Family places with a family restroom154 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
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 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
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 World Heritage village whose streets are lined with thatched gassho-zukuri houses.
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 outdoor amusement park with 77 rides, celebrating its sixtieth year in 2026.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A safari park of six drive-through zones with about 100 species.
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
A zoo laid out by habitat, with a 13-meter aviary you walk into.
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
A zoo laid out across a hillside, with a monorail running to its north gate.
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
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
A 511-hectare prefectural park holding Todaiji and Kasuga Taisha inside it.
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
One of Japan's first public parks, with the zoo and museums inside its grounds.
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
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
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 digital art museum in Toyosu that you enter barefoot and walk through water.
Nursing room · Changing table · Family restroom · 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 restaurant for hoto wheat noodles, with 250 seats around sunken hearths and kotatsu tables.
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 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.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Elevator · checked Sep ’26
An Edo-era post town of thatched houses along one street, still lived in.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Family restroom · 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
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
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
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 crab restaurant by Shimbashi Station, with kaiseki courses that run to nine dishes.
Changing table · Elevator · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
A Zen temple from 1339 around a pond garden, Japan's first Special Place of Scenic Beauty.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Family restroom · 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
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 noodle school where you take Sanuki udon from flour to bowl in twelve steps.
Nursing room · Family restroom · 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 devoted to the white snakes of Iwakuni, a designated national natural monument.
Changing table · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
A farm park in sight of Mount Iwate, beside barns where about 300 cows live.
Nursing room · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
Opened in 1878, one of Japan's oldest trout farms, with the breeding ponds open to visitors.
Family restroom · 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
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
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 canal-side park with about 200 cherry trees, and 500 more along the water.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Family restroom · 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
One of only twelve original castle keeps left in Japan, and a National Treasure.
Nursing room · Changing table · Family restroom · 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
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.
Stroller OK · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
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
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
Miyazawa Kenji Fairy Tale Village
A woodland park of Kenji's fairy tales, built around five rooms of light and sound.
Nursing room · Family restroom · 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
A 7.3-hectare theme park by a lake, built around the Moomin stories.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · 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.
Stroller OK · 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 chocolate theme park run by ISHIYA, where you watch Shiroi Koibito cookies being made.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
A shopping complex connected to Kyoto Station, filled with Kyoto sweet and tea shops.
Changing table · Family restroom · 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 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
A conveyor-belt sushi chain serving Nemuro-caught fish, with seven branches in Sapporo.
Stroller OK · 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
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
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
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
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
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 hilltop garden between Hiroshima and Miyajima, where 10,000 kinds of plant grow.
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 science museum with a 9m indoor column of spinning air and 4m Tesla-coil sparks.
Nursing room · Changing table · Family restroom · 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
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 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
A hands-on science museum built around a 25-meter planetarium dome.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · 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
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
A zoo home to Peace, the first polar bear successfully hand-reared in Japan.
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 Shirahama park where staff ride the safari bus with you, next to fairground rides.
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
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
A government-run park with over 50 facilities and about 2,000 rental bikes.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · 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
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
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
A Zen temple, properly Rokuonji, whose garden keeps its 600-year-old form.
Stroller OK · Family restroom · 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
A shrine whose grounds take in a whole mountain, lined with about 10,000 torii gates.
Stroller OK · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
A temple founded in 778, its grounds holding more than thirty halls and pagodas.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Family restroom · 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
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
