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Tokyo Disney banks on Frozen, Peter Pan in 2.8b expansion
The Straits Times
|May 08, 2024
Tokyo Disney Resort is opening a new 320 billion yen (S$2.8 billion) section celebrating some of its most popular fantasy franchises, the biggest expansion yet in Japan as Walt Disney invests heavily in theme parks globally.
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Located at Tokyo Disneyland's companion park Tokyo DisneySea, Fantasy Springs spans upwards of 140,000 sq m and will comprise three areas based on franchises Frozen, Tangled and Peter Pan.
The resort's operator Oriental Land forecasts the expansion, which opens to the public on June 6, will help boost annual sales by 75 billion yen and attract 29 million visitors about the same number seen in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic - to the parks for the upcoming fiscal year, with four million coming from abroad. The two Japanese Disney parks saw total attendance of 27.5 million in 2023.
This story is from the May 08, 2024 edition of The Straits Times.
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