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  • Tokyo
    
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Japan Guide

Central Honshū

Nagoya

• Accommodation
• Eating
• Nightlife

Completely rebuilt after a wartime drubbing, NAGOYA is an overwhelmingly modern metropolis of high-rise buildings, wide boulevards, multi-lane highways and flyovers, where business takes precedence over tourism. Here you'll find the headquarters of industrial powerhouse Toyota as well as numerous other companies who exploit the local skill of monozukuri (making things) to the hilt.

Capital of Aichi-ken and Japan's fourth largest city, Nagoya is well worth making time to visit. One of its highlights is the grand Tokugawa Art Museum and attached gardens, housing belongings of the powerful family that once ruled Japan, and who built Nagoya's original castle back in 1610. Another is the Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology, an appropriate tribute to Nagoya's industrial heritage. Less overwhelming than Tokyo or Ōsaka, Nagoya also offers a great chance to get to grips with urban Japan and all its contemporary delights, not least of which is its delicious food scene.