This Disney New Year’s Celebration Lasts for TWO WEEKS!

Holiday decorations are going up all around Disney parks, and before we know it — the New Year will be here!

New Year’s celebrations are nothing new for Disney’s theme parks, with parks like the Magic Kingdom and EPCOT hosting massive — and massively crowded — New Year’s Eve celebrations. Now, the most critically acclaimed international Disney resort has released its New Year’s plans, and they’re taking things a step further.

Tokyo Disney Resort is launching a two-week celebration of New Year’s. The New Year’s Greeting event will run from January 1st through the 13th, and feature “Mickey Mouse and his friends, clad in traditional Japanese attire” greeting guests. The resort will also feature traditional “kadomatsu” decorations and a “variety of other merchandise and menus themed to an “elegant and splendid new year.”

Several special entertainment offerings are scheduled to be offered as part of the New Year’s Greeting. Let’s check them out!

A daily New Year’s Greeting performance on Tokyo Disneyland’s parade route featuring Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and other Disney characters dressed in “traditional Japanese outfits” will appear on “festive floats decorated for the New Year’s season and celebrate the beginning of the new year with guests.” A similar character event will take place each day on a boat in Mariner’s Harbor at Tokyo DisneySea.

A litany of social merchandise will be available including “items such as plush badges of Mickey and Minnie in traditional Japanese attire, as well as special buttons and pins that can be used to decorate guests’ bags”, Japanese New Year decorations, chopsticks set, and plush toys and plush badges featuring “Disney friends dressed as a snake, the Chinese Zodiac animal of 2025.”

Additionally, from December 26th through January 13th, Cast Members will hand out cards with specially designed daruma. Guests “can write their wishes and dreams for the new year on these cards and carry them as a reminder of their aspirations.” Special drama designs will also be featured on limited day passes available for the Disney Resort Line Public Transportation system.

Finally, several special menu items will be available throughout the Tokyo Disney Resort.

Beginning on December 26th, the Sweetheart Cafe in Tokyo Disneyland and Zambini Brothers’ Ristorante at Tokyo DisneySea will each offer desserts in teacup-shaped souvenir cups with designs featuring a kimono-clad Mickey and Minnie.

From January 1st through the 5th, Restaurant Hokusai in Tokyo Disneyland and Restaurant Sakura at Tokyo DisneySea will offer takes on the traditional Japanese New Year’s soup offering of mochi and chicken in broth. The former will offer yuzu-scented mochi and chicken in broth, while the latter will feature “mochi and minced duck meat in broth will be available, and fu (wheat gluten cake), resembling cherry blossoms, and grilled mochi will be served separately with the dish. The miso soup included in set meals can be changed to mochi and chicken in broth or mochi and minced duck meat in broth at Restaurant Hokusai and Restaurant Sakura, respectively.”

The resort’s hotels will be involved as well. From December 26th through January 13th, the restaurants and lounges at the Tokyo Disneyland Hotel, Tokyo DisneySea’s Hotel MiraCosta and the Disney Ambassador Hotel will “offer festive special menus, a tasty way for guests to ring in the New Year.”

Canna, located inside Tokyo Disneyland Hotel, will offer a “Year End & New Year Stylish Canna” dinner course, which includes “osechi (traditional Japanese New Year cuisine)-inspired appetizers such as black soybeans and herring roe.” Meanwhile, the Empire Grill (the Californian-style restaurant in Disney Ambassador Hotel) will serve the “Year End & New Year Empire Grill Dinner” which is offered as both an in-restaurant offering, as well as a takeout option.

As they’re prone to do, the Tokyo Disney Resort is going hard for New Year’s with a two-week celebration of entertainment, merchandise, and food. Stay tuned to AllEars for more on Disney’s international parks.

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