Places that work with kids226 spots
Japan's national museum of emerging science, hands-on throughout.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Sep ’26
A museum of about 1,000 Western masterpieces reproduced full-size on ceramic panels.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium
An aquarium on the Nagoya port pier, where orcas train in public.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Seven themed lands and 37 attractions, only five of which set a minimum height.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A 400-meter pedestrian suspension bridge at the western foot of Hakone, above Mishima.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Sep ’26
Fukuoka Zoo & Botanical Garden
A zoo and botanical garden in one, with a Ferris wheel over Fukuoka.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Sep ’26
An aquarium on a rooftop in Ikebukuro, with two indoor floors and an outdoor garden.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A Sendai aquarium with an outdoor dolphin stadium and a part-open sea-mammal yard.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Kagoshima City Aquarium (Io World)
An aquarium of 800 species from Kinko Bay to the Nansei Islands, whale shark included.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Shima Spain Village (Parque España)
A 34-hectare theme park sharing its grounds with a natural hot spring and a hotel.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Naganobi! Nagano Children's Museum
An indoor playground of five themed areas, built around nature, animals and science.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
An aquarium of over 500 species, built around a 2,200-cubic-meter doughnut tank of bluefin tuna.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Japan's oldest museum, six buildings on one site, showing almost only real objects.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A children's museum built to be touched, the first of its kind in Japan.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
One of the few railway museums in Japan that runs a steam locomotive every day.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Dinosaurs move in the exhibit halls, and 39 acres of park start next door.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Little World Open-Air Ethnographic Museum
Houses from around the world, rebuilt full-size along a 2.5 km loop.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A museum given over to sand, with the world's largest hourglass standing in it.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A 38-hectare park with a windmill, built with help from Odense, Andersen's home city in Denmark.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A hillside farm with a free-roaming animal paddock and a funfair on the same grounds.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A prefectural museum of Lake Biwa, with one of Japan's largest displays of freshwater life.
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 city zoo where Hokkaido's brown bears and wolves live alongside elephants and giraffes.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A hillside zoo with thirty animal houses, from penguins to polar bears.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
About 130 species live in this zoo, which also has a Ferris wheel and go-karts.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
An outdoor amusement park with 77 rides, celebrating its sixtieth year in 2026.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
An aquarium in three buildings, with a stadium each for orcas and dolphins.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology
A museum housed in the red-brick loom test factory Sakichi Toyoda built in 1911.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
An aquarium that follows the Okinawan sea from the shore down to 700 meters.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A zoo laid out by habitat, with a 13-meter aviary you walk into.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Saga Prefectural Space and Science Museum (Yumeginga)
A spaceship-shaped science museum covering Saga, the Earth and space, with its own observatory.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Gifu-Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum
An air and space museum with a full-size mock-up of the ISS Japanese lab module.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Kochi Prefectural Makino Botanical Garden
Shikoku's only full-scale botanical garden, 8 hectares of hillside holding over 3,000 kinds of plants.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
An aquarium that recreates a Kyoto river and the sea, with a rice paddy indoors.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Osaka Municipal Nagai Botanical Garden
Roses, hydrangeas, peonies: eleven collections in a botanical garden inside Nagai Park.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
An aquarium arranged by region around the Pacific Rim, holding some 620 species.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A film theme park on Osaka Bay, its ten areas including Mario and Harry Potter worlds.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A high-rise hotel in the middle of Asakusa, walking distance from Sensoji.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Solamachi Tabe-Terrace Food Court
A food court at the foot of Skytree: udon, ramen and rice bowls at one table.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
At 634 meters, the tallest free-standing broadcast tower in the world.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
National Museum of Nature and Science
A national museum shown at full size — dinosaur skeletons, a life-size blue whale.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
An apartment hotel of 96 rooms, 47 of them with a bunk bed.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Elevator · checked Sep ’26
A digital art museum in Toyosu that you enter barefoot and walk through water.
