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Worth seeing in and around Sakae

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.

    1.9 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.

    1.5 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.

    2 km · building in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    2 km · skyscraper in the Meieki 4-chōme, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Japan · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    2.2 km · building in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Nagoya Institute of Technology

    The Nagoya Institute of Technology, abbreviated to Nitech, is a public educational institution of science and technology located in Nagoya, Japan. Nitech was founded in 1905 as Nagoya Higher Technical School, then renamed Nagoya College of Technology in 1944, and then merged under the new educational system with the Aichi Prefectural College of Technology to be refounded as Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1949.

    2.2 km · university · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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.

    2.8 km · art museum in Nagoya City, Aichi, Japan · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Nagoya Mosque

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

    3.4 km · mosque in Japan · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Nagoya City Art Museum

    The Nagoya City Art Museum is an art museum in Naka-ku, Nagoya, Nagoya, Japan, located in Shirakawa Park. It opened on 22 April 1988.

    900 m · art museum in Nagoya City, Aichi, Japan · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Nagoya City Science Museum

    The Nagoya City Science Museum is a museum located in Sakae, Nagoya, the center of Nagoya City, in central Japan. The museum houses one of the largest planetariums in the world and has three main sections on modern technology, life sciences and general science with a variety of hands-on exhibits.

    1 km · science museum in Nagoya, Japan · 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.

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Getting to Sakae

Airports
Chubu Centrair (NGO), 36 km · Mount Fuji Shizuoka (FSZ), 124 km · Osaka Itami (ITM), 140 km
Stations
Nagoya Station, 2.4 km · Kanayama Station, 3.1 km · Kintetsu Nagoya Station, 2.1 km · Honjin Station, 3.8 km · Fushimi Station, 900 m
  • Osaka → Sakae
    139 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · ¥1,930–2,630
  • Makinohara / Shimada → Sakae
    123 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · ¥1,630–2,220
  • Kanazawa → Sakae
    161 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · ¥2,550–3,480
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No local-transport research exists yet for Sakae

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 Sakae. 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

    972 km
  2. 02
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    1,352 km
  3. 03
    SakhalinRU

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

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  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,725 km
  5. 05
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

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

Around it

Next door to Sakae

Sakae is 1 km from Nagoya, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Nagoyacapital city of Aichi prefecture, Japan1.2 km
  • Nakamura-kuward of Nagoya, Japan3.7 km
  • Naka-kuone of 16 wards of the City of Nagoya, Japan300 m
  • Chikusa-kuward of Nagoya, Japan3.6 km
  • Shōwa-kuward in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan3.3 km
  • Higashi-kuward in the City of Nagoya, Japan2 km