Yamanashi with a baby (0–1) 3 spots
Yamanashi sits under Mount Fuji, with lakes strung along its foot. Fuji-Q Highland keeps a Thomas the Tank Engine park for children too small for coasters, and the valleys grow peaches and grapes you can pick yourself.
An amusement park at the foot of Mount Fuji, with big coasters and Thomas Land.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Yamanashi Prefectural Maglev Exhibition Center
A prefectural museum beside the maglev test track, with the car that hit 581 km/h.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A restaurant for hoto wheat noodles, with 250 seats around sunken hearths and kotatsu tables.
Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
Entry to the park is free, so you can walk in and look around even on a day when nobody rides anything. Almost every attraction in Thomas Land has no height limit, and the toddler ticket starts at age one - a whole area of rides a one-year-old can go on, seated with a companion of junior high age or older who meets the height rule.The loaner strollers are type B - for babies from seven months, upright with no recline - picked up and returned at the No. 1 and No. 2 entrances. Payment is cash only: you leave 1,000 yen including a deposit and get 500 back on return, so 500 net. There are four nursing rooms: Thomas Restaurant, Thomas's Adventure Playground, near Food Stadium, and beside Lisa and Gaspard's Sky Travel Diary. Two of them - Thomas Restaurant and the Lisa and Gaspard one - have no formula-water machine, so for bottles head to the Adventure Playground or the Food Stadium room. Diaper changing sheets are in the restrooms of each area and in the first aid room. Diapers are sold from a vending machine in the restroom between Tekkotsu Banchou and Sky Tower Swinger: M and L, two per pack, 300 yen each, and wipes in 70-sheet packs for 240 yen.
On the first floor of the Doki Doki Linear building stands the actual test car (MLX01-2) that recorded 581 km/h in 2003, there to look up at from your arms. On test-run days an in-house announcement goes out as the car approaches, so you can wait at the windows of the third-floor viewing lounge, about 40 meters long. The kids corner on the first floor screens railway DVDs indoors and works as a rest space. Preschool children enter free.The nursing room is on the first floor of the Doki Doki Linear building, and inside it are a hot-water dispenser for making formula, a diaper changing table, and a nursing room. The multi-purpose restroom on the third floor also has a changing table, and multi-purpose restrooms are on every floor. The building has ramps and can be moved through in a wheelchair. Eating and drinking are allowed only in part of the third-floor observation lounge and on the second and third floors of the Wakuwaku Yamanashi building, nowhere else; there is no restaurant, but vending machines sell drinks, ice cream, bread, and snacks. Coin lockers are on the first floor. Parking is free, and if someone in the car has trouble walking they can be dropped off beside the Doki Doki Linear building.
There are 250 seats around sunken hearths and kotatsu tables, plus the slightly raised chairs made for tatami seating. At a horigotatsu table you sit with your legs down in the well. You can share from an adult's bowl of hoto and add a rice ball with miso soup for 710 yen.The Kawaguchiko branch takes no reservations from individuals or groups - calling 0555-72-1181 will not hold a table, and you are seated in arrival order. On long weekends, Obon (Aug 8-16), New Year and any weekend or holiday, they may stop letting people in before the 19:30 last order. The car park holds 70 cars and only two or three can wait on the property; the prefectural road out front allows no stopping. Hoto uses a lot of wheat and soy, and the noodles are made on the same line as noodles containing egg and buckwheat.