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Kitanagoya

Kitanagoya is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

Kitanagoya
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The place

Kitanagoya is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2019, the city had an estimated population of 86,068 in 36,904 households, and a population density of 4,685 inhabitants per square kilometre (12,130/sq mi). The total area of the city is 18.37 square kilometres (7.09 sq mi). Kitanagoya is a member of the World Health Organization’s Alliance for Healthy Cities (AFHC).

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kitanagoya

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Nagoya Castle

    Nagoya Castle is a Japanese castle located in Nagoya, Japan. Nagoya Castle was constructed by the Owari Domain in 1612 during the Edo period on the site of an earlier castle of the Oda clan in the Sengoku period.

    7.3 km · Japanese castle located in Nagoya, central Japan · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Nagoya

    The Diocese of Nagoya is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church that is centered in the city of Nagoya and is part of the ecclesiastical province of Osaka in Japan.

    9.7 km · diocese of the Catholic Church · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Mode Gakuen Spiral Towers

    Mode Gakuen Spiral Towers is a 170-metre, 36-story educational facility located in Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. The building is home to three vocational schools: Nagoya Mode Gakuen, HAL Nagoya and Nagoya Isen.

    8.8 km · building in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Kiyosu Castle

    Kiyosu Castle is a Japanese castle located in Kiyosu, western Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is noted for its association with the rise to power of the Sengoku period warlord Oda Nobunaga.

    3.8 km · Japanese castle located in Kiyosu, eastern Aichi Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Midland Square

    Midland Square, officially called Toyota-Mainichi Building, is a skyscraper located in the Meieki district of Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. It opened in early 2007.

    8.5 km · skyscraper in the Meieki 4-chōme, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Japan · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Mount Komaki

    Mount Komaki is an 86 m-high mountain located in the city of Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. At one point, the mountain was topped with the original Komakiyama Castle, built by Oda Nobunaga.

    6.7 km · mountain in Aichi Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    JR Central Towers

    The JR Central Towers are in Nakamura-ku in the city of Nagoya, central Japan. It is located right above Nagoya Station and serves as the headquarters of the Central Japan Railway Company.

    8.4 km · building in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Tokugawa Art Museum

    The Tokugawa Art Museum is a private art museum, located on the former Ōzone Shimoyashiki compound in Nagoya, central Japan. Its collection contains more than 12,000 items, including swords, armor, Noh costumes and masks, lacquer furniture, Chinese and Japanese ceramics, calligraphy, and paintings from the Chinese Song and Yuan dynasties.

    9.2 km · art museum in Nagoya City, Aichi, Japan · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Nagoya Dome

    The Nagoya Dome, known as Vantelin Dome Nagoya for sponsorship reasons, is a domed baseball stadium, constructed in 1997, located in the city of Nagoya, Japan. The dome has the capacity of 36,418 for sports and 49,000 for concerts.

    9.9 km · stadium · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Nagoya Mosque

    The Nagoya Mosque is a mosque in Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, in the Aichi Prefecture of Japan.

    7.6 km · mosque in Japan · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Kitanagoya

Airports
Chubu Centrair (NGO), 43 km · Mount Fuji Shizuoka (FSZ), 131 km · Komatsu / JASDF Komatsu Air Base (KMQ), 134 km
Stations
Nagoya Station, 8.4 km · Nagoya Airfield, 5.4 km · Iwatsuka Station, 9.8 km · Kintetsu Nagoya Station, 8.7 km · Owari-Ichinomiya Station, 8.8 km
  • Tokoname → Kitanagoya
    39 km · quickest by road, 57 min · ¥485–660
  • Osaka → Kitanagoya
    140 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · ¥1,880–2,570
  • Makinohara / Shimada → Kitanagoya
    129 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · ¥1,720–2,340
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kitanagoya

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kitanagoya. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA Meitetsu shuttle bus to the ferry is available from the downtown Meitetsu Bus Center (名鉄バスセンター) next to Nagoya Station.
  • Get inThe bus departs from platform 22 on the 4th floor at 17:20 and arrives at the ferry terminal at around 17:55 (Adults: ¥550 Children: ¥280).
  • Get inThe ferry terminal is also accessible by train and city bus.
  • Get inMore details are available on the Taiheiyo Ferry access page.
  • Go nextInuyama, with its picturesque castle, kinky fertility shrines, and nearby Meiji Village, is a short day trip from the city.

From Wikivoyage: Nagoya, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    Muuido and the Incheon islandsKR

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    966 km
  2. 02
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

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  3. 03
    SakhalinRU

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

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  4. 04
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    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,727 km
  5. 05
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

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If you know how people move in Kitanagoya – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Kitanagoya

Kitanagoya is 8 km from Nagoya, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Nagoyacapital city of Aichi prefecture, Japan8 km
  • Ichinomiyacity in Aichi Prefecture, Japan8.6 km
  • Kasugaicity in Aichi prefecture, Japan9.7 km
  • Komakicity in Aichi prefecture, Japan6.4 km
  • Inazawacity in Aichi Prefecture, Japan7.8 km
  • Kiyosucity in Aichi prefecture, Japan4 km