--- title: "Shōwa-ku – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Shōwa-ku, Japan: Shōwa-ku is one of the 16 wards of the city of Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Every way there from the planner, and what we have not…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/showa-ku" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/showa-ku.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Koushouji2.JPG/3840px-Koushouji2.JPG" --- Ward of Nagoya in Chūbu, Japan # Shōwa-ku Shōwa-ku is one of the 16 wards of the city of Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. ![Shōwa-ku](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Koushouji2.JPG/3840px-Koushouji2.JPG) Shōwa-ku · Wikimedia Commons The place Shōwa-ku is one of the 16 wards of the city of Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2019, the ward had an estimated population of 110,436 and a population density of 10,095 persons per km². The total area was 10.94 km². Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dwa-ku), CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Shōwa-ku **Airports:** Chubu Centrair (NGO), 35 km · Mount Fuji Shizuoka (FSZ), 121 km · Osaka Itami (ITM), 142 km\ - Osaka → Shōwa-ku 140 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · ¥1,940–2,640 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/osaka-to-showa-ku) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Osaka&to=Sh%C5%8Dwa-ku) - Makinohara / Shimada → Shōwa-ku 120 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · ¥1,600–2,180 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/makinohara-shimada-to-showa-ku) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Makinohara+%2F+Shimada&to=Sh%C5%8Dwa-ku) - Kanazawa → Shōwa-ku 164 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · ¥2,610–3,560 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kanazawa-to-showa-ku) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Kanazawa&to=Sh%C5%8Dwa-ku) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Sh%C5%8Dwa-ku) 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 Shōwa-ku 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 Shōwa-ku. 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 975 km 2. [Zamami and the Kerama Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zamami) JP 12 ways of moving, 19 sources 1,352 km 3. [Sakhalin](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sakhalin) RU 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 1,409 km 4. [Taketomi and the Yaeyama islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/taketomi) JP 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 1,725 km 5. [Matsu Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/matsu) TW 9 ways of moving, 34 sources 1,901 km If you know how people move in Shōwa-ku – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cshowa-ku&title=Sh%C5%8Dwa-ku&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fshowa-ku), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Shōwa-ku Shōwa-ku is 4 km from [Nagoya](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/nagoya), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. [The place page for Shōwa-ku](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/showa-ku) [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/showa-ku, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt