The fourth most populated city of Japan is Nagoya, home to more than 2 million people. Nagoya has developed their own castle town Owari, which is one of the 3 branches of the Tokugawa family in the Edo period. Most of the city was destroyed during the air raids that took place during the war back in 1945. Just outside of the city, you will find the main headquarters of Toyota Motor Corporation, maintaining it up to this day. Japan is a popular country for tourist, and Nagoya is one of the places in Japan that they usually go to. Here are some of the best places that Nagoya offers.
Nagashima Resort – Just outside Nagoya is the Nagashima Resort, which is considered the most highly visited vacation destination. It has five main facilities promised to provide leisure to visitors which are the hot spring, outlet shopping mall, Nagashima Spaland amusement park, a flower park that is named Nabana no Sato and a water park. The resort si surrounded by the sea and the rivers. The name Nagashima can be translated literally to “long island”, due to the location of the resort to be erected on a long piece of land.
Tokugawa Art Museum – Back in the Edo Period that took place between 1600 and 1868, Nagoya was the seat of Owari, one of the main branches of the Tokugawa family. The Tokugawa family was able to gather great wealth that was able to surpassed 4 of the 200 feudal domains during that period. This museum is built on the preserves and residence of the Owari's former feudal lords, and also exhibits several treasures that belonged to them which includes samurai sets of swords and armors, noh masks, costumes, tea utensils, maps, poems and scrolls.
Nagoya Castle – Another piece of amazing historical architecture that was built during the Edo Period, it was once one of the largest castles of Japan, and the castle town was built around it, making it the 4th largest city of the country.
The place is extremely wonderful to visit, because it offers a lot of great things to the vacationers. It is also safe because of the law enforcements are always have their presence, the people are friendly and they offer help for the tourist if they needed. No trouble during night time, having a night life is very easy. It’s easy to go to Nagoya because there are transports available all the time, you will surely love to go here and have a perfect vacation.