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Sightseeing in Nagoya


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Sightseeing in Nagoya
In Nagoya one will get enough opportunities to wile away time as there are a number of places where one can visit to gauge the importance of the city with reference to sight seeing.

Nagoya Sightseeing includes

The Nagoya Castle
The Nagoya sightseeing includes the castle and is one of the major attractions of the city of Nagoya and is famous for the golden dolphin or Shachi roof decorations. The interior of the castle also houses a kind of museum that has a lot of interesting artifacts like painting, armors, etc. Luckily all these treasures had survived the onslaught of the war that had engulfed the island nation.

Atsusta Jingu Shrine
The Atsusta Jingu Shrine is a place that is more respected by the ordinary Japanese and isn't just treated as a place of sightseeing. The place is considered holy because the shrine contains on of the three regalia of the emperor as kusanagi- no- Tsurugi or the grass-mowing sword. The legend has that the sword belonged to a prince named Yamato Takeru who had used the latter in his campaign against the rebels in eastern Japan.

The Nittaiji Temple
This temple was originally built in the beginning of the twentieth century and was later rebuilt in the eighties. The temple houses some of the mortal remains (bones) of the great Buddha Shakyamuni that was in Thailand only to be donated in small parts to this temple which has been housing them since then.

The Bansho Ji - Temple
If you have children in your group then one place where you should really try to visit and visit the Banshoji temple, because there are mechanical dolls in the temple that perform a drama. This performance in really enthralling and very appealing to the kids, one gets enough chance to see the dolls perform because regular performances are held between 10am to 6 pm everyday.

Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium
If water and the aquatic life are of interest to you then you should definitely try to visit the port of Nagoya Public Aquarium where you can visit the aquatic mammals in a great detail and is one of the popular Nagoya sighseeing

Nagoya TV tower
An interesting structure that beckons you once you are in the city of Nagoya is the TV tower which is the oldest in the whole island of Japan and it was built way back in the 1950s. The television tower also houses an observatory that will allow you to see far and wide.

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