Western River Railroad Reliability & Wait Patterns

Tokyo Disneyland · Based on 20712 wait-time samples

Data updated October 12, 2026 · refreshed weekly from the last 180 days

0.40
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Moderately volatile — expect meaningful swings through the day.
15m
Typical (p50) wait
25m
Busy (p90) wait
35m
Worst-case (p99)
55m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

15m
Weekday average
18m
Weekend average
1.15×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Western River Railroad flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

37
Recorded breakdowns
12m
Typical (median) outage
1h 3m
Longest outage (2026-10-05)
2.9
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-1721m
2026-10-1616m
2026-10-146m
2026-10-1312m
2026-10-1212m
2026-10-1118m
2026-10-1012m
2026-10-0918m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 36 different days in this window.

Downtime by hour

Share of running time the ride was down for an unplanned breakdown, by hour of the day (park-local time). Scheduled closures and refurbishments are not counted.

6
0%
7
0%
8
0%
9
0%
10
0%
11
0%
12
0%
13
1%
14
0%
15
0%
16
0%
17
0%
18
0%
19
4%
20
2%
21
7%

Best & worst hours by day of week

Average standby wait (minutes). Green = lowest of day, red = highest.

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon – 13 16 16 13 12 16 15 17 17 19 21 18 – –
Tue – 13 14 15 12 13 15 15 15 14 20 21 17 – –
Wed – 12 16 14 12 11 13 13 13 14 16 20 16 – –
Thu – 13 15 15 12 12 16 17 14 15 19 21 18 – –
Fri – 12 16 15 11 10 14 13 16 16 18 24 18 – –
Sat – 15 17 17 15 15 18 18 19 19 24 24 22 – –
Sun – 15 16 16 12 14 16 18 15 16 20 20 22 – –

Weather effect on waits

How the wait changed in each kind of weather, compared with this ride at the same hour on the same weekday within three weeks. Only differences marked “clear signal” are larger than day-to-day noise.

+0m
Clear · 81 ride-hours · within noise
-0m
Cloudy · 244 ride-hours · within noise
-2m
Light Rain · 34 ride-hours · within noise
+1m
Heavy Rain · 46 ride-hours · within noise

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