Nursing room · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Sep ’26
A shrine wrapped in 700,000 square meters of forest, founded in 1920.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Sep ’26
The cafe that invented shirokuma shaved ice in 1947, now serving over ten kinds.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Elevator · checked Sep ’26
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building Observatories
A free observatory 202 meters above Shinjuku, on the 45th floor of Tokyo's city hall.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Kasaoka City Horseshoe Crab Museum
The world's only museum devoted to horseshoe crabs, with a full-size dinosaur park attached.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Tochigi Children's Science Museum
A children's science museum with seven hands-on exhibit zones and six play grounds outside.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Misawa Aviation & Science Museum, Aomori
Aomori's aviation and science museum, whose science zone alone holds twenty hands-on exhibits.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A museum of the Awa Odori dance, with live troupes on its own stage year-round.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
An excavated Jomon site, one of a World Heritage group, entered through its museum.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
A park on nationally protected Yayoi-period ruins, where a huge moated village stands rebuilt.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A 22-floor hotel five minutes from Sapporo Station, with a 300-space parking garage attached.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
A zoo built into an Okayama hillside, with a steam locomotive parked among the animals.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Family restroom · 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
A safari park of six drive-through zones with about 100 species.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A hilltop garden between Hiroshima and Miyajima, where 10,000 kinds of plant grow.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
The zoo covers eight hectares and holds an animal science museum and an amusement park.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A city zoo with polar bears and African elephants, right outside a subway exit.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Okinawa's only hands-on children's museum sits inside a zoo of about 150 species.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
A hands-on science museum built around a 25-meter planetarium dome.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
The only aquarium in Japan keeping dugongs, said to be the animal behind mermaid legends.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
An aquarium of nine exhibit zones, with a sushi counter facing the big tank.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A state-run park in two zones, with an 8-hectare lawn and ten forest climbing structures.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A railway museum with 42 real train cars, most of which you can board.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
An aquarium at the water's edge, where dolphins swim with the Seto Inland Sea behind.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A theme park of about 47 acres, from craft workshops to a planetarium.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
An aquarium keeping nine of the world's eighteen penguin species.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Kansai's gateway on an artificial island, about 40 minutes to Namba and 80 to Kyoto.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A government-run park with over 50 facilities and about 2,000 rental bikes.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Yokohama Anpanman Children's Museum
Eight indoor play areas set in the world of Anpanman, a Japanese children's character.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
An aquarium at the foot of Tokyo Skytree, built so you get close to the animals.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
A castle keep rebuilt in 1931 by public donation, holding an eight-floor museum inside.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A two-level observatory above Shibuya Station, finishing on an open roof 229 meters up.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Built by Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1603, the only Japanese castle that still keeps its palace.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
In Ikeda, where instant noodles were invented in 1958.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Japan's first high-rise hotel, opened in 1971 and walkable from Shinjuku Station.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Japan's first zoo, with about 300 species spread over two gardens.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Kyushu's gateway, with the subway running directly beneath the domestic terminal.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
An apartment hotel whose rooms run 38 to 63 square meters, each with a kitchen.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Elevator · checked Sep ’26
A konnyaku factory you tour, with a tasting buffet of about 15 dishes.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Cliffs up to 100 m tall run 7 km along this gorge in a quasi-national park.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Sep ’26
Kamikochi is a flat valley floor at 1,500 meters in Chubu Sangaku National Park.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Sep ’26
A pine grove of some 30,000 trees, running five kilometers along the Suruga Bay coast.
Nursing room · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Sep ’26
Gyokusendo is a lit cave walk beneath Okinawa World, in one of Japan's largest cave systems.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Sep ’26
Japan's first museum devoted to original manga artwork, with about 490,000 sheets.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A 71.1-hectare hilltop park northwest of Matsumoto that holds a zoo and a nature museum.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A hillside park where a zip line and a summer bobsleigh run down the slope.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · 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 hillside park of glasshouses in bloom all year, with about 90 kinds of birds.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
Japan's first permanent hot-air balloon museum, built so the balloons are there whatever the weather.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A 7.3-hectare theme park by a lake, built around the Moomin stories.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A covered market of more than 60 stalls, two minutes from Kochi Castle.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Sail Training Ship Nippon Maru & Yokohama Port Museum
A 97-meter training sailing ship, listed as an Important Cultural Property, and a port museum.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Genghis Khan lamb and beer in five restaurants around a red-brick Hokkaido Heritage hall.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Kagoshima Municipal Science Hall
A science museum about the Sakurajima volcano and space, with a 280-seat planetarium.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Hiroshima City Asa Zoological Park
A zoo of eight zones, with one of the world's best black rhino breeding rates.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Miyajima Public Aquarium (Miyajima Marine)
An aquarium built around the Seto Inland Sea, with 380 species in its tanks.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A drive-through safari, a walking safari and an amusement park in one place.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A safari park you drive through in your own car, past lions and elephants.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A zoo of about 130 species on 13 hectares, with a 390-meter roller slide.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A science museum greeting you with an allosaurus skeleton cast, its exhibits built to be handled.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
An aquarium of Kyushu's own seas, from the deep to a seven-meter open-ocean tank.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
An Edo townscape rebuilt below the Nikko mountains, a theme park of forty years.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A zoo laid out across a hillside, with a monorail running to its north gate.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum
One of Japan's largest dinosaur museums: 51 skeletons displayed under a silver dome.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A zoo home to Peace, the first polar bear successfully hand-reared in Japan.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A Shirahama park where staff ride the safari bus with you, next to fairground rides.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden
A former imperial garden of 58 hectares, holding three garden styles in one plan.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A 511-hectare prefectural park holding Todaiji and Kasuga Taisha inside it.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A temple whose wooden hall, among the world's largest, shelters a 15-meter Great Buddha.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
Umeda Sky Building (Kuchu Teien Observatory)
Two Osaka skyscrapers joined at the top by an open rooftop deck, 173 meters up.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
A small amusement park, a flower garden in 1853, that calls itself Japan's oldest.
