Yamanashi with a toddler (2–3) 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
The Thomas Land Pass, which covers all twelve Thomas Land attractions, is 2,000-2,300 yen for children aged one and up. Almost none of them has a height limit, so at this age nearly the whole area is within reach. Turning three opens up Nia and the animal coaster as well.Only four things in Thomas Land carry a condition: Hopping Winston and GO! GO! Bulstrode need 90 cm, and Nia and the animal coaster need age three. Measure at home and there is no argument at the gate. A preschooler aged one or over must ride with a companion of junior high age or older (12+) who is in good health and meets the height rule themselves. Attractions outside Thomas Land need a separate ticket from the Thomas Land Pass. For food allergies, Thomas Restaurant has a low-allergen plate and Food Stadium a low-allergen curry.
On the second floor, Linear de GO! pulls your own face onto a character on screen and lets you move around inside the video. The Mini Linear, also on the second floor, shows magnetic levitation and magnetic travel happening right in front of you. The third-floor Linear Diorama runs 12 minutes, starting at 10, 30, and 50 past each hour, a length a small child can sit through. The first-floor kids corner is where you rest with a railway DVD on. Preschoolers enter free.There is a children's toilet inside the kids corner, and a multi-purpose restroom on every floor. Test-run times are never published, and next week's schedule only goes up on Friday evening, so waiting time is unpredictable; an announcement goes out as the car approaches, and run-status monitors are placed around the building. The third-floor Linear Theater is an 8-minute screening that puts you through 500 km/h with video and vibration, starting at 0, 12, 24, 36, and 48 past each hour, so it helps to know the seat shakes before going in. Eating and drinking are limited to part of the third-floor observation lounge and the second and third floors of the Wakuwaku Yamanashi building. Individual visitors need no reservation.
Pumpkin hoto is 1,450 yen and azuki hoto 1,400 yen, and the azuki one is the single dish with no meat or seafood even in the stock. A rice ball with miso soup is 710 yen and motsu-ni 600 yen, so you can share from an adult's hoto and top the child up. At a horigotatsu table they sit with their legs down in the well.The quail egg on top of chanko hoto and the rice porridges can be left off if you say so when ordering. The other hoto dishes use no egg, buckwheat, dairy or peanut, though the burdock kinpira with the pumpkin hoto uses sesame oil and sesame seeds. Soba and hoto are cooked in two separate pots, but the notice says a trace of buckwheat flour may still get in. Since the branch takes no reservations, the wait is impossible to predict.