Didn't do photos so can't comment.
I had a LOT of shopping delivered to my Disney hotel. Not sure why they'd have an issue with that.
Surprised she was stopped so much. Usually it's the Chinese and the Japanese are too polite.
Lucky. They were not willing to do so for me and it is one of many reasons I would seriously reconsider staying at a Tokyo Disney hotel vs a luxury hotel in Tokyo. The 15 minutes early entry was nice, and the location was spectacular (I use to think the CA hotels were close to the parks!) but for the same price I can have better food and a more luxurious experience elsewhere.
Yeah, my friend who was mobbed in Kakunodate was mobbed by Chinese, though in Hirosaki the people who asked for pictures were definitely Japanese. I forget where they were from.
In our case at TDR, I remember the two people whose hands she signed were from Niigata. So I guess they could be Chinese people living in Niigata, but they were definitely living in Japan and not other tourists. It was never mobs of people, just usually two or three at a time. I'd say the majority of pictures were character pictures, but we were stopped as well. Everyone spoke Japanese, we didn't encounter obvious Chinese tourists until we got to Kansai and Miyajima.
For the Cosplayers, we asked some of the Card Captor Sakura ones if they would be willing to let us take their photos and then they each wanted a picture with DD. A group of cosplayers of characters I didn't know then asked for pictures and DD decided next year she wants to cosplay so she gets more attention and more pictures lol I assume they were all Japanese attending the event as everyone spoke Japanese, but who knows?
In Kyoto, she enchanted the staff at the Kyoto Dormy Hotel and a bunch of the female workers called over co-workers when we were picking up our bags to come and see my daughter and how cute she was.
But to be fair when she was younger we got stopped by Japanese in
Disneyland for pictures as well. Again, I think it is because she is very outgoing and there are only two of us so we seem more accessible.
I think when we were at Sea, we didn't see any other Western children under the age of 10. It was a super rainy day (which I was glad of! we went on Nemo 2x had relatively short lines for characters, and loved Ariel's area. We saw a few other foreign children our second day in DL. (we had park hoppers and our first day DL was even quieter than Sea. We road Hunny Hunt 3x with under 10 minute waits and Monsters with under 10 minutes. I will now always pray for rain when visiting TDR, though it cut down on characters and would have been awful for Splash Mountain.)
I think I saw one or two other obvious non-Asian children at the TDR hotel and one night eating at our favorite vegan ramen place we met a foreign vegetarian family with two young children currently living in Tokyo and coming from TDR. They were super hungry because they agreed TDR sucks for vegetarians. I think I saw the most obviously foreign children in Kyoto which was our experience in 2016.
In Tanabe, an older woman once asked me if I dyed my hair to be so dark. I've never had light hair. lol
I saw a store in Shinjuku that looked like it was specifically selling Disney character themed clothes. If I can lose some more weight I would be really tempted to get things, the Daisy set was so cute as was the Donald and were just "normal" enough that they probably wouldn't get you ejected from the US parks.
