Best Tourist Spots In Nagoya
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Waterfall sounds cutting off the bustle of a big city. Vivid green plants changing its tone with the season. Put yourself into the silence that you never think you're in a big city. I think it proper that here was once a retired house for the lord of Owari area.
Name
Tokugawa Garden
Address
Tokugawa-cho Higashi-ku, Nagoya-shi, AichiGoogle Map
Tel
052-935-8988
Hours
9:30-17:30
Closed
Mon
How to get there
10 min walk from JR Osone Station. Bu bus from Nagoya Station , 30 min to Tokugawa Museum or 20 min to Tokugawa-en Shindeki. By car or taxi, 20 min from Nagoya Station. Parking area is available.
Parking
Parking area is available

It is a photogenic shrine in Nagoya. Seasonal flowers are displayed in the Chozuya. Purple flowers are spreading in the water and it is beautiful. Flowers and Japanese umbrellas are displayed in front of the shrine and are colorful. There is also a Japanese umbrella for rent, so you can take a picture with the Japanese umbrella in your hand.
Name
Wakeoe Shrine
Address
4-14-4 Yasui Kita-ku, Nagoya-shi, AichiGoogle Map
How to get there
20 min walk from Kami-iida Subway Station. By bus, 7 min from Kami-iida Station to Tsuji-machi, and 5 min walk. Or, 30 min from Nagoya Station to Kaneda-cho 5-chome and 5 min walk. By taxi or car, 25 min from Nagoya Station. Free parking area is available.
Parking
Free parking area is available

Autumn foliage viewing in the city. A spacious and calm scene weaved by Japanese style structures and maple leaves. The reflected autumn colors on the water surface are also beautiful.
Name
Shirotori Garden
Address
2-5 Atsuta Nishi-machi Atsuta-ku, Nagoya-shi, AichiGoogle Map
Tel
052-681-8928
Hours
9:00-17:00
Closed
Mon
Fee
Adult 300 yen、Child 0 yen
How to get there
Parking
Toll parking area is available

Going up from the 42nd floor of Midland Square, there's an observatory commands the whole view of Nagoya city. The night view of course, the daytime is also magnificent. For the well of its architecture, you can feel the comfortable breeze together.
Name
Sky Promenade
Address
42nd Floor Midland Square 4-7-1 Meieki Nakamura-ku, Nagoya-shi, AichiGoogle Map
How to get there
5 min walk from JR Nagoya Station or Kintetsu nagoya Station. Toll parking area is available.
Parking
Toll parking area is available

Very Impressive pair of Shachihoko which is 2.5 meters long. Standing calmly near the urban district of public offices, Nagoya Castle was built by Tokugawa Ieyasu as the last preparation to conquer the whole country. Night illumination exaggerates the beauty of its white walls.
Name
Nagoya Castle
Address
Honmaru Naka-ku, Nagoya-shi, AichiGoogle Map
Tel
052-231-1700
Hours
9:00-16:00
How to get there

Your thoughts go to the universe, stars and Carl Zeiss by very real planetarium. Be careful to the sleepiness because the chair is so comfortable. Anything else, you can enjoy astronomy machines, chemical exhibitions, and so forth.◎null
Name
NAGOYA CITY SCIENCE MUSEUM
Address
2-17-1 Sakae Naka-ku, Nagoya-shi, AichiGoogle Map
How to get there

There're many various playground equipment and also the photogenic spots in the large park with rich nature. Specially, I like this spot during the sunset, the silhouette is very picturesque, and we can take nice pictures! Please try to find this place!
Name
Ōdaka Ryokuchi Park
Address
1-1 Ōdaka Takayama, Midori-ku, Nagoya-shi, AichiGoogle Map
How to get there
5 min walk from Sakyoyama Station
Parking
Parking area is available

This goldfish art aquarium is exhibited from 7/21 to 9/16. It's for the first time in four years, and excellent as a summer event. You can enjoy art of Japanese atmosphere and goldfish a in cool room.
Name
Art Aquarium Exhibition - Nagoya, Elegance Of Kingyo -
Address
Matsuzakaya Nagoya, 3-16-1 Sakae Naka-ku , Nagoya-shi, AichiGoogle Map
Hours
10:00-19:30
Fee
Adult 1000 yen、Child 800 yen
How to get there
Direct connected with Yabacho Station. 5 min walk from Sakae Station. By car or taxi, 10 in from Nagoya city.
Parking
Toll parking area is available

From 7/14 to 9/24 at a 90 meters observatory of Nagoya TV Tower, you can see the collaboration of images that expresses the underwater world and the night view of Nagoya. The moment of the downtown of Nagoya changing into the underwater town, must make you really moved.
Name
Nagoya TV Tower
Address
3-6-15 Nishiki Naka-ku, Nagoya-shi, AichiGoogle Map
Hours
10:00-22:00
Fee
Adult 700 yen、Child 300 yen
How to get there
Just near Hisayaodori Station. 3 min walk from Sakae Station. 15 min by car or taxi from Nagoya Station.
Parking
Nearby toll parking area is available

