Tokyo with a baby (0–1) 25 spots
Tokyo is Japan's capital and one of the world's largest metropolitan areas. Districts with very different characters sit within a short train ride, and zoos, aquariums and museums are all walkable from stations. It suits first-time visitors who want to build days without renting a car.
Japan's first zoo, with about 300 species spread over two gardens.
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National Museum of Nature and Science
A national museum shown at full size — dinosaur skeletons, a life-size blue whale.
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Tokyo's closer airport, about 15 minutes by train from the terminals to Shinagawa.
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One of Japan's first public parks, with the zoo and museums inside its grounds.
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A market street of some 400 shops packed into 500 meters between two stations.
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A small amusement park, a flower garden in 1853, that calls itself Japan's oldest.
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Solamachi Tabe-Terrace Food Court
A food court at the foot of Skytree: udon, ramen and rice bowls at one table.
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A toy museum inside an elementary school built nearly ninety years ago.
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Tokyo's oldest temple, approached through a stone-paved shopping street from the great gate.
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At 634 meters, the tallest free-standing broadcast tower in the world.
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Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden
A former imperial garden of 58 hectares, holding three garden styles in one plan.
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An aquarium at the foot of Tokyo Skytree, built so you get close to the animals.
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A two-level observatory above Shibuya Station, finishing on an open roof 229 meters up.
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Japan's national museum of emerging science, hands-on throughout.
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Seven themed lands and 37 attractions, only five of which set a minimum height.
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Japan's oldest museum, six buildings on one site, showing almost only real objects.
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A government-run park with over 50 facilities and about 2,000 rental bikes.
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An aquarium of over 500 species, built around a 2,200-cubic-meter doughnut tank of bluefin tuna.
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Kura Sushi Global Flagship Store Harajuku
A 245-seat conveyor-belt sushi restaurant with an open-air deck over the city.
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Asakusa Imahan Kokusai Street Head Restaurant
A sukiyaki and shabu-shabu house in Asakusa since 1895, serving only female black wagyu.
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The first permanent Pokémon cafe, in a department store near Tokyo Station.
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A crab restaurant by Shimbashi Station, with kaiseki courses that run to nine dishes.
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An indoor playground at Tokyo Dome City, its ball pool filled with some 40,000 balls.
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Western food in a corner of Ueno Park, from a restaurant founded in 1872.
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In the forest where the elephants live, an Asian elephant drinks and bathes with its long trunk on the other side of the glass, close enough to take in from your arms. The Hashibiro Cart, a five-seat electric cart that loops the West Garden in about 4 minutes, keeps its 12:30-13:30 run for families with children from age 0 through junior high; children 0 to 2 ride held by a guardian, and it is free.There are three nursing rooms, each with a nursing chair, hot water for formula, and a baby bed. How far a man may go in differs by room: at the Saruyama Kitchen in the East Garden and at Benten Gate in the West Garden he can use everything except the women-only space, while the one inside the West Garden rest house is open to him only when no women are using it. In front of the East Garden information center there is also a mamaro, a small outdoor nursing booth, but it has no hot water. Baby beds for diaper changes are in restrooms around the park and inside the nursing rooms, though some men's restrooms do not have one. Strollers rent for 500 yen a day, a reclining type B for children from about 7 months, at three places: in front of the East Garden Main Gate, in front of the West Garden Benten Gate, and beside Ikenohata Gate, which lends only on weekends and holidays.
Outdoors there is a life-size model of a blue whale and a D51 steam locomotive, so a baby in your arms can look up at their real scale. On the 3rd floor of the Global Gallery, the parent-and-child exploration room "Compass" takes children from age 0, together with a guardian 18 or over.There are two nursing rooms: Japanese Gallery B1F (at the back of the lounge) and Global Gallery 3F (by the escalator). Diaper changing tables are in the multipurpose restrooms on Japanese Gallery B1F, 1F, and 2F and on every Global Gallery floor except B1F, plus inside the Japanese Gallery B1F nursing room. Only two strollers can be borrowed, and they cannot be reserved. Compass requires a timed reservation and payment for everyone in the party, including a 0-year-old.
Every terminal has an observation deck on its roof, so a baby in your arms can watch planes take off and land. It is free, and the wait passes there.Nursing rooms are on nearly every floor of every terminal, roughly 16 in Terminal 1, 18 in Terminal 2 and 18 in Terminal 3, both inside and outside security. Each has a nursing booth, a baby changing seat, a sink, and water for formula at 70°C (158°F) or hotter. Men can use everything except the nursing booths, which means mixing formula and changing diapers can be the father's job. There are nursing rooms near the arrival gates as well, so change a diaper before you leave the terminal for the train. Strollers for use inside the airport are lent free; just ask at an information counter.