Nursing room · Changing table · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
Kiyomizu-dera is a Buddhist temple founded in 778, set halfway up Mount Otowa in Kyoto.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Sep ’26
An oyster restaurant on Miyajima's main street that claims Japan's first grilled oysters.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Sep ’26
A ski resort under Mount Annupuri that averages 18 meters of snow a year.
Stroller OK · Changing table · checked Sep ’26
Mogami River Boat Ride (Basholine)
An hour-long boat ride 12 km down the Mogami, through a prefectural natural park.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Sep ’26
An 11.4-hectare strolling garden in central Kanazawa, begun by Kaga's fifth lord in 1676.
Changing table · Family restroom · Kids' toilet · checked Aug ’26
A World Heritage village whose streets are lined with thatched gassho-zukuri houses.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Nagasaki's oldest Chinese restaurant, and the place where champon was invented in 1899.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
Iwaki Coal and Fossil Museum (Horuru)
A coal and fossil museum where a plesiosaur found by a local student greets you.
Changing table · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
A 450-meter walkway inside the Onaruto Bridge, ending in an observation room over the sea.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
An indoor resort of pools and hot springs, kept at summer temperature all year.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A traditional-crafts theme park in the woods, where over 100 workshops fill old farmhouses.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
An indoor playground at Tokyo Dome City, its ball pool filled with some 40,000 balls.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A chocolate theme park run by ISHIYA, where you watch Shiroi Koibito cookies being made.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A hillside zoo in Aso where Bear Valley holds about 130 bears of three species.
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One of Japan's largest flower parks, centered on a glass dome 50 meters across.
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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
Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens
A zoo with one of Japan's largest elephant houses, and a botanical garden on one ticket.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A science museum with a 9m indoor column of spinning air and 4m Tesla-coil sparks.
Nursing room · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
An aquarium built into a natural cove on Suruga Bay, Japan's deepest.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
An indoor aquarium on two floors: owls and sloths upstairs, the sea below.
Nursing room · Changing table · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
A zoo in two halves, with a chairlift running from the wolves to the alpacas.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · checked Aug ’26
An amusement park at the foot of Mount Fuji, with big coasters and Thomas Land.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
A contemporary art museum ringed by lawn, with fourteen galleries no two alike.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A 237-hectare park on the Pacific coast, with nemophila in spring and kochia in autumn.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
Giant floats paraded in the Nebuta festival stay here year-round, in a two-story museum hall.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
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
Tokyo's oldest temple, approached through a stone-paved shopping street from the great gate.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
One of Japan's first public parks, with the zoo and museums inside its grounds.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A toy museum inside an elementary school built nearly ninety years ago.
Nursing room · Changing table · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
Tokyo's closer airport, about 15 minutes by train from the terminals to Shinagawa.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Tokyo's more distant international airport, about 41 minutes to Ueno by limited express.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Okinawa's gateway, with a monorail from the terminal reaching central Naha in 13 minutes.
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A crab restaurant by Shimbashi Station, with kaiseki courses that run to nine dishes.
