 minutes after acquiring their final Precedence Go, whichever is earlier. (As with FastPass, which means stacking is feasible!)
Not like Lightning Lanes, re-rides are potential with Precedence Go. Nevertheless, that is solely after the designated time to make use of the obtained Precedence Go has handed.
As with legacy FastPass, company should not capable of choose the time to entry the expertise. Return instances transfer ahead as Precedence Passes are distributed, which means the early chook will get the figurative worm–and the prospect for extra Precedence Passes all through the day–as some rides will run out of Precedence Passes all through the day within the morning.
To that time, Precedence Passes which have change into quickly unavailable might change into accessible once more. Verify the Tokyo Disney Resort App for availability.
Technically, I assume Precedence Go is not all-digital. In keeping with Tokyo Disney Resort, company with no smartphone can “contact a Forged Member on the venue of the expertise you want to get pleasure from.” It’s unclear what which means or the way it works. We’ve solely ever used the digital Precedence Go.
Our guess is that it entails Forged Members registering your ticket through tablets, making reservations for you, after which offering you with a handwritten slip that may be redeemed on the Precedence Go/FastPass return line. That is form of how walk-up eating reservations work at Tokyo Disney Resort, and it may be tedious and time-consuming. I actually wouldn’t wish to do it for experience reservations.
Talking of which, downloading the Tokyo Disney Resort App in your smartphone upfront of your go to is advisable. Each by TDR and by us. When you’re studying this, there’s a few 95% likelihood you reside outdoors of Japan.
I can not think about touring overseas with no smartphone. Clearly, I do know that there was a time (up till the aughts!) when individuals did this…however I merely can not conceive of navigating Japan with out the fashionable marvels of Google Maps or Translate, Apple Pockets, and many others.
The excellent news is that the Tokyo Disney Resort App is offered in English, now helps ticket purchases, and works along with your current Disney account for the home parks. The app is nice not only for Precedence Go and Premier Entry, but in addition for Cellular Order, stage present lotteries, restaurant reservations, and extra. You need to completely set it up and determine the fundamentals earlier than even leaving house.
Under are the eligible sights for the unpaid Precedence Go in every park:
Tokyo Disneyland
- Star Excursions: The Adventures Proceed
- Buzz Lightyear’s Astro Blasters (closes completely on October 31, 2024)
- Huge Thunder Mountain
- Pooh’s Hunny Hunt
- Haunted Mansion
- Monsters, Inc. Experience & Go Search!
Tokyo DisneySea
- Aquatopia
- Indiana Jones Journey: Temple of the Crystal Cranium
- 20,000 Leagues Below the Sea
- Turtle Discuss
- Nemo & Buddies SeaRider
- The Magic Lamp Theater
- Raging Spirits
In conducting testing of Precedence Go, availability, return instances, and many others., however listed here are our priorities:
Tokyo Disneyland Precedence Go Rankings:
- Pooh’s Hunny Hunt
- Monsters Inc. Experience & Go Search
- Huge Thunder Mountain Railroad
- Haunted Mansion
- Star Excursions
I’ve gone forward and eliminated Buzz Lightyear’s Astro Blasters since that’s closing quickly (between at times, it’s #1).
The heavy-hitters at Tokyo Disneyland are Monsters Inc. Experience & Go Search and Pooh’s Hunny Hunt, that are additionally the 2 distinctive E-Tickets at Tokyo Disneyland. Again within the paper FastPass days, Experience & Go Search was truly harder, however its reputation has dropped since.
Objectively, Huge Thunder Mountain Railroad is commonly a greater #2 decide, however we advocate going for the distinctive sights since there’s a superb likelihood you received’t have the ability to get Precedence Passes for all 3.
Tokyo DisneySea Precedence Go Rankings:
- Indiana Jones Journey
- Raging Spirits
- Aquatopia
- 20,000 Leagues Below the Sea
- Nemo & Buddies SeaRider
- Turtle Discuss
- Magic Lamp Theater
As of proper now, Precedence Go is far much less helpful at Tokyo DisneySea. Except Indiana Jones Journey, which has a Single Rider line, a lot of the different sights have instances of the day when traces are quick.
Not solely that, however most worldwide guests with solely in the future in Tokyo DisneySea ought to not be losing their time on SeaRider, Turtle Discuss, Raging Spirits, or Magic Lamp Theater. (Indiana Jones Journey is properly value doing; it’s very completely different from the Disneyland model!)
