ITINERARIES

Nagoya, worked out by the hour

Each itinerary gives the order of stops, how long the journey between them actually takes, what it costs per adult and what that figure includes. Opening hours and closing days are taken from each venue’s own site.

ALL ITINERARIES

Pick one that fits the time you have

Half a Day in Nagoya, Starting and Ending at the Station

Two industrial-heritage sites within walking distance of Nagoya Station, with the timings worked out so you can leave your bags in a locker and still make an afternoon train.

Starts: Nagoya Station
Time: About 4 hours 30 minutes, door to door
Getting around: On foot, or one stop on the Higashiyama subway line
Budget: About ¥1,300 per adult
Suits: Anyone with a half-day gap between trains, and anyone interested in how Nagoya became a manufacturing city. Both stops are indoors.

Rainy-Day Nagoya: One Day Almost Entirely Indoors

A full day built around three indoor sites, chosen so that the walk from the station to each door is short, with the closing days checked because they do not match.

Starts: Nagoya Station
Time: A full day, roughly 09:30 to 17:30
Getting around: Subway and the Aonami Line
Budget: About ¥3,000 per adult
Suits: A washed-out day when you still want to fill it, and anyone who would rather not plan around the weather at all — nothing here depends on it.

One Day in Nagoya Without a Car

The castle, a daimyo garden and the Osu shopping streets in one day on the subway, using the combined castle-and-garden ticket and avoiding the day the garden shuts.

Starts: Nagoya Station
Time: A full day, roughly 09:00 to 17:30
Getting around: Subway throughout, plus one JR or Meijo-line leg
Budget: About ¥1,400 per adult
Suits: A first day in the city, and anyone who wants the historic sites without hiring a car. Every leg is on the subway.

How these are put together

Each itinerary is a day someone could actually do, not a list of the best places in Nagoya. The order is the order you would go in; the time between stops is how long that leg takes, counted from door to door rather than platform to platform.

The budget is per adult and says what it includes, because a figure that quietly leaves out the train fare is not useful. Closing days matter more than they look: two of the museums here shut on different days of the week, so a plan that works on Sunday can fall apart on Monday. Where that happens, the itinerary says so at the top rather than leaving you to find out.