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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 get into than the rest of the parks. Here’s how to do it.
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.
Concept Press Image: Fantasy Springs @Disney
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. Find more details on these in this press release.
You can see the latest video of the area below.
Exciting, eh – but if you’re going to enjoy it, you need to enter the area, and right now, there are four confirmed ways to get into Fantasy Springs…
1. Stay at the Fantasy Springs Hotel
Guaranteed entry, but tricky to do.
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 – and, 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 (more of that in a minute) rather than a normal park pass.
Concept Press Image: Fantasy Springs Hotel @Disney
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.
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. The other restaurants in the Fantasy Springs Hotel are currently only open for hotel guests.
2. Book a Fantasy Springs 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). And, for the launch of Fantasy Springs, Disney introduced special Vacation Packages 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 an extra benefit.
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.
The Fantasy Springs Vacation Package includes the Fantasy Springs Hotel – but, importantly, especially for those on a budget (although that’s a relative term as none of the packages are exactly cheap), it means you can stay in the other vacation package-eligible Disney hotels – Disneyland Hotel, Ambassador Hotel, MiraCosta Hotel, and Toy Story Hotel which can be less expensive than Fantasy Springs – and, opens up availability.
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.
Concept Press Image: Rapunzel’s Forest @Disney
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 of these.
Before Fantasy Springs opened, no-one quite knew when these would sell out – which saw people queuing up at 5am. I’m not sure that’s totally necessary, but right now as I update this in August 2024, Frozen passes are usually gone by 9.15 am, Rapunzel sells out next, usually by around 10.45ish – the others last until around 11.15am.
This might change again in September as Disney have reopened Happy Entry to DisneySea for guests at the Ambassador Hotel. You can check the latest trends around your departure via this account on X which tracks the times the passes sell out.
They also do release passes randomly throughout the day, so 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.
The downside 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 ride Yoshi’s Adventure, you can’t do this with the Fantasy Springs rides. You must apply for another Premier Access pass, or Standby Pass, to even be allowed to join the queue for the ride.
4. Snag Standby Passes
Free, but not guaranteed
The fourth way to get into Fantasy Springs is to get a Standby Pass, which, again, you apply for on the app once you’ve entered the park.
These are free passes that 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 being 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, They are obviously controlling the numbers quite carefully.
Concept Press Image: Peter Pan Neverland @Disney
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 park.
Like Premier Access, each pass only allows you access to one attraction, so you’re going to need to apply for more than one if you want to experience everything.
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.
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 – bearing in mind, we still won’t know a few things until the area actually opens.
Can You Buy the Fantasy Springs Magic Ticket Separately?
Not yet – although it wouldn’t surprise me to see this as a future Park Pass option.
Can You Eat in the Restaurants at Fantasy Springs?
Not without having one of the other entry options. When you get a Standby Pass or Premier Access pass to Fantasy Springs, the app will then give you the option to order food at the restaurants via the Mobile Ordering options during the time you have entry to Fantasy Springs.
Can You Re-enter The Area?
Only if you have the Fantasy Springs Magic Ticket which lets you go in and out without set timings. If you leave the area using a Premier Access pass or a Standby pass you’ll have to get another one to go back in.
Will There Be an Early Entry Option?
The entry process to Fantasy Springs is very similar to that of Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan and here, there is a spot first thing in the morning when, if you move fast, you can get into the area without any kind of special pass or ticket; Fantasy Springs has not yet instigated this.
Can You Just Shop in Fantasy Springs?
No. You’ll only be able to get into the shop at Fantasy Springs with one of the above methods – but, Disney does say that Fantasy Springs merchandise will be available at the other Disney shops.
Do Guests at the Fantasy Springs Hotel Get Happy 15?
Yes. To DisneySea. But not on the day you check-in.
Right now the other hotels that get Early Access to DisneySea are MiraCosta and, as of Sept 1 2024, Disney Ambassador.
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. Hopefully, they might relax some of the restrictions on joining the standby queues once the initial hype is over.
I think the first change will be for all of the Disney hotels that used to allow Happy 15 to DisneySea to come back on board. Once they have worked out how that affects crowds, we might see some other changes. 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, RAC Horizons, Jetstar Magazine, Sainsbury’s Magazine, and more.
I’ve traveled to Japan five times before- solo and with my partner – and I’ve just returned from trip six in June 2023. So, everything here is pretty up to date.
