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Nagoya / Aichi Half-day Private Custom Tour with National Licensed Guide

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Overview

With a National Licensed and Experienced English speaking guide, this tour will allow you to explore Nagoya / Aichi more efficiently in one day. Enjoy a full-day walking tour in Fukuoka accompanied by an experienced guide who shares the modern and traditional sides of the dynamic Japanese ancient city.

Begin your day with a morning pickup from your hotel in Nagoya or anywhere else, then visit Nagoya's famous sites including Nagoya Castle, The Atsuta Shrine, The Museum Meiji-mura and Nagoya gourmet and anywhere else as you like. Go in depth with a private guide who customizes your 4 hour tour to your interests.

Please let us know what would you like to experience and what time would you like to join the tour and where you stay. We would customize the tour based on your requests!

This is a walking tour. Pick up is on foot. You cannot combine several groups nor reservations.

What's Included
  1. Licensed Local English-speaking Guide
  2. Meet up with guide on foot within designated area of Nagoya
  3. Customizable Tour of your choice of 2-3 sites from 'What to expect' list
  1. Transportation fees, Entrance fees, Lunch, and Other personal expenses
  2. Private Vehicle
  3. You cannot combine multiple tour groups.
  4. Guide Entry fees are only covered for sights listed under What to Expect.
Meeting And Pickup

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What To Expect
Nagoya Castle

Nagoya Castle is right in the heart of Nagoya, and is very famous for its golden shachihoko (a mythical creature with a tiger's head and carp's body) figures on the roof. Ieyasu Tokugawa, the first shogun who established the Edo shougunate, built it in 1521. The main part of the castle was rebuilt after the war, and now you can climb to the top to feel like being a shogun to govern the country.

15 Minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Atsuta Jingu Shrine

Atsuta Jingu Shrine is the second highest rank shrine of Japan, founded in the 8th century. It occupies a big area with huge woods in the metropolitan atomosphere of Nagoya, and there are always many people coming for all kinds of prayers. The woods are full of sacred and reverent feelings, and makes you feel something divine inside yourself, too.

15 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Nagoya City Science Museum

Nagoya City Science Museum has the largest planetarium in the world, and you can enjoy being an astronaut cruising the real universe.

15 Minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Chubu Denryoku MIRAI TOWER

The Chubu Electric MIRAI TOWER (formerly but still referred to as the Nagoya TV Tower (名古屋テレビ塔, Nagoya Terebi-tō)) is a TV tower in Nagoya, central Japan. It is a landmark of Nagoya.

15 Minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Back in the mountain area of Toyota city is Korankei valley, famous for cherry blossoms and especially for coloful tinted leaves in the fall. Its area is called Asuke, and the whole town conserves a very ancient atomosphere of Japan, which is good for strolling around.

15 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Toyokawa Inari Shrine

Toyokawa Inari temple is located in Toyokawa-shi, east of Aichi. The temple is as big as Atsuta Jingu Shrine and is also popular among people. In front of the temple is a street full of shops and restaurants that serve all different kinds of inarizushi.

15 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Himakajima

There are three big islands in the Mikawawan Bay of Aichi, and Himakajima is the largest. Mikawawan Bay has been known for its abundunce of seafood, and you can enjoy all kinds of seafood throughout the year.

15 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Sakushima

Sakushima is the secong largest island in Mikawawan Bay, and recently getting more and more popular because of its huge modern pop art displays all over the island. The island itself is very quiet and small, and the only transportation is walking and cycling. More than 20 modern art figures and constructions are on the coast or along the streets, or up on the hill to be touched, climbed and felt directly for everyone. To enjoy this slow artistic atmosphere many young people even as far as Tokyo come to visit Sakushima very often.

15 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Tokoname City Pottery Footpath

The Chubu International Airport is in Tokoname city, which is also very famous for ceramics all over Japan. There are many ceramic artists even from overseas who have their own studios and shops to sell their hand-made ceramics. There are many narrow streets with these small studios and shops alongside, and you can enjoy taking a walk window-shopping ceramics.

10 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Inuyama Castle

Inuyama Castle is a national tresure of Japan, and for those who love samurai culture, this castle is a holy place to visit. It conserves the construction style of the era, and from the top of the castle you can enjoy the landscape of the Nagara-gawa river.

15 Minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

The Museum Meijimura

Just 24 kilometers north of Nagoya's city center, the Meiji-mura Village Museum in Inuyama is an open-air museum featuring many fine examples of Japanese architecture from the Meiji period of 1868 to 1912. All told, the site consists of more than 60 buildings of interest that were brought here and reassembled from across the country, including a prison, post office, bathhouse, churches, and homes, many of them influenced by design elements from western nations. Numerous buildings are open to the public and house furniture, temporary exhibits, and other items related to the respective buildings, and a historic tram and bus service (as well as a vintage steam train) makes this a fun diversion. If you're traveling with kids, try to allocate some time in your itinerary to visit the nearby Little World Museum of Man; they'll love the opportunity to dress up in traditional costumes from around the world.

15 Minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Maruya Hatcho Miso

Okazaki is the home of Ieyasu Tokugawa as well as for red miso. There is a miso museum in the center of Okazaki city, where you can see how red miso is made for more than some hundred years.

15 Minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Nagoya City Art Museum

Nagoya City Art Museum (Nagoya-shi Bijutsukan), opened in 1987 and home to a permanent collection that includes the work of Surrealist artists from around the globe, including Sean Scully, Kansuke Yamamoto, and Alexander Calder, as well as temporary exhibits. Finally, the Nagoya Museum of Fine Arts (Nagoya Bosuton Bijutsukan), sister museum to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and notable for bringing items from the latter's collection of Impressionist and other artworks to Japan, is also worth a visit.

15 Minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Satsuki and Mei's House

Every Ghibli fans' dream come true, the house that Satsuki and Mei lived in, as seen in the popular animation film "My Neighbour Totoro", can be visited in real life! The house is completely true to the one in the animation, down to every last detail including the water bucket with a hole at the bottom! If you have ever watched Totoro, you will definitely want to visit this house. First of all, entrance to Satsuki and Mei's house does require tickets. These cannot be purchased on the day, but need to booked in advance. The easiest way is to get someone you know in Japan to go to Lawson (convenience store), and use the Loppi machine to get you a ticket. If you don't have that option available, you can still try go to Lawson once you are in Japan, and try and book a ticket yourself using Roppi. The tickets cost ¥510 for a half hour tour of the house.

15 Minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Okazaki Castle

Aichi Prefecture is the birthplace of heroes. The nations’ three Unifiers were all born in Aichi, Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Nagoya, and in nearby Okazaki Castle, the first of the 14 Tokugawa Shogun, the Great Lord, Tokugawa Ieyasu.

15 Minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Toyota Automobile Museum

On the outskirts of Nagoya City in Nagakute is the magnificent Toyota Automobile Museum, dedicated to the history of motoring and the influence of cars in our culture.

10 Minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Tokugawa Garden

Tokugawa Garden is a Japanese garden, with numerous highlights around a pond in it's center. It was the mainstream style of major daimyo gardens during the Edo period.

10 Minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Additional Info
  1. Service animals allowed
  2. Public transportation options are available nearby
  3. Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  4. All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  1. Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  2. Wheelchair accessible
  3. Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  4. This is a walking tour. Pick up is on foot.

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Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

  1. For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time
  2. Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
  3. If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
  4. This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
  5. Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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