What is most outstanding is the vivid orange color of the moored ship body. People recall several scenes appearing some movies and TV series describing Antarctic research expeditions. Beside it at lawn square, there's a statue of Taro & Jiro, Sakhalin dogs that had survived in Antarctica.
Name
Antarctic Research Ship Fuji
Address
Minato-machi Minato-ku, Nagoya-shi, AichiGoogle Map
Tel
052-654-7080
Hours
9:30-17:30
Closed
Mon
How to get there

One of the three sacred emblems, a sword of Kusanagi is enshrined here in old Atsuta Jingu. Around November, it gets crowded by cute children in their best clothes for Shichigosan (7,5,3years old children's ceremony), and a bride wearing Shiromuku (a white dress for Japanese traditional wedding). I want foreign people to see such a beautiful and traditional sights.
Name
Atsuta Jingu
Address
1-1-1 Jingu Atsuta-ku, Nagoya-shi, AichiGoogle Map
Tel
052-671-4151
How to get there

A tideland registered in the Ramsar Convention. Here's the best place to go away from the bustle of a big city and touch the nature. Wild ducks and plovers come flying, gray heron inhabit here. You can also meet living creatures at the water's edge such as sand bubbler crabs.
Name
Fujimae Tideland
Address
Fujimae Minato-ku, Nagoya-shi, AichiGoogle Map
How to get there
Parking
Parking area is available

Miwa Shrine is a matchmaking shrine. There are two recommended points for this shrine, the first is the rabbit ema. The second one is flower water. 2023 is the year of the rabbit, so be sure to visit the rabbit shrine as well.
Name
Miwa Shrine
Address
3-9-32 Osu, Nagoya-shi, Aichi, JapanGoogle Map
Tel
052-241-7468
How to get there
5 min walk, from Kamimaedu Station

Umbrella Flower has exhibited since 2017. At Hoshigaoka Terrace, there're 100 umbrellas like flowers in the sky, and the sun lights them. You can enjoy shopping in the beautiful scene of the flowery ground!◎2018.4.20-7.31
Name
Hoshigaoka Terrace
Address
16-50 Motomachi Hoshigaoka Chikusa-ku, Nagoya-shi, AichiGoogle Map
How to get there
1 min walk from Hoshigaoka Station (Gate No. 6). By car, 10 min from Nagoya IC, parking area is available.
Parking
Parking area is available

Located at Kita-ku, Nagoya, it's a famous cherry blossom viewing spot which has more than 400 trees along the 1.5 kilometers Hori-kawa River. For there're not any parking area near here, so we enjoy walking under the trees. And it's also good for jogging. I have two pictures taken in different white balance.
Name
Goyōsui-ato Gaien Park
Address
Kita-ku, Nagoya-shi, AichiGoogle Map
How to get there
10 min walk from Kami Iida Station

At Hosoguchi Ike Park, we can see the collaboration of cherry blossom and daffodil. Without any entrance fees, it's good place to enjoy walking around. Let's go to see this beautiful contrast of pink and yellow.
Name
Hosoguchi Ike Park
Address
Hirabari Minami, Tempaku-ku, Nagoya-shi, AichiGoogle Map
How to get there
4 min by car or taxi from Hirabari Station

I really enjoyed BBQ under the cherry blossoms!
Name
Shonai Ryokuchi Park
Address
1-30 Kamiotai Nishi-ku, Nagoya-shi, AichiGoogle Map
How to get there
Just near Shonai Ryokuchi Park Station (Gate No.2). By bus, 20min from Nagoya Station to Shonai Bridge, then walk 2min. By car, 5min from Yamada Higashi IC.

Approximately 80 years since it started. Animals got together from all over the world live in the lush site. They work out the exhibitions to make it easy to learn the ecology of animals. It'll be an attractive spot for taking pictures.
Name
Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens
Address
3-70 Higashiyamamotomachi Chikusaku, Nagoya-shi, AichiGoogle Map
Tel
052-782-2111
Hours
9:00-16:30
Closed
Mon
How to get there

I took this picture from Aichi Arts Center. I aimed Oasis 21 as a main object, Television Tower and buildings of Nagoya at the time of magic hour.◎From Sakae Station, you can take picture like this from Aichi Arts Center located next to Oasis 21.
Name
Oasis 21
Address
11-1-1 Higashi Sakura Higashi-ku, Nagoya-shi, AichiGoogle Map
Tel
052-962-1011
Hours
10:00-21:00
How to get there
Just near Sakae Station. 15 min by car from Nagoya Station
Parking
Nearby toll parking area is available