{"id":2042,"date":"2015-12-09T11:06:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T02:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/aichi-childrens-center-at-the-expo-park-in-nagakute\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T11:35:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:35:27","slug":"aichi-childrens-center-at-the-expo-park-in-nagakute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/aichi-childrens-center-at-the-expo-park-in-nagakute\/","title":{"rendered":"Aichi Children\u2019s Center \u201cKids Town\u201d at Expo Park in Nagakute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17666 size-thumbnail\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 6px;\" src=\"http:\/\/japaninfoswap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Aichi-Children-Center-1-150x150.gif\" alt=\"Aichi-Children-Center-1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Aichi Children\u2019s Center\u2019s \u201cKids Town\u201d is a wealth of things to do for cheap in Nagoya with kids!\u00a0Envisioned as a place where kids can \u201cinvigorate their minds and bodies, challenge themselves, find excitement, while thinking and feeling freely,\u201d Kids Town is a place for children to find and create themselves through new experiences, play, excitement, and fun.<\/p>\n<p>The Aichi Children\u2019s Center is a non-profit, prefectural facility that serves the children of Aichi in four ways:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Experience and education: Kids Town offers activities designed to offer rich experiences to children<\/li>\n<li>Research and development: R&amp;D of recreation, playthings, environments, and child development<\/li>\n<li>Education and training: Training and seminars for the area\u2019s advisers and volunteers<\/li>\n<li>Public relations: Promoting child development<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Kids town does indeed offer a wealth of activities and areas for kids to explore, I mean these spots just sound fun, right? The Play Studio 1.2, Challenge Tower, Experience Zone \u201cKids Forrest,\u201d Robot Theater, Kitchen Studio, and even a Picture Book Room. Check out the video on the very bottom of the page that gives you an idea of the view of the park available from the Observatory.<\/p>\n<p>The center offers many activities for children, but they are all in Japanese as far as I know. The center comes very highly recommend by many of in the foreign ex-pat community, and is a regular destination for families-especially in spring and summer. Why not take a trip out to the park, and see what all the fuss is about?<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, there is reportedly also a big pool with water slides, and an ice skating rink at nearby Morrikoro park as well, with a big green field to play in. The staff there put out jump ropes, hula hoops, stilts, and Frisbee for the kids to play with, and it is all just a short walk from the down the hill from the Children&#8217;s center.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Details<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Japanese Only - Aichi Childrens Center Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acc-aichi.org\/\">www.acc-aichi.org -Japanese Only<\/a><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>Phone &#8211; 0561 63 1110<\/li>\n<li>Hours &#8211; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm<\/li>\n<li>Closed Monday &#8211; If Monday is a public holiday the next day and New Year<\/li>\n<li><strong>Admission is free for children<\/strong> of Junior High School age and below, all others 300 yen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><strong>\u00a0Aichi Children\u2019s Center\u2019s \u201cKids Town Video<\/strong><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lXnGuWO3jcc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"344\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lXnGuWO3jcc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" \/><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Directions\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Train \u2013 Take the <strong>Linimo from Fujigaoka Station<\/strong> on the yellow line, and get off at<strong> Ai-Chikyuhaku Kinen Koen<\/strong> <strong>Station<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Car \u2013 Get off at the <strong>Nagakute interchange<\/strong> on Nagoya-Seto Road (via <strong>Tomei Expressway Nisshin Junction<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m14!1m8!1m3!1d26089.969525144912!2d137.082472!3d35.175416!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x0%3A0x4925823ca32b3b71!2z5oSb55-l55yM5YWQ56ul57eP5ZCI44K744Oz44K_44O8!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1449711896552\" width=\"650\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aichi Children\u2019s Center\u2019s \u201cKids Town\u201d is a wealth of things to do for cheap in Nagoya with kids!\u00a0Envisioned as a place where kids can \u201cinvigorate their minds and bodies, challenge themselves, find excitement, while thinking and feeling freely,\u201d Kids Town is a place for children to find and create themselves through new experiences, play, excitement, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,63],"tags":[83,107,167,71,99],"class_list":["post-2042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nagoya-2","category-outdoors","tag-aichi-prefecture","tag-family-fun","tag-nagakute-city","tag-nagoya-day-trips","tag-weekend-activities"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51116,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions\/51116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}