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Fantasy Springs is Tokyo DisneySea’s newest area. It opened on June 6th, 2024, and it’s a bit different to use than the rest of the parks. Here’s how to do it.
Note: This post has been updated March 2025 with the current situation
Big Annoucement Time!
On March 25th 2025, Tokyo Disney Resort announced that from April 1st, Fantasy Springs will be just like every other area of the park with popular rides. You’ll be able to enter the area and queue for the rides. Or, you can buy a Disney Premier Access Pass, which will let you come back to the ride at a set time and join a shorter queue.
This is good news. It ends the need to queue up at silly o’clock and the stressful first ten minutes of trying to frantically snag Fantasy Springs passes. Going to DisneySea can feel like fun again.
I don’t think the queues will be short—especially not for Frozen. I’d still expect DPA passes for that to sell out fairly early in the day, just like Beauty and the Beast used to, but at least now, if you’re happy to queue, you can.
I’m just throwing this up here as a placeholder as I’m about to go away for a few days. I’ll update this with any more relevant details as the system starts. If you’re going before April 1st though keep reading as you’re still on the old system.
What’s In Fantasy Springs?
Fantasy Springs is based on a few different stories – Frozen, Peter Pan, and Rapunzel – and has four main ride-based attractions…
Peter Pan’s Neverland Adventure: A boat ride with 3D effects that you’ll wear VR goggles to enjoy. You’ll join Peter Pan, Tink, and the Lost Boys to rescue John from Captain Hook.
Fairy Tinkerbell’s Busy Buggies: Tinkerbell is now also an entrepreneur and delivering packages around the fairy folk – and you’re going to help her do it in one of her Busy Buggies.
Rapunzel’s Lantern Festival: Take a boat ride in this Tangled theme ride as you follow the love story of Rapunzel and Flynn.
Anna and Elsa’s Frozen Journey: A boat ride based around the Frozen story – complete with songs. Expect the lines for this one to become some of the biggest in the park.
There are also three restaurants, a snack bar, and one shop dotted around the three themed areas. And the amazing fountain above which was actually one of the highlights for me, the details are amazing.
Exciting, eh – but if you’re going to enjoy it, you need to understand how Fantasy Springs works.
How Fantasy Springs is Different
When Fantasy Springs launched, you couldn’t just walk inside. The only way to even get a look at it was to have a special timed entry pass. As I update this in February 2025, that is no longer the case, you can walk into Fantasy Springs and look around, but, if you want to ride the rides, you have to have an extra pass – and here’s how to get those.
1. Stay at the Fantasy Springs Hotel
Guaranteed entry, but tricky to do. May not automatically include rides after April 1st.
This is the newest hotel on the Tokyo Disney property. It has 419 rooms in the Fantasy Chateau Building and 56 in the ultra-luxurious Grand Chateau. It’s directly attached to Tokyo DisneySea, within the Fantasy Springs area. If you thought getting a room in Toy Story Hotel was hard, welcome to trying to get one at Fantasy Springs Hotel!
Every guest at Fantasy Springs gets guaranteed entry to Fantasy Springs during their stay. You have a special entrance and a special ‘proof of stay’ card to show. You do still need a park ticket for Tokyo DisneySea.
Until March 31st
If you want to make the most of your visit and ride the rides a few times, you’re going to want to buy the Fantasy Springs Magic Ticket.
The Big Benefit of the Fantasy Springs Magic Ticket
The Fantasy Springs Magic Ticket lets you visit all the attractions in Fantasy Springs, more than once. Once you enter Fantasy Springs with the Magic Ticket, you will swap your ticket for a wristband that you then use to get onto the rides – this is important, as, you’ll see, this is not the case currently, with the other ways into Fantasy Springs.
The slight downside is it’s more expensive than a standard pass to Tokyo DisneySea. These normally cost between 7900 and 10,200, but the Magic pass costs between 22,900 and 25,900 yen.
After April 1st
The Fantasy Springs Magic Ticket is no longer available from this date.
