Looking for places to visit during Tokyo’s rainy season, especially with your small kids? Check out these 15 spots where children can have fun despite the weather. If you’re curious about Japan’s rainy season and what to prepare, read this article on for more details.
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Chuo Ward: METoA Ginza
At METoA Ginza, you can explore a facility themed around “Living with AI,” featuring manga and interactive experiences. Located inside Tokyu Plaza Ginza, near Tokyo Metro Ginza Station, admission is free. You can immerse yourself in a manga world projected on a giant screen. Characters move in response to your poses, making you feel like you’re in the manga. There’s also a remote-controlled robot experience. No reservation is needed, so stop by while shopping in Ginza!
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Address: Tokyu Plaza Ginza,
5-2-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Minato Ward: Maxell Aqua Park Shinagawa
Despite being only about 2 minutes from Shinagawa Station, this urban aquarium houses around 350 species and 20,000 creatures, including dolphins and penguins. It uses advanced technologies like projection mapping to showcase the beauty of the sea and its inhabitants. The projection mapping, along with the tank displays and performances, changes with the time of day and season, making it worth multiple visits. Additionally, you can enjoy dolphin performances, making it a fun experience for children who love animals.
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Address: 4-10-30 Takanawa, Minato-ku, Tokyo (inside Shinagawa Prince Hotel)
Minato Ward: The Kids Odaiba DECKS Tokyo Beach
This indoor playground is designed for children aged 0 to 12. The facility, decorated in vibrant colors, offers a variety of exciting activities for toddlers to elementary school kids. It features a giant jungle gym, ball pits, slides, trampolines, and ride-on toys, providing plenty of physical play options. Once you pay the facility fee, you can come and go as you please throughout the day. There are also tables and dining areas where you can bring your own food. It’s a great spot for a rainy day picnic or for playing before and after meals at nearby restaurants.
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Address: 3rd Floor, Island Mall, DECKS Tokyo Beach, 1-6-1 Daiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Bunkyo Ward: ASOBono！
This indoor playground is filled with activities for both children and parents to enjoy together. It includes a dedicated area for infants aged 0-24 months, ensuring a safe and secure environment for babies to play. The facility features a giant trampoline, climbing structures, balance poles, board games, projection mapping, dollhouses, and Plarail tracks. There are also areas with baby-friendly ball pits, soft blocks, and amenities like nursing rooms, baby food, and diapers, making it perfect for a child’s first playground experience as well.
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Address: 1-3-61 Koraku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
Shinjuku Ward: Beru Beru Park
This facility combines a restaurant with a kids’ park, aiming to be a “fun space for adults as well as kids.” It caters to children from 0 to early elementary school age. While it offers a safe playground with artificial turf and a fluffy, large slide, it also serves freshly prepared food. You can enjoy unlimited soft drinks and even popcorn and ice cream, making it a great place to enjoy with friends on rainy days.
Source and Photo by: Pasela
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Address: 6th Floor, Pasela Resorts Shinjuku Honten, 1-3-16 Kabukicho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
Shinjuku Ward: Tokyo Toy Museum
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Address: Within Yotsuya Hiroba, 4-20 Yotsuya, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
Toshima Ward: Thomas Station Ikebukuro
A brand-new playground themed around the Thomas the Tank Engine, opened on March 21, 2024 (Thursday). This indoor playground, called “Thomas’s Exciting Square,” is designed for preschool children, also it has a store features a variety of Thomas merchandise. It’s the only playground of its kind in Tokyo. Inside, kids can enjoy playing in a fun Thomas the Tank Engine-themed environment, including a popular wooden rail play area, slides, ball pits, and cushioned play equipment. While the playground isn’t very large, Sunshine City, where it’s located, also offers attractions like an aquarium, making it a great place to spend the day. Highly recommended for Thomas fans!
Source and Photo by: Bandai Namco Amusement Inc.
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Address: B1F, ALPA, Sunshine City Shopping Center, 3-1-2 Higashi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo
Koto Ward: Little Planet Divercity Tokyo Plaza
Despite its compact size of about 300 square meters, this playground is packed with attractions that stimulate children’s imagination and curiosity, ranging from brain games to full-body activities. It features AR sand play, an adventure-style ball pit, and 3D racing where kids can play with racing cars they’ve designed themselves. There’s also a large digital canvas for free-form, ink-free drawing. Using the latest VR technology, kids can save their creations to their smartphones by scanning a QR code. How about visiting this unique playground that leverages digital technology?
