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name: "Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden"
lat: 35.685703
lng: 139.711624
official_url: "https://fng.or.jp/shinjuku/"
fee: "Adults ¥500, Seniors (over 65 years old) ¥250, Students ¥250, and Children (junior high school students and 15 and under) free. For groups of 30 people or more it is ¥400 for adults, ¥250 for seniors and ¥250 for students; children are not counted towards the group total. A visitor holding a Japanese disability certificate — a physical disability certificate, a ryoiku certificate or a mental disability certificate — enters free together with one carer; show it at a staffed window. Assistance dogs for people with physical disabilities may also enter. An annual passport is ¥2,000 for adults and ¥1,000 for high school students, valid for one year from the day it is issued — for the high school passport, or until the end of March after graduation if that comes first"
last_verified: "2026-08-11"
---

# Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden

This former imperial garden spreads broad lawns and great old trees across a huge stretch of Shinjuku. Landscape, formal and Japanese gardens share a plan drawn by a French designer in the Meiji era. The garden's own map welcomes strollers onto the landscape garden's lawn and marks spots for parents with children. Mother and Child Woods, a forest made for city children, puts insects and wildflowers within reach. Down the straight lawn from the Shinjuku Gate rises the garden's symbol, a tulip tree over thirty meters tall.

- Area: tokyo_shinjuku
- Type: sightseeing
- Hours: The garden opens at 9:00 all year, and closing time changes with the season: 16:30 from 1 October to 14 March (last admission 16:00), 18:00 from 15 March to 10 June and from 1 August to 30 September (last admission 17:30), and 19:00 from 11 June to 31 July (last admission 18:30). The greenhouse opens at 9:30 and closes at 16:00, 17:30 or 18:30 to match the season, with last entry 30 minutes before. Closed every Monday — the next weekday instead when that Monday is a public holiday — and from 29 December to 3 January. During the special opening periods, 25 March to 24 April in spring and 1 to 15 November in autumn, it opens every day
- Last verified: 2026-08-11

