Celebrating New Year’s at Tokyo Disney Resort
Tokyo Disney Resort will be have new performances, decorations, seasonal merchandise and special menus to start the new year with a Japanese-style oshogatsu celebration at both Disneyland and DisneySea. This limited-time event will last for less than two weeks: from January 1 to January 13.
Decorations and Photo Spots
Take a photo with the special kadomatsu bamboo decorations to get in the festive mood. These traditional Japanese New Year’s decorations are intended to welcome in ancestral spirits or kami. The kadomatsu will be on display at the entrance of World Bazaar at Tokyo Disneyland and the entrance of the Passaggio MiraCosta at Tokyo DisneySea from December 28 to January 13.
You can take a commemorative photo in front of the New Year’s decorations with a Disney photographer. A seasonal illustrative frame will be overlayed on top of the photo. Photos taken with official Disney photographers will show up under the “My Photos” tab in the Tokyo Disney Resort app. You can also print your photos at the Digital Photo Express stations. For more information, including locations, schedule and wait times, please check the app and website.
Entertainment
Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and their friends will be hosting a New Year’s Greeting parade. The parade, approximately 10 minutes long at DisneySea and 25 minutes long at Disneyland, features Disney characters dressed in traditional Japanese clothing like kimono and hakama.
The parade will take place at Mediterranean Harbor at DisneySea and the park-wide parade route at Disneyland, from January 1 to January 13.
Merchandise
A new merchandise collection features various Disney characters mixed in with traditional Japanese motifs. The collection includes plushies, postcards, pins, teacups, cushions, towels and snacks with illustrations of Mickey and Minnie mouse wearing junihitoe and sokutai Heian-era garments. Other items include keychains, toys, chopsticks, bowls and decorations with characters designed as daruma dolls and snakes to tie in to the 2025 Chinese zodiac animal.
You can shop for these new items at various gift shops throughout the parks, including Bon Voyage outside by the Ikspiari shopping area.
Food and Drinks
An exclusive kinako mousse and milk jelly dessert will be served at various dining locations from December 26 to January 13. The dessert comes with a souvenir cup with an illustration of Mickey and Minnie Mouse. You can order up to one souvenir menu item per transaction. For a full list of participating restaurants at both parks, please check the webpage.
If you visit Restaurant Hokusai at Disneyland’s World Bazaar or Restaurant Sakura at DisneySea’s American Waterfront, you can upgrade your miso soup for a bowl of ozoni, a mochi soup typically eaten during New Year’s celebrations. Ozoni will be available to order from January 1 to January 5.
Seasonal nerikiri wagashi, traditional Japanese sweets, are available to order from December 2. The nerikiri are shaped as Mickey and Minnie Mouse daruma dolls, filled with regular azuki bean paste and strawberry bean paste. You get four total sweets per treat box. You can order Tokyo Disney Resort Frozen Selections through the Tokyo Disney Resort app, or through the Disney Store website.
The restaurants and lounges at Tokyo Disneyland Hotel, Tokyo DisneySea Hotel MiraCosta and Disney Ambassador Hotel will offer festive special menus from December 26 to January 13. Tokyo Disneyland Hotel will have a stunning “Year End & New Year Stylish Kanna” course meal which includes Mt. Fuji salmon, sweetfish roe, snow crab and wagyu beef sirloin. The hotel’s New Year special drink has apple juice, red shiso juice, Mirabelle syrup, soda and a hanaho flower garnish.
Hotel Miracosta will have a dinner course that includes hairy crab, tuna and vegetable terrine, marinated button shrimp, sautéed veal and truffle potato gnocchi. The hotel’s special drink has Calpis, apple juice, blue syrup, jelly and red currant.
The Ambassador Hotel has a New Year’s buffet open for both lunch and dinner. The lunch buffet offers dishes like tuna carpaccio, roasted duck, mentaiko pasta, roast beef, matcha roll cake and dorayaki. The hotel’s special drink has Calpis, strawberry syrup, pink lemon syrup, soda and milk ice cream, with a Minnie Mouse-inspired garnish made from chocolate and a gyuhi wagashi. This drink comes with an original commemorative coaster.
