Nagoya / Aichi Half-day Private Custom Tour with National Licensed Guide
Overview
With a National Licensed and Experienced English speaking guide, this tour will allow you to explore Nagoya / Aichi more efficiently in one day. Enjoy a full-day walking tour in Fukuoka accompanied by an experienced guide who shares the modern and traditional sides of the dynamic Japanese ancient city.
Begin your day with a morning pickup from your hotel in Nagoya or anywhere else, then visit Nagoya's famous sites including Nagoya Castle, The Atsuta Shrine, The Museum Meiji-mura and Nagoya gourmet and anywhere else as you like. Go in depth with a private guide who customizes your 4 hour tour to your interests.
Please let us know what would you like to experience and what time would you like to join the tour and where you stay. We would customize the tour based on your requests!
Begin your day with a morning pickup from your hotel in Nagoya or anywhere else, then visit Nagoya's famous sites including Nagoya Castle, The Atsuta Shrine, The Museum Meiji-mura and Nagoya gourmet and anywhere else as you like. Go in depth with a private guide who customizes your 4 hour tour to your interests.
Please let us know what would you like to experience and what time would you like to join the tour and where you stay. We would customize the tour based on your requests!
Inclusions
- Licensed Local Guide
- Customizable Tour of your choice of 2-3 sites from 'What to expect' list
What to expect
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Nagoya Castle, 1-1 Honmaru, Naka, Nagoya 460-0031 Aichi Prefecture
Nagoya Castle is right in the heart of Nagoya, and is very famous for its golden shachihoko (a mythical creature with a tiger's head and carp's body) figures on the roof. Ieyasu Tokugawa, the first shogun who established the Edo shougunate, built it in 1521. The main part of the castle was rebuilt after the war, and now you can climb to the top to feel like being a shogun to govern the country.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Atsuta Jingu Shrine, 1-1-1 Jingu, Atsuta-Ku, Nagoya 456-8585 Aichi Prefecture
Atsuta Jingu Shrine is the second highest rank shrine of Japan, founded in the 8th century. It occupies a big area with huge woods in the metropolitan atomosphere of Nagoya, and there are always many people coming for all kinds of prayers. The woods are full of sacred and reverent feelings, and makes you feel something divine inside yourself, too.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Nagoya City Science Museum, 2-17-1, Sakae, Naka, Nagoya 460-0008 Aichi Prefecture
Nagoya City Science Museum has the largest planetarium in the world, and you can enjoy being an astronaut cruising the real universe.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Chubu Denryoku MIRAI TOWER, 3-6-15 Nishiki Hisaya Odori Park, Naka, Nagoya 460-0003 Aichi Prefecture
The Chubu Electric MIRAI TOWER (formerly but still referred to as the Nagoya TV Tower (名古屋テレビ塔, Nagoya Terebi-tō)) is a TV tower in Nagoya, central Japan. It is a landmark of Nagoya.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Korankei, Miyanoato Asukecho, Toyota, Aichi 444-2424, Japan
Back in the mountain area of Toyota city is Korankei valley, famous for cherry blossoms and especially for coloful tinted leaves in the fall. Its area is called Asuke, and the whole town conserves a very ancient atomosphere of Japan, which is good for strolling around.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Toyokawa Inari Shrine, Suganuma, Oyama-cho, Sunto-gun 410-1312 Shizuoka Prefecture
Toyokawa Inari temple is located in Toyokawa-shi, east of Aichi. The temple is as big as Atsuta Jingu Shrine and is also popular among people. In front of the temple is a street full of shops and restaurants that serve all different kinds of inarizushi.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Himakajima, Himakajima, Minamichita-cho, Chita-gun, Aichi Prefecture, Tokai, Chubu
There are three big islands in the Mikawawan Bay of Aichi, and Himakajima is the largest. Mikawawan Bay has been known for its abundunce of seafood, and you can enjoy all kinds of seafood throughout the year.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Sakushima, Nishio 444-0416 Aichi Prefecture
Sakushima is the secong largest island in Mikawawan Bay, and recently getting more and more popular because of its huge modern pop art displays all over the island. The island itself is very quiet and small, and the only transportation is walking and cycling. More than 20 modern art figures and constructions are on the coast or along the streets, or up on the hill to be touched, climbed and felt directly for everyone. To enjoy this slow artistic atmosphere many young people even as far as Tokyo come to visit Sakushima very often.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Tokoname City Pottery Footpath, Tokoname Aichi Prefecture
