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• Aeon Mall Atsuta
• Aichi and Nagoya War Museum (愛知・名古屋 戦争に関する資料館) 2,579 B-29s flew over Nagoya: a model of one of their incendiary bombs is in the display case.
• Antarctic Icebreaker Fuji (南極観測船ふじ) In eighteen years of Antarctic service it covered 680,000 km: seventeen times round the Earth.
• Arako Kannon (荒子観音寺) More than 1,250 wooden Buddhas can be seen only on the second Saturday of the month, from 13:00 to 16:00.
• Arimatsu Float Museum (有松山車会館) It displays one float at a time and changes it every year: to see them all takes three years.
• Arimatsu, the dyers' town (有松の町並み) Eight hundred metres of dyers' houses, and not a single utility pole above the street.
• Atsuta Hōraiken, the historic main branch (あつた蓬莱軒 本店) ‘Hitsumabushi’ is their registered trademark, and one serving costs 4,950 yen.
• Atsuta Shrine (熱田神宮) It keeps the Kusanagi sword, one of the three imperial regalia; the grounds are open 24 hours.
• Cape Irago (伊良湖岬) The lighthouse was first lit in 1929: in front of it stretches the lovers' beach, one kilometre long.
• Chūbu Electric Power MIRAI TOWER (中部電力 MIRAI TOWER) Since 12 December 2022 it has been the first Japanese tower to be declared a cultural property.
• Endōji Arcade (円頓寺商店街) A covered arcade with about thirty small shops; in July it fills with papier-mâché.
• Esca Underground Arcade (エスカ地下街) Eighty shops under the station, thirty-five of them for eating, and the cafés open at 7:00.
• Futaba-kan, the house of Kawakami Sadayakko (文化のみち二葉館) The house of Japan's first actress, taken apart, moved and put back up: 200 yen.
• Ghibli Park (ジブリパーク) Opened in three stages from 2022 to 2024: the Valley of Witches, the largest area, is the newest.
• Higashi Betsuin Market (東別院てづくり朝市) On the 8th, the 18th and the 28th some fifty stalls fill the courtyard, from 10:00 to 14:00.
• Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Garden (東山動植物園) The 1936 greenhouse is the oldest public greenhouse in Japan, a cultural property since 2006.
• Hisaya-odori Park (久屋大通公園) A kilometre of linear park, rebuilt in 2020: 54,122 m², four zones, free.
• Imaike (今池) A black market after the war, then cinemas, bowling alleys and a skating rink.
• Inuyama Castle (犬山城) The tenshu, from 1537, is the oldest surviving one in Japan: a National Treasure since 1952.
• JR Central Towers (JRセントラルタワーズ) Glazed hall on the 15th floor above the station, free entry: the tower is 245 m tall.
• Kasadera Kannon (笠覆寺) The open-air market comes back on every day with a six in it: the 6th, the 16th and the 26th.
• Kintoki-yu, Nagoya public bath (金時湯) The water comes from a 120-metre well, and a bath costs 550 yen, as everywhere in Aichi.
• Kōrankei Gorge (香嵐渓) The monk Sanei of the Kojaku-ji temple planted the first maples in 1634; the name dates from 1930.
• Kōshō-ji, Yagoto (八事山興正寺) The five-storey pagoda of 1808 is 26 m tall: the oldest surviving one in the prefecture.
• LEGOLAND Japan (レゴランド・ジャパン) At Miniland over 10 million Lego bricks recreate the cities of Japan to scale.
• Meiji-mura Museum (博物館明治村) — Red Cross pavilion It opened in 1965 with 15 relocated buildings; today there are 67, eleven of them Important Cultural Properties.
• Meijō Park, the north park (名城公園北園) A wisteria pergola 660 metres long, 85 plants, with Nagoya Castle behind it.
• Mitani Onsen The onsen lies within the Mikawa Bay Quasi-National Park, and its four recorded springs range from 24.8 to 33.7°C, with measured flow rates…
• Nagoya Castle (名古屋城) The tenshu has been closed since 2018: the wooden reconstruction will not come before 2032.
• Nagoya City Science Museum (名古屋市科学館) The planetarium dome measures 35 metres: one of the largest in the world, rebuilt in 2011.
• Nakanoike Park (中ノ池公園) It is just under half a kilometre from Nishi-Chita hospital, which appears in the same area of the story.
