Nara Park with a baby (0–1) 3 spots
A 511-hectare prefectural park holding Todaiji and Kasuga Taisha inside it.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A temple whose wooden hall, among the world's largest, shelters a 15-meter Great Buddha.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
A shrine founded in 768, with some 3,000 lanterns given along its approach and cloisters.
Changing table · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
There are no fences and no cages here: the deer come to you. Nara Prefecture writes that "in Nara Park, which spreads east of the Kofukuji precinct, you can meet deer anywhere during the day," so a baby in your arms meets them without your going to look. It is an open outdoor park with no gate and no ticket barrier, and bicycles are banned inside, so the paths are for people on foot and for strollers.Only one building in the park has a nursing room: the prefectural Nara Park Bus Terminal on the Kintetsu side (7:30-20:00), where the official floor map places the nursing room symbol on the 1st floor and on the 2nd floor of the east wing, both next to a multipurpose restroom, in a building that has an elevator. Toilets with a diaper changing bed number 12 in the park, and Nara Prefecture publishes them one by one. There is not a single rubbish bin in the park: deer eat what is left behind, so everything goes home with you. The prefecture also writes that deer eat plastic bags, maps, and leaflets held in people's hands, so do not leave a bag sitting in the stroller basket.
You can push a stroller all the way to the Great Buddha Hall and inside it. The official precinct map draws a "wheelchair-accessible route" in purple, and the stretch from the prefectural Daibutsuden car park through the Chumon gate to the hall entrance has been made passable (the English version calls the same stretch "a flat stone path"). You enter the hall by the ramp on the front left, the west side. Inside, a baby in your arms looks up at a Buddha 14.98 meters tall.There is no nursing room. The official FAQ answers exactly that: "There is no nursing room, but if you need one, come to the security post. We will lend you a room if one is free." The post stands in front of the Chumon gate at the Great Buddha Hall; it is a kindness rather than a facility, so do not build the day around it. If you want a proper nursing room, it is at the Nara Park Bus Terminal (Noboriojicho 76), on the road you walk in on from Kintetsu Nara Station. Todaiji's own diaper changing table is one, in the multipurpose restroom on the basement floor of the Todaiji Museum, with an elevator between there and the 1st floor. Nearby, the Daibutsuden car park toilet and the toilet below the west stairs of Sangatsudo also have diaper changing beds (per Nara Prefecture). There are no rubbish bins, so used diapers go home with you.
Fujinami-no-ya, reached through the paid Main Sanctuary special visit (700 yen), is a dark room in a building that served as the priests' quarters until the Edo period, and the hanging lanterns inside it are lit. Even if you cannot come on one of the three lantern-festival nights a year, a baby in your arms can see that light in the daytime. The approach is outdoors the whole way from the first torii, with stone lanterns lining both sides.The only restroom with a diaper changing bed is not the one near the start of the approach but Wakamiya-jinja South, past the main sanctuary (the Kasugataisha Approach restroom, by the bus stop and the treasure hall, has a multipurpose stall but no changing bed). No official page mentions a nursing room anywhere. The bus bound for Kasuga Taisha Honden stops right in front; from the loop-line stop Kasuga Taisha Omotesando it is about a 10-minute walk up the approach. Nara Park has no trash cans at all, so whatever you open, you carry out.