Tochigi with preschoolers (4–6) 3 spots
Tochigi has grown more strawberries than any other prefecture for 57 straight years. From winter to spring even small children can pick and eat them by hand, and the road to Nikko runs along a 37-kilometer cedar avenue — the longest tree-lined road in the world. It suits fruit-loving kids and families heading for the cool highlands in summer.
A zoo in two halves, with a chairlift running from the wolves to the alpacas.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · checked Aug ’26
Tochigi Children's Science Museum
A children's science museum with seven hands-on exhibit zones and six play grounds outside.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
An Edo townscape rebuilt below the Nikko mountains, a theme park of forty years.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
From Kingdom Town to Kingdom Farm you can ride the Kingdom Lift over the hill (500 yen one way). On the Farm side the free tractor bus — a trailer pulled by a tractor — runs from the foot of the lift to Sky Stadium, and the shows include the New Zealand Farm Show with real shepherds from New Zealand, the free-flight performance BROAD, and THE CATs.If a performance is cancelled or changed, the park announces it over the PA 30 minutes before showtime. The park is split into Kingdom Town and Kingdom Farm, and opening hours differ from day to day, so check your date on the official calendar before you go. The map and the highlights are together in the pamphlet sold at the front desk for 100 yen.
The ride ground has no ordinary bicycles apart from tricycles — you rent an odd-shaped one for an hour and may swap it for a different one once within that hour. The hill with the big combination playset has a 10-meter roller slide and a climbing wall, and the indoor exhibits are hands-on, with moving and experimental apparatus a child works themselves.Charges start at age 4: 230 yen for a child in the exhibition hall, 200 yen an hour for an odd-shaped bicycle, 100 yen a lap on the mini locomotive. On the third Sunday of every month, Family Day, children go free. The cutoffs come early, so plan the order: the odd-shaped bicycle desk closes at 15:40, the mini locomotive at 15:50, and the last entry into the building is 16:00 (closing 16:30). Some exhibits have time limits or weight limits.
From age 5 a child can join the young samurai experience (ages 5 to 12, 72 places, sign-up at the Samurai Training Hall, free). Along with the ninja experience and the detective quest, which have no age limit, the pass gets you into the hands-on halls: the ninja training hall, the ninja trick house, the ninja maze and the shuriken dojo.Preschoolers are free; from elementary school it is 3,000 yen for a child (2,600 yen with the afternoon discount, from 14:00, or from 13:00 in winter). On site only same-day tickets are sold — no advance or date-specified tickets — so buying the official e-ticket lets you walk in without queuing at the window. The pass covers every theater and hands-on hall, but not the amusement rides, some experiences, the restaurants or the souvenir shops. One parent-and-child visit report covers the full seven and a half hours, from the 9:00 opening to the 16:30 close.