Ikoma Sanjo Amusement Park

Before you go

• PLAY PEAK ITADAKI opens on weekends, holidays and some weekdays, and weekdays are basically booked by school groups. Check its own calendar before you plan around it. Admission is 600 yen at age 1, 1,500 yen from age 2 through elementary school, and 600 yen for a parent aged 20 or older. Teens from junior high age to 19 pay 1,500 yen. If a parent swaps partway through, the new parent pays another 600 yen. At busy times it may hand out numbered tickets or make you wait to enter. On one visit, ITADAKI tickets had already sold out by the afternoon, so arrive early.
• Disposable diapers are not allowed in ITADAKI's water, so children need swim diapers or a swimsuit, and swim diapers were sold from a vending machine in 2022. Pack a full change of clothes, since one family's clothes were soaked through.
• Entry is free, but rides cost money from age 2 by the official guide (coin rides excepted); one 2025 visitor found tickets used from age 0. Where a ride requires an escort, the escort must be 15 or older and also pays. Single rides run 300 to 700 yen (putter golf is 1,000 yen for 18 holes), and a 12-ticket book costs 3,600 yen. The Freepass gives unlimited rides for the day, but not coin rides, PLAY PEAK ITADAKI or 18-hole putter golf (9 holes only). It is not sold on some days, including the October 2025 holiday weekend, November 1, 2025, and Silver Week 2026 (September's string of national holidays). Bad weather or a stopped ride brings no refund. If the Freepass is off sale, buy the ticket book, and check its expiry date when you buy, because it is not published.
• The park is closed on Thursdays (holidays excepted) and on some extra days, including weather closures, and the 2026 season ends December 6, with winter closure starting December 7. Hours change by season, so check the official calendar. The official site also has a park map dated November 3, 2025 for days when most of the park is closed, showing only seven rides, including the Flying Tower and the carousel. Busy rides, especially the pedal-powered Cycle Monorail, can stop taking riders before closing time.
• Cable car platforms after Torii-mae Station, the first stop, are all stairs, and you change cars at Hozanji Station. Strollers are not rented at the park, and one family carried a folded stroller up the stairs, with folding a must on the crowded return trip. Inside the park, a family with a 4-year-old and a 2-year-old took a stroller everywhere on a November visit, though the many slopes made pushing a little hard. In October 2025, IC cards did not open the gate at Torii-mae, so one visitor bought a ticket first. One way costs 500 yen for adults, and children aged 1 to 5 ride free, up to two per paying rider aged 6 or older.
• Driving means the Shigi-Ikoma Skyline, a toll road. Parking is 1,500 yen a day, or 2,000 yen on some weekends, holidays and busy days. You pay it with the toll at the Skyline exit gate. From the lot to the entrance it is about 260 steps, about 5 minutes on foot, and a stroller has to be carried up the fairly steep stairs. The DONDON Donguri-su, a squirrel-shaped ride on a rail, links the lot and the park for 300 yen one way or 500 yen round trip. It charges from age 2, children 6 and under need a rider aged 15 or older with them, and the Freepass does not cover it. One record says carrying a sleeping child down those stairs is hard and dangerous, so families with children 2 or under are better off buying the round trip.
• The restaurant filled up soon after 11:00 on one visit, with others waiting. Bringing your own lunch is allowed at rest areas and on the lawn, but not into the restaurant. Inside ITADAKI's building only drinks are allowed, so eat outdoors.