Playgrounds and things to do with kids in Yokohama (10)

The best part is designing your own cup and choosing the soup and toppings, which turns a museum visit into a souvenir.

A small free train museum with a real historic car and a big diorama, easy to squeeze into another waterfront day.

You could easily spend all day here between the long slide, little zoo, boats, seasonal water play and huge amount of open space.

A hands on engineering stop where kids can get close to machines, space technology and the stuff that makes cities work.

A free little zoo with close up animal viewing and a small animal area, though there is a decent uphill walk to get there.

Pure preschool magic if your kid knows the characters, with daily shows and play structures built right into the cartoon world.

Free to enter and pay per ride, so you can do the giant Ferris wheel without turning the whole day into an amusement park.

Part aquarium and part amusement park, so it works especially well when siblings want completely different things.

The big open interior has a shoes off area for little kids, which makes an art museum visit feel much less stressful.

A huge zoo with roomy habitats and an internal shuttle, so it feels more like exploring than walking past rows of cages.