Actually, I’m not fully assured in these rankings as a result of we virtually by no means e book Precedence Passes for #2 or #5-7. We mainly simply e book Indiana Jones Journey as many instances as potential–and typically 20,000 Leagues Below the Sea if it’s busy.
Along with this, Tokyo Disney Resort additionally has its personal model of paid FastPass. Listed below are the paid Premier Entry sights in every park, together with their per-ride prices:
Tokyo Disneyland
- Disney Concord in Coloration Parade – 2,500 yen per entry
- Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade Dreamlights – 2,500 yen per entry
- Enchanted Story of Magnificence and the Beast – 2,000 yen per entry
- The Pleased Experience with Baymax – 1,500 yen per entry
- Splash Mountain – 1,500 yen per entry
Tokyo DisneySea
- Imagine! Sea of Desires Nighttime Spectacular – 2,500 yen per entry
- Hovering: Unbelievable Flight – 2,000 yen per entry
- Toy Story Mania! – 2,000 yen per entry
- Tower of Terror – 1,500 yen per entry
- Journey to the Heart of the Earth – 1,500 yen per entry
Fantasy Springs at Tokyo DisneySea
- Anna & Elsa’s Frozen Journey – 2,000 yen per entry
- Peter Pan’s By no means Land Journey – 2,000 yen per entry
- Rapunzel’s Lantern Competition – 2,000 yen per entry
Fantasy Springs is listed individually as a result of its personal beast with a number of entry choices past Premier Entry. See Easy methods to Enter Fantasy Springs & Get On Rides: Good, Dangerous & Ugly Entry Choices for a rundown of how one can achieve entry into the land.
When you merely present up after park opening, there’s a superb likelihood you won’t be able to enter Fantasy Springs, not to mention experience any sights. We can not emphasize sufficient how necessary advance planning is for Fantasy Springs–and possibly will into 2025 and past.
The one time we’ve bought paid Premier Entry is for opening night time of Imagine! Sea of Desires. I wouldn’t purchase it once more for reveals or parades, but in addition wouldn’t discourage worldwide guests with restricted time from buying Premier Entry–even for leisure.
We normally do 4 days at Tokyo Disney Resort, arriving early and staying late, and managing to knock out the headliners then. (When you’re on the lookout for technique, seek the advice of our 1-Day Tokyo Disneyland Itinerary and our 1-Day Tokyo DisneySea Itinerary.) If there’s one thing we miss, oh properly. We’ll be again once more.
Shopping for Premier Entry would minimize into our snacking funds, and that’s only a whole non-starter for us. Clearly, your circumstances might differ from individuals who weblog about Disney.
For these contemplating it, Enchanted Story of Magnificence and the Beast (#1) and Splash Mountain (#2) are the perfect buys at Tokyo Disneyland. At Tokyo DisneySea, we actively advocate buying Premier Entry for all Fantasy Springs sights in addition to Hovering Unbelievable Flight. Anna & Elsa’s Frozen Journey is the #1 decide at TDS, adopted by Peter Pan’s By no means Land Journey at #2.
Turning to commentary, it’s nice to see free FastPass returning to 1 Disney resort on the planet, and never in the least stunning that it’s taking place at Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea, the 2 parks that aren’t owned wholly or partially by the Walt Disney Firm.
It’s curious that this may work in mainly the very same method as digital FastPass, however with a unique title. We strongly suspect that Disney is mandating this. For causes that we’ll by no means perceive, Disney made the good resolution to retire some of the recognizable theme park manufacturers of all time in FastPass.
FastPass was a time period that had so totally permeated the collective consciousness–even amongst non-fans–that it had change into shorthand for quick lane in a mess of actual world settings. This title change can be akin to Kleenex renaming its tissues as “Snot Ragz” and the packing containers they got here in as “Poodle+.” If that is unnecessary…that’s exactly the purpose!
As famous above, Tokyo Disney Resort is promoting Precedence Go as being supplied for a “restricted interval” in celebration of Tokyo Disneyland’s fortieth Anniversary. That’s now been prolonged indefinitely, however TDR has indicated an announcement in regards to the availability interval will probably be introduced as soon as a choice is made.
Our wager is that Tokyo Disney Resort intends for Precedence Go to change into everlasting, like FastPass, however wish to have latitude to not use the system. Sooner or later, we anticipate it to be rebranded and have extra sights added “by fashionable visitor demand.” However who is aware of. The way in which OLC has performed issues within the final couple of years has been equal elements complicated and stunning at instances.
