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Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya

Nakagawa is one of the 16 wards of the city of Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya
Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Nakagawa is one of the 16 wards of the city of Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2019, the ward has an estimated population of 220,782 and a population density of 6,895 persons per km2. The total area is 32.02 km2.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya

3 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
    Arako Kannon Temple

    Arako Kannon, also known as Jōkai-san Enryū-in Kannon-ji is a Buddhist temple located in Nagoya in central Japan. It has a wooden pagoda which is one of Japan's oldest, dating to the 16th century.

    600 m · Buddhist temple in Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Toyokuni Shrine

    Toyokuni Shrine is a Shinto shrine located in Nakamura-cho, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, central Japan. It was built to commemorate Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who hailed from the region.

    3.6 km · a Shinto shrine in Nagoya, Japan · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Nagoya Baseball Stadium

    Nagoya Stadium is a stadium in Nagoya, Japan. It is primarily used for baseball and was home of the Chunichi Dragons until they moved to the Nagoya Dome in 1997; it remains the main home stadium of the Dragon's minor league team in the Western League.

    3 km · Baseball Ground · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya

Airports
Chubu Centrair (NGO), 32 km · Mount Fuji Shizuoka (FSZ), 128 km · Osaka Itami (ITM), 135 km
Stations
Hatta Station, 800 m · Iwatsuka Station, 1.8 km · Haruta Station, 3.8 km · Otōbashi Station, 3.3 km · Takabata Station, 300 m
  • Osaka → Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya
    129 km · quickest by road, 3h · ¥1,790–2,450
  • Makinohara / Shimada → Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya
    131 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · ¥1,690–2,310
  • Kanazawa → Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya
    164 km · quickest by road, 3h 46m · ¥2,590–3,530
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya

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 Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya. 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
  1. 01
    Muuido and the Incheon islandsKR

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    968 km
  2. 02
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    1,347 km
  3. 03
    SakhalinRU

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    1,412 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,719 km
  5. 05
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    1,894 km

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Around it

Next door to Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya

Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya is 6 km from Nagoya, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.