Changing table · Elevator · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
Higashi Chaya is a preserved Edo-era teahouse street in Kanazawa, free to walk into.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Sep ’26
A limestone cave 100 meters beneath Akiyoshidai park, with a kilometer-long walkway inside.
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Asakusa Imahan Kokusai Street Head Restaurant
A sukiyaki and shabu-shabu house in Asakusa since 1895, serving only female black wagyu.
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An Edo-era post town of thatched houses along one street, still lived in.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Sep ’26
Kanazawa's museum for the philosopher D.T. Suzuki: three wings, three gardens, all on one floor.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Sep ’26
About 80 dairy cows and 60 sheep graze this 42-hectare farm below the Kirishima mountains.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
An Isamu Noguchi park with a 52-meter hill and a shallow summer beach.
Stroller OK · Elevator · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
A Zen temple from 1339 around a pond garden, Japan's first Special Place of Scenic Beauty.
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A farm park in sight of Mount Iwate, beside barns where about 300 cows live.
Nursing room · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
One of Japan's three great limestone caves, 175 million years old, with a free museum.
Nursing room · Changing table · Family restroom · 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
One of only twelve original castle keeps left in Japan, and a National Treasure.
Nursing room · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
Beppu Jigoku Meguri (Hells of Beppu)
Seven pools of boiling spring water, from cobalt blue at 98C to a 105C geyser.
Nursing room · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel (Tunnel of Light)
A 750-meter tunnel dug through one of Japan's three great gorges, ending in an observation space.
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Fujiko F Fujio Museum, Kawasaki City
A museum of Fujiko F Fujio's original manga pages, shown as he drew them.
Nursing room · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
Western food in a corner of Ueno Park, from a restaurant founded in 1872.
Nursing room · Changing table · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
A hillside garden of nine Western houses above Nagasaki harbor.
Nursing room · Elevator · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
A stone museum holding more than 150 Namahage masks actually used in Oga's villages.
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The largest of Japan's cultural-property gardens, with six ponds and thirteen landscaped hills.
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Among the largest insect museums on the Japan Sea coast, centered on a subtropical butterfly house.
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A conveyor-belt sushi chain serving Nemuro-caught fish, with seven branches in Sapporo.
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Grass roofs the main shop on a confectioner's grounds of nine shops and cafes.
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A shrine founded in 768, with some 3,000 lanterns given along its approach and cloisters.
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A temple founded in 778, its grounds holding more than thirty halls and pagodas.
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Hokkaido's gateway, about 37 minutes by rapid train to Sapporo Station.
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A restaurant for hoto wheat noodles, with 250 seats around sunken hearths and kotatsu tables.
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An apartment hotel for families, its 40-square-meter rooms fitting a kitchen and bunk beds.
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Pufferfish and fruit out front, shop after shop, down one straight street.
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Ippudo's main ramen shop in Fukuoka, with two bowls named after the store itself.
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A sea bream rice restaurant in the Dogo arcade, where you build the bowl yourself.
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Osaka's first Western-style restaurant, opened in Namba in 1910.
Stroller OK · checked Sep ’26
Rokkosan Athletic Park GREENIA
An adventure park spread over 20 hectares of hillside, with 174 obstacle points.
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A market street of some 400 shops packed into 500 meters between two stations.
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The first permanent Pokémon cafe, in a department store near Tokyo Station.
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A long-established crab kaiseki restaurant by Sapporo Station, the only branch left in Hokkaido.
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A noodle school where you take Sanuki udon from flour to bowl in twelve steps.
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A museum devoted to the white snakes of Iwakuni, a designated national natural monument.
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Miyazawa Kenji Fairy Tale Village
A woodland park of Kenji's fairy tales, built around five rooms of light and sound.
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Ten ramen shops from Hokkaido to Fukuoka, on the 10th floor of Kyoto Station.
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A shopping complex connected to Kyoto Station, filled with Kyoto sweet and tea shops.
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A fifty-year-old hotel about two minutes from the shinkansen exit of Kyoto Station.
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Kumamoto City Zoo and Botanical Gardens
About 110 animal species and 700 plant species share 24.5 hectares beside Lake Ezu.
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A farmhouse fitted with revolving walls, hidden stairs and trick doors, kept as a museum.
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The prefecture's free children's center runs from indoor play areas out to hills and a campsite.
