Yegenaga Travel & Tours Guide

In the middle of the afternoon sun, thousands of visitors have crowded Tokyo Disney Sea Harbor Mediterranean area to witness the parade of Disney characters, musical fountain and fireworks, I finally got also a place to watch this parade, though not very strategic place. This parade lasted about 30 minutes.

So far, I always watch fireworks at night, it was fireworks during the day also no less interesting, a path of white smoke in the sky is blue and the other pulling attraction is the musical fountain with the legendary Mickey Mouse as the mascot of Disney.

In the Tokyo Disney Resort area, there are two theme park Disneyland and Disney Sea. Tokyo Disneyland this year has been 25 years of age, while Disney Sea still 7-year-old child. Currently Tokyo Disney Sea  which is the only one in the world.

DisneySea vehicle consists of seven areas of American Waterfront, Mediterranean Harbor, Port Discovery, Lost River Delta, Arabian Coast, Mermaid Lagoon, Mysterius Island.

Visitors can buy a day ticket for Disneyland or DisneySea for 5800 yen, or tickets to Disneyland and the canal DisneySea for two days for 10,000 yen, for three days and four 12,900 yen 15,000 yen for the day.

Ride at DisneySea game and usually quite pleasant surprise given at the end of the game, like the Indiana Jones Adventure – Temple of the crystal skull, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Tower of Terror, Raging Spirits and three-dimensional viewing of The Magic Lamp Theater, vehicle Sinbad’s Storybook Voyage, performances Mermaid Langoon and around Mediterranean Harbor with Venetian Gondolas.

Adventures of Indiana Jones ride was quite exciting and quite a long time about 10 minutes and this time the queue was so long, because I already have a Fastpass can be obtained by first order about 30 minutes – 1 hour earlier, in the meantime we can play better first in the vehicle that is not so crowded. Visitors invited to see the various adventures of Indiana Jones, where the winding road and then as if we pursued the same stones that big, quite exciting and tense. This vehicle is one of the favorite rides in DisneySea.

Ride Journey to the Center of the Earth, visitors invited into the mountains and explore into the earth’s core with a jeep ride, the surprise at the end of the game such as entry into a dark cave, like a sudden free fall and crash, this game unfortunately too briefly about 5 minutes and the time required to queue about 30 minutes.

Tower of Terror starts from a very old hotel, with a lobby full of old items such as telephones, cabinets, painting the mailbox to the old and dusty impressions, then we took the elevator is very high, and came into the room and all visitors to sit in a chair and had to use a seat belt, then moved up one floor of a glass, one floor up another skull appears on the screen, up one more floor suddenly opened the door, we saw the mountains on the game Journey to the Center of the Earth, after that the We sat down like slamming into a free fall, at the time we unknowingly, there is an automatic cameras photographed the reactions immediately visitors who were shouting and at the end of the game we can buy these photos as a memento.

Raging Spirits is the mini-jet coaster made of wood shades, not too high and again that’s just called it the end, the time for about 5 minutes and the queue is quite long. Many visitors posed in front of the building’s unique Raging Spirits, where the steps of the building there is water and fire.

Sinbad Storybook Voyage, much like the doll palace children at Dunia Fantasi, Ancol Jakarta, invited to a boat tour to see Sinbad adventures accompanied by music, not bad for a short break about 10 minutes and set the vehicle queue length is not.

The Magic Lamp Theater, a story about aladin, the combination of comedy show with a cartoon of three-dimensional, in Japanese, quite funny though enggak understand the language, and at the end of the show, we sit on the bench rocking several times as if there kicking our bench.

Mermaid Lagoon is performing musical performance tells the story of the Mermaid and her friends, this show about 15 minutes. All the players are in the audience as if flying is giving the impression of swimming and the Mermaid’s beautiful with a very flexible body swinging on the swing while singing a very melodious, unfortunately, visitors are not allowed to take photos and video at the time the show took place.

Souvenir-souvenir sold at DisneySea in accordance with the themes and rides around the game, near the Mermaid ride, souvenir trinkets sold Mermaid, from pencils, key chains, brooches, pins, hats to dolls and funny-funny. Some foods and beverages sold souvenirs are also bundled with the price has been calculated as a purchase, such as ice cream get a jar of honey, Winnie the Pooh’s tiny and black forest cake with a small plate-shaped ceramic Mickey Mouse face.

After the tired legs ride around and play at DisneySea, visitors can also enjoy Big City Vehicles, which is around the antique cars, which works very slow as people were walking casually.

