Family places where English gets you through111 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.
An art museum in Shimane built around a Japanese garden that you view from indoors.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Nov ’26
Tokyo Tower is a 333-meter landmark in central Tokyo, with its main deck at 150 meters.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Oct ’26
Kotohira-gu is a Shinto shrine on a mountain in Kagawa, up 785 stone steps from town.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Oct ’26
In Ikeda, where instant noodles were invented in 1958.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Oct ’26
The National Art Center, Tokyo
A national art museum in Roppongi, Tokyo, that owns no collection and hosts changing exhibitions.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Oct ’26
A 511-hectare prefectural park holding Todaiji and Kasuga Taisha inside it.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Oct ’26
Seven themed lands and 37 attractions, only five of which set a minimum height.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Oct ’26
Kurashiki Bikan Historical Area
A nationally designated historic district of white-walled storehouses and townhouses along the Kurashiki canal.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Oct ’26
Namba Parks is an Osaka shopping mall topped by Parks Garden, a free rooftop garden.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Oct ’26
Yaesu is Tokyo Station's Yaesu-gate side, where Yaechika's underground mall connects to Midtown Yaesu.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Oct ’26
Omicho Market is Kanazawa's roughly 300-year-old food market, with narrow, maze-like lanes lined with shops.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Oct ’26
MOA Museum of Art is a hilltop museum in Atami with three national treasures.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Oct ’26
Higashi Honganji is a Buddhist head temple, a 7-minute walk from Kyoto Station.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Oct ’26
Sumiyoshi Taisha is the head shrine of about 2,300 Sumiyoshi shrines across Japan, in Osaka.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Oct ’26
Nintendo Museum is a hands-on museum in Nintendo's former factory in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Oct ’26
Toyosu Market is Tokyo's wholesale market for fish and produce, toured from corridors above.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Oct ’26
Roppongi Hills is a complex in Tokyo's Roppongi district with over 200 shops and restaurants.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Oct ’26
Toranomon Hills is a Tokyo district of four linked towers with shops, offices, hotels and homes.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Oct ’26
Nagoya Castle, built by Tokugawa Ieyasu, wears golden shachihoko, mythical fish, on its roof.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Oct ’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
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
A Sendai aquarium with an outdoor dolphin stadium and a part-open sea-mammal yard.
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
One of the few railway museums in Japan that runs a steam locomotive every day.
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
A hillside park where a zip line and a summer bobsleigh run down the slope.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Nov ’26
Hōkokuji, a Kamakura temple founded in 1334, keeps a bamboo garden behind its main hall.
Changing table · Family restroom · checked Oct ’26
A former Tokyo family estate whose 1896 Western-style house was designed by Josiah Conder.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Oct ’26
Zojoji is a Buddhist temple founded in 1393, with one of the Tokyo area's largest halls.
Changing table · Elevator · Family restroom · checked Oct ’26
Kushida Shrine, said to date from 757, is Hakata's chief guardian shrine in Fukuoka.
Nursing room · Family restroom · checked Oct ’26
Eikando, a Kyoto temple, is known for maples and a Buddha looking back over its shoulder.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Elevator · checked Oct ’26
Osaka Tenmangu, a shrine founded in 949, enshrines Sugawara no Michizane, the god of learning.
Changing table · Family restroom · checked Oct ’26
A two-stage ropeway climbs to a 2,156 m summit observation deck in the Northern Alps.
Nursing room · Changing table · Elevator · checked Oct ’26
Chureito Pagoda (Arakurayama Sengen Park)
A free hillside park and shrine in Fujiyoshida with a five-story war memorial pagoda.
Family restroom · checked Oct ’26
A national park on a World Heritage peninsula, home to an estimated several hundred brown bears.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Oct ’26
Golden Gai is a Shinjuku drinking district of tiny bars packed into low wooden row houses.
Nursing room · Changing table · checked Oct ’26
Ryoan-ji is a Zen temple in Kyoto, listed as a World Heritage site in 1994.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Oct ’26
A river gorge in northern Kofu, Yamanashi, nationally designated a Special Place of Scenic Beauty.
Stroller OK · Family restroom · checked Oct ’26
A long-established crab kaiseki restaurant by Sapporo Station, the only branch left in Hokkaido.
Elevator · checked Oct ’26
Narai-juku is a preserved travelers' post town on the old Nakasendo road in Nagano.
Changing table · Family restroom · checked Oct ’26
Kyoto shrine founded in 947 for Sugawara no Michizane, head of some 12,000 shrines across Japan.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Oct ’26
Joyfull Tobori is a branch of a budget family restaurant chain found mostly in western Japan.
checked Oct ’26
Oshino Hakkai is a set of eight ponds fed by Mount Fuji's underground springs.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Oct ’26
Asakusa Imahan Kokusai Street Head Restaurant
A sukiyaki and shabu-shabu house in Asakusa since 1895, serving only female black wagyu.
Elevator · checked Oct ’26
The Kiso Valley holds eleven post towns of the Nakasendo, the old Kyoto–Tokyo road.
Changing table · Family restroom · checked Oct ’26
Kabuki-za, in Tokyo's Ginza, calls itself the world's only theater dedicated to kabuki drama.
Elevator · Family restroom · checked Oct ’26
Inuyama Castle, above the Kiso River, has Japan's oldest surviving keep (main tower), a national treasure.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Oct ’26
Kashima Jingu, an ancient Shinto shrine in Ibaraki, has wooded grounds of about 700,000 square meters.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Oct ’26
Himeji Castle's main keep, built in 1609, is the largest surviving keep from Japan's Edo era.
Nursing room · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Oct ’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
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
Hozenji Yokocho is two stone-paved lanes lined with about 60 restaurants, beside a small temple.
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 limestone cave 100 meters beneath Akiyoshidai park, with a kilometer-long walkway inside.
Stroller OK · Elevator · checked Sep ’26
Pufferfish and fruit out front, shop after shop, down one straight street.
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
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
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.
Changing table · Elevator · Family restroom · checked Sep ’26
A ski resort under Mount Annupuri that averages 18 meters of snow a year.
Stroller OK · checked Sep ’26
Chiho no Ie Ganso Nagashi Somen
Said to be where flowing somen noodles began, an eatery open since 1955.
checked Sep ’26
An 11.4-hectare strolling garden in central Kanazawa, begun by Kaga's fifth lord in 1676.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
The first permanent Pokémon cafe, in a department store near Tokyo Station.
Stroller OK · 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 restaurant serving Kyoto home-style obanzai for about thirty years, with eighty seats.
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
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
An excavated Jomon site, one of a World Heritage group, entered through its museum.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Family restroom · 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
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 wooden bathhouse under a drum tower, the first public bath named a national cultural property.
checked Aug ’26
Five wooden arches cross 193 meters of the Nishiki river, below Iwakuni Castle's hill.
checked Aug ’26
A stone museum holding more than 150 Namahage masks actually used in Oga's villages.
Stroller OK · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
The largest of Japan's cultural-property gardens, with six ponds and thirteen landscaped hills.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · 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
An apartment hotel for families, its 40-square-meter rooms fitting a kitchen and bunk beds.
Stroller OK · 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
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
An indoor aquarium on two floors: owls and sloths upstairs, the sea below.
Nursing room · Changing table · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
A hands-on science museum built around a 25-meter planetarium dome.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A farmhouse fitted with revolving walls, hidden stairs and trick doors, kept as a museum.
Nursing room · 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 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
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
Built by Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1603, the only Japanese castle that still keeps its palace.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A shrine founded in 768, with some 3,000 lanterns given along its approach and cloisters.
Changing table · Family restroom · 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
