The Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology is a well-designed museum with lots of interesting displays on the car-making and textile industries. Its 400 exhibits include original equipment and instructive videos that encapsulate the advancement of the products of these industries over recent decades.

This wonderful craft center on Noritake Square is a delightful place to visit on your trip to Nagoya. Here you can watch talented local craftsmen use traditional techniques to make beautiful ceramic pieces including intricately hand-painted Japanese pottery.

While on Noritake Square, you can also visit the fascinating Morimura-Okura Museum "CANVAS". This museum is home to a wide-ranging collection of beautiful Noritake china pieces, including ancient tableware.

This ceramics showroom is located next to the Noritake Museum. Inside the "Celabo" you can enjoy more presentations of ceramic production, as well as find out about the many contemporary applications of Noritake ceramic technology in electronics and industry. Afterwards, you can choose some beautiful tableware at the gift shop to add a unique Japanese twist to your home décor.

The Nagoya Station is the world's largest train station by floor area, with a massive 446,000 square meters of space. Located in the Nakamura-ku area, it serves as the headquarters of the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central). More than 1.1 million people use it on an average day, making it the sixth busiest station in Japan. As well as the station itself, the site includes "JR Central Towers", a 59-story Hotel Tower together with a 55-story office tower.

The Midland Square (officially called the Toyota-Mainichi Building) is a 247-meter high skyscraper in the Meieki area of Nakamura-ku. Opened in 2007, it’s Japan’s fifth tallest building behind the Yokohama Landmark Tower, the Rinku Gate Tower Building, the Osaka World Trade Center Building and the Midtown Tower. Take a ride up in one of the unusual double-floored elevators inside, which will take you to the top in just 40 seconds. Once there, you can enjoy the view from what is the highest open-air observation deck in the country. Also in the building you’ll find a big shopping center with 60 brand-name stores, two car showrooms and a cinema. A number of major companies have offices elsewhere in the building, including Toyota Motor Corporation, Towa Real Estate and Mainichi Shimbun.

The Nagoya International Center, known locally as the “NIC”, is a non-profit facility in the Nakamura-ku district. Established in 1984, the center provides a number of services to the public free of charge. Visitors will enjoy the information corner and library, which has more than 10,000 English-language books. It is an ideal information hub for first-time foreign visitors to start their trip to Nagoya by picking up lots of useful information on the must-see attractions in the region. The center also organizes intercultural community activities and hosts free consultations on issues like health, tax, legal and personal counseling for foreign residents in eight different languages.