Toyama with a baby (0–1) 3 spots
In Toyama the mountains rise straight up behind the bay. The Tateyama route climbs them by cable car and ropeway, past walls of snow that stand into spring, and the bay below is known for white shrimp sushi.
Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design
An art museum whose rooftop is a playground built from Japanese onomatopoeia.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
Kurobe Gorge Railway Torokko Train
A sightseeing train from Unazuki station into the Kurobe gorge, in windowless open cars.
Nursing room · Changing table · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
A canal-side park with about 200 cherry trees, and 500 more along the water.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
The Kids Room has about 350 picture books and cork building blocks, and costs nothing to enter — walking into the museum itself is free too, and the library corner has sofas to sit on. From the rooftop garden you look out over the Tateyama mountain range and Fugan Canal Kansui Park.A nursing room and a hot-water dispenser are in the Kids Room. The museum has an elevator (one wheelchair at a time), a multipurpose restroom and a parent-and-child restroom. Only two strollers are available to borrow, from the general information desk. The rooftop garden is closed from 1 December to 15 March. In the indoor car park there are three spaces near the museum entrance for people with disabilities and pregnant visitors.
The standard cars have no windows at all, so the gorge air reaches a baby held in your arms just as it is; in summer it turns cool once the train starts moving. Every train is seat-limited, and a seat is secured for every passenger.The standard cars have no seat backs and you step across between cars to board them; for that reason wheelchair users are pointed to the windowed Relax car instead. The Relax car needs a separate 600-yen car ticket for each ride, and its doorway is 59 cm wide. There is a nursing room on the second floor of Unazuki station, and baby beds inside the restrooms at Unazuki and Keyakidaira. Unazuki station has a lift from platform to ticket gate. There is no toilet on board, so go before you get on; the Nekomata turnaround takes about 120 minutes round trip including the toilet stop at Nekomata. Rain blows into the windowless standard cars, so bring a rain cape or poncho. Nekomata station has no accessible restroom, and the station forecourt is unpaved.
Most of the walking paths take a stroller easily, and there are benches along the way. The park is open around the clock with no admission fee and no closing time, so you can drop in around a nap and go home when the good mood runs out. In spring you push the stroller past about 200 cherry trees inside the park and 500 more along the canal, and while they are in bloom they are lit up in cherry pink.There are three multipurpose restrooms — below the outdoor theater, beside the fountain plaza, and on the south side of the spring-and-waterfall plaza — and all three have a diaper changing table. Nursing is another matter: the park's own "changing and nursing" listing does not put a nursing space inside the park, pointing instead to the neighboring Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Sunforte, so plan a feed as a walk over to the museum. Using the museum also earns 60 minutes off the parking. Parking is free for the first hour, then 110 yen per 30 minutes. It is a 9-minute walk from Toyama Station.