Tokyo Disneyland theme park attendance 2014-2023

Tokyo Disneyland attracted about 15.1 million visitors in 2023. Figures recovered from the effects caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The facility remained one of the most popular theme parks across Japan and a valuable part of the amusement and theme park market in the Japanese leisure industry.

A brief history

The park is located close to Tokyo in Chiba prefecture. It opened in April 1983 and was the first Disney theme park established outside the United States. It is owned by the Oriental Land Company which dedicated around 180 billion Japanese yen to the park construction which is strongly inspired by its U.S. predecessors, barring some exceptions. Three years after the opening, the Tokyo Disneyland Official Hotel Program was implemented, followed by the opening of more hotels over the course of the next years.

Major attraction in Japan

From its first day, the park attendance grew constantly and within four years, the accumulated loss of the park was cleared. The success of the park sparked the establishment of a second adjacent Disney theme park in 2001: Tokyo DisneySea. The combined attendance of Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea amounted to more than 27.51 million in the fiscal year ending on March 31, 2024, putting them in the number one spot of the theme park ranking in Japan.