Musashino Central Park

A whole store built around children's books and toys, good when you want something more thoughtful than souvenir shopping.

A path where free-roaming Japanese squirrels run around you, a guinea pig petting corner, and a merry-go-round for small kids.

A five-room mock-up of an animation studio, a giant Catbus for kids 12 and under to play in, and the five-meter Robot Soldier in the rooftop garden.

Rowboats, cycle boats and swan boats on the pond the Kanda River starts from, and the Inokashira Benzaiten shrine.

There's a big concrete slide and a Tarzan rope in the play plaza, plus a bouncy dome, an artificial-turf sledding hill and a C57 steam locomotive.

Historic Tokyo buildings rebuilt on one site, with a 1929 bathhouse you can walk into, a street Spirited Away's artists drew on and an old streetcar to board.