Nagoya-info as a concept was first dreamt up in the summer of 2007 when the founder decided to put the city of Nagoya on the map. With no web experience, unless you count using ‘hotmail’ once a week, the idea of creating a website which people could find and use to better their time in Nagoya, was only a dream at first. But when you have a dream, it’s often the catalyst of great things to come. Since the creation of NI, many other information portal sites for the city have come about. Some have stayed while others have strayed. If there’s one promise we make here, it is that we will never fall into the latter.
Nagoya City
Despite being such a large and prosperous city, Nagoya was and often still is, overlooked as a travel destination in Japan with ‘Tokyo’ and the lively ‘Osaka’, attracting all the attention. Who can blame people for not knowing about central Japan. In a recent trip back to the U.K, I opened a travel guide of Japan and was shocked to find “Nagoya” appeared in the book….on 1 solitary page. There were numerous chapters on Tokyo and Osaka.
Nagoya has a population of 2.3 million (just 200000 less than that of Osaka). Location-wise, it’s a fantastic place to be. 1hr 40mins into Tokyo, 60mins to Osaka, just 90 minutes from the beautiful mountains and Onsens to Gifu prefecture in the North, and 40 minutes to the Mikawa peninsula and beaches to the South. The city is blessed with a fantastic subway and train system which never sees the crowds that Tokyo does, and some of the widest roads in Japan. People argue that there isn’t anything to see in Nagoya. I argue that there isn’t much to do besides shopping and shrines in any other city in Japan.
Our Goals
We here at Nagoya-info offer just a small insight into the city, but one in which we hope to show you a side of Nagoya you never knew existed. We try hard to provide as much information as we can but of course there are things we don’t know, places we haven’t been to and 1000′s of people we haven’t met. so This is where we hope you can join in. Our information is free and will stay that way forever. However, we need more of it. Let us be your voice and use our site to share your thoughts, ideas and information about Nagoya City!
