It’s not like Madurodam or Miniworld Rotterdam (both in the Netherlands). Little World in Inuyama, Aichi, Japan (officially called The Little World Museum of Man) consists of full-size replica buildings from all over the world and offers authentic foods from the regions represented. We went last weekend and had a great time.
You can walk the entire circuit (I believe it’s just over 2 km) or you can buy an all-day ticket for the bus, which runs every ten minutes. At 500 yen for adults and 300 yen for kids, that’s a bargain. They also have an authentic Tuk Tuk from Bangkok which you can ride using the bus ticket! We took several trips on the bus and Tuk Tuk.
On one trip, we had beer and sausage in a Gasthof in ‘Germany’, walked over to ‘Italy’ for a pizza and pasta lunch, then went to ‘France’ for some wine and cheese. Then we jumped on the bus and went to ‘Africa’. From there we rode to ‘Nepal’ and ‘India’, then walked over to ‘Turkey’ for some Turkish ice cream.
From the middle of March to the middle of June there is a ‘Russian Circus’ act in, well, ‘Russia’, of course. The acrobatic acts were surprisingly good and the clowns were super entertaining.
Little World is less than an hour’s drive from Nagoya and is a great day trip for a family. My kids had a great time, got their novelty passports stamped at every location and got a free souvenir at the end of the day. I highly recommend it.