How to Get the Most of Ghibli Park (Nagoya) — Best Route, Tickets & Time Needed
Ghibli Park is a theme park from Studio Ghibli located near Nagoya, Japan. But it’s a little difficult to visit unlike other theme park. Not only not easy to get tickets and cannot buy the tickets at the gate, you have to plan ahead to go around and see everything in a day. Today I’d like to visit Ghibli Park and find out what’s the best way to get around, and how long does it take to see everything.
Ghibli Park: https://ghibli-park.jp/en/ticket/
🌐 Travel Services:
– Pocket WiFi by Japan Wireless (20% OFF Code: tokyokenchan20): [https://www.japan-wireless.com/?via=tokyokenchan]
– **Mobal** (Japan Phone Number option): [https://www.mobal.com/japan-sim-card/?t=st&source=3434]
– Expedia: [https://expedia.com/affiliates/kenchan/best-tokyo-hotel-deals]
About Me:
Thanks for watching! My name is Kengo. I create Japan travel guide videos from Tokyo, showing you essential tips and must-visit places. Please subscribe for my weekly exploration to discover the charm of Japan.
Connect & Support:
– Buy Me A Coffee : https://buymeacoffee.com/tokyokenchan
– Patreon: https://patreon.com/tokyokenchan
– Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tokyokenchan
🚩 Note: Some links above are affiliate links. By booking through these links, you help support my channel at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support.
Chapters:
0:00 Welcome to Ghibli Park near Nagoya
0:52 Getting to Ghibli Park
3:15 Ghibli Grand Warehouse
7:45 Valley of Witches
12:33 Dondoko Forest
16:00 Tips to Visit Ghibli Park
#tokyokenchan
19 Comments
Hello konbanwa and happy Nikolaus day to you . 🙏🥳✝️
What a nice day.
So fun! I enjoy your videos because they remind me of the years I lived in Japan.
Thank you KenChan for your video. Our next trip to Japan, we have to plan it well so we can get the most of the park, and visit all 5 areas.
Arrigato😊
I gave up trying to go to the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka because the tickets were too hard to get as a foreigner. I love everything Ghibli. This looks like a fun place to go. I hope the tickets are not too hard to get
This is really good video. We are going to Ghibli Park in a few months Thank you so much
Thank you for watching! 🎫You cannot purchase tickets at the park. I recommend you to book tickets well in advance.
Ghibli Park (Nagoya) ticket goes on sale on 10th of each month for 2 months later. February tickets goes on sale on December 10th 2pm Japan Time (9th 24:00 – Midnight for US Eastern Time in Winter).
For Ghibli Museum in Tokyo, ticket goes on sale on the 10th 10am of the previous month. On December 10th, tickets for January goes on sale.
Thank you, Kenchan. Very informative. Though I'm not sure if I can ever get a ticket with such a short purchase time window
Thank yuou Kenchan this is a beautiful looking park and anther attraction to add to our list for the next trip. This list is getting longer and longer!
As someone who visited on my last trip, imo for the Valley of Witches restaurant (Flying Oven at 16:21), if the queue is particularly long, it isn't worth the hour+ wait (should've queued for Guchokipanya Bakery instead or just gone to Mos Burger).
A great video for Ghibli fans planning on visiting the park
Just my two Cents. The tickets are easier to get than the Ghibili museum and it’s a better place to visit. When you book a ticket, it will give you a time for the grand warehouse but you can rock up first thing in the morning. The timeslot is only for the entrance to the Grand warehouse. Most of the places you can only visit once so you need to plan your day out based on the time slot you’re given for the Grand warehouse. And yes, the premium ticket is worth getting if you’d like to take photos and visit the intricate details or some of the sets.
Thank you for this nice video. It looks lovely there, but as our time in Nagoya is limited and I have seen only 3 Ghibli movies ( and my travel companion none), I think its best if we dont go there.
Kenchan, I hope you still remember me. I said hi to you on the top of that cable car. What a coincidence 😀
What dates did you film this?
Thank you for your video! I really appreciate your honest and unique videos. I’m coming to Japan for the second time in March and I’ll be in Nagoya a few days so I’ll see if I can fit this into my schedule. Looks like fun. Thanks again and all the best for the holidays! 🙂👍
I also didn't get to do the No Face photo opportunity. I hope to go again and see the rest of the park.
what did you miss at the grand warehouse? you said you didnt want to wait in line?
I went to Ghibli Park today from Osaka. I was very worried about the travel there but it all went smoothly, apart from the Higashiyama Line being so crowded there was a long queue into the station. I got to the Park about 09:45 and headed straight for Valley of the Witches. There was a queue and I got in about 10:10.
This part took around 1 hour to get around. The highlight was going inside the castle. Tip: skip the bakery line by going straight to the cart to the side where there’s no queue.
At 11:00 I headed straight for the Warehouse, another queue and I got in about 11:15. I went straight to the cinema to see an exclusive shirt which was cute. Skipping the huge line to no face, I went straight into the exhibition. But as a solo traveller I didn’t feel confident taking photos. Then went to eat just after midday. There was about a 10 min queue and I ordered the miso cutlet pizza and passion fruit soda float. I had to wait another 10 mins for a seat while my food got cold. I complained to the staff but there was nothing they could do. I tried eating while standing up but was told off. After lunch, I walked about the rest of the Warehouse, the adult cat bus was cute and the exhibition room which some of the sets had very realistic plastic food, shame no photos.
Around 13:00 I hiked to the Forest. Only spent about 10 mins there viewing the house. As this is my favorite film I was disappointed with there being little to do. I wish there was a forest maze or something.
Had a brief pit stop at the tea house which was relaxing and peaceful.
Then saw the rest of the areas, they are quite small so only spent about 10-15 mins in each.
I headed to the station about 15:30 making some purchases at the shop on the way. FYI the outside shop has a small Totoro with leaf, while the Warehouse shop doesn’t. The Witches shop has a soft small Jiji cat.
The most time was spent walking between areas and there’s precious little shade so I needed plenty of short rest stops.