Nagoya doesn’t hand you a single obvious neighbourhood to base yourself in the way Kyoto or Osaka does. It comes down to what you’re actually prioritising: transit logistics, a livelier evening, or waking up across the moat from the castle itself. This guide breaks Nagoya into three real bases, Nagoya Station, Sakae, and the small cluster right by the...
Nagoya’s food culture has a name: Nagoya meshi. It’s bold, built on rich red hatcho miso, and it doesn’t apologise for any of it — this is a city that serves pork cutlets under miso sauce instead of the usual tonkatsu sauce, and treats deep-fried chicken wings as a food group. If you’re wondering where to actually eat it, here are thirteen...
I got into Nagoya on a late Shinkansen from Tokyo, checked into a hotel two minutes from the station, and had exactly one day to see a city most people skip entirely. Nagoya sits on the Tokaido Shinkansen line between Tokyo and Kyoto, and a lot of travellers treat it as nothing more than a place the train passes through. I wanted to know if that reputation was fair...