Playgrounds in Tokyo Metropolitan Parks: 8 Parks Compared by Station, Play Equipment and Parking

If you are looking for a place in Tokyo where children can play on real equipment, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s parks are a good place to start. Entry to all eight parks in this guide is free, though some facilities inside them charge. This guide compares them on nearest station, play equipment and parking.

1. Which park fits your day?

Depends on the park

Kasai Rinkai Park is 1 minute on foot from its station, and Nerima Castle Site Park has no car park but is 2 minutes from a station. Click a name to jump to its section.

Park	Nearest station	Play area	Parking
Toneri Park	Toneri-koen (Nippori-Toneri Liner)	Adventure Hill	3 car parks
Hikarigaoka Park	Hikarigaoka, 8 min	Kids’ Plaza	251 spaces
Kinuta Park	Yoga, 20 min	Everybody’s Plaza	235 spaces
Kiba Park	Kiba, 10 min	Adventure Plaza	104 + 30 spaces
Kasai Rinkai Park	Kasai-Rinkai-Koen, 1 min	Wakuwaku Plaza	182 spaces
Nerima Castle Site Park	Toshimaen, 2 min	Playground	None
Takaido Park	Fujimigaoka, 10 min	Playground	40 spaces
Fuchu-no-Mori Park	Higashi-Fuchu, 10 min	Niji-iro Plaza	110 spaces

Walking times are the park’s own. Toneri Park gives a station name only, so no minutes are shown. Parking fees are in section 2.

2. Parking fees, hours and baby rooms

Depends on the park

Five of the seven parks with car parks charge the same fee for an ordinary car: ¥400 for the first hour, then ¥200 per 30 minutes, with a maximum of ¥1,600 within 12 hours. These are Kinuta, Kiba, Hikarigaoka, Takaido and Fuchu-no-Mori. Kasai Rinkai Park has the same hourly rates, but the ¥1,600 maximum applies only from Monday to Friday, not on Saturdays, Sundays or public holidays. Toneri Park is cheaper: ¥300 for the first hour, then ¥100 per 20 minutes, up to ¥1,200 within 24 hours.

The park pages ask drivers to use public transport on weekends and holidays at Kinuta Park and Toneri Park. At Kinuta, the road to the Art Museum gets congested; at Toneri, Okubashi-dori and Toneri-koen-dori do. Both parks may limit entry to the car park when it is busy. On weekends, holidays and event days, Toneri has a queue of cars leaving after 15:00. At Kasai Rinkai Park, the car park gets very crowded on holidays in the sightseeing season, and you may wait a long time.

Some playgrounds have their own opening hours inside the park. Kinuta’s Everybody’s Plaza and the fenced west area of Fuchu-no-Mori Park’s Niji-iro Plaza are open 9:00–17:00 from 1 April to 31 August and 9:00–16:00 from 1 September to 31 March. Toneri’s Adventure Hill is open 9:00–17:00 from April to October and 9:00–16:00 from November to March. Plan to finish before the early closing time in autumn and winter.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Park Association’s facility search lists a nursing room or a baby-friendly spot (あかちゃんふらっと) at seven of the parks: all except Kinuta. It lists a spray-and-splash pond (じゃぶじゃぶ池, “jabu-jabu pond”) at Toneri, Kiba and Fuchu-no-Mori. It lists universal-design play equipment at Kinuta and Fuchu-no-Mori.

2.1 Toneri Park (舎人公園), Adachi Ward

The play area is “Adventure Hill” (冒険の丘), in the south-east, Area C. Children climb, slide and crawl through it, and it includes a universal-design swing and a composite play structure. It is open 9:00–17:00 from April to October and 9:00–16:00 from November to March, and closed over the New Year. It may also close in rain, storms, high heat or snow, and on maintenance days. Bicycles, tricycles, balance bikes and skateboards cannot be ridden there.

The free “jabu-jabu pond” (浮球の池) opens in summer only, for children who are out of nappies up to the third grade of elementary school, with a water slide. The park announced big changes to its rules in July 2026, so check its notice before you go. A separate artificial-turf sled slope (up to 20 degrees, 44 m wide) is for children aged 3 to 12; those aged 3 to 6 slide with a parent. It is open 10:00–16:00 with a break from 12:00 to 13:00 and may close in bad weather.

Children with a disability certificate can use a dedicated car park next to Adventure Hill and the toddlers’ play area. You reserve by phoning the service center beforehand and bring the original certificate (no copies).

Getting there: Toneri-koen Station on the Nippori-Toneri Liner. You can also take a Tobu bus from the west exit of Takenotsuka Station on the Tobu Skytree Line to “Naka-Iriya”. The three car parks have 78, 46 and 33 spaces. Large buses cannot park there on weekends and holidays.

