Why Japan is an Amazing Place to Travel with a Baby

Curious almost how it was to go overseas alongside a baby?

Thinking almost headed someone alongside your footling one?

Wondering if Nippon is the identify to go?

Traveling alongside a babe is precisely what yous would expect… total of highs as well as lows (think screaming babe tantrum inwards a restaurant).

But boy-oh-boy am I glad that I chose Nippon every bit our getaway alongside our babe girl!

I can’t fairly compare Nippon to Canada. Although I create got been all over Canada (Nfld, ON, AB, BC), I haven’t been everywhere alongside a baby as well as thus I wasn’t taking inwards all the baby-friendly atmospheres.

But I tin order yous this… the entire fourth dimension I was inwards Nippon alongside Eleanor I was thinking, “Wow, Japanese tourists alongside babies must loathe travelling to Canada!”

Let’s get-go yesteryear talking almost transportation.

Airlines are the same everywhere, right? Wrong!

The Japanese airlines play cool footling child-friendly cartoons, as well as demo yous a real-time video of the bird taking off from the front end of the plane! OK… perchance that was kid friendly, non baby-friendly, but it was yet amazing!

The other amazing affair is that the flying attendants went out of their agency to calm downwardly my screaming kid – including making a rattle out of cups as well as candy for her to play with. They also had a alternative of toys for her to pick out from. Baby as well as kid toys were available for each footling mortal to play alongside as well as create got home. So fun!

God bless the track systems inwards Japan.

You create non ask a auto or carseat to instruct merely about inwards Japan. Save “x” sum of fourth dimension on hauling equipment or coin on renting it – yea please!

You tin instruct anywhere inwards Nippon on these track systems, as well as they e'er create got a “priority” spot department that people abide by – they volition e'er plough over a mama alongside a babe a spot :)

All of the trains create got alter tables, as well as many create got multipurpose rooms, meant for nursing, sleeping, as well as breastfeeding. I commonly merely fed Eleanor inwards my seat, but it was bully to create got the option!

Speaking of feeding…

Every tourist goal that nosotros went to had designated nursing rooms. WHOLE ROOMS! They had footling bottle symbols exterior the rooms as well as on maps, as well as thus they were slow to spot.  I’ve solely seen a few places inwards Canada alongside nursing stalls as well as commonly they are fairly broad opened upwards (i.e. no privacy). The rooms inwards Nippon were comfy, as well as roomy, as well as were e'er had designated changing stations too. I never had to halt as well as think, “hmm… where volition nosotros halt inwards the middle of the solar daytime as well as thus that I tin feed her??”. After a couplet of days, I merely knew a spot would come upwards along!

This was i nursing room – in that location were a bunch of rooms, all every bit large every bit this one! 





This was some other nursing room. Smaller, but yet private! 

And this was i of the changing stations within of the nursing room. Complete alongside diaper disposal areas, sinks, as well as juice/water machines! 

Let’s beak almost bathrooms.

Most populace bathrooms had huge stalls for moms alongside babies, including changing tables, sinks, toilets, etc. But on top of having those huge stalls available, all of the bathrooms also had these ingenious babe seats inwards each stall! For all of those times that yous create got to instruct pee, but don’t create got to alter the babe :) They tin live on establish inwards mens as well as women’s washrooms. They didn’t e'er create got i inwards every stall, but don’t worry, they create got all the stalls labelled alongside footling pictures of a babe inwards a spot on the exterior as well as thus yous know earlier yous peek inwards whether it volition create got it or not. UH-mazing.

Here’s Eleanor using i of the footling bath seats :) 

Restaurants all supplied footling seats, bowls, spoons, as well as sometimes cups (even though she can’t usage i yet!).

We brought our tiny $20 garage sale stroller to navigate the busy streets, as well as our Ergo babe carrier. Both were real slow to usage in that location as well as both drew lots of attending to our adorable baby. I estimate a blue-eyed, blond babe inwards Nippon is a tourist attraction!

Everyone was extremely respectful as well as polite to our household unit of measurement as well as our baby.

Going to a province alongside as well as thus many amenities for moms as well as babies made me jealous! Why can’t nosotros live on upwards to these Japanese standards at home?!

This trip was to a greater extent than baby-friendly than I could ever create got imagined!

You should go to Nippon alongside your footling mortal :)

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