Family places you can reach by elevator18 spots · 12 easy
These are the places where we confirmed it, with the date and the source. Places we have not checked yet are not on this list.
Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan✓ easy
An aquarium arranged by region around the Pacific Rim, holding some 620 species.
Osaka Castle✓ easy
The third keep here, rebuilt in 1931 by public donation, holds an eight-floor museum.
SHIBUYA SKY✓ easy
A two-level observatory above Shibuya Station, finishing on an open roof 229 meters up.
Miraikan✓ easy
Japan's national museum of emerging science, hands-on throughout.
Tokyo Disneyland✓ easy
Seven themed lands and 37 attractions, only five of which set a minimum height.
Kyoto Railway Museum✓ easy
One of the few railway museums in Japan that runs a steam locomotive every day.
CUPNOODLES MUSEUM OSAKA IKEDA✓ easy
In Ikeda, where instant noodles were invented in 1958.
Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo✓ easy
Japan's first high-rise hotel, opened in 1971 and walkable from Shinjuku Station.
Solamachi Tabe-Terrace Food Court✓ easy
A food court at the foot of Skytree: udon, ramen and rice bowls at one table.
Tokyo Skytree✓ easy
At 634 meters, the tallest free-standing broadcast tower in the world.
National Museum of Nature and Science✓ easy
A national museum shown at full size — dinosaur skeletons, a life-size blue whale.
Fukuoka Airport✓ easy
Kyushu's gateway, with the subway running directly beneath the domestic terminal.
Senso-ji✓ easy
Tokyo's oldest temple, approached through a stone-paved shopping street from the great gate.
Sumida Aquarium✓ easy
An aquarium in Tokyo Skytree Town that likens itself to a park.
Todaiji Temple✓ easy
A temple whose wooden hall, among the world's largest, shelters a 15-meter Great Buddha.
Umeda Sky Building (Kuchu Teien Observatory)✓ easy
Floors 39, 40 and the roof make up the observatory, 173 meters up.
Asakusa Hanayashiki✓ easy
A small amusement park, a flower garden in 1853, that calls itself Japan's oldest.
Tokyo Toy Museum✓ easy
A toy museum inside an elementary school built nearly ninety years ago.
