Tottori with a toddler (2–3) 3 spots
Tottori is a thin strip of coast backed by its famous sand dunes, running straight down into the sea. The museum beside them carves whole rooms out of sand, and at Sakaiminato bronze yokai monsters line the street.
One of Japan's largest flower parks, centered on a glass dome 50 meters across.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · checked Aug ’26
A museum of children's songs and toys, with about 2,000 toys from Japan and abroad.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
Tottori Sakyu Kodomonokuni Children's Park
A 19-hectare play park beside the Tottori Sand Dunes, built around climbing structures and rides.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · checked Aug ’26
At Mori no Himitsukichi, the secret base in the woods, the staff have built play equipment and benches out of trees felled inside the park. There is also a lawn where you can play and stretch out freely, and in the Topiary Forest you meet creatures shaped out of plants. The Flower Train leaves from the plaza in front of the West Building and loops the park in about 15 minutes, pointing out the main spots as it goes.Park roads here carry the Flower Train, and the park asks visitors to watch out for it. Soap bubbles, wading in the ponds, pulling up plants and collecting nuts or insects are all prohibited. You may bring food in and eat it anywhere in the park; the Picnic Corner has about 150 seats at wooden tables and benches under a cedar roof, usable in the rain. Take your trash home with you. The rental strollers are meant only up to about age two.
On the second floor, Asobo Hiroba is a room where small children take off their shoes and play freely, using toys chosen to feed the imagination. Downstairs, Do-Re-Mi Land is a room for playing with sound, where you can sing into a microphone or play instruments. At the street organ you can ring out eight nursery songs on a keyboard, a xylophone, or an electronic drum that sounds when you hit it.The rest corner on the first floor is a space where you may eat and drink what you brought in. The mechanical clock plays on the hour, so timing your arrival means no waiting. A visitor with a three-year-old had an hour and a half inside and writes that about two hours is the right amount to allow. Admission is free for high school age and under. The museum closes on the third Wednesday of each month, or the next day if that is a holiday, and stays open every day in August.
The Fuwafuwa Dome, a big balloon you bounce on like a trampoline, is for ages 3 to 6, and the inclusive play equipment is for ages 3 to 6 as well, both built for exactly this age. Battery cars are recommended from age 3, a guardian can ride along, and it is 100 yen a go. Bouken Hiroba has Dream Castle, shaped like a castle, and Pirate Ship, shaped like a ship, and a large wooden play structure stands in the sandpit.Children six and under must have an adult with them when using the play equipment, to prevent accidents; for the inclusive equipment an adult always stays alongside. At the summer water play area a child can go in wearing a swimsuit or a swim diaper. Street clothes, underwear, bare skin and ordinary diapers are all turned away, so pack the swim diaper. An accompanying adult needs no swimsuit while only knee-deep, but does need one to go in above the knee, for instance to ride the slide together. Float rings and water guns are not allowed. The Fuwafuwa Dome is open 9:00-16:45.