Japan Visitor Guide: Hotels, Flights, Tourist and Resident Information

	Site Map \| i-mode \| Forum	In Japanese

	Japan Hotels Serviced Apartments Hostels in Japan Japan City Guides Japan Guides Japan Castles Japan Stations Japan Museums Japan Maps Japanese Culture Japanese Food Gay Japan Images of Japan Tokyo Kyoto Shrines Shimane John Lander Temples People Guillaume Marcotte Japan Sport Japan Travel Weather in Japan Japan News Transport Japan Flights Residents Japan Books
	Japan Flights Japan Personals Japan Shop Kyoto Guide Tokyo Guide YAHOO JAPAN AUCTION SERVICE

	Blog Rss Bookmark Newsletter

Home » Japan City Guides

Partners: GoodsFromJapan | Soccerphile

	Japan City Guides:
	Nagoya City Guide

Japan City Guides related:

Also in Japan City Guides:

	Japan Guides
	Japan Castles
	Japan Stations
	Japan Museums
	Japan Maps

	Kyoto City Guide
	Nara City Guide
	Kurashiki
	Matsue
	Hakuba

Japan City Guides: Nagoya

Tokyo Kyoto Osaka Atami Fukuoka Hakone Himeji Hiroshima Ibaraki Ise & Toba Kamakura Kanazawa Kirishima Kobe Koyasan Magome & Tsumago Nagasaki Nagoya Nara Niigata Nikko Oita & Beppu Okayama & Kurashiki Okinawa Omi Hachiman Saitama Sakurajima Sapporo Sendai Shizuoka & Hamamatsu Shodoshima Toyohashi Tsukuba Yanagawa Yokohama

Nagoya

Bars, Restaurants, Clubs in Nagoya

One of Japan’s major cities – a population of more than 2.15 million.
A center of manufacturing. Home of Toyota – Japan’s biggest company.
Much more to offer than the average travel guide suggests.
Easy to get around by subway, train and bus, also well known for its wide streets and progressive urban planning.
Centrally located between Tokyo and Osaka on the Tokaido Shinkansen (i.e. bullet train) line.
Food speciality: Kishimen (flat noodles)

Nightlife and Eating Out

Nightlife areas include Sakae, Nagoya Station, Fushimi.
Further from the center of the city you will find great restaurants, bars and cafes - mainly along the Higashiyama and Tsurumai subway lines in the up-market Yagoto, Irinaka, Motoyama and Imaike districts.

Day Trips From Nagoya

Inuyama

Nagoya Friends
Party

Inuyama is home of one of Japan's most beautiful castles on the 'Japanese Rhine'; Meiji Mura open-air museum - Meiji era buildings relocated in pleasant surroundings, including the Imperial Hotel Entrance and Lobby by Frank Lloyd Wright; bizarre fertility festival at Tagata Jinja. (Meitetsu line)

For a full list of Nagoya area sights click here.

Ise

Japan's most sacred shrine, the Imperial Ise Jingu. Ritually rebuilt every 20 years and enshrining Amaterasu Omikami, Japan's chief ancestral goddess.

Gifu

Gifu makes for a pleasant day trip from Nagoya city and can be reached in about 30 minutes by either JR or Meitetsu train from Nagoya station. Gifu Castle has a commanding view of the Nagara river and can be reached by a steep climb on foot or by ropeway. Gifu is also noted for its ukai (cormorant fishing) from May to October. From Gifu it is easy to visit the historic town of Gujo Hachiman, famed for its traditional, all-night dancing in mid-summer.

Toyohashi

Toyohashi has pleasant parks, a castle, some other historic buildings and a fun zoo and amusement park.

Kiso Valley - Magome & Tsumago

The two Edo Period post towns of Magome & Tsumago on the Nakasendo in the beautiful Kiso Valley are less than two hours from Nagoya by public transport or car.

Things to see and do

Nagoya station. Nagoya castle completed in 1612 and adjacent park (access from Shiyakusho subway station); Toyota Automobile Museum (take the bus from Fujigaoka subway station); Tokugawa Art Museum (a short walk from Ozone subway station); Nagoya Port Aquarium (access from Nagoyako subway station); Osu shopping area (electronics and eclectic shops); Sakae and Nagoya Station (large shopping areas with major department stores); Nagoya Zoo (Higashiyama Koen).

For a full list of Nagoya city sights click here.

Aichi Expo 2005.

Tourist information

Centers at Nagoya Station (tel. 052-541-4301), Kanayama Station (tel. 052-323 0161), Oasis 21 i Center (tel. 052-963 5252) and Nagoya Port (tel. 052-654-7000), among others. Cultural and other information available at the Nagoya International Center (tel. 052-581-0100).

Sports

Baseball: Nagoya Dome

Home of the Chunichi Dragons of Japanese baseball's Central League. Access from the Nagoya-dome-mae subway station.

Soccer: Nagoya Grampus Eight

One of the founding teams of Japan's J-League featuring such alumni as ex-manager Arsene Wenger, who joined Arsenal from Grampus, and Gary Lineker who spent the last years of his career in Nagoya in the mid-90s. Grampus play some home games at the futuristic Toyota Stadium (by the celebrated Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa, who also designed Oita Stadium, the Wakayama Museum of Modern Art, Kuala Lumpur Airport and the New Wing of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) and the rest at Mizuho Athletic Stadium in the south-east of the city.

Access

Air

The new Chubu International Airport - Centrair - (which opened in February 2005) is located on a man-made island about 40km south of Nagoya in Ise Bay. The new airport has taken over all international and the majority of domestic flights serving Nagoya and the surrounding region and is a main access point for visitors to Aichi Expo 2005.
Access is by Meitetsu express train service on the Tokoname Line to Chubu International Airport Station at the new Chubu Airport direct from Nagoya Station, with connections on to Toyohashi, Inuyama and Gifu. The new service takes 28 minutes from Nagoya Station by the kaisoku Centrair service.
JR Bus and Meitetsu operate bus services between the airport and Nagoya Station. The bus journey takes about one hour and presently costs 1,000 yen. There are further bus services to other locations in the surrounding area and beyond.
There are also ferries to the airport from both Tsu and Toba in Mie Prefecture. See the Centrair website for full access details.

Nagoya's previous international airport (Komaki) will revert to a general purpose airport with commuter and private business flights. There are airport limousine buses to Komaki airport from outside the Meitetsu Melsa building near Nagoya Station and from Nishiharu Station on the Meitetsu Inuyama Line.
A taxi to central Nagoya costs around 12,000 yen (more after midnight0 and takes about 50 minutes.

Rail

There are Shinkansen links west to Osaka, Kyoto, Hiroshima and Fukuoka and east to Shizuoka and Tokyo.
Kintetsu also has trains from Nagoya station to Tsuruhashi and Namba in Osaka (2 hours by Urban Liner or 2 hours 30 minutes by Express) with connections to both Nara and Kyoto.

Bus

There are day and night services to Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Fukuoka and Nagasaki.

Ferry

The Taiheiyo ferry operates between Nagoya and Tomakomai (Hokkaido) via Sendai (around21 hours). Ferries depart from Nagoya-futo pier, a 40 minute journey by bus from Meitetsu bus station or take the Meijo Line to Nagoya-ko Station.

Books on Japan