The path around Shinobazu Pond is flat with almost no steps, so you can make the full loop with the stroller. From early July to late August lotus flowers open across the whole pond, and since they open at dawn and close toward midday, a morning walk lands right on their best hour.There is no stroller to borrow, so bring your own. The park has 10 diaper changing tables and 9 wheelchair-accessible restrooms, shown on the official map as "restrooms for everyone," but which restroom has what is not published. A nursing room is listed among the facilities too, though the number and locations are not published, so checking the official barrier-free map before you go is the sure way. The Ueno-no-yama side is on a slope, and the same map color-codes routes by path width and gradient so you can pick a flat one.
The street is flat and the goods are piled where you can see them from the road. In a baby carrier you can keep moving even on a busy day, taking in the shopfronts as you pass, and the malls and plazas under the JR viaduct put a roof overhead without leaving the same market street.The market street has no public restrooms, so change diapers before you go in. At the north end, Ueno Station has baby rest rooms inside the 1F central ticket gate and on the 3F concourse, with nursing chairs, changing beds, a sink with purified and hot water, and a diaper bin; the 1F one was renewed in March 2024 into a nursing room that locks. On the Okachimachi side, Matsuzakaya Ueno's 8F baby rest room has a curtained nursing booth, a sheet you can park the stroller beside to change a diaper, a hot water dispenser for formula, and a microwave. The women's restroom in Ameyoko Plaza under the viaduct also has a changing table.
A set list of rides takes children from age 0: the merry-go-round horses, carriage and pony, the Swan, the Sky Ship, the Thriller Car, the Chibikko Taxi, Panorama Time Travel and the haunted house, each ridden together with an accompanying adult. The official attraction page has a filter for rides that 0-to-1-year-olds can board.Every one of these rides needs an accompanying adult, and on the Sky Ship a 0-to-1-year-old needs one adult to themselves. No strollers are lent out; a stroller you bring can be left folded at the Information counter. There are two nursing spaces with three rooms in total (one in the 3F kids space, two in front of Marion Crepe, and those two are for women only), and seven diaper changing tables in the park. Diapers are sold from a vending machine in the 3F kids space, but formula is not sold, so bring your own; hot water for making it is available at Information.
The seats ring the big atrium above the fresh food and deli floor (Food Marche) on 2F, so a baby in your arms can look down on the bustle below. The baby room sits in the very block where the stalls are, 3F block 3, with a water heater just for making formula, a microwave and a private booth, so you never leave the floor and can come straight back to your table.The baby room (private booth, diaper changing table, water heater for formula, microwave and bin) is at 3F block 3, and stroller parking is at 3F block 3 as well. The Tabe-Terrace shops line blocks 3 and 4, so feeding and diaper changes need no change of floor. Of the four baby rooms in the building, only two, 3F block 3 and 6F block 9, have both a baby seat and a changing seat. Only 2 of the 11 shops, Ebisu Yakiniku Champion and Nangokushuka Harajuku Menhanbo, state that strollers may be brought in; the food court as a whole says nothing either way, and nothing forbids it. Note that the official floor guide marks a smoking area in 3F block 3, the same block as the shops.
The Baby Wood Play Room is only for children aged 0 to 2 and their guardians. Solid cedar from ten regions of Japan makes the floor warm enough to need no underfloor heating, and the art piece Sugi Kodama puts the beauty of wood within reach. The Forest of Toys is a wooden room you enter with your shoes off, where a child can play in the wooden sandpit filled with 20,000 hardwood beads from Hokkaido.Under 6 months is free and children from 6 months through elementary school are 800 yen online (1,000 yen at the door); even those admitted free need a ticket issued. Strollers cannot come inside because many corridors are narrow, so they are folded and left at the parking spot by the building entrance (ask at reception if your baby is asleep). There is one nursing space, inside the Baby Wood Play Room, and you tell a staff member when you want to use it. Even when the room runs on timed swaps, diaper changing and nursing are available at any time. With a nursing cape you can also feed on the benches on any floor, and capes are lent out. There are two diaper changing tables: in the Everyone's Toilet beside the 1F entrance, and at the diaper changing corner just outside the Baby Wood Play Room.
