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1-Day Passport, adult, price range from October 2026 to February 2027JPY 8,900 – 12,400JPY 10,900 is the usual weekday price and Saturdays from October to December are JPY 12,400

Parks

Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea, at the same price

Dates with a price posted

2026-10-12 – 2027-02-16 (128 days)

1-Day Passport floors

Adult from JPY 8,900 / junior from JPY 7,400 / child from JPY 5,300

Evening entry

After 3 (from 15:00 on holidays) adult from JPY 7,900 / After 5 (from 17:00 on weekdays) adult from JPY 6,000

Summer timed tickets

After 3 Summer, After 5 Summer and others stopped selling on 2026-09-14

Checked on

2026-10-12

An adult 1-Day Passport at Tokyo Disney Resort runs from JPY 8,900 to JPY 12,400 on the official price calendar as read on 12 October 2026. Weekdays are JPY 10,900 as a rule, Saturdays from October to December are JPY 12,400 apart from 7 November, and Sundays mostly JPY 11,900. The limited-time summer timed tickets stopped selling on 14 September, so the price calendar is now more useful than any crowd forecast.

From October to December Saturdays are JPY 12,400 and weekdays JPY 10,900, with a floor of JPY 8,900 on 6 to 8 January 2027

Counting the 128 days that carry a price on the official calendar gives JPY 10,900 on 63 days, the most common figure, JPY 9,900 on 34 days, JPY 11,900 on 16 days, JPY 12,400 on 12 days and JPY 8,900 on 3 days. The weekday pattern is clear. Between October and December every Saturday is JPY 12,400 except 7 November, which is JPY 10,900. Sundays are mostly JPY 11,900, with 1 and 8 November at JPY 10,900 and 22 November at JPY 12,400. Weekdays are JPY 10,900 and drop to JPY 9,900 only in the week of 2 to 6 November. The gap between a Saturday and a weekday is JPY 1,500 for one adult, JPY 3,000 for two.

Adult price	Days	When it applies
JPY 8,900	3 days	6 to 8 January 2027
JPY 9,900	34 days	2 to 6 November, 4 and 5 January 2027, weekdays and holidays from 11 January
JPY 10,900	63 days	Most weekdays from October to December, weekends in January and February 2027
JPY 11,900	16 days	Most Sundays from October to December, 24 December, 27 December to 3 January
JPY 12,400	12 days	Most Saturdays from October to December, 22 November, 25 December

Only the year-end stretch breaks the weekday-and-weekend rule. 24 December is JPY 11,900, 25 and 26 December are JPY 12,400, and every day from 27 December to 3 January is JPY 11,900. Then 4 and 5 January fall to JPY 9,900 and 6 to 8 January to JPY 8,900, after which the calendar settles into JPY 9,900 on weekdays and JPY 10,900 at weekends. Choosing a day makes little difference over the holidays, but waiting until the second week of January saves up to JPY 3,500 a day.

Evening entry now comes as After 3 on holidays and After 5 on weekdays

The limited-time summer timed-entry tickets (After 3 Summer, After 5 Summer and others) stopped selling on 14 September, and two types are on sale now. After 3 lets an adult in from 15:00 on holidays (Saturdays and public holidays included) from JPY 7,900. After 5 lets an adult in from 17:00 on weekdays (Saturdays and public holidays excluded) from JPY 6,000, and a child from JPY 3,800. The 1-Day Passport floors are JPY 8,900 for an adult, JPY 7,400 for a junior and JPY 5,300 for a child, so paying JPY 12,400 on a Saturday against entering at 15:00 for JPY 7,900 is a real choice, though the whole morning is gone.

Tickets for the same day two months ahead go on sale every day at 14:00. A ticket type that has sold out can reappear without notice, and each type stops selling when its daily allotment is reached.

Premier Access costs JPY 1,000 to 2,500 a ride, and two limited-run shows are JPY 3,500

Disney Premier Access is a paid slot bought in the Tokyo Disney Resort app. It costs extra on top of the park ticket and is priced per person, one slot per ticket. At Tokyo Disneyland, Beauty and the Beast “Magic in the Story” is JPY 2,500, Baymax’s Happy Ride, Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain and Pooh’s Hunny Hunt are JPY 1,500, and Monsters, Inc. and the Haunted Mansion are JPY 1,000; the Tokyo Disneyland attraction list runs until 7 January 2027. At Tokyo DisneySea the list starts on 30 November, with Soaring and Frozen Journey at JPY 2,500, Journey to the Center of the Earth and Toy Story Mania! at JPY 2,000, and Tower of Terror at JPY 1,500.

Show and parade slots are mostly JPY 2,500, and only two limited-run shows are JPY 3,500: The Villains’ Halloween until 31 October, and Toys Wonderland Christmas! from 11 November to 25 December. Four adults taking Beauty and the Beast pay JPY 10,000 on top of four JPY 10,900 tickets (JPY 43,600), an increase of about 23%. The next slot cannot be bought until 60 minutes after purchase or the start of the current slot, whichever comes first, and the number issued is limited, so some days sell out.

Mobile Order removes the lunch queue, but one tap cannot be undone

Disney Mobile Order lets you pick a restaurant and a pickup time in the app after entering the park, and there is no limit on how many times you use it in a day. Eighteen restaurants at Tokyo Disneyland and 17 at Tokyo DisneySea take part. Once you reach the restaurant and tap “I have arrived” in the app, payment goes through and cooking starts, and after that the time cannot be changed and the order cannot be cancelled or refunded. If the group’s timing is hard to predict, tap it only when you are standing at the door.

Coming from far away, an affiliated hotel with a free shuttle bus is an option

The official list has 19 partner hotels, and two types can be narrowed by how they reach the parks. The six Official Hotels (Grand Nikko Tokyo Bay Maihama, Maihama View Hotel, Hotel Okura Tokyo Bay, Hilton Tokyo Bay, Sheraton Grande Tokyo Bay Hotel and Tokyo Bay Maihama Hotel First Resort) run a free shuttle bus to the nearest Resort Line station. The bus goes to the station, not the park entrance. The four Partner Hotels in Shin-Urayasu (Hotel Emion Tokyo Bay, Mitsui Garden Hotel Prana Tokyo Bay, Urayasu Brighton Hotel Tokyo Bay and Oriental Hotel Tokyo Bay) have a free shuttle of about 15 minutes to each park. Nine Good Neighbor Hotels in Shinjuku, Odaiba, Makuhari and elsewhere also have free shuttle buses, but on a reservation-only quota.

If you would rather sleep in a city hotel in Tokyo the night before, OMO7 Yokohama is one such choice. For night events in the Kansai area there is USJ’s summer night event, and the five-day Tokyo itinerary works as a base for a wider trip.

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Sources: Tokyo Disney Resort official park ticket page (price calendar and ticket types as of 13:50 on 12 October 2026) / the official Disney Premier Access, Disney Mobile Order and partner-hotel guide pages / Photo: Cabeza2000, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons) / Checked on 2026-10-12 / Featured image: Dick Thomas Johnson, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)