Many residents of Japan are still a long way from feeling remotely like they did before the COVID-19 pandemic began, but that hasn’t stopped a number of nonessential businesses from starting up again after months of being closed.
At the beginning of July, Tokyo Disneyland and Disneysea in Chiba Prefecture reopened, albeit operating in a drastically different way than before the virus struck. Despite the number of new cases in the capital growing recently, Disney fans flocked to the facilities after missing them for months.
“I cried for two days,” popular Disney-centric YouTuber Ainyantube said in a recent upload. That video, which detailed what guests visiting the theme parks should know before boarding the monorail, landed on YouTube Japan’s trending list. The Youtuber hit on something that will only become more prevalent in the months to come — after staying home for a lengthy period of time, people are simply itching to get out.
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