Nagoya TV Tower

180m, high, this is Japan's first intensive radio-wave emitting tower and a landmark of Nagoya. Its observation platform offers the opportunity to view magnificent scenery.

Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology

It exhibits the mechanics of industry from textiles to automobiles through actual equipment to help you understand the importance and excitement of making things and of creativity and research.

Noritake Craft Centre

This centre offers the chance to see a production line of Noritake China, the world famous porcelain tableware. There's also a Porcelain-ware Museum where examples of all the Noritake China ever made are exhibited.

Osu-kannon Temple

This area is especially loved by the people of Nagoya. An antique market, the highlight of Osu, is held in this area on the 18th and 28th of every month.

Nagoya City Art Museum

It houses and shows approximately 1,300 works of both overseas artists, such as A.Modigliani, and domestic artists such as Takanori Ogisu and Tamiji Kitagawa.

Nagoya Castle

The symbol of Nagoya is the home castle of the Owari Tokugawa family, built by Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1612. various cultural treasures are exhibited in the main castle tower. In the gardens of Nagoya Castle is the Ninomaru garden, one of the premier castle gardens of Japan.

Tokugawa Art Museum

This museum has collected and displays some 20,000 treasures from the Tokugawa family and Edo period. You will also find frequent temporary exhibits of traditional arts and craft here.

Higashimaya Zoo and Botanical Gardens

Higashiyama Zoo is a huge comprehensive park that includes a zoo, botanical gardens and children's playgrounds. The Higashiyama Zoo, which is one of the largest zoos in the Orient, features the popular koalas. Nocturnal animals are also exhibited in this natural zoo. The botanical gardens have large greenhouses and walkways.

Higashimaya Sky Tower

An observation tower which offers you the best view of Nagoya. Enjoy the night-view of Nagoya city from the tower restaurant.

Atsuta Shrine

This shrine is one of three major shrines in Japan that house the Sacred Treasures of the Imperial Family. This shrine is dedicated to the Kusanagi (Grass-mowing) Sword. A total of sixty different traditional festivals and ten religious events are held here every year. The Nohgakuden, within the precinct of the shrine, is a theatre hosting the Japanese Noh dramas and other traditional performing arts. The Houmotsukan (museum) houses treasures of the Nihon Shoki (the chronicles of Japan).

Shirotori Garden

The traditional artistic beauty of the Japanese garden is expressed using sophisticated water technology.

Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium

One of the largest aquariums in Japan, with a Trip to the Antarctic theme. About 36,000 living things consisting of 540 species, which live in five Oceans from Japan to the Antarctic, are exhibited. Penguin tanks in which the Antarctic environment has been reproduced, rotary tanks for turtles and many more are installed.
Souvenir shops sell museum related articles.

Port Building

The building was designed as a white sailboat to symbolize the Port of Nagoya. The view from the observatory room is just wonderful and inside the building are the Marine Museum and restaurant.

Antarctic Museum Fuji

The icebreaker that used to survey the Antarctic sea for 18 years from 1965 has been moored at the Port building to serve as an Antarctic Museum.