## Family facts (value + conditions + source + verified date)

| Feature | Value | Conditions | Verified | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stroller friendly | Yes | The official universal-design map says of the landscape garden that you can stay on the lawn with a wheelchair or a stroller, so you can take a stroller onto the grass. The unisex accessible toilets also say you can go in together with a stroller. Strollers are not on the list of things you cannot bring in — the vehicles on that list are bicycles, balance bikes, tricycles and unicycles, plus any trolley or cart needing 5,000 square centimetres or more of floor space. The paths around the formal garden and the Japanese garden, though, are gravel and unpaved | 2026-08-08 (web) | [source](https://policies.env.go.jp/national-garden/shinjukugyoen/guide/ud/documents/ud_map.pdf) |
| Diaper changing table | Yes (18) | Eighteen places, in the toilets around the garden and in the nursing rooms. Fathers can use them too: there are changing tables in the men's toilets — two each in the men's and women's at the Shinjuku Gate and behind the restaurant, two women's and one men's beside the Starbucks, and one each beside Shotentei, at Gotenyama, at the Okido Gate and at the car park — and also inside the unisex accessible toilets. At the Information Centre there is one, in the women's toilet only | 2026-08-08 (web) | [source](https://fng.or.jp/shinjuku/2026/02/01/20260216-14/) |
| Diaper disposal bin | Yes | The garden says it has bins for disposable nappies | 2026-08-08 (web) | [source](https://fng.or.jp/shinjuku/2026/02/01/20260216-14/) |
| Nursing space | Yes (4) | Four places in the garden: behind the restaurant Yurinoki, in the women's toilet at the greenhouse, beside the Starbucks and at the Shinjuku Gyoen Museum. Only women may use them. The space beside the Starbucks has two rooms and three changing tables, and the museum has one room and one changing table; both are heated and air-conditioned. The greenhouse space takes one person. There is no hot-water supply in the nursing rooms — for formula, the restaurant helps | 2026-08-08 (web) | [source](https://fng.or.jp/shinjuku/2026/02/01/20260216-15/) |
| Fathers welcome | No | Only women may use the nursing rooms, so a father cannot go in. Nappy changing is a different matter — there are changing tables in the men's toilets and in the unisex accessible toilets | 2026-08-08 (web) | [source](https://fng.or.jp/shinjuku/2026/02/01/20260216-15/) |
| Hot water for formula | Yes | Hot water for formula is handled at the restaurant. There is no hot-water supply inside the nursing rooms | 2026-08-08 (web) | [source](https://fng.or.jp/shinjuku/2026/02/01/20260216-15/) |
| Family restroom | Yes (17) | Seventeen wheelchair-accessible (multipurpose) toilets in the garden. Counted separately, fourteen places have a baby-keep seat for holding your child — this is the seat the official map marks with a baby-chair icon. Where they are: inside the unisex accessible toilets at the greenhouse, the Okido Gate, the Sendagaya rest house, beside the Starbucks, around the Japanese garden, at Gotenyama and at the Shinjuku Gyoen Museum (two there); in the men's and women's cubicles at the Shinjuku Gate, Mori-no-ie, behind the restaurant, around the Japanese garden, beside Shotentei, at the central rest house, beside the Starbucks, at the greenhouse, at Gotenyama and at the Okido Gate; and in the women's toilet only at the Information Centre, the Sendagaya rest house and the Kyu-Goryotei. The unisex ones say you can go in together with a stroller. Those at the Shinjuku Gate, behind the restaurant and at the car park are separate for men and women; elsewhere they are unisex. At the central rest house, beside the Kyu-Goryotei, at the museum and at the Okido Gate there are two rooms. The handrail beside the toilet is the movable type, and its shape differs from place to place | 2026-08-11 (web) | [source](https://fng.or.jp/shinjuku/2026/02/01/20260216-11/) |
| Non-smoking | 全面禁煙 | The whole garden is non-smoking, electronic cigarettes included, and that covers the walking paths and the car park | 2026-08-08 (web) | [source](https://policies.env.go.jp/national-garden/shinjukugyoen/guide/rule/) |
| Outside food allowed | Not checked yet |  |  |  |
| Steps & slope caution | Not checked yet |  |  |  |
| Stroller rental | Not checked yet |  |  |  |
| Kids' toilet seat & step stool | Not checked yet |  |  |  |
| Elevator | Not checked yet |  |  |  |
| Microwave | Not checked yet |  |  |  |
| Child switch (rider swap) | Not checked yet |  |  |  |
| English support | Not checked yet |  |  |  |
| Indoor / outdoor | Not checked yet |  |  |  |
| Crowding (guide) | Yes | The garden itself says the cherry-blossom season is very crowded, and that it may move to advance booking then, mainly on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays | 2026-08-08 (web) | [source](https://policies.env.go.jp/national-garden/shinjukugyoen/guide/information/) |
| Stroller access notes | Yes | Paved paths take a stroller and you may go onto the lawn, but the paths around the formal garden and the Japanese garden are gravel and unpaved. The official map marks steep slopes as places where a wheelchair user may need help, and says plainly that at the greenhouse a wheelchair user does need help. Three gates are in use — Shinjuku, Okido and Sendagaya (the Main Gate is closed) — and Sendagaya is the nearest one to Kodomo Hiroba, the children's field. Coin lockers are inside the gates, past each ticket window, and the large size is 41cm wide, 81cm high and 48cm deep, with an opening 36cm wide and 77cm high. The Information Centre — an information counter, an art gallery and a café space — is outside the entry gates, and its café, NATIONAL PARKS CAFÉ Under the Tree, is listed by the garden as a café, shop and free rest area. Whether you need an admission ticket to use it is not stated anywhere official, so treat that as unconfirmed | 2026-08-11 (web) | [source](https://policies.env.go.jp/national-garden/shinjukugyoen/guide/ud/documents/ud_map.pdf) |
| Lost-child support | Not checked yet |  |  |  |
| Official family-friendly certification | Not checked yet |  |  |  |