To be able to enjoy the whole ride DisneySea, it will take about two days, but this time I am quite satisfied enough to be there from 9am to 5pm.

Mikimoto Pearl Island at about 15:15, were three women aged about 20 years were in a boat driven by a man. They wore white clothing that covers the body, from head to foot. Not long after, one by one woman’s plunge into the sea floor that has a depth of six meters.

A few minutes later they appeared on the surface of a pearl, showing they had just taken from the seabed. These pearls and they enter into a special box of bark. Activities they did several times for about 30 minutes.

That demo is shown of women in Mikimoto, Japan, on how to take the pearl. Mikimoto is the prefecture (provincial level in Indonesia)  which is located at 150 kilometers west of Nagoya.

Mikimoto Pearl Island Mikimoto is one of the largest pearl industry base in Japan, starting from raw material production processes in the sea until processing into high-value jewelry. All workmanship carried out manually. It has developed activities for over 100 years, starting early in the 1890s and continued until today.

The resulting pearls of high quality and very diverse.

Pearls from Mikimoto began worldwide since 1937. At that time entrepreneurs from the region following an exhibition held in Paris, France. First appearance was immediately struck participants that since it is also the demand continues to increase.

“Until now, Mikimoto pearls are always chased fans from all over the world. In addition to ordering through a distributor, not a few others come to the centers of production and processing in Mikimoto, “said Noboru Shibahara, Manager Mikimoto Pearl Island.

The number of visitors at Mikimoto Pearl Island ranges from 300,000 people per year. Around 30,000 people of whom came from outside Japan, the United States, Europe, and Asia. Special holiday season, such as in August, visitors can reach 3,000 people per day. “About 70 percent of visitors would buy her pearls,” said Noboru.

Island Mikimoto Pearl Mikimoto Pearl Island in a small island covering an area of about one hectare. In particular there is built exhibition halls, museums, shops, restaurants, and the center of the pearl-making techniques show from the seabed.

In this area there are many small islands with a very clear sea. Cultivated pearls obtained from a search at the bottom of the sea, and partly the result of local farming.

To connect the island of Mikimoto pearls industrial centers with the nearest island which is downtown Toba built a pedestrian bridge is equipped with luxurious escalators. This bridge only for pedestrians.

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Decision pearls from the sea floor is women only. The reason, women assessed as having a lower fat content than men and therefore have a long breath and be able to survive longer on the sea floor in search of the best pearls.

“This is our society’s belief and proven for decades in search cultivation and pearl in the sea here,” said Yuya Iwasaki, a senior staff in government offices Province.

Mikimoto Pearl Island, he also admitted the option to use the labor of women in search of pearls can not be separated from the tradition that developed in Japan since thousands of years ago. “In the tradition of Japanese society that developed since the first women to work more dominant. This tradition is still growing in a number of activities, such as the search of pearls, “said Yuya.

As the demand for Mikimoto pearls are increasingly global, local raw material supply is not enough to meet perceived needs. So, since a dozen years ago the local industry began to import raw materials from some countries, like Australia and Thailand.

Without mentioning the amount, according to Noboru, the volume of imports tends to increase. “We need to consistently meet market demand. Thus, there is no other option for us than to import raw materials. Indonesia is one potential area of cultivated pearls want optimal, “said Noboru.

Tourists visiting the island will not be made Mikimoto saturated and bored. Not far from where it stood Toba Aquarium, a large building that 850-900 species of fish collected sea water and fresh water are rare in the world.

In-building operation since May 15, 1955 was 850-950 units built aquariums in different shapes and sizes collects to 30,000 fish. All the fish were an average age of 25 years. Mermaid, for example, has 35 years of age.

“Many Japanese people and the world only knew the name of a particular fish, but have not seen from the shape and style. Toba Aquarium offers the opportunity to see first hand the rare fish, “said Yukiyasu Nakaseko from Toba Aquarium Services Department.

Mikimoto Pearl this Island Toba Aquarium and Mikimoto Pearl always put together in a promotional package tours. Both objects were also supported a number of hotels that offer natural hot water spa and natural atmosphere of the mountains, such as Misugi Resort Hotel. Thus, many tourists enjoy the exciting atmosphere while visiting Mie region.

“Pearl Mikimoto, Toba Aquarium, and Misugi Resort Hotel and Spa is different from the owner. However, we always work together in promoting and capture the tourists. That’s why our business is always still exist, “said Noboru Shibahara.