Nagashima Spa Land

Nagashima Spa Land is a major amusement park, just a short 30-minute drive from Nagoya. I've been here 2 and a half years, why am I just now finding out about this!?

It's the second largest amusement park in Japan and also includes a water park, onsen, Anpanman museum, & HUGE outlet shopping mall.

We spent the entire day in the water park, and had SO much fun! There was an indoor kid/baby area with pools, tiny water slides, swings, play areas, and even a baby wave pool! It's by far the best baby water park I've ever seen! Elodie was not a huge fan of the slide, as it was super slippery and she wiped out. But she loved the swings and wave pool!

We spent the later part of the afternoon lounging in the lazy river and the adults taking turns going down the big water slides. Luckily, all 3 babies napped at the same time - so the Dads watched them while the Moms had some fun! We had such a great time, I haven't laughed that hard in a long time! :)

The mamas and their babies :)

My sweet little peanut had such a fun day!

There was so much to do in just the water park area - and even though we spent the entire day in this part, we didn't even get to go on all of the slides. So you definitely need a couple of days to explore the whole park - the amusement park side with all of the roller coasters & rides as well as the Anpanman museum, and then a whole other day for just shopping at the outlet mall!

Luckily we'll be here for one more summer, so I'm looking forward to going back to the water park next year. In the meantime, we're planning our next trip there hopefully this fall - to take Elodie to the Anpanman Museum, and then do some shopping at the outlet mall.