Hiroshima with a baby (0–1) 4 spots
Hiroshima sits on a calm inland sea. Miyajima's shrine gate stands in the water, afloat at high tide and walkable at low tide, and the okonomiyaki is built up with noodles on a griddle in front of you.
Hiroshima City Asa Zoological Park
A zoo of eight zones, with one of the world's best black rhino breeding rates.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Miyajima Public Aquarium (Miyajima Marine)
An aquarium built around the Seto Inland Sea, with 380 species in its tanks.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A hilltop garden between Hiroshima and Miyajima, where 10,000 kinds of plant grow.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
An oyster restaurant on Miyajima's main street that claims Japan's first grilled oysters.
checked Aug ’26
There are 68 strollers to borrow, guided at seven months to two years old — exactly this age, and enough of them — so a baby can ride a borrowed stroller around all eight zones. The forest elephant mother and calf are on view from 10:00 to 15:00.Strollers are lent from the Information Desk just inside the main gate on the left, 350 yen a time, first come first served with no reservations. That fee is cash — cashless payment only covers admission and the Car Park 1 fee, and the restaurant and shops inside are cash only too. The park map legend marks a Baby Room and toilets with a baby seat, and there is a multipurpose toilet beside the Animal Science Museum. The path from Peachiku Park to the West Garden is a hilly one, and the electric cart that used to run it, Rakuraku-kun, is currently suspended, so plan on pushing the stroller up that stretch. On a wet day, look at the park's own Rain Shelter Map (PDF) before you go. Admission is free for infants.
Children under four get in free. The largest tank, Yuttari Suisou, holds 350 tonnes — big enough that a baby in your arms can follow the fish crossing it. On weekdays there is Fur Seal Walk Time, when a fur seal walks from Hatsukoi-an to the Live Pool and passes close by.There is one nursing room, beside the ground-floor information desk, with a diaper changing table in it. Ask a staff member if you need hot water for formula. Changing tables are also in the multipurpose toilets on both floors and in the men's and women's toilets alike. Strollers can be borrowed, but numbers are limited. The only parking here is two accessible spaces. Admission tickets take neither credit cards nor e-money, so bring cash (the museum shop takes VISA, Mastercard and transport IC cards). You can re-enter as many times as you like the same day, so stepping out to feed or nap is fine — ask and they stamp you with blacklight ink. The aquarium is closed from 1 December 2026 to 31 March 2027.
Ten strollers are lent free, sized for children from seven months to under two — this age exactly, for all 18.3 hectares of the garden. The Great Greenhouse is 2,186 square metres under a roof 21 metres high, with bananas and cacao growing inside, so a wet or windy day changes nothing about the visit.The Baby Room is beside the flower shop just inside the entrance gate — the first-aid room is in the same place — and you ask staff at the ticket window to use it. Changing tables are in the toilets at the multi-storey car park, beside the flower shop, at the exhibition hall and below Mori-no-Restaurant, among others. Strollers are lent first come first served with no reservations, again through the ticket window staff. The garden is large — all of it takes three hours — so pick one of the suggested one-, two- and three-hour routes. A free six-seat electric cart, Ma-chan-go, runs between the multi-storey car park and the entrance gate area, though maintenance or battery charging can stop it without notice. Admission is free for pre-school children; parking is 450 yen. Closed on Fridays, unless the Friday is a public holiday.
The seating is tables or a tatami room, and you can ask for the tatami room. Plain rice is 500 yen on its own and miso soup 400 yen, so you can add just what a child who is not eating oysters yet will actually eat.Whether the tatami room means taking your shoes off, and whether there is a step up to it, is not written down, so ask when you are shown to your seat. At busy times the queue forms outside, in a set place: you join the back of it along the side lane. With 86 seats the average wait to get inside is about 15 minutes, and then the grilled oysters take another 15, because they are only started once you order. The 15 minutes queuing and the 15 minutes grilling are separate, so budget 30. The 100-yen Miyajima visitor tax for reaching the island is waived for preschool children. The bill can be paid by card.