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African Safari (Kyushu Natural Zoological Park)
A safari park you drive through in your own car, past lions and elephants.
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An amusement park in Yamagata with Japan's first Hello Kitty Ferris wheel.
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A Zen temple, properly Rokuonji, whose garden keeps its 600-year-old form.
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A shrine whose grounds take in a whole mountain, lined with about 10,000 torii gates.
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Haneda Airport SIM & Wi-Fi Rental Counters
Staffed counters for SIM cards and Wi-Fi sit in two of the three terminals.
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A zoo inside a national park, with four kilometers of dirt paths and no dangerous animals.
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Kura Sushi Global Flagship Store Harajuku
A 245-seat conveyor-belt sushi restaurant with an open-air deck over the city.
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Kawadoko are dining platforms built over the Kibune River from May to late September.
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Hozenji Yokocho is two stone-paved lanes lined with about 60 restaurants, beside a small temple.
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Shibuya Crossing is a road junction outside Shibuya Station, where over 1,000 people cross at once.
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A small vermilion shrine just outside Kenrokuen's Zuishinzaka gate, free to enter.
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SHINSAIBASHI-SUJI SHOPPING STREET
A covered shopping arcade 580 meters long, running north from Dotonbori to Nagahori-dori.
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Ichijodani Asakura Family Historic Ruins
A samurai warlord's castle town, 200 meters of it rebuilt on its excavated stone walls.
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Opened in 1878, one of Japan's oldest trout farms, with the breeding ponds open to visitors.
Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
A museum of eyewear from the Edo period on, facing a shop of 3,000 frames.
Nursing room · checked Aug ’26
A visitor hall at a rice-cracker factory, where 2,000 to 3,000 are hand-grilled daily.
Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
A wooden bathhouse under a drum tower, the first public bath named a national cultural property.
checked Aug ’26
The world's tallest bronze Buddha, 120 meters high, standing over a Pure Land garden.
Elevator · checked Aug ’26
Five wooden arches cross 193 meters of the Nishiki river, below Iwakuni Castle's hill.
checked Aug ’26
Sawayaka Charcoal Grill Restaurant, Shizuoka Ikeda
A charcoal-grill restaurant found only in Shizuoka, serving a 250g hamburg steak.
Stroller OK · checked Aug ’26
A 400-meter path walled on both sides by tended bamboo, from a shrine to a villa.
Stroller OK · checked Aug ’26
An entertainment street along a canal finished in 1615 and named for its digger.
Stroller OK · checked Aug ’26
Chiho no Ie Ganso Nagashi Somen
Said to be where flowing somen noodles began, an eatery open since 1955.
checked Sep ’26
Tori-ten, Oita's fried chicken tempura, was born in this Chinese restaurant, open since 1926.
Stroller OK · checked Sep ’26
A restaurant serving Kyoto home-style obanzai for about thirty years, with eighty seats.
checked Aug ’26
Sample Kobo (Food Sample Workshop)
A museum and workshop in the town that made most of Japan's plastic food models.
Stroller OK · checked Aug ’26
A pork theme park where the producer's own hams have won European gold medals.
checked Aug ’26
New Chitose Airport SIM & Wi-Fi Rental Counters
Seven rental counters for SIM cards and Wi-Fi routers, spread over two terminals.
checked Aug ’26
Fukuoka Airport SIM & Wi-Fi Rental Counters
Three rental counters for SIM cards and Wi-Fi routers, all in the international terminal.
checked Aug ’26
Naha Airport SIM & Wi-Fi Rental Counters
Two Wi-Fi rental counters, one in each arrival lobby on the first floor.
checked Aug ’26
Wakayama Electric Railway Kishigawa Line (Tama trains & Kishi Station)
A 14.3-kilometer local line ending at a station shaped like a cat's face.
checked Aug ’26
Toretore Market Nanki-Shirahama
A seafood market run by the local fishery cooperative, one of western Japan's largest.
checked Aug ’26
A valley hot-spring hotel a 50-minute drive from Sapporo, with a view bath 60 meters up.
checked Aug ’26
Narita Airport SIM & Wi-Fi Rental Counters
All three terminals have rental counters, and five stand side by side in Terminal 1.
checked Aug ’26
Kansai Airport SIM & Wi-Fi Rental Counters
SIM and Wi-Fi counters cover the arrivals and departures floors, plus one by the train gates.
checked Aug ’26
