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Tokyo Disney Resort will raise its one-day passport’s top price to ¥12,400 starting in October, and Premium Access fees were also partially increased in September. Ticket prices — which stood at ¥3,900 for an adult when the park opened in 1983 — have been climbing especially fast since the variable pricing system was introduced in 2023. USJ, meanwhile, has rolled out a limited-time pass that makes admission free for one child, a strikingly different pricing strategy. On 5ch, users traded complaints about the price hikes, comparisons with local amusement parks, and wry remarks about how attendance still isn’t dropping.
Disney Enters the “¥100,000 for a Family of Four” Era — As Price Hikes Pile Up, USJ’s “Free Kids” Offer Widens the Price Gap
Starting in October, Tokyo Disney Resort is raising the top price of its one-day passport, and from September, Premium Access fees were also partially increased.
USJ, meanwhile, is selling a limited-time pass that makes admission free for one child. The two parks’ pricing strategies are diverging when it comes to family outings…
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Why are they so desperate to squeeze out every yen?
It's like paying tribute at a temple (お布施 — a religious offering).
Your faith is being tested.
We used to go every year, back in the day…
1-Day Ticket
Adult: ¥6,930
Child: ¥4,950
Not really — you just enjoy watching the women and kids enjoy themselves.
No idea how it is now, but back in the day you'd wait 2-3 hours for a single ride, so you barely got on anything anyway.
Dude, that's Disney! That's literally Disneyland you're describing lol
I thought so too, but then my mom said admission was like ¥4,000.
Guess it's not Disneyland then… lol There's no way you get into Disneyland for ¥4,000 lol
Your mom's favorite amusement park is probably Hirakata Park (a much cheaper local park in Osaka).
Women go to Disney,
and men get drawn to wherever the women are.
Won't they just skip taking their own kids too?
Doesn't matter if inbound tourist demand keeps it afloat, though.
My school was in Tokyo so we went to Fuji-Q Highland (a thrill-ride park near Mt. Fuji) on a field trip instead,
and that was 10,000 times more fun.
No comparison when it comes to roller coasters.
It's just too expensive.
Let's enjoy it together with the foreign tourists.
1983 (opening year): ¥3,900
1996: ¥5,100
2006: ¥5,800
2011: ¥6,200
2015: ¥6,900
2019: ¥7,500
2020: ¥8,200
October 2023–: ¥7,900–¥10,900 (variable pricing introduced)
October 2026–: Top price raised to ¥12,400
The poor man's theme park is the local AEON mall.
Let's be honest, Disney lets in way too many people.
Prices are too low, so you get crowds like this — they should raise prices even more and cut down attendance.
Frozen: 260 min
Soarin': 240 min
Toy Story Mania: 200 min
Tower of Terror, Center of the Earth, Rapunzel's Lantern Festival Dance: 180 min
Beauty and the Beast, Raging Spirits, Peter Pan's Flight: 160 min
Splash Mountain, Pooh's Hunny Hunt, Monsters, Inc.: 100 min
Haunted Mansion: 90 min
Big Thunder Mountain: 80 min
Mickey's PhilharMagic: 70 min
Are you kidding me.
There are plenty of 'Chiba but calls itself Tokyo' cases,
but I've never heard of a 'Kanagawa but calls itself Tokyo' one.
A stronger yen is what would actually raise Japanese wages, but instead they weakened the yen, wages fell, and now they're using that to justify rising prices — makes no sense.
People are complaining because that money never actually shows up in their paychecks.
It's Japanese citizens who get turned into weak-yen poverty slaves — that has nothing to do with other countries, so I think inbound tourists will keep coming.
From their perspective, everything in cheap, weak-yen Japan looks affordable no matter where you go.
The only ones who think it's expensive are us slave-citizens.
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Tokyo Disney Resort’s one-day passport cost ¥3,900 for an adult when the park opened in 1983, but the pace of price increases has sped up since a variable pricing system — where prices shift depending on the visit date — was introduced in 2023, with the top price set to reach ¥12,400 in October 2026. The article’s headline figure of “¥100,000” appears to be based on a family of two adults and two children hitting this top price bracket once food and merchandise are added in. USJ, meanwhile, has released a limited-time pass that makes admission free for one child, pursuing a strategy of securing family visitors even at the cost of lower prices. While complaints about the price hikes stood out in the thread, one post noted that as of September 22 the longest attraction wait time had reached 260 minutes, showing that attendance hasn’t slowed down even after the price increases. Opinions were split over the relationship between price hikes and visitor numbers, and over how the weak yen’s effect on the cost of living is hitting household budgets.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “Disney Enters the “¥100,000 for a Family of Four” Era… As Price Hikes Pile Up, USJ’s “Free Kids” Offer Widens the Price Gap.”
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