This is a child’s heaven! Imagine a HUGE playroom with every toy imaginable just spread out for you to play with, and not having to clean up after. Toy Kingdom has practically every toy for young children that is in the Japanese market… and in multiple quantities so there is never a problem of kids fighting over the same toy. (Or so I think since I’ve only been there on weekdays during low season so I’ve never seen how the place gets on weekends or peak season)
There’s a Lego section, where there are little tables with built in bins filled to the rim of all kinds of lego blocks. There is a “purarail” toy train section with drawers full of track pieces and accessories for kids to build their own tracks and every kind of shinaknsen and train. There’s a section of all Licca-chan dolls and her accessories and a section of all the Sylvanian Famil
y toys. Then there is another play area full of all sorts of plastic toys like those rolly ball whatchamacallits, kitchen sets with loads of plastic foods and cooking utensils, steering wheels, Anpanman toys, Thomas the Tank Engine toys. Next to that is a whole section of wood toys – bins full of wood blocks, wood train sets, wood kitchen sets and food, those balls on the track, and more. There is also a section with little kids’s laptops set up where they can play learning games with characters like Doraemon and Thomas the Tank Engine. My son was literally running from one toy to the next, determined to play with everything in sight. Thank you Milie and Wes for showing us this place!
Info
Admission fees:
During low season: Adults 1000 yen (unlimited time), Children 3 and over 700 yen (unlimited time)
During peak season: Adults 1000 yen for 3 hours + 400 yen every 30 minutes after, Children 3 and over 700 yen for 3 hours + 300 yen every 30 minutes after
Other info:
~There is a milk room for nursing, and filtered hot water for formula.
~There are no restaurants inside but you can bring in your own food. You cannot re-enter once you exit, so be sure to bring your obento if you are there during lunchtime.
~There are many drink vending machines inside.
~It’s pretty clean in the play areas since no shoes are allowed once in the carpeted play areas. I recommend not wear lace-up shoes since you have to keep putting your shoes on and taking them off when you transfer from one play area to the next.
~There is a stroller check-in near the ticket booth – no strollers allowed inside, so bringing a baby carrier may be helpful if you will be there with a baby one and older sibling.
Traveling with a stroller? The JR Sobu line Suidobashi station has no elevator and no escalator going down from the platform to street level. But there is one escalator that goes up.
Mita Line Suidobashi station has an elevator from the platform to the concourse, and another elevator from the concourse to street level.