Much of what there is to see is overhead. The great lantern at Kaminarimon is 3.9 m tall, 3.3 m wide and 700 kg, and standing directly beneath it you can see the dragon carved into its base. The outer hall of the main hall rises about 10 m to a ceiling carrying three large paintings, Kawabata Ryushi's Dragon at the centre and Domoto Insho's Heavenly Beings and Scattering Flowers on either side, which the temple asks visitors to look up at, and a baby in your arms reaches them just by looking up.There is no nursing room in the temple grounds. The nearest is the 2nd floor of the Taito City Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center, directly in front of Kaminarimon, with two nursing spaces you can close the door on, a formula water dispenser and a diaper changing bed (9:00-20:00). Inside the grounds, diaper changing sheets are in the two multipurpose toilets, to the right of Hozomon and at the back behind the main hall, each also fitted with wheelchair handrails and a baby chair. No strollers are lent in the grounds; the same Center lends five at the 1F information counter (from 1 month to 4 years, up to 18 kg, 9:00-19:30). The grounds are largely flat, and the temple says it is flat and that work on removing steps continues, but the main hall has stairs at the front, so head around to the lift on the left as you face it, the west side.
The Tembo Deck at 350 meters is a floor ringed 360 degrees with glass over 5 meters tall, and the view changes with the direction you face, so a baby in your arms can be held right up to it. Floors 350, 345 and 340 are linked by the wheelchair and stroller priority elevator, so you can go around the observation deck still pushing the stroller.The Baby Care Rooms, used for diaper changes and nursing, are listed in the official floor guide in two places: the 1F group east lobby and inside the 4F main entrance. The official FAQ describes the same facility as a room provided inside the observation deck, so if you may need one higher up, ask a staff member where it is. Strollers can be borrowed but numbers are limited, so you ask a nearby staff member on the day. Once you enter you cannot re-enter, the only drink you may bring in is a capped plastic bottle, and there are no vending machines inside the observation deck. Infants aged 5 and under are free.
North of the main hall there is a lawn where, in good weather, you can settle down on the grass. It is a quiet place with the Shinjuku high-rises behind it, and the North Pond beside it has ducks, mandarin ducks among them. The Hatsumiyamode prayer for a baby needs no reservation if you come as a family.From each entrance it is about a ten-minute walk each way to the main hall over a path laid with gravel; the shrine's own Q&A notes that visitors from abroad find it curious that the path is deliberately made harder to walk on. The Minami-shinmon gate at the front has a raised threshold beam that you step over rather than on. For a prayer service you fill in a form at the entrance to the Kaguraden on the day; only the special prayer services, from 100,000 yen, are by reservation. The traffic-safety amulet sticker can be put on a stroller as well as on a car.
The landscape garden is all broad lawn and huge trees left to grow as they please. The official universal design map states that wheelchairs and strollers may go onto the grass itself, so you can wheel the stroller straight out onto the lawn. At the center of the sight line running straight in from the Shinjuku Gate stands the garden's symbol tree, a tulip tree over 30 meters tall.There are four nursing rooms in the garden (behind the Yurinoki restaurant, at the back of the women's restroom by the greenhouse, beside Starbucks, and in the Shinjuku Gyoen Museum), and only women may use them. The one beside Starbucks has two nursing spaces and three baby seats with heating and cooling; the greenhouse one takes one person at a time. There is no hot water in the nursing rooms, but the restaurant will provide hot water for formula. Diaper changing tables are in 18 places including the men's restrooms, and bins for disposable diapers are provided. The unisex multipurpose restrooms can be entered with the stroller. Note that the paths around the formal garden and the Japanese garden are gravel and unpaved.
The whole aquarium is indoors, and it states that ramps and elevators let you go right through pushing a wheelchair or a stroller. The penguins swim in the same space as you rather than behind glass, so even a baby in your arms is close enough that spray sometimes reaches you. LED lighting follows the hours of the day: by day a natural brightness with the birds swimming energetically, by night dim light and penguins asleep. There are chairs in front of the tanks, so you can sit and let the moving water surround you.A Baby Rest Room with a hot water sink and a nursing room is on both 5F and 6F, one each, with purified hot water meant for making formula (men may not enter the nursing room). No strollers are lent out, so bring your own. Strollers are the limit of what may be brought in: outdoor carts and other child carriers that are not strollers are not allowed. If you leave it behind, there is a stroller park at the 5F aquarium entrance, outside the aquarium (they take no responsibility for loss or theft, so keep valuables with you). Food and drink may be brought in, and inside you eat sitting on a chair. Children under 3 need no ticket.