Address: 1-1 Toneri-koen, Adachi-ku, Tokyo (service center) · Open in Google Maps
Phone: 03-3857-2308
Official facility page (Japanese)

2.2 Hikarigaoka Park (光が丘公園), Nerima and Itabashi Wards

The play equipment is in the Kids’ Plaza (ちびっ子広場): an endless Tarzan rope, three combination play structures, rope climbing, a horizontal bar, swings including toddler swings, and a sandpit. The same plaza has fitness equipment for adults, such as a stretching bench and a pull-up bar.

The nursing room is inside the service center. It is a tatami (straw mat) room with one baby bed and one nursing chair; ask at the counter. It has no hot water and no rubbish bin. The service center is open 8:30–17:30 and closed from 29 December to 3 January. Diaper-changing tables are in toilets No. 3, 6 and 7.

Getting there: 8 minutes on foot from Hikarigaoka Station on the Toei Oedo Line. It is also a 15-minute walk from Narimasu Station (Tobu Tojo Line) or Chikatetsu-Narimasu Station (Tokyo Metro). The car park has 251 spaces (5 of them for visitors with disabilities) and is open 24 hours.

Address: 4-1-1 Hikarigaoka, Nerima-ku, Tokyo · Open in Google Maps
Phone: 03-3977-7638
Official facility page (Japanese)

2.3 Kinuta Park (砧公園), Setagaya Ward

“Everybody’s Plaza” (みんなのひろば) is a playground where children with and without disabilities can play together. The park lists it among its universal-design play areas. Pets and bicycles are not allowed in the family park area. In the park, tents, chairs and tables cannot be used, and there are no rubbish bins, so take your rubbish home.

Getting there: 20 minutes on foot from Yoga Station on the Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line, or by Tokyu Coach Bus (for the Art Museum, 美術館) to “Bijutsukan”. You can also take a Tokyu bus from Chitose-Funabashi Station (Odakyu Line) to “Kinuta-koen Ryokuchi Iriguchi”, or from Seijogakuen-mae Station to “Kuritsu Sogo Undojo”. The car park has 235 spaces (6 for visitors with disabilities), is open 24 hours, and accepts transport IC cards and credit cards but not ¥10,000, ¥5,000 or ¥2,000 notes. Weekends and holidays are expected to be crowded.

Address: 1-1 Kinuta-koen, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo (service center) · Open in Google Maps
Phone: 03-3700-0414
Official facility page (Japanese)

2.4 Kiba Park (木場公園), Koto Ward

The Adventure Plaza (冒険広場) in the south area has various play equipment. The north area has composite play equipment and a large jabu-jabu pond, a shallow splash pond for summer water play. For indoor play, Kibamidoriamu (木場ミドリアム) has “Kiba Kids-rium” (木場キッズリアム) for children aged 0 to 6 who are not yet in school. It is open 10:00–12:00 and 13:00–16:00 and closed on Mondays (the next weekday if Monday is a public holiday) and over the New Year. On Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays you must reserve online beforehand; on weekdays you do not. The park suggests about one hour per visit and says a guardian must stay with the child. Leave strollers at the stroller parking outside the entrance. Both buildings are closed from 7 to 11 December 2026 for construction.

Getting there: 10 minutes on foot from Kiba Station on the Tokyo Metro Tozai Line. It is 15 minutes on foot from Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Station (Hanzomon and Oedo lines) or Kikukawa Station (Toei Shinjuku Line). The Toei bus line “Kin 13” stops at “Toyo 6-chome”, 3 minutes on foot away. The first car park has 104 spaces and the second has 30; both are open 24 hours.

Address: 4-6-1 Hirano, Koto-ku, Tokyo (service center) · Open in Google Maps
Phone: 03-5245-1770
Official facility page (Japanese)

2.5 Kasai Rinkai Park (葛西臨海公園), Edogawa Ward

“Wakuwaku Plaza” (わくわく広場) is a play area for children under 7 who are not yet in school. It is next to the lawn plaza and has rocking equipment, net equipment and a slider. The park page says some facilities in the park, such as the aquarium and the Ferris wheel, have their own closed days.

Getting there: The park is 1 minute on foot from Kasai-Rinkai-Koen Station on the JR Keiyo Line. From Nishi-Kasai or Kasai Station on the Tokyo Metro Tozai Line, take a Toei bus for Kasai Rinkai Park (about 20 minutes). By car, it is right after the Kasai exit of the Bayshore Route of the Metropolitan Expressway. The car park has 182 spaces (18 for visitors with disabilities) and is open 24 hours. Remember that the ¥1,600 maximum does not apply on weekends and holidays.

