Nagoya travel informations

Top 10 tourist destinations to visit in Nagoya

Nagoya is the capital of Honshu, which is the Aichi Prefecture of Japan. It is the major city of the Nobi plain and it has developed as the castle city. It is an abode to many tourist attractions, including museums, parks, temples, etc. Much of the historic temples of the city were destroyed during the 1945 air raids. Still, the city has countless worth seeing places to offer an enjoyable tour to its visitors.

Things to do in Nagoya

1. Book a flight to Nagoya to visit the SCMAGLEV and Railway Park

Actually, the park is the railway museum of Japan, which was opened in 2011. It is the museum of Central Japan Railways, which educates visitors on the developments of the high-speed rail in the country. Visitors can enjoy witnessing many exhibits of real trains as well as the world-renowned bullet trains, historic steam locomotives, and the most modern maglev trains (magic levitating). The museum also displays 39 obsolete Japanese trains with the detailed description of their parts. Visitors can also see one of the major train dioramas of the country, with small trains as well as historical relics from the olden days of Japanese railways. The park will be opened on all days from morning 10:00 to evening 05:30, except on Tuesdays. Visitors have to pay an entrance fee of 1000 yen to enter the park.

2. Nagashima Island-the best holiday destination in Nagoya

The Nagashima Island is the main holiday destination, situated on the outskirts of the Nagoya City. The main highlight of the island park is its roller coasters. The amusement park on the island is packed with more than forty rides, ranging from moderate ones appropriate for kids to adventurous ones for those, who want to experience exciting moments. Tourists booking a flight to Nagoya and visiting the island can enjoy five major leisure amenities, such as the Nagashima Spaland enjoyment park, a hot spring complex, a water park, a flower park, and a shopping mall. Tourists can take pleasure in seeing some of the scenic beauties of the surrounding waters and rivers. Tourists can visit the island from morning 9:30 to evening 05:00 on paying an admission fee of 1600 yen.

3. Book a flight from Nagoya to visit the Tokugawa Art Museum

 Nagoya was functioning as the seat of the Japanese Owari Province during the reign of the Edo era. The Tokugawa Art Museum was constructed on the land of the earlier feudal home of Owari.  Sightseers visiting the museum can enjoy witnessing the ancient treasures, such as samurai swords and armor, tea gadgets, masks and dresses, poems, maps, and scrolls. Beside the museum, visitors can see a gorgeous Japanese scenery garden with a big pool at its center. A huge network of strolling tracks leads visitors to rest houses, a tea abode, and across numerous bridges. Visitors can enter the museum between morning 10:00 and evening 05:00 on paying the entrance fee of 1400 yen for visiting the museum and 1550 yen for visiting the museum and garden.

4. Explore the history of the Nagoya Castle

Nagoya Castle, which was constructed during the early Edo Period, was almost destroyed during the 1945 air raids, including the castle buildings. The present Ferro-concrete renovation of the castle has been maintained since 1959 and it now includes a contemporary museum. Tourists booking a flight from Nagoya and visiting the museum can find displays, portraying the detailed history of the castle.  They can also visit a beautiful park around the castle, which has two moat circles and inspiring walls with towers at their corner. Vacationers can visit the castle from morning 09:00 to evening 04:30 on paying an admission fee of 500 yen.

5. Have an enjoyable time with your kids at the Legoland amusement park

Legoland is an outdoor amusement park in the Nagoya City, which was opened to the public in 2017. The park features numerous attractions mainly for kids and teens, although adults can also involve in many other activities. The park is divided into seven themed regions, matching the diverse spaces in the Lego world. Visiting the Miniland Japan region of the park will allow tourists enjoy the iconic appeals across the whole country. In the park, tourists can enjoy witnessing big Lego replicas, rides, construction stations as well as comfortable and well-maintained dining areas. Vacationers can visit the park with their kids from morning 10:00 to evening 05:00 from Monday through Saturday and from 10:00 to 06:00 on Sundays with the entrance fee of 6900 yen for adults and 5300 yen for kids between 3 years and 12 years.

6. Explore a beautiful mount at Korankei

Korankei is a valley in Nagoya, which is considered one of the best tourist spots in the city. The highlight of the valley is its 254-meter high Mount Iimori, on which visitors can find the Kojakuji Temple.  Tourists can find a line of maple trees on the way to the temple planted by the head priest of the temple during the seventeenth century. According to the instructions of the priest, locals started planting the trees on the way to the temple. Nowadays, sightseers taking a ticket to Nagoya and visiting Korankei can notice the fruits of these earlier efforts, in the form of outstanding autumn landscape that peak about the middle part to the concluding part of November every year.

7. Nagoya City Science Museum-the museum for all age groups

The Nagoya City Science Museum has a typical massive silver globe, which includes one of the biggest planetariums in the world. It is a seven-storied museum, among which five floors are devoted to a complete collection of permanent displays, whereas temporary shows are occasionally held in the ground floor. The permanent displays of the museum offer abundant opportunities for tourists of all age groups to learn science by means of interactive trials. The museum will be opened to the public from morning 09:30 to evening 05:00 on all days except Mondays. Tourists have to pay 400 yen to enter the museum and an additional fee of 400 yen to witness the planetarium shows.

8. Take a ticket to Nagoya to visit the Atsuta Shrine

Atsuta Shrine is one of the most vital holy places of Shinto. It preserves Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess as well as Kusanagi, the holy sword, which is one among the three regal ceremonial objects. However, visitors cannot see the sword and the shrine stands in a pleasing, forested park in the southern part of the Nagoya City. The temple was renovated during the Meiji era in the Japanese Shinmei-zukuri structural design style after the Ise Shrines.

9. Worship the goddess of mercy at the Osu Kannon Temple

Osu Kannon is a famous Buddhist temple, situated in the heart of the Nagoya city. The temple was first constructed in 1192 during the reign of Kamakura era in the adjacent Gifu County. Later, the temple was shifted from its original place to the current place in 1612 due to severe flooding. Tourists taking a ticket to Nagoya and visiting the temple can worship the goddess of mercy, known as Kannon, which is a statue made purely of wood. Sightseers can visit the temple on all days without paying an entrance fee.

10. Pay an airfare for Nagoya to witness the tallest building in the city, the Midland Square

Midland Square, which is the tallest structure in the Nagoya city, is the 247-meter high skyscraper. It is a 46-storied building, among which visitors can see numerous shops, attractive boutiques, cafes, as well as restaurants on the ground floor as well as on the first four floors. The fifth floor of the building includes a theater. The highlight of the square is its Sky Promenade, situated on the last top three floors of the building. This is an outdoor surveillance deck, from where visitors can enjoy the panoramic views of the JR Central Towers, Nagoya Port, and the Nagoya Castle. Tourists can visit the Sky Promenade between morning 11:00 and night 10:00 during March to June and October to December, night 11:00 during July to September, and until night 09:00 during January and February with the entrance fee of 750 yen.

The climate of the Nagoya City

Nagoya features a mild temperate and moderate climate. August is the hottest month in the city and January is the coldest month.

The best time to pay an airfare for Nagoya is to visit the city from September to November.

 klm flights to nagoya