Sunshine Sakae is located at central sakae area. It has a Ferris wheel, many restaurants, ramen shops and clothes shops. Particularly, on the 2nd floor, there are many ramen shops. The floor is called Nagoya ekimen rococo.
The Italian Village near Nagoya port is quite interesting, it has a canal with real gondola and gondoliers, a statue of David and buildings that are pretty good copies of old style Italian buildings. This place is made to suck in the local Japanese tourists. The multitude of stores inside, although quite nice, are overpriced. There is even a small market inside selling foodstuffs imported.
Nagoya Castle was built in the beginning of the Edo Period for one of the three Tokugawa family branches, the Owari. Nagoya Castle, known for the pair of golden dolphins on its roof, was built approximately four hundred years ago. The castle was almost completely destroyed in the air raids of 1945. The current Ferro-concrete reconstruction dates from 1959. The inside of the castle is now a modern museum displaying the castle's history
Nagoya has been a pottery and porcelain production centre for centuries. Today, the city and its vicinity manufacture 90% of Japan's total export chinaware. The largest chinaware company in Japan is Noritake, founded in 1904 and known the world over for its fine tableware. Unlike most modern-day factories, almost all the work done at Noritake is still done by hand.
Museum Meiji Mura a most important attraction it is a 100-hectare open-air architectural museum, it features more than 65 buildings and structures dating from the Meiji Period 1868 to 1912, all beautifully situated on landscaped grounds on the shores of a lake. On the grounds are Western homes that once belonged to foreigners living in Nagasaki and Kobe, official government buildings and schools, two Christian churches,a bathhouse, a Kabuki a post office theatre, a brewery, bridges, Japanese-style homes, a martial-arts hall, and even a prison. Unfortunately, earth quakes, war, fire, and developer greed have destroyed most of Japan's Meiji-Era buildings, making this a priceless collection.
The greatest Sumo wrestlers in Japan, meet for Nagoya Basho, the biggest and most important of the year's six Grand Tournaments, held at the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium.
Nagoya is fortunate to have an extensive, efficient public transport system that makes it an easy place to live and work. Visitors are amazed by the ease of travel and relative lack of congestion on the roads. After a while we take all this for granted, and become infuriated when we miss our connection because a subway was 20 seconds late. Before you go though, you should get the Japan Rail Pass for the time you are staying there. It allows you for unlimited travel on JR major trains for the time you are there.The history of our beloved subway traces back to that of its predecessor, the Nagoya Tram System.
The two most famous sightseeing spots are Nagoya Castle and Atsuta Shrine.
Nagoya Castle was built in 1612. Although a large part of it burned down in the fires of World War II, the castle was restored in 1959, adding some modern amenities such as elevators.
Atsuta Shrine is known as the second most venerable shrine in Japan, after Ise Shrine. It enshrines the Kusanagi sword, one of the three imperial regalia of Japan. It holds around 70 festivals in a year, and many people visit the shrine year round. The shrine has over 4400 national treasures representing its 2000 years history.
More famous for its car industry than for its tourist attractions, but it makes a good stopover if traveling around Japan. A couple of days should be enough to visit the main tourist sights.
There are a lot of places for cheap drinking. Sakae is the big nightlife district, in a loose triangle near the station. It has a large red light district but as with most of Japan theres no sense of danger so dont worry. If the bar and club scene is not for you, try their bimonthly international parties. Always a dynamic mix of foreigners and Japanese. At the party its all you can drink and eat for a set price.
Nagoya is a modern Japanese city, similar to Osaka. It has a reconstructed castle and a modern centre. The city entered the tourist circuits in 2005 with the Aichi Expo. Take a trip and have fun in discovering things for yourself.