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Address: 5th Floor, DiverCity Tokyo Plaza, 1-1-10 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo
Koto Ward: KidZania Tokyo
This facility allows children to experience real-life jobs. They can try out various professions such as a baker, cabin attendant, caregiver, judge, and more. Kids can learn about the concept of earning money through work in a fun way. Additionally, “English Wednesday!” is a program held every Wednesday where about half of the activities are conducted in English. You can check the English activities here.
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Address:Toyosu 2-4-9, Urban Dock LaLaport Toyosu, North Port 3F, Koto-ku, Tokyo
Koto Ward: teamLab Planet TOKYO
teamLab Planets is a museum where you walk through water, and a garden where you become one with the flowers. It comprises 4 large-scale artwork spaces and 2 gardens created by art collective teamLab.
People go barefoot and immerse their entire bodies in the vast artworks together with others. The artworks change under the presence of people, blurring the perception of boundaries between the self and the works. Other people also create change in the artworks, blurring the boundaries between themselves and the works, and creating a continuity between the self, the art, and others.
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Address: 6-1-16 Toyosu, Koto-ku, Tokyo
Koto Ward: BorneLund Kid-O-Kid Ariake
This indoor play area allows children to move and play freely, regardless of the weather. It is filled with exciting toys from around the world, and play leaders are available to help parents and children enjoy their time together. There is a dedicated zone for babies aged 6 to 18 months with soft flooring for a safe environment. Other areas include a construction play zone with building toys and magnets, and a section with global exercise toys designed to help children develop balance and strength while having fun.
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Address: 4th Floor, 2-1-8 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo
Sumida Ward: NICOPA＆nico ground Marui Kinshicho
Located on the 4th floor of Marui Kinshicho, this family amusement facility offers fun for everyone. “Nico Ground” features a large wooden jungle gym with a ball pit, an interactive game where kids can throw balls at images projected on the wall, and a kids’ corner for pretend play. The baby corner includes picture books, wooden toys, sensory wall toys, and a small ball pit for young children. Additionally, the game corner “NICOPA” offers crane games and more.
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Address: 4th Floor, Marui Kinshicho, 3-9-10 Kotobashi, Sumida-ku, Tokyo
Sumida Ward: Chikyunoniwa
This indoor facility features large playground equipment and a sandbox similar to those found in outdoor parks, allowing children to move and play freely. There are also intellectual toys from around the world to support educational play. A dedicated zone is available for infants and toddlers up to 2 years old, ensuring even the youngest children can enjoy themselves indoors.
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Address: 5th Floor, East Yard, Tokyo Solamachi, 1-1-2 Oshiage, Sumida-ku, Tokyo
Hino-shi: Keio Asobino Mori HUGHUG
This spacious two-story facility boasts some of Japan’s largest play equipment, including a 12-meter-high net play structure, a ball pit with about 45,000 balls, a large slide made from Tama timber, and trampolines. There’s a dedicated space for young children featuring a wooden jungle gym and a wooden ball pit for full-body play.
The first floor has a baby rest area with diaper-changing stations and a nursing room. The cafe sells baby food, making it convenient for families with infants. You can spend the whole day here comfortably, thanks to the on-site cafe.
Additionally, there is a huge outdoor athletic facility that both children and adults can enjoy, ensuring fun regardless of the weather.
Source and Photo by: Keio Asobi no Mori HUGHUG
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Address: 3-36-60 Hino-shi, Tokyo
Tachikawa-shi: PLAY! PARK
PLAY! PARK, which opens in Tachikawa, Tokyo, is not a playground with readymade playground equipment and toys. The theme is “Encountering the Unknown.” Architects and creators participate to develop and produce original large-sized playground equipment, which people have never seen nor understood well, and nor known how to play it. Children can think and play for themselves and learn from it.
The venue is divided into seven zones, including “large and small dishes”, “factory”, “gallery” and “kitchen”. In addition to providing large-sized playground equipment, unique programs for manufacturing, food, sound, etc., provide “meeting with the unknown,” and a place where adults can enjoy playing with children in a comfortable environment.
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Address: GREEN SPRINGS, W3 Midoricho 3-1, Tachikawa-shi, Tokyo
