Gifu with a baby (0–1) 3 spots
Gifu is steep valleys on the road between Tokyo and Kyoto. People still live under the huge thatched roofs at Shirakawa-go, and on summer nights fishermen work the Nagara River with trained cormorants while you watch from a boat.
Gifu-Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum
An air and space museum with a full-size mock-up of the ISS Japanese lab module.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Sample Kobo (Food Sample Workshop)
A museum and workshop in the town that made most of Japan's plastic food models.
Stroller OK · checked Aug ’26
A World Heritage village whose streets are lined with thatched gassho-zukuri houses.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
You can bring your own stroller, and 10 more are lent at the Welcome Gate and in front of the building entrance for a returnable 100-yen coin. One elevator serves the building, so you can push from the outdoor exhibits through the real aircraft on the first floor up to the space area on the second, looking up at big airframes the whole way. Admission is free for junior high school age and under.The baby room on the first floor holds two private nursing rooms, each with a diaper changing table and a sink with hot water for making formula. Diaper changing tables are also in the multipurpose restrooms, two inside on the first floor and one outside next to the Welcome Gate. Indoors, only the rest corner on the mezzanine allows so much as a drink, so packed lunches are eaten outside at the tables, on the benches or on the lawn. The Sorahaku Cafe and the museum shop at the first-floor entrance can be used without paying admission. Your ticket lets you back in the same day.
It is inside a 150-year-old townhouse, so the rain stays off you (the Ikoyo facility list marks it OK in rain and strollers OK). The food samples and toys on display are there to be picked up and touched, not only looked at. One making session runs 20-30 minutes - short enough to wait through with a baby in your arms, or while an older sibling makes something.The facility list marks nursing room, changing table and kids' space all as not available, and there is no wheelchair-accessible toilet, ramp or elevator. Feed and change before you arrive. The toilet is inside the paid area. There is no parking of its own, so use a nearby municipal or paid lot (20 minutes on foot from Gujo-Hachiman station on the Nagaragawa Railway, 5 minutes by car from the Gujo-Hachiman interchange).
The village itself is nearly flat; the only climb is up to the viewpoint. You can push a stroller along streets lined with thatched gassho-zukuri houses. Ogimachi Park in the middle is a rest spot with lawn and planting at its center and wooden benches, a place to unbuckle the carrier and take a breather.There are two places to nurse and change a diaper. Yururi, the gassho-zukuri rest house next to Ogimachi Park, has a combined nursing and diaper-changing room with a washbasin, open daily 10:00-15:30 (no food or drink inside). The former Fujisaka House rest stop on Higashi-dori has a nursing and changing space in a tatami room, open daily 9:00-16:00 and closed in winter. Strollers are not lent out (wheelchairs are), so bring your own, and expect grates over drainage channels and planted strips at pavement joins where wheels can catch. In winter, with snow, unpaved ground and crowds, a carrier suits better than a stroller.