The website’s wording is a little vague, but the current reading is that guests at Fantasy Springs Hotel will still have guaranteed access to the Fantasy Springs area (so long as they have a DisneySea ticket for that day) and can use the special Fantasy Springs entrance. However, they will need either a Standby Pass or Disney Premiere Access to ride the rides.
Booking Fantasy Springs Hotel
Hotel rooms for Fantasy Springs go on sale four months before the date of your stay – and, it’s even more important to be online as soon as rooms are released at 11 am Japanese time if you want to snag one.
You can book rooms via the Tokyo Disney website here.
2. Book a Vacation Package
Guaranteed entry, but pricey.
The Disney Vacation Packages are bundles that include your hotel room, breakfast, park tickets, and a few other perks (see our guide to Disney Vacation packages for specific details). Because things are changing, exactly what the packages include varies by date.
Bookings Until March 31st
For the launch of Fantasy Springs, Disney introduced a special Vacation Package called Fantasy Springs Magic.
These include the special Fantasy Springs Magic Ticket, which gets you into Tokyo DisneySea – and gives you guaranteed entry to Fantasy Springs with the extra benefit of being able to ride everything more than once.
This ticket is still included for relevant packages with a check-in date of before March 31st.
From April 1st 2025
Vacation Packages no longer include the Fantasy Springs Magic Ticket, which has been discontinued. Instead, you can choose rides within Fantasy Springs as part of your pre-booked Premier Access passes.
This is strongly advised as, as of the day I’m updating this, you still need either a Disney Premier Access Pass or a Standby Pass to get into the Fantasy Springs area. These are incredibly popular, especially Frozen which sells out by about 9 am.
Even if they change how you enter Fantasy Springs generally after April 1st, ride queues will be long, so use your DPAs for DisneySea on at least one Fantasy Springs ride.
Interestingly, I’ve seen a bit of a change to booking patterns since Fantasy Springs Hotel has become an option. Fantasy Springs hotels are always sold out, and MiraCosta is selling out, but rooms at Toy Story Hotel seem to be easier to get than they were. I feel people are swapping to MiraCosta because it includes Happy Entry to DisneySea, increasing the chance of getting passes to Fantasy Springs.
3. Buy Fantasy Springs Premier Access
Cheap, but not guaranteed
This is the third way to enter Fantasy Springs. Premier Access passes are like skip-the-line passes. Once in the park, you pay a small fee, 1500-2500 yen, and book the pass to return to the attraction at a set time. At this point, you join a shorter queue to go in.
Three of the four Fantasy Springs attractions have Premier Access passes attached – Peter Pan’s Neverland Adventure, Rapunzel’s Lantern Festival, and Anna and Elsa’s Frozen Journey. Each of the rides costs 2000 yen.
As with normal Premier Access passes, you will not be allowed to buy these until your ticket has been scanned into the entry gates, so it’s going to pay to get to the park early if you want to snag one.
Before Fantasy Springs opened, no one quite knew when these would sell out, so people queued up at 5 a.m. I’m not sure that’s totally necessary. I arrived in the queue at about 7.30 the day I went and got a DPA for Peter Pan and Standby for Rapunzel.
To give you an idea of timings, Frozen passes are usually gone by 9:00 a.m. Rapunzel sells out next, followed by Peter Pan.
Although, here’s a tip; Despite all the social media hype, the Rapunzel ride isn’t that great. Peter Pan though, is AMAZING, so, if you only have budget for one ride in Fantasy Springs, I’d snag that one before word gets out (although watch out if you get motion sick as it did make me a bit queasy).
They also randomly distribute release passes throughout the day, so if you don’t get anything at first, keep checking.
It will also be a good idea to know how to make sure your tickets are loaded into the app, especially if you bought them from Klook, and the process of buying the pass so you’re not confused on the day. Our guide on how to do this is here.
Important to Remember
The downside of Fantasy Springs is that, unlike Super Nintendo World in Universal Studios, where if you have an Express Pass that lets you jump the queue of Mario Kart, you can still queue up in the normal queue at the other rides like Yoshi’s Adventure or Mine Craft Madness, you can’t do this with the Fantasy Springs rides.
You must apply for another Premier Access pass or Standby Pass to join the queue for the ride, so if you want to ride everything, try to grab a DPA for one ride and a Standby Pass for another first, then keep checking.