The Chubu International Airport is in Tokoname city, which is also very famous for ceramics all over Japan. There are many ceramic artists even from overseas who have their own studios and shops to sell their hand-made ceramics. There are many narrow streets with these small studios and shops alongside, and you can enjoy taking a walk window-shopping ceramics.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Inuyama Castle, 65-2 Inuyama Kitakoken, Inuyama 484-0082 Aichi Prefecture
Inuyama Castle is a national tresure of Japan, and for those who love samurai culture, this castle is a holy place to visit. It conserves the construction style of the era, and from the top of the castle you can enjoy the landscape of the Nagara-gawa river.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: The Museum Meijimura, 1 Uchiyama, Inuyama 484-0000 Aichi Prefecture
Just 24 kilometers north of Nagoya's city center, the Meiji-mura Village Museum in Inuyama is an open-air museum featuring many fine examples of Japanese architecture from the Meiji period of 1868 to 1912. All told, the site consists of more than 60 buildings of interest that were brought here and reassembled from across the country, including a prison, post office, bathhouse, churches, and homes, many of them influenced by design elements from western nations. Numerous buildings are open to the public and house furniture, temporary exhibits, and other items related to the respective buildings, and a historic tram and bus service (as well as a vintage steam train) makes this a fun diversion. If you're traveling with kids, try to allocate some time in your itinerary to visit the nearby Little World Museum of Man; they'll love the opportunity to dress up in traditional costumes from around the world.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Maruya Hatcho Miso, Aichi Prefecture Yawata-cho Backpass 52, Okazaki 444-0923 Aichi Prefecture
Okazaki is the home of Ieyasu Tokugawa as well as for red miso. There is a miso museum in the center of Okazaki city, where you can see how red miso is made for more than some hundred years.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Nagoya City Art Museum, 2-17-25, Sakae, Naka, Nagoya 460-0008 Aichi Prefecture
Nagoya City Art Museum (Nagoya-shi Bijutsukan), opened in 1987 and home to a permanent collection that includes the work of Surrealist artists from around the globe, including Sean Scully, Kansuke Yamamoto, and Alexander Calder, as well as temporary exhibits. Finally, the Nagoya Museum of Fine Arts (Nagoya Bosuton Bijutsukan), sister museum to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and notable for bringing items from the latter's collection of Impressionist and other artworks to Japan, is also worth a visit.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Satsuki and Mei's House, 1533-1 Otsu, Ibaragabasama, Nagakute 480-1342 Aichi Prefecture
Every Ghibli fans' dream come true, the house that Satsuki and Mei lived in, as seen in the popular animation film "My Neighbour Totoro", can be visited in real life! The house is completely true to the one in the animation, down to every last detail including the water bucket with a hole at the bottom! If you have ever watched Totoro, you will definitely want to visit this house.
First of all, entrance to Satsuki and Mei's house does require tickets. These cannot be purchased on the day, but need to booked in advance. The easiest way is to get someone you know in Japan to go to Lawson (convenience store), and use the Loppi machine to get you a ticket. If you don't have that option available, you can still try go to Lawson once you are in Japan, and try and book a ticket yourself using Roppi. The tickets cost ¥510 for a half hour tour of the house.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Okazaki Castle, 561 Koseicho, Okazaki 444-0052 Aichi Prefecture
Aichi Prefecture is the birthplace of heroes. The nations’ three Unifiers were all born in Aichi, Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Nagoya, and in nearby Okazaki Castle, the first of the 14 Tokugawa Shogun, the Great Lord, Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Toyota Automobile Museum, 41-100 Yokomichi, Nagakute 480-1118 Aichi Prefecture
On the outskirts of Nagoya City in Nagakute is the magnificent Toyota Automobile Museum, dedicated to the history of motoring and the influence of cars in our culture.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Tokugawa Garden, 1001 Tokugawacho, Higashi-ku, Nagoya 461-0023 Aichi Prefecture
Tokugawa Garden is a Japanese garden, with numerous highlights around a pond in it's center. It was the mainstream style of major daimyo gardens during the Edo period.
