Tokyo with Kids
Places that work for small people and the adults carrying them
Tokyo is quietly one of the easiest big cities to travel with children: it is clean, safe, full of parks, and every train station has an elevator if you know where to look. The trick is alternating headline attractions with places where kids can simply run. Everything here passed a simple test: would a six year old be happy, and would the adults still be having a good time too?
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⛩ Shrine · Harajuku Meiji Shrine Tokyo's most serene major shrine, set within 170 acres of forested grounds. The wide gravel path lined with...
🌿 Park · Shinjuku Shinjuku Gyoen Tokyo's finest park: 58 hectares combining a French formal garden, English landscape garden, and Japanese s...
🌿 Park · Harajuku Yoyogi Park A vast open park where Tokyo comes to play. Weekend musicians, unicyclists, dog walkers, and picnickers fil...
🌿 Park · Ueno Ueno Park Tokyo's oldest public park, home to five major museums, a zoo, a lake with rowboats, and the city's most fa...
🌿 Park · Kichijoji Inokashira Park A beloved local park built around a large lake, with rowboat rentals, a small zoo, and weekend street music...
👁 Viewpoint · Asakusa Tokyo Skytree At 634m, the world's tallest broadcast tower. On clear winter days you can see Mt Fuji to the southwest. Th...
👁 Viewpoint · Shiba Tokyo Tower Still the most iconic Tokyo landmark. Outclassed in height by the Skytree but not in charm or centrality. T...
👁 Viewpoint · Ikebukuro Sunshine 60 The old Ikebukuro landmark built on the site of Sugamo Prison. The Sky Circus on the 60th floor has interac...
🏛 Museum · Ueno Tokyo National Museum Japan's oldest and largest museum, with the world's most extensive collection of Japanese art. The Honkan m...
🏛 Museum · Toyosu teamLab Planets An immersive digital art installation where you walk barefoot through rooms of water, flowers, mirrored lig...
🏛 Museum · Ryogoku Edo-Tokyo Museum A giant museum dedicated to the city's history from the Edo period through the 20th century. Life-size reco...
🏛 Museum · Mitaka Ghibli Museum Hayao Miyazaki's personal vision of what a museum should be: imaginative, hand-crafted, and anti-corporate....
🛍 Shopping · Harajuku Takeshita Street The pedestrian street where Tokyo youth fashion has originated for 50 years. Outrageous, maximalist, and en...
🛍 Shopping · Akihabara Akihabara Electric Town The world's most intense concentration of electronics, anime, and manga. Eight-storey shops stuffed with ga...
⛩ Shrine · Setagaya Gotokuji Temple The birthplace of the maneki-neko, the beckoning cat. Thousands of white lucky cat figurines of every size ...
🌿 Park · Setagaya Todoroki Valley Tokyo's only natural ravine: a kilometre of dense green canopy, a stream, and a walking path that feels lik...
🌿 Park · Tachikawa Showa Kinen Park A vast 165 hectare national park in western Tokyo with rental bikes, lakes, seasonal flower fields, and the...
🌿 Park · Suginami Wadabori Park A long green corridor along the Zenpukuji River in Suginami where local life happens: baseball practice, ba...
🌿 Park · Koto Kiba Park A huge open park in eastern Tokyo built over former lumber yards, with wide lawns, barbecue pits, and the M...
🌿 Park · Shinjuku Shinjuku Chuo Park The green space directly behind the Tokyo Metropolitan Government towers, where office workers eat lunch an...
🌿 Park · Hiroo Arisugawa-no-miya Memorial Park A hilly, wooded park in the embassy district with a pond, stone bridges, and paths that drop steeply throug...
🌿 Park · Chofu Jindai Botanical Gardens Tokyo's largest botanical garden, spread across the hill above Jindaiji Temple with 100,000 plants, a celeb...
🛍 Shopping · Shibuya Miyashita Park A rooftop park laid over a three-storey shopping complex on the edge of Shibuya, with a lawn, skate park, a...
🗼 Landmark · Shinjuku Godzilla Head A life-size Godzilla head looming over the Toho cinema building in Kabukicho, roaring and breathing mist on...
🏘 Neighbourhood · Kichijoji Kichijoji Consistently voted the neighbourhood Tokyoites most want to live in: Inokashira Park at its heart, the Harm...
🚞 Day trip · Hachioji Mt Takao Tokyo's sacred mountain, one hour from Shinjuku on the Keio Line. Eight hiking trails, a mountaintop temple...
🚞 Day trip · Hakone Hakone The classic Tokyo escape: a volcanic valley of hot springs, ryokan, mountain railways, and a lake with Mt F...
🌿 Park · Odaiba Odaiba Seaside Park An artificial beach with the single best view of Rainbow Bridge and the Tokyo skyline across the water, plu...
🛍 Shopping · Tokyo Station Tokyo Character Street An underground arcade of 30 official character shops inside Tokyo Station: Ghibli, Pokémon, Sanrio, NHK mas...
🌿 Park · Ueno Ueno Zoo Japan's oldest zoo, in the corner of Ueno Park, home of the giant pandas. It is compact, cheap, and exactly...
🌿 Park · Komazawa Komazawa Olympic Park Big Setagaya sports park built for the 1964 Olympics, with brutalist stadiums, a landmark control tower, an...
🏛 Museum · Ueno National Museum of Nature and Science Japan's flagship science museum in Ueno Park, with a life-size blue whale outside, dinosaur skeletons, a 36...
🏛 Museum · Azabudai teamLab Borderless The relocated digital art museum that reopened in 2024 at Azabudai Hills, a maze of borderless projection w...
🛍 Shopping · Oshiage Tokyo Solamachi The 300-plus-shop complex at the base of Tokyo Skytree, mixing character stores and a big food hall with th...
🍜 Food · Azabu-Juban Naniwaya Sohonten The birthplace of taiyaki, baking the fish-shaped bean-paste cakes in Azabu-Juban since 1909. Each one is s...
🍜 Food · Yanaka Himitsudo Tokyo's most famous kakigori shop, just off the Yuyake Dandan steps by Yanaka Ginza. Natural ice from Nikko...
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