Tochigi Children's Science Museum
A children's science museum with seven hands-on exhibit zones and six play grounds outside.
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Tochigi Children's Science Museum
SaveA children's science museum with seven hands-on exhibit zones and six play grounds outside.
Outside the museum, the ride ground has no ordinary bicycles — just odd-shaped ones and a 620-metre mini railway.
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Seven zones fill the exhibition hall — basic, space, earth, life, living, environment and kids. Most displays are built to be worked by hand rather than looked at. The kids zone, on the second floor and mezzanine, has a baby area, a play area, piano stairs and a mole house. A planetarium sits inside, and the rooftop observatory opens for events. Outdoors are six grounds with a ten-metre roller slide, a climbing wall, a sandpit and inclusive play equipment.
| Family restroom | Yes (5) | Five in all. Three unisex accessible toilets outdoors — at the car park, the outdoor management building and Kaze-no-Hiroba. Two indoors, beside the 1st-floor rest room and in the 2nd-floor exhibition hall; both take an ostomy fitting and have a care bench | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | t-csm.jp |
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| Indoor / outdoor | Indoor & outdoor | An indoor exhibition hall over several floors, plus six outdoor play grounds and a ride ground | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | t-csm.jp |
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Worth a look before you go
Japanese · opens translatedFirst-hand
A Saturday at Tochigi Children's Science Museum: dodging the queues with two primary-schoolers
Saturday, a long queue by 9:40. Gravity Jump morning tickets gone; afternoon from 12:30. Rest-room seats full by 11:30.
kodomodekake.com2026
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Visit report: the renewed Tochigi Children's Science Museum (Kojima Children's Science Park), Utsunomiya
From reopening day: strollers fine, nappy-change and nursing spaces, a rest room where you can eat, free parking.
oyama-navi.com2025
Japanese · opens translatedFirst-hand
Where do you eat at Tochigi Children's Science Museum?
No restaurant inside, only vending machines and tables. Weekends bring food trucks, lawn seats and a konbini opposite.
tochigifamily.hatenablog.com2026
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- Fee：Exhibition hall day ticket: ¥620 for adults, ¥230 for children (age 4 to junior high); free for 3 and under. Group rates in brackets are ¥490 / ¥180, from 20 people. Annual tickets are ¥3,650 / ¥1,050 and a book of six day tickets is ¥3,100 / ¥1,150. The planetarium is ¥540 / ¥200 per showing. Children go free on the third Sunday of each month ('Family Day'). Showing a disability certificate admits the holder and one carer free, though the ride ground is still charged. Outside, the odd-bicycle hire is ¥300 / ¥200 an hour and the mini locomotive ¥200 / ¥100 a lap, free under 4. Parking is free■
- Hours：9:30-16:30, last admission 16:00. Closed Mondays and the fourth Thursday of each month (unless a public holiday), the day after a public holiday (unless it falls on a Saturday, Sunday or holiday), and 28 December to 4 January. There are also unscheduled closures and openings — check the calendar. The outdoor ride ground runs 9:30-16:00 (last sign-up 15:40 for the odd bicycles, 15:50 for the mini locomotive), closes in bad weather, may stop from midday when a heatstroke alert is issued for Tochigi, and is weekends-only on weekdays from December to February■
- Booking：Group rates apply from 20 people (children of 3 and under not counted); groups have their own page■Official booking site ↗