Lots of cool science stuff for kids. Personal I love the machine that creates a huge bubble around your kids.
The Kawasaki Nature and Sky Science Museum in Ikuta Ryokuchi has the best planetarium I’ve been to in Japan. They even provided binoculars at the entrance, and by looking at some double stars, I could confirm they were properly represented, showing the precision of the thing. And the session actual explained stuff about stars, unlike the one at Miraikan that was just ridiculous (this is the sky in this season in various places, with music type of thing, no scientific value whatsoever). It’s very cheap too.
The nature museum part is free and neat, but small. It’s not a “spend your whole afternoon there” type of deal, that would be Miraikan.
There are real telescopes (20cm refractors, Takahashi Mewlon 300, Mitaka mounts, the good and expensive stuff that amateurs would die for) on the rooftop, and they have solar observation (in H-Alpha, so you can see prominences) at specific times during the day, and some night sessions on a set of objects at night.
And it’s part of a great park. If you’re not too far, I highly recommend it.
Miraikan by the way is nice, but I found it less good than the science museum in Nagoya, but that’s much further away!
A cat is fine too.
Miraikan is a good choice as recommended above, we also like the Water Museum which is free!
I took my five year-old granddaughter to Miraikan and she loved it.
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– National Museum of Nature and Science (Ueno)
– National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (AKA Miraikan) (Odaiba).
Kawasaki has the Toshiba science museum that has some stuff for kids. its pretty small though
Meguro Parasitological Museum.
There’s a small science museum in Minato:
https://minato-kagaku.tokyo/english/
It was actually really fun for my kid. But the others like Miraikan are much bigger.
Technically not Tokyo (though in the Metropolitan Area) but the Railway Museum in Omiya might be a good one for your kid.
Science Museum, near imperial palace. 2-1 Kitanomarukoen, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 102-0091
[https://www.jsf.or.jp/en/](https://www.jsf.or.jp/en/)
Lots of cool science stuff for kids. Personal I love the machine that creates a huge bubble around your kids.
The Kawasaki Nature and Sky Science Museum in Ikuta Ryokuchi has the best planetarium I’ve been to in Japan. They even provided binoculars at the entrance, and by looking at some double stars, I could confirm they were properly represented, showing the precision of the thing. And the session actual explained stuff about stars, unlike the one at Miraikan that was just ridiculous (this is the sky in this season in various places, with music type of thing, no scientific value whatsoever). It’s very cheap too.
The nature museum part is free and neat, but small. It’s not a “spend your whole afternoon there” type of deal, that would be Miraikan.
There are real telescopes (20cm refractors, Takahashi Mewlon 300, Mitaka mounts, the good and expensive stuff that amateurs would die for) on the rooftop, and they have solar observation (in H-Alpha, so you can see prominences) at specific times during the day, and some night sessions on a set of objects at night.
And it’s part of a great park. If you’re not too far, I highly recommend it.
Miraikan by the way is nice, but I found it less good than the science museum in Nagoya, but that’s much further away!
A cat is fine too.
Miraikan is a good choice as recommended above, we also like the Water Museum which is free!
I took my five year-old granddaughter to Miraikan and she loved it.
I’ve been here myself and had fun.
[https://www.jsf.or.jp/](https://www.jsf.or.jp/)