Dondoko Forest — Attraction in Nagakute

Nothing very interesting to visit if you don't get the premium ticket... Ruins, a house with a few furniture's without interest. The rest is expensive for gogos. A really poor experience as all the attractions have extra cost. Cash machine for sure nothing really magic at the end. We made a 2h30 trip from Osaka and before 10000 km from France and the deception was great for me. We saved our kids from the boring ambiance by giving some more yens for the carousel and flying machine that were just very basic. If you really want to go there take the premium but long time before, if 'ot pass your way and go for a onsen or the big parc at the...

This point of interest is furthest from other park and entrance, we walked around 15 mins from main area to reach, it has several route to walk to this area, some can take considerably longer time as it is like a existing walking trail for the park.

The Satsuki and Mei’s house and Dondoko-do is only open to premium ticket holders, it has a tram behind Dondoko-do to fetch visitor up and down the small hills but expect queue as it has limited space within each tram.

We come on weekday, we reach here around 3:30pm and queue took around 15 mins, we notice longer queue when we leaving after 4pm, so it seems the more people...

A must go for any Totoro fan. I had been wanting to come here for a long while before the pandemic was over, I'm so glad that it is possible nowadays.

You must purchase the ticket ahead online as soon as it's available. Otherwise, there is no way to obtain a ticket to visit this magical place. Leave plenty of time since you will need that for visiting all the exhibitions available here.

The house is amazingly close to the actual design in the animation. Shoes must be off inside the house, and there js quite a walk in the forest. If not so into walking, then u may take the tram up or...