Family places you can reach by elevator83 spots
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.
Japan's national museum of emerging science, hands-on throughout.
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
A shrine wrapped in 700,000 square meters of forest, founded in 1920.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · 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
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
An aquarium on a rooftop in Ikebukuro, with two indoor floors and an outdoor garden.
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
Japan's first museum devoted to original manga artwork, with about 490,000 sheets.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A konnyaku factory you tour, with a tasting buffet of about 15 dishes.
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
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
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 museum of the Awa Odori dance, with live troupes on its own stage year-round.
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 prefectural museum of Lake Biwa, with one of Japan's largest displays of freshwater life.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A museum of about 1,000 Western masterpieces reproduced full-size on ceramic panels.
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
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
A city zoo with polar bears and African elephants, right outside a subway exit.
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
The only aquarium in Japan keeping dugongs, said to be the animal behind mermaid legends.
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
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
An aquarium of nine exhibit zones, with a sushi counter facing the big tank.
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
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
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
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
A theme park of about 47 acres, from craft workshops to a planetarium.
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 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
An aquarium that recreates a Kyoto river and the sea, with a rice paddy indoors.
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
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
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
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 arranged by region around the Pacific Rim, holding some 620 species.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · 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
Seven themed lands and 37 attractions, only five of which set a minimum height.
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
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
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
Kyushu's gateway, with the subway running directly beneath the domestic terminal.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A limestone cave 100 meters beneath Akiyoshidai park, with a kilometer-long walkway inside.
Stroller OK · Elevator · 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
Asakusa Imahan Kokusai Street Head Restaurant
A sukiyaki and shabu-shabu house in Asakusa since 1895, serving only female black wagyu.
Stroller OK · Elevator · checked Sep ’26
An apartment hotel whose rooms run 38 to 63 square meters, each with a kitchen.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Elevator · checked Sep ’26
An apartment hotel of 96 rooms, 47 of them with a bunk bed.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Elevator · checked Sep ’26
An Isamu Noguchi park with a 52-meter hill and a shallow summer beach.
Stroller OK · Elevator · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
A crab restaurant by Shimbashi Station, with kaiseki courses that run to nine dishes.
Changing table · Elevator · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
A long-established crab kaiseki restaurant by Sapporo Station, the only branch left in Hokkaido.
Elevator · 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
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
The world's tallest bronze Buddha, 120 meters high, standing over a Pure Land garden.
Elevator · 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
Ten ramen shops from Hokkaido to Fukuoka, on the 10th floor of Kyoto Station.
Stroller OK · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
A fifty-year-old hotel about two minutes from the shinkansen exit of Kyoto Station.
Elevator · Family restroom · 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 museum of children's songs and toys, with about 2,000 toys from Japan and abroad.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Elevator · 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 237-hectare park on the Pacific coast, with nemophila in spring and kochia in autumn.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
Grass roofs the main shop on a confectioner's grounds of nine shops and cafes.
Nursing room · 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
Kura Sushi Global Flagship Store Harajuku
A 245-seat conveyor-belt sushi restaurant with an open-air deck over the city.
Elevator · Family restroom · 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
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 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
A toy museum inside an elementary school built nearly ninety years ago.
Nursing room · Changing table · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
