Chiba with a baby (0–1) 3 spots
Chiba is the coastal prefecture just east of Tokyo, and it holds both Narita Airport and Tokyo Disney Resort. You can reach its coast without passing through central Tokyo, which makes it an easy place for your first and last night. It suits families who would rather not face crowds straight off a long flight.
Tokyo's more distant international airport, about 41 minutes to Ueno by limited express.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A hillside farm with a free-roaming animal paddock and a funfair on the same grounds.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A 38-hectare park with a windmill, built with help from Odense, Andersen's home city in Denmark.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Terminal 1 has a Baby Play Space for children who are still crawling — a place on the floor where a child who does not yet walk can move freely.Free strollers are available at any information counter the moment you clear immigration and customs, and the walk from arrivals to the train level is longer than it looks, so take one before you set off. Nursing rooms are spread through each terminal, with a nursing booth, a diaper changing table, a sink and hot water for formula. Landside there are konbini and pharmacies for diapers, milk and snacks. For a stroller you can take outside the airport there is a paid rental, MoVA. The Keisei Skyliner reaches Ueno in about 41 minutes with reserved seats and big luggage space, the easiest ride with a child who has fallen asleep.
In the Fureai Bokujo petting paddock the animals roam free, and you can take a stroller or a wheelchair straight in. Nearly all the paths through the grounds are paved. On rainy days the animals are inside the barns, and the barns are open for you to walk into. Thirty minutes before closing the animals head back to the barns, and you can go on watching them in there.There are two baby rooms, beside the Makiba information centre and beside the Yamanoue information centre, so one sits near whichever gate you enter by (baby bed, nursing room, sink, microwave; hot water from an electric pot on the Makiba side and a water heater on the Yamanoue side). Both counters sell children's diapers and wipes while stocks last. Strollers can be rented, twenty of the reclining A type at 1,000 yen a day, but there are only so many and the farm asks you to bring your own if you can; rental stops on 29 April and 2-5 May. And because an animal bumping into a stroller can tip it over, they ask you not to step away from yours.
Admission starts at age 4, so this age gets in free. From age 1 there is play equipment for children up to 3 in the Kids Garden of the Hana no Shiro zone, and the Hana no Shiro Rest House has an indoor playroom with a slide. Across the park 150 kinds of flowers and 100,000 plants are in the ground all year round, and a spiral flower bed sits in front of the windmill in the Meruhen no Oka zone.There are four nursing rooms - the Service Center, the Fairy Tale Hall, the Children's Museum and the Hana no Shiro Rest House - and each is fitted out differently. Hot water for formula is in the Service Center and Hana no Shiro Rest House nursing rooms; at the Children's Museum you ask a staff member. Changing tables are in those two nursing rooms and in some of the toilets. There is no microwave in the park, but the Service Center in the Wanpaku Kingdom zone will lend you one to warm baby food. Rental strollers are B-type, for children 3 and under who can sit up and weigh under 15 kg, so a baby whose neck is not yet steady cannot ride: bring your own, noting that the rules say some strollers cannot be brought in.