You can push the stroller all the way to the 46th floor. The elevator up from 14F, the Transition Pod, travels through ceiling-wide imagery and three-dimensional sound. Out onto the roof you go in a baby carrier, which the observatory itself recommends. The Cloud Hammock up there is, in their own words, a rest area for lying back and watching the sky.On the roof, riding on shoulders or carrying a child in your arms is asked against as dangerous — for entering, viewing and moving alike — and a baby carrier is what they recommend. Your own stroller cannot go up to the roof, and the loan stroller is for children who can sit up unaided, up to 18 kg. Bags cannot go up either, so leave them in the dedicated lockers on 46F. There is one nursing space only, in the Baby Room on 46F, which also holds two changing tables and a formula-water warmer. There is no re-entry, so it helps to stop first at the building's own Baby Room on 13F (10:00-23:00, three nursing spaces, four changing tables). Children 5 and under enter free.
The whole museum, floors 1 to 7, is indoors, and the elevators are 180 cm wide by 190 cm deep with a 100 cm doorway — wide enough for a side-by-side stroller. The symbol exhibit, Geo-Cosmos, is a digital globe showing the Earth as it actually is, and the cloud imagery crossing it is data taken in daily from weather satellites. It can be looked up at from anywhere on floors 1 to 5. From the 7th-floor lounge the view runs from Odaiba to Tokyo Tower.There is one nursing room, on 5F, and the museum states plainly that men may use it too. Each of its two lockable private rooms has a nursing chair, a lie-down changing bed, a stand-up changing table and a diaper bin, and the shared area has a water server for making up formula and a hand-washing sink. Changing tables are also in the multipurpose restrooms on each floor. Strollers are lent at the 1F entrance — just ask a staff member. You may bring food in, but it can only be eaten in the rest areas on 1F, 5F and 7F.
Four attractions can be experienced without lifting your child out of the stroller: Penny Arcade, the Mark Twain Riverboat, Cinderella's Fairy Tale Hall, and Minnie's House. The park also names four "play areas babies can enjoy," and at Donald's Boat a child sounds the whistle and rings the bells.Children age 3 and under enter free. There are two Baby Centers, in World Bazaar and in Toontown, each with a nursing room, diaper changing tables, hot water for formula (boiled tap water kept above 70C), and a microwave, and you can wheel the stroller straight in. The Toontown one closes an hour before the park does, so use the World Bazaar one in the evening.
Anyone under 18 sees the TNM Collection for free. Strollers can be used on the grounds and inside the exhibition rooms as well, and every building has elevators or ramps. The Family Space on Heiseikan 1F is a room for preschool children, mainly 0 to 6, to spend time in together with a guardian.There are two private nursing rooms in the Family Space on Heiseikan 1F, usable any time during opening hours without a reservation; just tell the Information counter. Diaper changing sheets are in the restrooms of the Main Gate Plaza, Honkan, Heiseikan, Toyokan, and the Gallery of Horyuji Treasures, and the diaper changing area on Heiseikan 1F also has a changing table for older children and a vending machine selling disposable diapers. Strollers are lent at the Honkan Information counter, recommended up to age 2 and limited in number, and when the museum is crowded they may ask you not to use one inside the exhibition rooms, for children's safety.
Children below school age get in free. Strollers are lent free at each entrance, first-come on the day, so you can arrive empty-handed and still push one around. The park has been adding ramps and removing steps, and the Park Train, a bus that stops at the main facilities, runs inside the grounds.Baby rest rooms for nursing and diaper changes are at eight places (Tachikawa Gate, Nishi-Tachikawa Gate, the Akishima Gate office, Mori-no-ie, the Harappa central office, Komorebi-no-sato, the Information Center, and the Hana-Midori Culture Center), and the main restrooms have baby beds and baby keepers. Disposable diapers are sold at the shops, but only pull-up type in L and XL. The park does not publish how many strollers it lends or from what age, and lending is first-come on the day, so bring a carrier as well. The Nishi-Tachikawa Gate is about 2 minutes on foot from the park exit of JR Nishi-Tachikawa Station, far closer than the Tachikawa Gate at about 18 minutes from Tachikawa Station's north exit.