4. Snag Standby Passes
Free, but not guaranteed
The fourth way to get into Fantasy Springs is to get a Standby Pass, which you apply for on the app once you’ve entered the park.
These free passes will allow you access to one attraction at Fantasy Springs. When you get inside, you’ll then join the normal queue.
The benefit of these is that they are free and mostly used to control crowd numbers. At first, I thought the queues when using these would be huge, but that doesn’t seem to be the case—it took me an hour to get through the queue on Rapunzel, which is less than standby on Beauty and the Beast in Disneyland. They are obviously controlling the numbers quite carefully.
Access to Fairy Tinkerbell’s Busy Buggies is only available via Standby Pass.
Again, you’ll need to be in the park early to get hold of one of these, and right now, there’s no tracker saying when they sell out – but, the free passes generally go faster than paid in the rest of the park.
Like Premier Access, each pass only allows you access to one attraction, so you will need to apply for more than one if you want to experience everything.
Don’t Forget to Buy Your Disney Tickets
If you’re within two months of your trip, why not order them now so it’s done? Unlike the Disney site, Klook takes all foreign credit cards. Plus, if you’re buying other tours or tickets, add the code JAPLANEASEKLOOK at checkout and you could save up to 10 per cent.
T&Cs apply; Tokyo Disney tickets and USJ tickets are not available for discounts.
Other Questions About Getting into Fantasy Springs
Chance are you’re reading this going – but, but, but – well this is where we’ll hopefully answer those questions. If we don’t head over to the Japlanease Tokyo Disney Group where you can ask anything else.
Can You Buy the Fantasy Springs Magic Ticket Separately?
Not yet – I thought they would offer it as a future entry option, but the fact that they are getting rid of it now makes that unlikely.
Can You Eat in the Restaurants at Fantasy Springs?
Yes, but, again you can’t just walk in. You need to place your order first via the Mobile Ordering option on the app. See more about that here.
Although to be honest, the food I tried in this area was pretty bad.
The Lost Boys Cookout had the weirdest selection of food I’ve ever seen in one meal and the bacon burger at the Snuggly Duckling was not good. I didn’t try The Royal Banquet of Arendelle. IMHO, there are better places to eat in DisneySea than Fantasy Springs.
Can You Re-enter The Area?
You can now yes.
Can You Just Shop in Fantasy Springs?
Now you can yes.
If it’s your first trip to the Tokyo Disneyland or DisneySea you probably have a few questions, so, check out our beginner’s guide to the Tokyo Disney Parks which will answer a lot of them – and, give you a few tips that will get you ahead of the pack.
Can You Visit Fantasy Springs Hotel If You’re Not Staying There?
Not right now. You can only enter the hotel if you are a registered guest, or, have booked dinner in the Fantasy Springs Restaurant, which you can do as part of an eligible Vacation Package.
Again, this is super busy, so if you see a slot when you book your Vacation Package, snap it up if you want to see the hotel – although note, you can only access the restaurant not other areas.
The other restaurants in the Fantasy Springs Hotel are currently only open for hotel guests.
Do Guests at the Fantasy Springs Hotel Get Happy 15?
Yes. To DisneySea. But not on the day you check-in.
Currently, the other hotels with early access to DisneySea are MiraCosta and Disney Ambassador.
Disneyland Hotel, Toy Story and Celebration do not.
Is This Permanent?
Everyone wants to know this, but considering Universal Studios Japan still has a similar crowd control system at Super Nintendo World nearly three years after the area opened, I wouldn’t necessarily expect things to be readily accessible for quite a while.
Things do seem to be changing after April 1st though, so maybe they will stop the need for passes for the Standby Queue. But we shall have to wait and see.
Who Writes This Blog?
My name is Helen Foster, and I’m a journalist and author. My travel articles have appeared in publications including The Australian, Escape, RAC Horizons, Jetstar Magazine, Sainsbury’s Magazine, and more.
I’ve traveled to Japan eight times before – solo and with my partner and visited over 25 towns and cities. My last visit was November 2024 so, everything here is pretty up to date.
