Glover Garden
A hillside garden of nine Western houses above Nagasaki harbor.
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Glover Garden
SaveA hillside garden of nine Western houses above Nagasaki harbor.
The garden has moving walkways, and from the top the route runs downhill over stone paving above the harbor.
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- Own foodOutside food allowed：not checked
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Half a day is too little: Nagasaki with a train-mad child
By tram with a schoolchild: ride the moving walkway to the top and walk down. An hour here, 30 minutes at Oura Church.
rail-trip-mom.com2026
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Glover Garden, Nagasaki: what it is like with children
A stroller is hard going, and a carrier tires you out. What holds children: feeding the carp, three hidden heart stones.
nagasakidsplace.com2026
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Kyushu with small children: Glover Garden with a 3- and 4-year-old
Summer, ages 4 and 3 on foot: stairs at the gate, more past the desk, and only then the escalator. Ice cream saved them.
momtips365.com2024
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The efficient way round Glover Garden
In by the second gate: park at Oura Daini, then a slanted escalator and a lift, 14 minutes to the top, against the flow.
ameblo.jp2024
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- Fee：Admission for individuals is ¥1,300 general and ¥650 for children, where 'general' means age 15 and over excluding primary, junior-high and high-school students, and 'child' means those students. The price changed on 1 April 2026 with a Nagasaki City by-law revision, so older figures are out of date. How preschool children are counted is not stated. An annual pass is ¥3,250, or ¥1,620 for children. Showing a physical, therapeutic or mental-health disability certificate reduces the price for the holder and one carer: free for Nagasaki city residents, ¥650 / ¥320 for people from outside the city. The second gate does not take cards. (Checked 15 August 2026)■
- Hours：Open 8:00-18:00, with last entry 20 minutes before closing. Evening opening runs at certain times of year and the 2026 schedule varies month by month: 17 July to 11 October until 21:30, 12 to 31 October until 20:00 (but until 21:30 on 16, 17, 23, 24, 30 and 31 October, and back to the normal 18:00 on 21 October because the garden is booked out), 1 November to 31 December until 20:00, and 1 January to 31 March until 18:00. The schedule can change for private hire or weather.■
- Time needed：90 min
- Booking：Tickets are bought at the gate; web tickets are also sold. There are two gates, and the second gate does not take cards. School trips need no paperwork or advance contact in the normal case. Groups of 15 or more where over half hold a disability certificate can send a form in advance instead of showing every certificate.■Official booking site ↗
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- Official: Nursing space, Family restroom, Steps & slope caution
- Official: Elevator, Steps & slope caution, Stroller access notes
- Official: Stroller access notes
- Official: main site
Nine Western houses stand on a hillside looking down on Nagasaki harbor. Three of them, including the Former Glover House of 1863, have stood here since the foreign settlement days and are national important cultural properties. The other six were moved from elsewhere in the city and rebuilt. The Glover House is also a World Heritage component of the Meiji Industrial Revolution. Stone paving and steps run through the garden, with Mount Inasa behind the harbor view. You can borrow a period costume and wear it around the grounds.
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| Stroller rental | Not checked yet | ||||
| Diaper changing table | Not checked yet | ||||
| Nursing space | Yes | Nursing rooms are provided in the garden. The number and where they are is not stated. | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | glover-garden.jp |
| Family restroom | Yes | Multi-purpose toilets with ostomate fittings, plus rest rooms to sit down in. Whether they have a baby seat or changing table is not stated. | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | glover-garden.jp |
| Diaper disposal bin | Not checked yet | ||||
| Kids' toilet seat & step stool | Not checked yet | ||||
| Elevator | Yes | Not inside the garden itself: the Glover Sky Road, a free inclined lift that Nagasaki City runs as a public road, climbs the hill from near the Ishibashi tram stop in about two minutes, and a vertical lift after it brings you out at the highest point of the garden, beside the former Mitsubishi No.2 Dock House, so the walk through the garden is all downhill. Inside the garden there are moving walkways and wheelchair ramps. | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | glover-garden.jp |
| Indoor / outdoor | Not checked yet | ||||
| English support | Not checked yet | ||||
| Outside food allowed | Not checked yet | ||||
| Steps & slope caution | Many steps | The garden provides ostomate-fitted multi-purpose toilets, rest rooms, nursing rooms, free loan of an electric wheelchair for use inside the garden, moving walkways and wheelchair ramps. Even so, most of the paths are stone paving with slopes throughout, so getting round the garden in a wheelchair needs someone helping. Coming in from the top via the Glover Sky Road and walking down is the route suggested for wheelchair users and older visitors. | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | glover-garden.jpglover-garden.jp |
| Child switch (rider swap) | Not checked yet | ||||
| Stroller access notesExtra info — guide only | Yes | The garden has no car park or bicycle park of its own - nearby car parks are used. There are two gates, and the second gate does not take cards. The free Glover Sky Road inclined lift runs 6:00-23:30 from about three minutes' walk from the Ishibashi tram stop or the Oura Tenshudo-shita bus stop, and takes you to the top of the garden so you walk down. It was stopped on 13 August 2026 and running again on 14 August; when it stops, get off at the Oura Tenshudo tram stop and use the first gate. Photography for your own enjoyment is fine, but live streaming and drones are not allowed, and commercial shoots need permission in advance. | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | glover-garden.jpglover-garden.jpglover-garden.jp |
| Official family-friendly certificationExtra info — guide only | Not checked yet | ||||
| Best-fit ages (guide)Extra info — guide only | Not checked yet | ||||
| Crowding (guide)Extra info — guide only | Not checked yet | ||||
| Quietness (guide)Extra info — guide only | Not checked yet | ||||
| Lost-child supportExtra info — guide only | Not checked yet |
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Indoor / outdoor, Child switch (rider swap), Official family-friendly certification, Best-fit ages (guide), Crowding (guide), Quietness (guide), Lost-child support