Strollers are allowed inside, so your baby can stay in the seat as you go round. In the doughnut-shaped main tank holding 2,200 cubic meters of water, bluefin tuna swim past in a school. At the penguin exhibit, one of the largest in Japan, the penguins swim right by.There are two nursing rooms: the rest house beside the main gate and the 2nd floor of the main building. Only women may enter the rest house nursing room; the 2nd floor has three mamaro baby care booths, and men should ask staff about using the main building room. For formula, ask staff at the information counter, the restaurant, or the ticket office for hot water, and ask restaurant staff if you need baby food warmed in a microwave. Diaper changing tables are in every restroom in the park. No strollers are lent, so bring your own, and since the only stroller parking is at the ticket office, plan to push it through the exhibits.
There is an open-air balcony in Japanese-modern style, so you can step outside with the baby in your arms and look out over the city.The restaurant is on the 4th floor of YM Square Harajuku, and there is an elevator. It is listed as a slope-accessible store with wheelchair-accessible seats, so there are seats a stroller can reach. It is also listed as having a multipurpose restroom. The "WEB seat reservation" works without creating an account, and seats can also be reserved from the app or from LINE.
On the 1st floor there are three raised tatami tables, each seating up to four, where you take your shoes off. A baby too small for a chair can be down on the tatami at the same table as everyone else.Parties that include a child under junior-high age are seated on the 1st floor (the 2nd-floor private and special rooms and the 3rd-floor banquet hall do not accept guests with children under junior-high age). Reservations are taken by phone (03-3841-1114), but not for the lunch menu. Bento to take away is served 11:30-19:30 and takes about 15 minutes because it is made to order (Kuroge Wagyu Hyakunen Gyudon Bento, 2,160 yen). The restaurant has no parking of its own; it is right next to Exit A2 of Asakusa Station on the Tsukuba Express.
Pikachu comes singing between the tables in a greeting show of about 10 minutes, and you watch it from your seat without moving. Chairs for infants are available.Book with the baby counted in the party: children from age 0 are included in the head count. Strollers are welcome, and if you speak to a staff member on arrival they will keep yours in a designated place. Infant chairs and cutlery are limited in number, so ask a staff member when you need them. Baby food may be brought in only if it is store-bought and unopened, and you tell the staff on arrival. Seating lasts 90 minutes from your booked start time.
There are ten private rooms, some for as few as two people. The seating includes tatami rooms and horigotatsu tables with a sunken well for your legs, and on the seats you step up to with your shoes off a baby too small for a chair can be at the same table as everyone else. The restaurant is on the 2nd floor of Ginza Nine Building 2, and its own facility list says "elevator provided," so you can come up with the stroller.Gurunavi's facilities column lists a baby bed and a diaper changing space, though not where they are. There is also a multipurpose accessible restroom. Every seat is non-smoking; smoking is only in the dedicated smoking room. Reservations go through the official ebica booking page or by phone (03-3572-7272). It is a 2-minute walk from the Ginza exit of Shimbashi Station, or 1 minute from exits 3 and 5 of Shimbashi Station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line.
The baby-only area "Haihai Garden" is for babies aged 0 to 24 months only. It has colourful play equipment for the senses, a low mound built on a slope to encourage crawling, and soft flooring, plus a ball pool and soft blocks made for babies. There is also a crawling race, where a baby crawls a 3-meter course and is timed.The baby room sits next to Haihai Garden and has a diaper changing table, a nursing room, and hot water. In the rest area facing the baby room there are vending machines selling drinks and baby food. Inside the facility you may only have drinks in sealed lidded containers such as water bottles, plus anything bought from the vending machines here, and eating and drinking is done in the rest space. Strollers go folded in the stroller parking inside (lockable spaces are limited). Free stroller rental is not at ASOBono! but at LaQua and the Korakuen Hall Building in Tokyo Dome City. Entry cannot be reserved, and you may have to wait when it is crowded.
The summer beer garden is held on the rooftop terrace of the main building and is entirely non-smoking. Children under elementary school age are free, so a baby in arms sits at the same table. You go in through the entrance on the right as you face the building and take the elevator to the fourth floor.The nursing room and the place to change diapers are on the fourth floor; the guide does not say how many there are or whether they are private. The Western-food restaurant takes no reservations and seats guests in the order they arrive. It opens 11:00-17:00 on weekdays, last order 16:00, and 10:30-18:00 on weekends and holidays, last order 17:00, closed Mondays. The beer garden runs July 10 to September 5, 2026, 18:00-21:00 Monday through Saturday and 17:30-20:30 Sundays and holidays, two hours per seating, bookable from two people. There are no vending machines in the building, and the smoking areas are on the second floor and at the entrance.