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Not to be confused with Iriya near Ueno, this Iriya is in Adachi – and it has a strange, bone-coloured squid-like playground structure that looks like a fossil, a shell, a spaceship and a sea creature all at once. Adachi is famous among playground obsessives for its many ‘tako-san’ slides, but Iriya Central Park is special because it has an ‘ika-san’ slide: a squid, not an octopus.
The park is larger than some of the tiny novelty playgrounds on this list, with a multipurpose ground, play area, swings, a sandpit and standard equipment alongside the sculptural slide. That makes it better for actual playing.