Mermaid Lagoon · Flat ride
Blowfish Balloon Race
Spin overhead in round baskets carried by colorful blowfish balloons.
Flat ride
Mild thrill
Any height
Before you ride
May cause mild dizziness from circling.
Expert tip (Nov 2026)
Look down across Triton’s Kingdom as the baskets reach their highest point.
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⏱ Typical wait by hour
✅ Best time to ride: around 9 AM (~5 min) · also good around 8 PM (~9 min)
Busiest around 1 PM (~35 min)
| 9 AM | 5 minutes |
|---|---|
| 10 AM | 18 minutes |
| 11 AM | 29 minutes |
| 12 PM | 33 minutes |
| 1 PM | 35 minutes |
| 2 PM | 32 minutes |
| 3 PM | 34 minutes |
| 4 PM | 30 minutes |
| 5 PM | 28 minutes |
| 6 PM | 22 minutes |
| 7 PM | 14 minutes |
| 8 PM | 9 minutes |
Average standby wait from 6 days of live waits, in park time (GMT+9). Real waits vary with crowds, weather and breakdowns.
Blowfish Balloon Race stats
Blowfish Balloon Race is a 22-foot flat ride at Tokyo DisneySea. It was built by Walt Disney Imagineering, opened in 2001 and lasts about 2 minutes. There's no height requirement. The best time to ride is usually around 9 AM or 8 PM, when waits are shortest.
- Type
- Flat ride
- Manufacturer
- Walt Disney Imagineering
- Model
- Suspended spinning balloon ride
- Opened
- 2001
- Top speed
- 7 mph
- Height
- 22 ft
- Inversions
- 0
- Duration
- 1 min 40 sec
- Height requirement
- Any height
💡 Fun facts
- Indoor aerial spinning ride
- The ride vehicles are themed to blowfish
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