Yamanashi with preschoolers (4–6) 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
If the child has reached 110 cm, FUJIYAMA - one of the big coasters - is open to them, with a junior-high-or-older companion required between 110 and 130 cm. And since almost nothing in Thomas Land has a height limit, moving back and forth between the big rides and the little ones in a single day is what makes this age the interesting one here.Height limits on the big coasters: FUJIYAMA from 110 cm (110-130 cm needs a junior-high-or-older companion), ZOKKON 120 cm to under 195 cm, Eejanaika 125-200 cm. Measure first. For rides they cannot reach yet, Child Switch Plus lets two adults take turns on the wait time from a single application - sign up at the No. 1 and No. 2 entrances or park information. If a child gets lost, they can be paged over the park's PA system. The official app, Q-chan, shows wait times and routes, sells priority tickets, and holds the park map. A one-day pass for children aged one and up is 2,100-2,600 yen depending on the date.
The second floor hands them the mechanism itself: superconductivity demonstration devices and a superconducting coaster to try with their own hands. The workshops on maglev and superconductivity, with staff guiding the making, and the Superconductivity Lab experiment showing what a superconductor does, are also on the second floor. On test days the outdoor viewing terrace on the second floor lets you take the run in with all five senses, though some days have no test run. A family with a train-loving child spent three hours here, workshop included.Admission to the Doki Doki Linear building is free for preschoolers, 200 yen for elementary and junior high students, and 420 for adults; on Saturdays, students of elementary, junior high, high, and special-needs schools get in free. The Wakuwaku Yamanashi building is free anyway. The calendar colour-codes each open day as test run scheduled, none, or undecided, and next week's version goes up on Friday evening. These are plans, and can be changed or cancelled without notice for testing reasons. Closing days can change too, and the museum itself asks you to check the calendar; some local bus services do not run on closing days. From the bus stop in front of Otsuki station on the JR Chuo line, the bus to the Linear Exhibition Center takes 15 minutes at 380 yen one way for adults, half for children.
The menu lists wild boar hoto at 2,700 yen, bear hoto at 4,200 yen and horse sashimi at 1,200 yen on the same page as the 1,450-yen pumpkin hoto. There are choices beyond hoto too: a shrimp tempura rice bowl at 1,500 yen, a pork loin cutlet set at 1,500 yen, and mugi-toro rice at 1,000 yen. From November to March, oyster hoto joins them at 2,400 yen.Ozara and tempura ozara (chilled hoto), softshell turtle hoto and torimotsu-ni cannot be ordered at the Kawaguchiko branch; the nine branches carry different menus and the page tells you to check in the shop. Hours are 11:00-20:00 with last order at 19:30, and there is no closing day. There is a ramp at the entrance and an accessible toilet. The house-made spicy sesame chili condiment, goma-togarashi, is sold over the counter only here and at the Yamanakako branch, with no mail order.