Nagoya travel guide

Top 10 sights in Nagoya

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   Nagoya Castle

   Built in 1612 by the Owari branch of the Tokugawa on the site of an earlier Oda stronghold, the castle anchored one of Japan's great castle towns on the road between the Tokaido and the Nakasendo. The Imperial Household gave it to the city in 1930; the keep burned in the 1945 air raids and rebuilding has gone on since 1957.

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   Atsuta Jingū

   A shrine traditionally founded in the first or second century, which is said to hold Kusanagi no Tsurugi, one of the three imperial regalia — the sword itself has never been shown. Its wooded grounds cover nineteen hectares in southern Nagoya and a kishimen noodle shop inside is a fixture.

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   Kiyosu Castle

   A castle at Kiyosu west of Nagoya, from which Oda Nobunaga launched his campaigns after taking it in 1555, and where his successors met in 1582 to decide the succession after his death. The present keep is a 1989 reconstruction, visible from passing shinkansen.

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   Museum Meiji-mura

   An open-air museum at Inuyama near Nagoya, opened on 18 March 1965, with over sixty Meiji-period buildings moved here from across Japan. The entrance hall of Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel is the best known; a steam locomotive and Kyoto trams run on the site.

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   Tokugawa Art Museum

   A private museum holding the heirlooms of the Owari Tokugawa, the senior branch of the shogunal family, including the twelfth-century illustrated scrolls of the Tale of Genji — a National Treasure shown only briefly each November. The Tokugawaen garden adjoins it.

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   Nagoya Mosque

   Nagoya's mosque, opened in July 1998 by a congregation grown from an association of foreign students founded in 1987, who had been moved on from one rented flat to another. Four concrete floors hold the prayer halls, women on the second and men above.

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   Nagoya TV Tower

   A television tower of 1954 in Hisaya-odori Park, the oldest broadcast tower of its type in Japan and the prototype for Tokyo Tower. It was converted into a hotel and observation deck in 2020 and is an Important Cultural Property.

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   Legoland Japan Resort

   A Legoland park that opened on 1 April 2017 on reclaimed land in Nagoya port, the first in Japan and the eighth in the world. Its Miniland reproduces Japanese cities in about ten million bricks, which holds adults longer than the rides do.

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   Nagoya City Art Museum

   The city art museum in Shirakawa Park, opened on 22 April 1988 in a Kurokawa Kisho building, with collections of the École de Paris, the Mexican Renaissance muralists and local Aichi artists. The science museum is next door.

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    Tagata Shrine

    A shrine at Komaki north of Nagoya known for its Hōnensai on 15 March, in which a carved wooden phallus about two and a half metres long and weighing 280 kilograms is carried through the streets to pray for a good harvest and fertility.

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   Ghibli Park

   A park at Nagakute in the grounds of the 2005 Expo site, opened on 1 November 2022, with buildings from Studio Ghibli films — the Hill of Youth, Mononoke Village, Valley of Witches — built as real structures rather than rides. Tickets are sold by date and area and go quickly.

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   Toyota Automobile Museum

   A museum at Nagakute holding about 140 vehicles from around the world, tracing motoring from the 1886 Benz onward rather than only Toyota's own history. A second building covers the culture that grew around the car in Japan.

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   SCMaglev and Railway Park

   A museum on the technical history of JR Central, with real Shinkansen rolling stock and maglev trains on display. The Shinkansen simulator is allocated by lottery, so check before you go.

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   Sakae

   The main entertainment and shopping district of Nagoya in Naka-ku, around Sakae crossing, with department stores, an underground mall and the glass-roofed Oasis 21. The izakaya lanes of Nishiki run off it and stay open late.

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   Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens

   A combined zoo and botanical garden in Chikusa-ku, opened in 1937, whose koalas made it one of the most visited zoos in Japan. The Sky Tower of 1989 gives a view over the city and the 1937 greenhouse is an Important Cultural Property.

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   Nagoya City Science Museum

   A science museum in Sakae whose Brother Earth planetarium, thirty-five metres across, is the largest dome projector in the world. Same-day seats run out early, so the morning is the time to go.

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   Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology

   A museum in the original Toyoda textile mill in Nishi-ku, showing how the company moved from automatic looms to cars, with the machines run in live demonstration rather than displayed static. It is the best industrial museum in the region.

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   Ōsu Kannon Temple

   A Shingon temple in central Nagoya, moved here from Gifu in 1612 on shogunal order, and one of the Owari thirty-three Kannon sites. Pigeons crowd the plaza in front of its red hall, and the Ōsu shopping arcades begin at its gate.

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   The Japan Mosque

   An Ahmadiyya mosque at Tsushima on the outskirts of Nagoya, opened on 20 November 2015 by the community's fifth caliph, Mirza Masroor Ahmad. It is the largest mosque in central Japan.

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    Tsushima Shrine

    A shrine at Tsushima in Aichi, the head shrine of about three thousand Tsushima-cult shrines nationwide — the tenth largest shrine network in Japan, concentrated in the Tōkai region. Its Tenno festival in July puts lantern-hung boats on the river.

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