Explore Tokyo nature through 8K video, a large map with tablets and wildlife-sound rhythm activities, plus research by Minato schoolchildren. The exhibition includes a balancing-dragonfly craft on September 16–October 12: 10:00–18:00, last reception 17:45, about 15 minutes, around 5 people per session, free with no booking. Grade 3 and younger must be accompanied by a guardian aged 18 or over.
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Try inclusive play equipment, tactile picture books, wooden-spoon polishing, wheelchair sports and eye-tracking games while exploring accessible design together
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Art-based childcare for ages 4 through grade 6 of elementary school, creating a one-day theater through puppets, pictures, stories, songs and dance. Available only on designated performance dates, supporting guardians’ theatergoing and arts visits.
A family music experience featuring outdoor concerts, sound installations, instrument tryouts, a picture-book area and instrument-making activities for children.
Crafts, bubbles, collaborative art and Charlie Nishimura’s air-cannon science show on four dates only: Oct 3, 4, 10 and 12
An autumn series introducing children to farm work and traditional tools through activities such as sowing Okura daikon seeds, making soba noodles and bamboo toys, indigo dyeing, and sawing wood with a large saw.
Learn to arrange fillings and roll fresh spring rolls with a Vietnamese chef, then enjoy them with chicken pho and lotus tea.
An exhibition-linked workshop to make original stamps and create a colorful textile fabric board.
Build a 19th-century phenakistoscope with the museum’s custom kit and drawing materials to discover how sequential images appear to move
Meet toy and game makers and play specialists for open play, making and demonstrations. Festival tickets include Tokyo Toy Museum admission.
Explore AR dinosaurs, design a 3D city with physical and digital models, and make flowers across 7 workshop exhibitors, alongside an autumn food market.
An off-site STEAM class covering the process from creating 3D data in VR to printing it with a 3D printer. Registration requires agreement to the VR usage precautions.
A children’s craft activity with Halloween picture-book storytelling and ghost headwear made from plastic bags and paper plates.
A local autumn festival featuring stalls, games, parent-child handicrafts, school wind-band performances, Bon dancing and more.
With STUDIO pippi, turn empty packaging and retired uniform fabric into dress-up props, exploring self-expression and creative reuse
An open-ended art-making activity using a choice of clay, paint or paper, with guardians joining in. Held only on officially designated Sundays from October 2026 through March 2027.
Decorate family photos to make a smartphone-shaped mini album, with a short session on building children’s self-esteem through “Home-sha,” using photos to celebrate them. Bring 5 photos per group.
Parents and children learn about resource recycling and waste reduction by exploring how used household cooking oil can be turned into soap.
A 2-day event across several venues in Minami Aoyama, where children and their parents or guardians can walk between locations and enjoy art, music, crafts, neighborhood walks and nature observation.
Learn ramen culture from a Sapporo noodle maker, roll, cut and curl noodles, choose toppings and taste your creation. Staff handle boiling water and hot soup
A food education workshop for children to combine vegetables, toppings and dressings, then make and eat their own unique salad.
Work with professional creators on badges, picture books, clay animals and portraits, then bring the creations together into a giant shared town.
A day trip to walk through an autumn forest with a forestry professional, discover its secrets and views, make preserved foods using forest produce, and visit Hinohara Factory.
Children and their parents or guardians can choose from sketchbook making, birdwatching in a rooftop garden, bath-bomb making, eco crafts, braiding cords from plastic shopping bags, growing plants in English and more.
A traditional cooking experience at Setagaya Daikan Yashiki, washing rice, lighting a fire and enjoying freshly cooked rice from a kamado stove. Only plain white rice is provided.
Explore Hungarian music, folk dance, Rubik’s Cube, embroidery, costume and a children’s workshop with picture-book author Csőke Kitti, hosted by the embassy and cultural center.
A moon-viewing craft activity for children and their parents or guardians, making papier-mâché lanterns by pasting calligraphy paper onto balloons.
A 30-minute woodworking session for 4 participants. Electric scroll-saw use is grade 4+; younger children can color and decorate. Add it to a Toy Museum visit.
A food education event using kamishibai picture-card storytelling to show how milk becomes butter, with a chance to swirl soft-serve ice cream.
A community festival with a food court, parent-child craft classes and more. The comedy workshop for elementary school students and older requires a separate fee and advance contact.
A family gardening activity to create a mixed planter using autumn and winter flower seedlings and Halloween decorations.
A Sunday Lab craft activity making Halloween lanterns to display at home using cut-out shapes, stickers and drawings.
Learn about Tokyo seafood and how to prepare it with professional chefs, then cook and taste dishes together as a family. These are the 2 upcoming sessions in a 5-session series.
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A large festival featuring woodworking and local-industry activities, traditional performing arts and music, plus parent–child sports and quizzes. Free headdress-making sessions with Vivienne Sato run at 11:00, 12:45 and 14:15.
Learn how zippers work, choose and assemble parts, and make a glow-in-the-dark zipper pouch. The activity pays 10 KidZos.
Use garden leaves and flowers for wearable creations and an autumn fashion show. Two hours for a planned 22 children; guardians normally observe only in the final 10 minutes.
Learn about rice varieties, selection and home-cooker techniques from a five-star rice meister. Compare brands and freshly cooked versus rested rice, with two go of Sumidaya rice to take home.
Free entry without advance booking, with student booths, crafts, food and performances. Some activities cost extra.
Combine English-interpreted tea, children’s tea with guardians, crafts and demonstrations among historic buildings. Museum admission is free during the event; tea uses same-day tickets.
A day-long nature tour from the Tokyo Station area to Hinohara Village, with an autumn forest walk and woodworking, including places reserved for Meguro City parent-child participants.
A Sunday Lab program exploring digital making with 3D printers, 3D pens, paper cutters and 3D puzzles.
Color, cut and layer paper to make a kimono-clad princess, or create a badge with a collection-inspired design or your own drawing. A 15-minute Noh-mask talk explores expressions and emotions.
Experience tea indoors or outdoors in a historic garden, including an English-interpreted tea session, plus ikebana and Edo tsumami crafts. Kabuki, paper cutting, traditional acrobatics and puppetry are also featured.
A day-long nature tour from the Tokyo Station area to Hinohara Village, with a mountain-trail walk and forest wreath making, including places reserved for Meguro City parent-child participants.
Create an original headdress with Vivienne Sato in this Roppongi Art Night special workshop. Participants can join the candy rally and continue on to explore art around the neighborhood.
Find small moments of theatre through play, costume-making and improvisation, creating a space for children to express themselves. Sign-language interpretation provided.