Address: 6-2-1 Rinkai-cho, Edogawa-ku, Tokyo (service center) · Open in Google Maps
Phone: 03-5696-1331
Official park page (Japanese)

2.6 Nerima Castle Site Park (練馬城址公園), Nerima Ward

The playground has wide slopes that a wheelchair can use and a swing where a parent and child ride facing each other. The park says it is full of ideas to let anyone play. It is being built on the site of the former Toshimaen amusement park; part of it opened in May 2023, and some areas are still under construction. A wheelchair can be borrowed (1 available).

Getting there: 2 minutes on foot from Toshimaen Station on the Toei Oedo Line or the Seibu Toshima Line, or 9 minutes from Nerima-Kasugacho Station on the Toei Oedo Line. From the north exit of Nerima Station, a Seibu bus for Narimasu Station south exit stops at “Toshimaen”, 3 minutes on foot away. The park has no car park.

Address: 1-1-32 Kasugacho, Nerima-ku, Tokyo (service center) · Open in Google Maps
Phone: 03-3825-5021
Official park page (Japanese)

2.7 Takaido Park (高井戸公園), Suginami Ward

The playground has swings, a jungle gym and sculpture-style play equipment under a wide sky. The park also has a disaster-prevention toilet. It is an ordinary toilet in normal times, but it can be used with the manhole cover opened if water and sewage services stop.

Getting there: 10 minutes on foot from Fujimigaoka Station on the Keio Inokashira Line, or 15 minutes from Kugayama Station. From Chitose-Karasuyama Station on the Keio Line, take a Kanto Bus (“Kugayama Hospital”) to the last stop, then walk 13 minutes. The car park has 40 spaces (2 for visitors with disabilities) and is open 24 hours. Buses cannot use it.

Address: 2-2-1 Kugayama, Suginami-ku, Tokyo (service center) · Open in Google Maps
Phone: 03-3331-1336
Official facility page (Japanese)

2.8 Fuchu-no-Mori Park (府中の森公園), Fuchu City

“Mori Park Niji-iro Plaza” (もり公園にじいろ広場) is a plaza with universal-design play equipment that children who use wheelchairs can play on as well. There is also equipment outside the fence. A community day called “Niji-na Day” (にじーなの日) is held on the 27th of every month. In Golden Week and the summer holidays, the Waterside Plaza (水辺の広場, jabu-jabu pond) offers water play with showers from pipes and fountain mist. The park also has a Japanese garden, a large lawn and a barbecue plaza that must be booked.

The car park changed on 26 September 2026 to a licence-plate recognition system. When you leave, pay at the advance payment machine inside the car park.

Getting there: 10 minutes on foot from Higashi-Fuchu Station on the Keio Line. You can also take a Keio bus (via Ipponki) for Fuchu Station from Musashi-Koganei Station on the JR Chuo Line to “Tenjin-cho 2-chome”. The car park has 110 spaces (3 for visitors with disabilities).

Address: 1-3-1 Asama-cho, Fuchu City, Tokyo (service center) · Open in Google Maps
Phone: 042-364-8021
Official park page (Japanese)

3. Which park for which child?

Depends on the park

• Children not yet in school. Kasai Rinkai Park’s Wakuwaku Plaza (under 7) and Kiba Park’s Kids-rium (ages 0 to 6, indoors).
• Big climbing and swinging. Toneri Park, Hikarigaoka Park and Kiba Park have play equipment such as composite structures and Tarzan ropes.
• Children with and without disabilities together. Kinuta Park, Fuchu-no-Mori Park and Toneri Park list universal-design equipment. Nerima Castle Site Park describes wide wheelchair-friendly slopes.
• No car. Kasai Rinkai Park (1 minute) or Nerima Castle Site Park (2 minutes) from the station.
• Summer water play. The jabu-jabu ponds at Toneri, Kiba and Fuchu-no-Mori.

4. Common questions

Is there an entry fee?

No. Entry to all eight parks is free. Some facilities inside them, such as sports grounds, charge separately.

Which parks have a nursing room?

The park association’s facility search lists a nursing room or baby-friendly spot at Toneri, Hikarigaoka, Kiba, Kasai Rinkai, Nerima Castle Site, Takaido and Fuchu-no-Mori. Kinuta is not on that list. Hikarigaoka’s nursing room is a tatami room inside the service center, with one baby bed and one nursing chair.

Is there a park with no car park?

Nerima Castle Site Park has no car park. It is 2 minutes on foot from Toshimaen Station.

Sources (checked October 2026)

• Tokyo Metropolitan Park Association: Toneri Park and facilities
• Hikarigaoka Park and facilities
• Kinuta Park and facilities
• Kiba Park, facilities and closure notice
• Kasai Rinkai Park
• Nerima Castle Site Park and facilities
• Takaido Park and facilities
• Fuchu-no-Mori Park and facilities
• Park association facility search: playground equipment