The Shanghai Disney Resort is Disney's sixth resort worldwide.[Photo/Xinhua]

Tickets for Shanghai Disneyland, Disney's first theme park on the Chinese mainland, went on sale on Monday, about two and a half months ahead of the resort's opening on June 16.

By 5 pm, more than 35,600 one-day passes and 12,000 two-day passes had been sold through the official sales channel on online marketplace Tmall.

That is one of a number of sales channels, also including third-party retailers.

Ctrip, China's largest online travel agent, reported that most of its ticket orders were coming from the cities of Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Nanjing and Hangzhou.

A customer at a high-street travel agency in Shanghai said she came to the store to buy tickets after failing to get them online. "But the staff just suggested I buy the tickets online, so I'll just have to go home and refresh the websites more frequently."