International Design Centre Nagoya

Nagoya


Housed in the swooping Nadya Park complex is this secular shrine to the deities of conceptualisation, form and function. Design touchstones from art deco to postmodernism, Electrolux to Isamu Noguchi, Arne Jacobsen to the Mini Cooper and everything in between is represented in these significant galleries.

Once sated, design-heads should gravitate to the Loft Department Store, also in Nadya Park, to burn some cash.


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1. Nagoya City Science Museum

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2. Ōsu Kannon

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The much-visited, workaday Ōsu Kannon temple traces its roots back to 1333. Devoted to the Buddha of Compassion, the temple was moved to its present…

3. Nagoya TV Tower

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4. Oasis 21

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Oasis 21 is a bus terminal and transit hub with a difference. Its iconic 'galaxy platform' – an elliptical glass-and-steel structure filled with water for…

5. Nagoya City Archives

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Built in 1922, this grand Taisho-era Court of Appeal now houses the city archives. While the archives themselves are difficult to navigate for non…

6. Sky Promenade

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7. Midland Square

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8. Nagoya-jō

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