Tokyo DisneySea has opened up an attraction based on Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth. The scenery is outstanding!
Riders travel through mysterious caverns to the Earth’s core as scientists aboard vehicles designed by Captain Nemo. After traveling through Nemo’s labs inside Mt. Prometheus, guests board “Terravators” to the facility’s base station one half mile below. In the base station is a communications center which is currently giving warnings of increased volcanic activity, but the scientist who mans it is currently away on a tea break. The riders then board steam-powered mine vehicles that travel through pre-drilled tunnels into the heart of the Earth.
I must say, I do love most things “steampunk” despite not being an intricately costumed member of the subculture.
I believe the plaque on the bottom of of this sign indicates a Coca Cola sponsorship (I remember seeing pictures of it in English)…kind of ruins the romance of the statement, so I’m glad it’s in Japanese here. I wouldn’t mind hanging this sign in my library.
See more pictures on Voyages Extraordinaires.
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5 responses to “Tokyo DisneySea: Journey to the Center of the Earth”
*faint* I am in LOVE with anything Disney, and this just makes me want to go to the one in Tokyo even more. I don’t live too far from Disneyland, so it would’ve been neat if they added this there. However, I’ve always wanted to see the Disney’s that are all over the world.
Thanks for this! 🙂
Glad you like! Disneyland is the park I’ve been to most recently since I’m often in LA and it’s easiest for me to access. I went to the one in France when I was 12, and I used to visit Disney World often as a child. All of the parks seem to be a bit different…I’d like to check out the others again.
You are so lucky to have been able to see the one in France, and get to experience a whole other culture & their type of Disneyland(France happens to be one of those top 3 countries I’m dying to see). I’ve idolized Walt Disney since I was a little girl. I had/still have a crush on him. I have many crushes on deceased people more so than the living, not sure if that’s good or bad. 🙂 But Mr. Disney brought this innocent, imaginative world for us, especially for adults to reminisce on being a kid again. So sorry! I can ramble forever about Walt & Disney in general. 🙂
I’ve been on this ride. It’s good, not great. Certainly nowhere near as awesome as my memories of the one that use to be in Florida’s Disney World. The Journey to the Center of the Earth ride in the same section was AWESOME.
I used to go to Disney in Florida as a kind almost every year, but I was very young and I don’t remember this particular ride there. It’s possible that I never went on it because I would ride the Haunted Mansion 20 times in a row until it was time to go home!