Duration: 10 minutes
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Nagoya Castle, 1-1 Honmaru, Naka, Nagoya 460-0031 Aichi Prefecture
Nagoya Castle is right in the heart of Nagoya, and is very famous for its golden shachihoko (a mythical creature with a tiger's head and carp's body) figures on the roof. Ieyasu Tokugawa, the first shogun who established the Edo shougunate, built it in 1521. The main part of the castle was rebuilt after the war, and now you can climb to the top to feel like being a shogun to govern the country.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Atsuta Jingu Shrine, 1-1-1 Jingu, Atsuta-Ku, Nagoya 456-8585 Aichi Prefecture
Atsuta Jingu Shrine is the second highest rank shrine of Japan, founded in the 8th century. It occupies a big area with huge woods in the metropolitan atomosphere of Nagoya, and there are always many people coming for all kinds of prayers. The woods are full of sacred and reverent feelings, and makes you feel something divine inside yourself, too.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Nagoya City Science Museum, 2-17-1, Sakae, Naka, Nagoya 460-0008 Aichi Prefecture
Nagoya City Science Museum has the largest planetarium in the world, and you can enjoy being an astronaut cruising the real universe.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Chubu Denryoku MIRAI TOWER, 3-6-15 Nishiki Hisaya Odori Park, Naka, Nagoya 460-0003 Aichi Prefecture
The Chubu Electric MIRAI TOWER (formerly but still referred to as the Nagoya TV Tower (名古屋テレビ塔, Nagoya Terebi-tō)) is a TV tower in Nagoya, central Japan. It is a landmark of Nagoya.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Korankei, Miyanoato Asukecho, Toyota, Aichi 444-2424, Japan
Back in the mountain area of Toyota city is Korankei valley, famous for cherry blossoms and especially for coloful tinted leaves in the fall. Its area is called Asuke, and the whole town conserves a very ancient atomosphere of Japan, which is good for strolling around.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Toyokawa Inari Shrine, Suganuma, Oyama-cho, Sunto-gun 410-1312 Shizuoka Prefecture
Toyokawa Inari temple is located in Toyokawa-shi, east of Aichi. The temple is as big as Atsuta Jingu Shrine and is also popular among people. In front of the temple is a street full of shops and restaurants that serve all different kinds of inarizushi.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Himakajima, Himakajima, Minamichita-cho, Chita-gun, Aichi Prefecture, Tokai, Chubu
There are three big islands in the Mikawawan Bay of Aichi, and Himakajima is the largest. Mikawawan Bay has been known for its abundunce of seafood, and you can enjoy all kinds of seafood throughout the year.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Sakushima, Nishio 444-0416 Aichi Prefecture
Sakushima is the secong largest island in Mikawawan Bay, and recently getting more and more popular because of its huge modern pop art displays all over the island. The island itself is very quiet and small, and the only transportation is walking and cycling. More than 20 modern art figures and constructions are on the coast or along the streets, or up on the hill to be touched, climbed and felt directly for everyone. To enjoy this slow artistic atmosphere many young people even as far as Tokyo come to visit Sakushima very often.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Tokoname City Pottery Footpath, Tokoname Aichi Prefecture
The Chubu International Airport is in Tokoname city, which is also very famous for ceramics all over Japan. There are many ceramic artists even from overseas who have their own studios and shops to sell their hand-made ceramics. There are many narrow streets with these small studios and shops alongside, and you can enjoy taking a walk window-shopping ceramics.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Inuyama Castle, 65-2 Inuyama Kitakoken, Inuyama 484-0082 Aichi Prefecture
Inuyama Castle is a national tresure of Japan, and for those who love samurai culture, this castle is a holy place to visit. It conserves the construction style of the era, and from the top of the castle you can enjoy the landscape of the Nagara-gawa river.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: The Museum Meijimura, 1 Uchiyama, Inuyama 484-0000 Aichi Prefecture
Just 24 kilometers north of Nagoya's city center, the Meiji-mura Village Museum in Inuyama is an open-air museum featuring many fine examples of Japanese architecture from the Meiji period of 1868 to 1912. All told, the site consists of more than 60 buildings of interest that were brought here and reassembled from across the country, including a prison, post office, bathhouse, churches, and homes, many of them influenced by design elements from western nations. Numerous buildings are open to the public and house furniture, temporary exhibits, and other items related to the respective buildings, and a historic tram and bus service (as well as a vintage steam train) makes this a fun diversion. If you're traveling with kids, try to allocate some time in your itinerary to visit the nearby Little World Museum of Man; they'll love the opportunity to dress up in traditional costumes from around the world.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Maruya Hatcho Miso, Aichi Prefecture Yawata-cho Backpass 52, Okazaki 444-0923 Aichi Prefecture
