Are you in a mood for some non-urban Japanese entertainment?  Let's take the monorail out of town.	The Tokyo monorail is fast, smooth, quiet and efficient. And .. you can be guaranteed that the conductor will be wearing white gloves.	The interior looks like that of the luxury Japanese buses. What's our destination?? That traditional Japanese family entertainment ..

 

Tokyo Disneyland.	Looks the same to me.

Well, Main Street is glassed-in instead of open. That's different.	The crowds certainly know how to stand patiently in line. That IS different!

How better to experience true Japanese culture than spend a weekend at Tokyo Disneyland? Look!  The boat goes in the OPPOSITE direction!	The Queen of Hearts and her army invade a landfill in the middle of Tokyo Bay. Hmm? Landfill? Earthquake? Can you say liquifying land? Like a house of cards ..

If you remember your daily Japanese culture .. they WALK on the left side too.	Look, mama-san, from way up here, you can see the smog of downtown Tokyo .	Popcorn, get yer popcorn! Step right up, folks, only twelve bucks! While it lasts!

The Haunted House.  What scares Japanese the most? Their investments in American real estate! Oooo!	It was SO pleasing to get on a transportation conveyance where the attendant did NOT wear white gloves!	The only parade in Tokyo with floats not carried by drunken men wobbling from side to side in the street.

It's true, Mickey and Minnie Mouse bow to you here, as opposed to shaking hands.  Why?  Go back and re-read the page on benjos.	Let me get this straight .. visitors are 98% Japanese here .. so, all these Disney signs in English are payback for the railway signs being only in Japanese?	"You're a gaijin? Snow White is a gaijin? How do I explain that to my daughter?"

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