Persevering with with guesses, my subsequent one is that sights from the Premier Entry listing above progressively transfer to the Precedence Go listing. This can be a daring wager, because the Premier Entry lineup has already expanded a couple of instances since debuting. It began as solely the headliners in every park, then added the brand new Tokyo DisneySea nighttime spectacular, then added extra rides in each parks, after which parades.
With that stated, one thing’s gotta give. As soon as November 2024 rolls round, Precedence Go will probably be down two main sights–Buzz Lightyear’s Astro Blasters and Area Mountain–at Tokyo Disneyland. Even earlier than this, it was rather more aggressive at Tokyo Disneyland as in comparison with FastPass, for the reason that experience roster was smaller.
The lineup at Tokyo DisneySea isn’t good in any respect–it’s principally filler. Now that Fantasy Springs is open, it could make sense for OLC to maneuver over 2-3 rides from the Premier Entry bucket to Precedence Go. In our view, Tower of Terror and Journey to the Heart of the Earth shouldn’t have Premier Entry, and that it’ll be unsustainable to keep up at these two sights as soon as pent-up demand burns off. It’s an identical story with Toy Story Mania, albeit to not fairly the identical extent.
Tokyo Disneyland ought to drop Premier Entry at Splash Mountain–a experience that has enduring reputation regardless of being many years outdated–and the Pleased Experience with Baymax. Regardless that the latter continues to be pretty new, it’s a flat experience–the equal of Walt Disney World or Disneyland promoting Lightning Lane Single Passes for Alien Swirling Saucers or Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree. (Actually the very same experience system.) The one factor extra embarrassing than OLC charging a pay-to-ride price for this attraction is company gleefully paying it.
That’s actually the core of the apple: OLC will proceed to cost for line-skipping at these sights as long as Premier Entry continues to promote properly. There’s additionally the truth that OLC is making an attempt to reposition Tokyo Disney Resort as a bona fide vacation spot for home and, to a lesser extent, worldwide vacationers.
In so doing, OLC has been making an attempt an growing variety of upcharges, enhancements, precedence seating, and bundle choices. The logical conclusion would thus be to anticipate extra of this, not much less of it, going ahead–particularly with Fantasy Springs as a blockbuster addition with great drawing energy. We’ve seen this with the rise of Trip Packages that embody limitless line-skipping (and we’re responsible of supporting this–we purchased one for Fantasy Springs!)
Nevertheless, OLC’s need to rework the parks from a locals’ hangout to a bona fide vacationer vacation spot doesn’t make it so. Simply ask Disneyland in Anaheim about that. The Japanese are famously frugal and never free spenders like their western counterparts, which is why inflation has not been almost as pronounced in Japan as different international locations popping out of the pandemic…and even for the final 20 years. (To that time, I’d extremely advocate watching this video about “Japanification.”)
Suffice to say, Tokyo Disney Resort has benefitted from freer spending company on account of fiscal stimulus for home vacationers, adopted by an inflow of worldwide guests who view all the pieces in Japan as being “on sale” on account of the weak yen. Identical to at Walt Disney World and Disneyland, there’s additionally been pent-up demand driving spending. The factor is, that’s beginning to cool at Tokyo Disney Resort, and paid line-skipping will not be sustainable at a number of the “borderline” rides the place it’s at present being bought. (I’d anticipate it to stay round in any respect headliners added since 2019.)
In the end, the return of free line-skipping at Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea could be very a lot a superb factor, even when it’s solely a small and (supposedly) restricted time step in that course. Though owned by a unique firm, this alone proves that paid line-skipping just isn’t everlasting injury that can not be undone over the course of time.
As pent-up demand continues to sluggish in Japan, our expectation is that visitor purchases of Premier Entry decreases and OLC feels stress to maneuver extra sights and leisure over to the free Precedence Go bucket. That’s actually our hope, however we’d nonetheless anticipate any headliners added since 2019 to retain Premier Entry. That is very a lot a ‘wishful considering’ prediction that may very well be improper, particularly if OLC sees success in attracting extra vacationers with the opening of Fantasy Springs.
Planning a visit to Tokyo Disney Resort? For complete recommendation, the perfect place to start out is our Tokyo Disneyland & DisneySea Journey Planning Information! For extra specifics, our TDR Lodge Rankings & Evaluations web page covers lodging. Our Restaurant Evaluations element the place to dine & snack. To economize on tickets or decide which kind to purchase, learn our Ideas for Saving Cash publish. Our What to Pack for Disney publish takes a novel have a look at intelligent gadgets to take. Venturing elsewhere in Japan? Seek the advice of our Final Information to Kyoto, Japan and Metropolis Information to Tokyo, Japan.
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