Tokyo DisneySea (pictured) is to receive a Frozen-themed port scheduled for after 2021
OPERATOR of Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea, Oriental Land, is qualifying its revised development plan in response to comments made in a recently published news report in Japanese business newspaper Nikkei.
Oriental had in April released a development plan that involved revisions to a prior one announced in 2014, which the report saw as being representative of “a shift from an emphasis on hardware to software”.
In response, Umi Sugawara, a spokeswoman for Oriental Land, explained that the operator is focused on “visitors’ satisfaction (and are) investing in both hardware and services to achieve that”.
Commenting on undertakings in the new plan that would go towards easing congestion, she said: “Compared to the past, there are days when there is a sense of congestion… We understand that is a problem that should be improved immediately.”
Sugawara also addressed suggestions that the construction of one of its attractions will be delayed. “We had (previously) only stated that the Frozen attraction would be introduced some time after 2017 and this schedule has not changed. Because the development will be very large, we expect it to be some time after 2021,” she said.
