--- title: "Sakae – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Sakae, Japan: locality 1 km from Nagoya. Nearby: Nagoya Castle, Roman Catholic Diocese of Nagoya, Mode Gakuen Spiral Towers. Every way there from the…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sakae" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sakae.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- Locality · Japan · Aichi # Sakae What is there ## 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagoya_Castle) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocese_of_Nagoya) 3. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_Gakuen_Spiral_Towers) 4. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland_Square) 5. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JR_Central_Towers) 6. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagoya_Institute_of_Technology) 7. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokugawa_Art_Museum) 8. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagoya_Mosque) 9. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagoya_City_Art_Museum) 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagoya_City_Science_Museum) 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 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/osaka-to-sakae) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Osaka&to=Sakae) - Makinohara / Shimada → Sakae 123 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · ¥1,630–2,220 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/makinohara-shimada-to-sakae) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Makinohara+%2F+Shimada&to=Sakae) - Kanazawa → Sakae 161 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · ¥2,550–3,480 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kanazawa-to-sakae) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Kanazawa&to=Sakae) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Sakae) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## 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 in A 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 in The 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 in The ferry terminal is also accessible by train and city bus. - Get in More details are available on the Taiheiyo Ferry access page. - Go next Inuyama, with its picturesque castle, kinky fertility shrines, and nearby Meiji Village, is a short day trip from the city. From [Wikivoyage: Nagoya](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/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. [Muuido and the Incheon islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/muuido) KR 9 ways of moving, 20 sources 972 km 2. 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Around it ## Next door to Sakae Sakae is 1 km from [Nagoya](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/nagoya), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Nagoya](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/nagoya) capital city of Aichi prefecture, Japan 1.2 km - [Nakamura-ku](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/nakamura-ku) ward of Nagoya, Japan 3.7 km - [Naka-ku](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/naka-ku) one of 16 wards of the City of Nagoya, Japan 300 m - [Chikusa-ku](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chikusa-ku) ward of Nagoya, Japan 3.6 km - [Shōwa-ku](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/showa-ku) ward in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan 3.3 km - [Higashi-ku](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/higashi-ku) ward in the City of Nagoya, Japan 2 km [The place page for Sakae](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/sakae) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Japan](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-JP) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sakae, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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