Okazaki is the home of Ieyasu Tokugawa as well as for red miso. There is a miso museum in the center of Okazaki city, where you can see how red miso is made for more than some hundred years.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Nagoya City Art Museum, 2-17-25, Sakae, Naka, Nagoya 460-0008 Aichi Prefecture
Nagoya City Art Museum (Nagoya-shi Bijutsukan), opened in 1987 and home to a permanent collection that includes the work of Surrealist artists from around the globe, including Sean Scully, Kansuke Yamamoto, and Alexander Calder, as well as temporary exhibits. Finally, the Nagoya Museum of Fine Arts (Nagoya Bosuton Bijutsukan), sister museum to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and notable for bringing items from the latter's collection of Impressionist and other artworks to Japan, is also worth a visit.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Satsuki and Mei's House, 1533-1 Otsu, Ibaragabasama, Nagakute 480-1342 Aichi Prefecture
Every Ghibli fans' dream come true, the house that Satsuki and Mei lived in, as seen in the popular animation film "My Neighbour Totoro", can be visited in real life! The house is completely true to the one in the animation, down to every last detail including the water bucket with a hole at the bottom! If you have ever watched Totoro, you will definitely want to visit this house.
First of all, entrance to Satsuki and Mei's house does require tickets. These cannot be purchased on the day, but need to booked in advance. The easiest way is to get someone you know in Japan to go to Lawson (convenience store), and use the Loppi machine to get you a ticket. If you don't have that option available, you can still try go to Lawson once you are in Japan, and try and book a ticket yourself using Roppi. The tickets cost ¥510 for a half hour tour of the house.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Okazaki Castle, 561 Koseicho, Okazaki 444-0052 Aichi Prefecture
Aichi Prefecture is the birthplace of heroes. The nations’ three Unifiers were all born in Aichi, Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Nagoya, and in nearby Okazaki Castle, the first of the 14 Tokugawa Shogun, the Great Lord, Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Toyota Automobile Museum, 41-100 Yokomichi, Nagakute 480-1118 Aichi Prefecture
On the outskirts of Nagoya City in Nagakute is the magnificent Toyota Automobile Museum, dedicated to the history of motoring and the influence of cars in our culture.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Tokugawa Garden, 1001 Tokugawacho, Higashi-ku, Nagoya 461-0023 Aichi Prefecture
Tokugawa Garden is a Japanese garden, with numerous highlights around a pond in it's center. It was the mainstream style of major daimyo gardens during the Edo period.
Duration: 10 minutes
Additional information
- Infant seats available
- Service animals allowed
- Near public transportation
- Stroller accessible
- Surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Transportation is wheelchair accessible
- Most travelers can participate
- Wheelchair accessible
- This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
- This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Ticket delivery
You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.
Cancellation
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start time of the experience.
J_Q
October 2023
We had a very good experience with Todd-san and our private driver. Todd-san was very accommodating and welcoming to our family with wheelchair users. He also had good knowledge on the places we were taken to. We definitely recommend him as a tour guide and it was a pity we had our own reasons fo...
We had a very good experience with Todd-san and our private driver. Todd-san was very accommodating and welcoming to our family with wheelchair users. He also had good knowledge on the places we were taken to. We definitely recommend him as a tour guide and it was a pity we had our own reasons for only managing to book a half-day tour!adrienne d
February 2023
Mieko san was our tour guide for Nagoya. She was very knowledgeable in explaining the history of the Nagoya Castle. We requested her to bring us at Nagoya’s Shopping District which was located in Osu. Shw showed us the places and cuisines that we should try. It’s a plus that she had a trip in...
Mieko san was our tour guide for Nagoya. She was very knowledgeable in explaining the history of the Nagoya Castle. We requested her to bring us at Nagoya’s Shopping District which was located in Osu. Shw showed us the places and cuisines that we should try. It’s a plus that she had a trip in our country,the Philippines for a year or two as an exchange student and we had a lot to talk about.Similar tours
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