Tokyo Disney Resort has announced that this year it will be holding a special New Year’s event taking place from January 1 through 13, 2025.
The event will include an entertainment offering called New Year’s Greeting, in both Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea. This will include Mickey Mouse and his friends clad in their traditional Japanese attire. Together they will greet guests in celebration of the new year.
At the entrance of each park, the traditional kadomatsu decorations will be on display. Inside the parks, guests will find a variety of merchandise and menu items that are themed to an “elegant and splendid new year.”
At the Disney hotels, there will also be festive New Year’s menus offered. The Disney Resort Line will also offer day passes with designs of Mickey, Minnie Mouse, and other Disney friends, as well as those with daruma (Japanese good luck dolls) with designs that are inspired by Mickey Mouse. The result is all of these different offerings will give guests the chance to experience the “vibrant atmosphere unique to the Japanese New Year at Tokyo Disney Resort” as they celebrate the start of the new year with their favorite Disney friends.
Here is a look at the offerings for the Tokyo Disney Resort New Year’s Celebrations:
Tokyo Disneyland – New Year’s Greeting
Location: Parade Route
Performances: 1 daily
Duration: About 25 minutes
Number of performers: 20
From January 1 through 13, 2025, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and other Disney friends 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.
Tokyo DisneySea – New Year’s Greeting
Location: Mediterranean Harbor
Performances: 2 daily
Duration: About 10 minutes
Number of performers: 7
From January 1 through 13, 2025, Mickey, Minnie and other Disney friends will be dressed in special New Year’s outfits and appear aboard a boat adorned with festive decorations to share their New Year’s greetings with guests.
Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea
Special Cards
From December 26, 2024 through January 13, 2025 at the parks, cast members will hand out cards designed with daruma. Guests can write their wishes and dreams for the new year on these cards and carry them as a reminder of their aspirations.
Decorations
From December 28, the entrance to World Bazaar in Tokyo Disneyland will be adorned with New Year’s kadomatsu decorations featuring Mickey wearing a Japanese outfit. Kadomatsu decorations with designs of Mickey and Minnie will also be displayed at the entrance to Passaggio MiraCosta in Tokyo DisneySea, immersing guests in the festive atmosphere.
Special Merchandise
New Year-inspired merchandise will be available to purchase at both parks starting December 2. Guests will be able to enjoy 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 and more. Other special merchandise on offer will be Japanese new year decorations and a chopsticks set, which includes chopstick holders, with daruma featuring designs inspired by Mickey, Minnie and Kaa, and Japanese sweets—also with Mickey and Minnie-inspired daruma designs—from the Tokyo Disney Resort Frozen Selection.
Additionally, plush toys and plush badges featuring Disney friends dressed as a snake, the Chinese Zodiac animal of 2025, will be available from November 14.
Special Menus
From December 26 at Sweetheart Cafe in Tokyo Disneyland and Zambini Brothers’ Ristorante in Tokyo DisneySea, guests can enjoy desserts in teacup-shaped souvenir cups with designs featuring a kimono-clad Mickey and Minnie. The combination of milk jelly with kinako mousse topped with sweet-soy sugar and mochi-rice dumpling filling creates a wonderful dessert with a traditional Japanese flavor.
Furthermore, mochi and chicken in broth (traditional Japanese New Year’s soup) will be available for a limited period from January 1 through 5, 2025. Restaurant Hokusai in Tokyo Disneyland will offer yuzu-scented mochi and chicken in broth. At Restaurant Sakura in Tokyo DisneySea, 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.
Disney Hotels
From December 26, 2024 through January 13, 2025, the restaurants and lounges at Tokyo Disneyland® Hotel, Tokyo DisneySea Hotel MiraCosta® and Disney Ambassador® Hotel will offer festive special menus, a tasty way for guests to ring in the New Year.
At Canna, located inside Tokyo Disneyland Hotel, the “Year End & New Year Stylish Canna” dinner course, which includes osechi (traditional Japanese New Year cuisine)-inspired appetizers such as black soy beans and herring roe, will be offered to celebrate the new year.
Empire Grill, the Californian style restaurant in Disney Ambassador Hotel, will serve the “Year End & New Year Empire Grill Dinner.” Additionally, guests will be able to enjoy a relaxing meal in the comfort of their rooms during the arrival of the New Year with the takeout option, “Year End & New Year Dinner Set.”
Disney Resort Line
Limited-period day passes will be available in two different designs featuring Mickey and Minnie celebrating the coming of the new year, and daruma with designs inspired by Mickey. Guests can purchase these passes at the Disney Resort Line ticket machines.
