Erick with 20000 Leagues Cast Members
Erick poses with super-friendly Tokyo DisneySea Cast Members Nakamura and Isogai in front of the entrance to "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."
Nakamura came to our rescue after we failed miserably to work our way through the "Leonardo Challenge." It's a very cool treasure hunt through the fortress on Mysterious Island -- similar to the Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure at Epcot, though less high tech. The thing is, the map with the clues is written entirely in Japanese, and there are signs all over the place saying you must be able to read Japanese to play.
I can read a little Japanese (mostly the two phonetic alphabets), and I figured that with Google Translate on the iPhone I should be able to puzzle it out. The game is meant to be kid-friendly, after all!
Unfortunately, I soon discovered that this method was just too slow, especially since I hadn't taken the time to learn how to use Google Translate efficiently on the iPhone ahead of time. We quickly gave up, but while we were wandering around Nakamura came by and asked if we needed help. His English was excellent and he ended up walking us through the whole attraction, reading us the questions and prompting us to figure out the answers ourselves. It was fantastic!
He also introduced us to his friend Isogai at 20,000 Leagues (Nakamura works there when he's not at the Leonardo Challenge) and gave us an English-language guide to that ride.
It turns out that there are English language guides to many of the attractions if you know to ask for them. Unfortunately we didn't discover that until our last day.
In any event, Nakamura was an outstanding CM and treated us all to a wonderful dose of Disney magic!
Erick with 20000 Leagues Cast Members
Erick poses with super-friendly Tokyo DisneySea Cast Members Nakamura and Isogai in front of the entrance to "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."
Nakamura came to our rescue after we failed miserably to work our way through the "Leonardo Challenge." It's a very cool treasure hunt through the fortress on Mysterious Island -- similar to the Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure at Epcot, though less high tech. The thing is, the map with the clues is written entirely in Japanese, and there are signs all over the place saying you must be able to read Japanese to play.
I can read a little Japanese (mostly the two phonetic alphabets), and I figured that with Google Translate on the iPhone I should be able to puzzle it out. The game is meant to be kid-friendly, after all!
Unfortunately, I soon discovered that this method was just too slow, especially since I hadn't taken the time to learn how to use Google Translate efficiently on the iPhone ahead of time. We quickly gave up, but while we were wandering around Nakamura came by and asked if we needed help. His English was excellent and he ended up walking us through the whole attraction, reading us the questions and prompting us to figure out the answers ourselves. It was fantastic!
He also introduced us to his friend Isogai at 20,000 Leagues (Nakamura works there when he's not at the Leonardo Challenge) and gave us an English-language guide to that ride.
It turns out that there are English language guides to many of the attractions if you know to ask for them. Unfortunately we didn't discover that until our last day.
In any event, Nakamura was an outstanding CM and treated us all to a wonderful dose of Disney magic!