--- name: "Ibaraki Nature Museum" lat: 36.0054025 lng: 139.9156281 official_url: "https://www.nat.museum.ibk.ed.jp/" fee: "Four prices, because the rate changes with the season and again with the ticket. The combined ticket for the main building and the outdoor park is ¥850 for an adult and ¥170 for an elementary or junior high school student while a special exhibition is running, and ¥610 and ¥110 in the ordinary period when there is none. A ticket for the outdoor park alone is ¥240 and ¥60 in both periods. Pre-school children are free, and elementary, junior high and high school students get in free every Saturday outside the spring, summer and winter school holidays. Admission is free for everyone on the spring equinox, May 4, June 5 and November 13. Groups of 20 or more pay ¥690 an adult during a special exhibition and ¥500 in the ordinary period. An annual pass, unlimited for a year, is ¥1,770 for an adult and ¥360 for an elementary or junior high school student, sold at the second-floor entrance desk until 16:30; showing a child-raising support passport at purchase discounts the pass for the holder and their family (no copies or photographs). Showing the original of a disability certificate admits the holder free, with one carer if care is needed." last_verified: "2026-08-20" url: "https://www.piggybackjapan.com/spots/spot_0000216/" publisher: "Piggyback Japan" method: "Each fact below was read from the official page it links to. The date in the Verified column is the day we last opened that page." reuse: "Free to reuse with the check date kept. A link back is appreciated, not required." --- # Ibaraki Nature Museum The halls and the park are two different visits, and one ticket covers both. Inside stand a T. rex, a whale and a gorilla, all under one roof. Outside there are paths and open grass, and it takes an hour on top of the two you spend in the halls. Getting there is the catch: the bus from the Tsukuba Express station runs three or four times a day. Parking is free if you drive. - Area: ibaraki - Type: sightseeing - Hours: 9:30-17:00, with the last admission at 16:30. The annual pass desk on the second floor also stops selling at 16:30. - Last verified: 2026-08-20 ## Family facts (value + conditions + source + verified date) | Feature | Value | Conditions | Verified | Source | |---|---|---|---|---| | Stroller friendly | Yes | Strollers are lent free of charge — ask at the reception in the entrance hall. They cannot be reserved, so you get one only if one is free. | 2026-08-20 (web) | [source](https://www.nat.museum.ibk.ed.jp/information/barrierfree) | | Stroller rental | Yes | Free, from the entrance hall, no reservation possible. Wheelchairs are lent from the same desk — ten of them, also free and not reservable. | 2026-08-20 (web) | [source](https://www.nat.museum.ibk.ed.jp/information/barrierfree) | | Diaper changing table | Yes | In the baby room in the Dinosaur Hall. It has a women-only cubicle and a separate space that men can use as well. | 2026-08-20 (web) | [source](https://www.nat.museum.ibk.ed.jp/information/barrierfree) | | Nursing space | Yes (1) | One baby room, in the Dinosaur Hall, for both nursing and diaper changes. A women-only cubicle plus a space men can use. | 2026-08-20 (web) | [source](https://www.nat.museum.ibk.ed.jp/information/barrierfree) | | Family restroom | Yes | Multi-purpose toilets indoors, one of them with ostomate facilities, and more outdoors in the park. Whether they have a baby seat is not stated. | 2026-08-20 (web) | [source](https://www.nat.museum.ibk.ed.jp/information/barrierfree) | | Elevator | Yes | There are elevators and ramps inside the main building, and ramps outdoors in the park as well. | 2026-08-20 (web) | [source](https://www.nat.museum.ibk.ed.jp/information/barrierfree) | | Indoor / outdoor | Indoor & outdoor | The main building is indoors; the outdoor park is 15.8 hectares of open ground, and takes walking time of its own. A separate, cheaper ticket covers the outdoor park alone. | 2026-08-20 (web) | [source](https://www.nat.museum.ibk.ed.jp/information/outdoor) | | Outside food allowed | Yes | Bring a packed lunch and eat it outdoors — the Kaboku (flowering tree) lawn, the grass lawn and the Sun lawn are all named as places to eat. | 2026-08-20 (web) | [source](https://www.nat.museum.ibk.ed.jp/information/barrierfree) | | Best-fit ages (guide) | Yes | Pre-school children get in free, and elementary, junior high and high school students are free every Saturday outside the long school holidays. Outdoors, the Yume lawn has a hands-on installation where children act out how animals and birds live. The stream and fountain in the Water lawn only run from about June to about September. Nothing may be collected — no insects or plants — and nets and bug cages cannot be brought in, nor can water pistols, ride-on toys, tents, chairs, four-wheeled carts or pets. Umbrellas cannot go into the exhibition rooms. | 2026-08-20 (web) | [source](https://www.nat.museum.ibk.ed.jp/information/outdoor) | | Stroller access notes | Yes | Parking is free, 1,000 spaces for cars. By train and bus the buses are thin: from stand 1 at the west exit of Moriya station on the Tsukuba Express, take the Kanto Railway bus for Iwai Bus Terminal, ride about 30 minutes, get off at Shizen Hakubutsukan-iriguchi and walk about 10 minutes — but there are only about three or four buses a day. On Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays three buses a day run into the museum grounds. A Kantetsu bus 1DAY pass, ¥500 for an adult and ¥250 for a child, covers the return trip and gets you in at the group rate; it is sold on board. Do not take the bus for Uchimoriya Kogyo Danchi — it does not come to the museum. From Atago station on the Tobu Urban Park Line, the Ibaraki Kyuko bus for Iwai Shako takes about 15 minutes and then it is about a 15-minute walk, with roughly one bus an hour. If you have a wheelchair or a lot to carry, say so at the group reception and you can enter from beside the Seminar House. | 2026-08-20 (web) | [source](https://www.nat.museum.ibk.ed.jp/information/access/) | | Diaper disposal bin | Not checked yet | | | | | Kids' toilet seat & step stool | Not checked yet | | | | | English support | Not checked yet | | | | | Child switch (rider swap) | Not checked yet | | | | | Steps & slope caution | Not checked yet | | | | | Crowding (guide) | Not checked yet | | | | | Quietness (guide) | Not checked yet | | | | | Lost-child support | Not checked yet | | | | | Official family-friendly certification | Not checked yet | | | | ## How to cite these facts Free to reuse. Every fact shown with a value above was read from the official page it links to, and re-checked on 2026-08-20; rows marked "Not checked yet" have not been checked. We keep the check date visible so you can tell how old a fact is — please keep it when you quote us. 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