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I spent the day at Moomin Valley Park up in Saitama, Japan. It’s about an hour from Tokyo. A cute park that opened in 2019 and if you’re a fan of Moomin, it’s someplace you need to visit! Join me as I spend the day there and show you around what there is to do, what to eat, and character greetings!
I filmed this back in 2019, so that’s why you don’t see people in masks. Some of my audio is muffled, did my best to clean it up. This was before I had a mic that was easy to adjust the direction of and I didn’t realize how muffled I was going to sound. Live and learn!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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00:00 Getting to Moomin Valley Park
02:25 Walking to Park
03:35 Moomin Popcorn Bucket
04:16 Moomin Character Greetings
05:06 Moomin House
05:29 Indoor Show
08:02 Moomin Valley Park Merchandise
14:16 Zipline
15:59 Moomin Outdoor Show
16:20 Food
19:03 Interactive Exhibit
22:00 More Eating
24:48 Visiting Moomin Valley Park
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Chris is the main guy behind TDR Explorer which focuses on trip planning for the Disney Parks in Asia. Which includes Tokyo Disneyland, Tokyo DisneySea, Hong Kong Disneyland, and Shanghai Disneyland! He ensures you have the best and most up-to-date information for your trip to English. He’ll sometimes venture to other Theme Parks in Asia too, just to spice it up a little.
38 Comments
renjun lets holiday
I'm an American who fell in love with the Moomins last year by sheer whim. It's quite funny, knowing about the creator and me being 36% Swedish in my ancestry. Explains a lot when you think about it ! This is absolutely beautiful, relaxing, whimsical and extremely charming. Another reason I want to go to Japan !
I got really surprised at 4:48, suddenly finnish :OO Pikaruoka means fast food 😅 japanese park has finnish text there, even tho finnish is so small language only 5mil people in the world speak it.
What a boring park. What have they done to our moomin?😔😭 nothing to do?!in Finland the park is amazing,alot to see, alot to do.. caves, monsters etc. Maybe it is the nostalgia we finns have with moomin, but moomin is the best🥰
This is such an amazing video!!!🥺💗the park looks amazing and you are really like a ray of sunshine !!!❤
I really wanna go there for my birthday but my parents never grew up with Moomin and I don't think they'll appreciate it so I might as well just pick Disneysea over this 🙁
I hope he tries the Finnish Moomin Valley theme park too!
行きたい❤️❤️
english guy goes to Japan to visit a Japanese theme park of a swedish franchise created by a finnish-swede
gotta remember to go there so i can kan try and see how many swedish words they have there!
it's still so cool how Tove Jansson got so popular in such a far away country!
I would bring home all the cups and napkins and all things with the logo on it!!!! ;;w;; <3
Where’s Groke?
Thanks for the video!!! Come to Finland Naantali Moominland=)))
This is what connects finns and japanese
I wanna try the games, because they have the game called Fortuna.
Love how the Moonmins look like fluffy huggable clouds and Snufkin is just a real ass man.
This whole scenario is odd, but cool. I'm Amercian and I can instantly see the Finn/Swede influence. Bc I speak neither language, it's odd to see it in a Japanese park. The cartoon and art is also the opposite of kawaii in my opinion. So, it isn't something I'd expect to be popular with kids in Japan. Granted, I've never seen it, maybe I've got it wrong, but it's interesting nonetheless..
I have absolutely no idea how money in yen works so most times you said a sum, it didn't really help much… At least you said the dollar equivalent a couple times which helps a bit with turning it into euros in my head…
i wonder why japan is one of most biggest fan of Moomins from Finland. During summer there has been huge masses coming from Japan to visit our theme park.
The park is so cute! The park admission is cheap so I like that you only pay for the attractions you're actually interested in!
Tove Jansson statue! Here I was assuming it’s all about the animations. So many touches from the books. Thank you, I adored this. Def would love to visit!
the colorful umbrella path looked so awesome
ticket is sooo cute
Seems like you have to pay for an entrance ticket and then most of the park you had to pay for most additional activities. Is that right?
I always want to go to Moomin Park someday since i enjoy the anime a lot. It looks nice and fun there. Thank you for taking the video!
me: a married, childfree woman in her 40's planning a trip to Japan by watching TDR Explorer's videos
watches Moomin Theme Park video, totally unfamiliar with Moomin
"put that on our list of MUST-DO"
Any Czennie or BlackJack here who thought of Renjun and Park Bom???
Its interesting to see how Japanese culture favors and admire of European culture, like Swedish and Finnish.
Beautiful park 👍#ParksExplorer
Oh, that Tove statue was so sweet 🥺
I gotta go here!
Ghibli theme park opening!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa3vPRJCHTQ
19:09 Kokemus is Finnish and it means experience
I am Swedish and grew up with the Moomins, watching the people in costumes made me really feel weirded out since they act ultra typical "japanese school girl" whilst the source material is mostly very melancholic.
I didn’t see this on your profile but do you have a video of all your merchandise you have collected throughout your travels? Also, your stationary stuff and how you use it? What do you use in the folders you always buy and how do you use your washi tape? I love those things but I’m always hesitant to buy it because I’m not clear on how to use them.
I think the people who made the park made it perfectly. The fact that it’s in the woods and by the lake, all the houses look super Finnish. Also the peacefulness of the park. It feels like Finland almost
renjun kesini deh
I wonder how similar it is to the one in Naantali in Finland? The costumes look the same as I remember when I went as a kid!
Edit: It's really weird seeing finnish everywhere. Like the little building at 4:49 that says pikaruoka, which means fast food.
5:35 merenhuiske is like the splashing of the sea, hard to translate lol
6:20 pikku myy kauppa, pikku myy shop
8:04 kokemus means experience
8:25 mugs say posti and muumilaakso ruokala inside, meaning mail and moomin valley cafeteria, couldn't see the others
– Also if you saw any icon on a tag with a little finnish flag as a "key" that means the product was made in finland
14:44 taikurin seikkailupaikka means the magicians exploration place
19:20 kokemus means experience (again lol)
23:40 i wonder if that plate is from iittala, looks similar.
– The location of the video is marked as muumitalo which means moomin house