Nagoya
Housed in the swooping Nadya Park complex is this secular shrine to the deities of conceptualisation, form and function. Design touchstones from art deco to postmodernism, Electrolux to Isamu Noguchi, Arne Jacobsen to the Mini Cooper and everything in between is represented in these significant galleries.
Once sated, design-heads should gravitate to the Loft Department Store, also in Nadya Park, to burn some cash.
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A National Treasure, Japan's oldest standing castle is said to have originated as a fort in 1440. The current donjon (main keep), built atop a 40m rise鈥
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Due to war, earthquakes and development, few Meiji-era buildings have survived here. In 1965 this open-air museum was created to preserve this unique鈥
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A must for anyone interested in Japanese culture and history, this museum has a collection of over 10,000 pieces that includes National Treasures and鈥
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Although the current buildings were completed in 1966, 础迟蝉耻迟补-箩颈苍驳奴 has been a shrine for over 1900 years and is one of the most sacred Shint艒 shrines in鈥
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Trainspotters will be in heaven at this fantastic hands-on museum. Featuring actual maglev (the world's fastest train 鈥 581km/h), shinkansen (bullet鈥
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This ancient shrine on a lovely hillside is dedicated to female Shint艒 deity Izanami and attracts women seeking marriage or fertility. See if you can find鈥
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See up to 20 shiny examples of the latest automotive technology hot off the production line and witness firsthand how they're made here at Toyota's global鈥
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Izanagi, the male counterpart of female deity Izanami, is commemorated at this shrine, with countless wooden and stone phalluses to celebrate. You can buy鈥
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This hands-on museum claims the world's largest dome-screen planetarium, with some seriously out-of-this-world projection technology. There's also a鈥
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The much-visited, workaday 艑su Kannon temple traces its roots back to 1333. Devoted to the Buddha of Compassion, the temple was moved to its present鈥
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Nagoya's much-loved TV tower, completed in 1954, was the first of its kind in Japan. The tower's central location makes its 100m-high Sky Balcony a great鈥
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Oasis 21 is a bus terminal and transit hub with a difference. Its iconic 'galaxy platform' 鈥 an elliptical glass-and-steel structure filled with water for鈥
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Built in 1922, this grand Taisho-era Court of Appeal now houses the city archives. While the archives themselves are difficult to navigate for non鈥
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On levels 44 to 46 of Midland Square, Sky Promenade features Japan's tallest open-air observation deck and a handful of high-altitude, high-priced鈥
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Nagoya's tallest building (247m) houses Toyota's corporate HQ and showroom, boutique shopping on the lower floors and a beehive of offices in the middle鈥
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The original structure, built between 1610 and 1614 by Tokugawa Ieyasu for his ninth son, was levelled in WWII. Today's castle is a concrete replica (with鈥