• Nishi-Chita General Hospital (公立西知多総合病院)
• Nishiki San-chōme (錦三丁目) The largest nightlife district in the whole Chūbu-Tōkai region, reborn after 1945.
• Nishiura Onsen The original spring ran dry, and since 1998 the hot spring water has arrived every day by tanker lorry from nearby Mitani Onsen: the number…
• Nittai-ji, Kakuōzan (覚王山日泰寺) No Buddhist school owns it: nineteen take turns as abbot, 3 years each.
• Noritake no Mori (ノリタケの森) The 1904 chimney (45 m): together with the castle, the highest point in Nagoya, before the TV tower.
• Oasis 21 (オアシス21) You walk 14 m up on the water roof: an oval of 106×36 m, free, 10:00–21:00.
• Okazaki Castle (岡崎城) Tokugawa Ieyasu was born here in 1542; the present tower is a 1959 rebuild.
• Ōsu district (大須商店街) It began in 1612, when Ieyasu moved a temple here from Gifu: today about 1,200 shops.
• Ōsu Kannon Temple (大須観音) The temple library holds the oldest surviving Kojiki, copied in 1371–72.
• Ota-gawa Station The Meitetsu station in Tōkai.
• Port Building and Nagoya Maritime Museum (名古屋港ポートビル・名古屋海洋博物館) A building shaped like a sailing ship, 63 m tall and standing since 1984: the observation deck is at 53 m and costs 300 yen.
• Port of Nagoya Aquarium The main tank measures 60x30 metres and is 12 metres deep: among the largest in the world.
• Sakushima Island (佐久島) 22 works of art scattered across a fishing island, 25 minutes by ferry from Isshiki.
• SCMAGLEV and Railway Park (リニア・鉄道館) The MLX01-1 maglev on display reached 581 km/h on 2 December 2003.
• Shikemichi, the street of storehouses (四間道) After the fire of 1700 the street was widened to seven metres: that way the fire could not jump across.
• Shirakabe, Chikaramachi and Shumoku (白壁・主税・橦木町並み保存地区) Fourteen hectares of boundary walls and pre-war villas behind Nagoya Castle.
• Shirotori Garden (白鳥庭園) The hill is Mount Ontake, the stream the Kiso River, the pond Ise Bay.
• Shiroyama Hachimangū (城山八幡宮) The grounds are Suemori Castle, from 1547: you can still walk the dry moats.
• Sky Promenade, Midland Square (屋外展望台 スカイプロムナード) Open-air terrace at 220 m, open until 22:00: 1,000 yen on weekdays, 1,200 at weekends and on public holidays.
• Skyward Asahi (スカイワードあさひ) A building in Owariasahi, in Aichi, the home town of the author Kōhei Horikoshi.
• Suwa Shrine, Isshiki (三河一色 諏訪神社) Six pairs of lanterns, the largest measuring 10 metres, raised on the fourth weekend of every August.
• Tōkai Campus, Nihon Fukushi University (日本福祉大学東海キャンパス) It is a five-minute walk from the west exit of Ōtagawa Station, at Ōta-chō Shimohamada 1071.
• Tōkai Central Library (東海市立中央図書館) Tōkai's municipal library.
• Tokoname Pottery Footpath — Yakimono Sanpo-michi (とこなめ焼き物散歩道) The Dokanzaka: a slope lined with Meiji-period ceramic pipes.
• Tokugawa Art Museum (徳川美術館) Nine National Treasures, including the oldest surviving scroll of the Genji Monogatari.
• Tokugawa-en Garden (徳川園) Destroyed in the 1945 bombings, it reopened as a Japanese garden only in 2004.
• Toyokawa Inari — Myōgon-ji (豊川稲荷 妙厳寺) About 1,000 fox statues, each one different, fill the small Reikozuka shrine.
• Toyota Automobile Museum (トヨタ博物館) Opened in April 1989: the collection numbers about 600 cars, almost all in working order.
• Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology (トヨタ産業技術記念館) It opened in June 1994 inside Toyoda Sakichi's 1911 textile factory.
• Tsuruma Park (鶴舞公園) Nagoya opened its first public park here on 19 November 1909: free and always open.
• Yamazaki River Four Seasons Path (山崎川四季の道) About 550 cherry trees along 2.5 km of embankment, one of Japan's hundred selected blossom spots.
• Yanagibashi Central Market (柳橋中央市場) A wholesale market since 1910: selling starts at four in the morning, then it is time for breakfast.

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