Akita with a baby (0–1) 3 spots
Akita is rice, snow, and the home of the Akita dog. Its namahage ogres call at houses on New Year's Eve, and a museum on the Oga peninsula shows the masks year-round.
A theme park the size of four Tokyo Domes, from craft workshops to a planetarium.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A stone museum holding more than 150 Namahage masks actually used in Oga's villages.
Stroller OK · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
Japan's first museum devoted to original manga artwork, with about 490,000 sheets.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Every building is linked to the next by a covered walkway, so you can push the stroller from one to another without leaving the roof. The whole site is barrier-free, with ramps and an elevator. The grounds are the size of four Tokyo Domes and full of greenery, with lawns where you can spread a sheet for lunch and outdoor sculptures to walk past.There are four nursing rooms: Furusato Hiroba at the main entrance, Wonder Castle, the Spacia planetarium and the Akita Museum of Modern Art. Diaper changing tables are in some of the women's restrooms. Strollers are lent at the information desk by the main entrance — fill in the lending form there and hand it to a staff member. Numbers are limited, and the park advises bringing your own during Golden Week and the Obon holiday. There is a first-aid room in Furusato Hiroba at the main entrance, but no medicines are kept there and no medical staff are on duty.
The entrance has a ramp at a 5-degree grade and automatic sliding doors, the outer one 190 cm wide, and the floor inside is flat the whole way. You can push the stroller right up to the wall of more than 150 Namahage masks, every one of them actually used in a village around Oga.On the Akita prefecture tourism federation's barrier-free table, the nursing room, the baby bed and the free stroller loan are all marked with a cross. The wheelchair restroom is inside the first-floor exhibition space, 97 cm at the door and 205 by 192 cm inside, and it has a baby chair. Parking is free with room for 250 cars; the accessible spaces are in the second lot across the way, so you cross a sloping road to reach the building.
The permanent exhibitions are free, so a short visit — or one the baby sleeps through — costs nothing. A ramp and an elevator mean you can do both floors without leaving the stroller. On the wall of the Manga Cafe, blank comic panels wait to be filled in, one frame at a time, by the artists who visit.Diaper-changing beds are inside the multipurpose restrooms on the first and second floors. There is no diaper bin in the building, so used diapers go home with you; staff hand out a bag made for them. For nursing you can use the nursing room or the family room, but no fixed spot is set aside, so speak to staff at the main reception. Only one stroller is available to borrow, so bringing your own is the safer bet. Food and drink may not be brought in — only drinks bought from the vending machines inside, and only in the first- and second-floor corridors.