Tokyo Disneyland Schedule for Fiscal Year 2016

URAYASU, CHIBA— Tokyo Disneyland® Park announced the annual schedule for fiscal year 2016 (April 1, 2016 – March 31, 2017). The Park will continue to offer Guests distinctive, Disney-style experiences over the upcoming year with a variety of special events and a new facility for Disney Character Greetings. Please see below for more details (in chronological order).

March 25 – June 15, 2016
Special Event
"Disney's Easter"
This regular springtime event is back again this year at Tokyo Disneyland. At the secret Easter garden, Guests can enjoy a whimsical atmosphere full of flowers and plants, where Mickey Mouse and his Disney friends along with the Easter bunnies take part in an "egg race." Guests will be able to celebrate the springtime season in a colorful way in the main entertainment, a parade featuring Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and the Disney friends wearing bunny ears and new costumes. In various places around the Park, Guests will find decorations, merchandise themed to the "egg race." Also, the popular "Egg Hunt" program can be enjoyed again this year.

June 16 – July 7, 2016
Special Program
"Disney Tanabata Days"
The Japanese star festival known as "Tanabata" will be celebrated with a special program in a manner unique to the Disney theme parks. Offered from June 16, which is eight days earlier than it started last year, "Disney Tanabata Days" will feature traditional decorations in World Bazaar. Guests can write their wishes on "Wishing Cards" to be hung from the grand centerpiece. Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, dressed as Hikoboshi and Orihime, the two star-crossed lovers of this festival, will greet Guests along the parade route.

July 9 – August 31, 2016
Special Event
"Disney Natsu Matsuri"
Natsu matsuri means "summer festival" in Japanese and Guests will be able to enjoy the hot summer with the Disney characters in this energizing special event. In the show presented at the Plaza in front of Cinderella Castle, everyone will get soaking wet as they enjoy the group dancing and the summertime heat. Guests can find Japanese banners as well as photo locations that enhance the festive atmosphere even more.

September 9 – October 31, 2016
Special Event
"Disney's Halloween"
The special event, "Disney's Halloween," will take place with a new theme featuring the Disney characters and mischievous ghosts. Guests can join the Halloween ghosts and the Disney characters in an exciting Halloween.

November 8 – December 25, 2016
Special Event
"Christmas Fantasy"
Guests will be able to enjoy the special event "Christmas Fantasy" with the theme of "Christmas Storybooks." Guests will find happy Christmas scenes with their favorite Disney characters that have come right out of a storybook world. The main parade will bring to life pages from storybooks showing the Disney characters having fun at Christmastime. Guests will find a 15-meter-tall Christmas tree at the center of World Bazaar, as well as holiday photo locations, garlands and other decorations in each themed land.

From Autumn thru Winter 2016
New Facility for Disney Character Greetings and New Restaurant
A brand new facility for Disney character greetings and a new restaurant will be built in Westernland. These facilities will be themed to the world of the "Junior Woodchucks" series as shown in Disney comics and animated short films. The new Disney character greeting facility will be the second dedicated greeting facility to open at Tokyo Disneyland since Mickey's House and Meet Mickey opened about 20 years ago in 1996. The new restaurant will be located in a new two-story facility with an indoor dining area on the second floor and an outdoor dining area with a campfire setting. Guests will be able to relax and enjoy a meal while taking in the scenery of the Rivers of America.

January 1 – 5, 2017
New Year's Programs
The Park will celebrate the start of the year with colorful Japanese-style New Year's decorations at the entrance, as well as merchandise and menus featuring the 2017 zodiac animal, the rooster. The Disney characters will be dressed up in kimono to welcome Guests in Japanese style.

January 13 – March 17, 2017
Special Event - "Anna and Elsa's Frozen Fantasy"
This special event will be themed to the Disney film Frozen. In addition to entertainment programs, Guests will find decorations of ice and snowflakes that help transform the Park into a world inspired by the film.