Nagoya in four days: both castles or pottery lanes?

Use Meitetsu’s journey search to select both Inuyama-bound and return services for your date. Choose a stopping service with ordinary cars. Special cars require a μticket in addition to the base-fare ticket. Check the platform, destination and Inuyama stop before departure.

Meitetsu route and fare search by date2026-10-08Meitetsu special cars and μSKY guide2026-10-08

Leave by the west exit, turn right at Honmachi intersection and follow Honmachi-dori towards the castle. The official station-to-castle walk takes about 20 minutes. Climb Otemichi beside the National Treasure Inuyama Castle stone marker to reach the ticket office.

Inuyama Castle: access2026-10-08Otemichi, ticketing and keep entrance2026-10-08

Buy castle-only tickets from the vending machine; exchanges and combined tickets are handled at the staffed counter. If steps are difficult or rain is heavy, focus on the streets below the castle. To visit the keep, remove your shoes at the entrance and climb the interior stairs, then have lunch in the castle town. The castle opens from 9 am to 5 pm, with last admission at 4:30 pm, and closes from 29 to 31 December.

Otemichi, ticketing and keep entrance2026-10-08Inuyama Castle: facility and visitor guide2026-10-08

Retrace your route to Inuyama Station and take an ordinary-car service stopping at Meitetsu Nagoya. Allow the walk from the streets to the station and boarding time, then have dinner and rest in Nagoya.

Inuyama Castle: access2026-10-08Meitetsu route and fare search by date2026-10-08

Take the Higashiyama Line towards Fujigaoka to Sakae, then change to a Nagoyako-bound service travelling towards Kanayama on the Meijo Line. It continues from Kanayama onto the Meiko Line. Check the platform destination: the loop service goes elsewhere. Allow transfer time using the journey search for your date.

Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium: access2026-10-08Transportation Bureau journey search by date2026-10-08Transportation Bureau: Nagoya → Nagoyako subway fare check2026-10-08

The official walk from exit 3 to the aquarium takes about five minutes. Choose your preferred performances first, then plan North and South Building exhibitions and lunch around them. Dolphin performances are held at the North Building’s Level 3 stadium; allow time to move there from other galleries. Programmes may change with weather and animal conditions, so check the day’s locations and times.

Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium: access2026-10-08Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium: opening calendar2026-10-08

Return to Nagoyako Station and choose a service via Sakae. At Sakae, change to the Higashiyama Line towards Takabata for Nagoya. Check through-service arrangements at Kanayama and the Sakae transfer in your return journey search, then have dinner or rest near the station.

Transportation Bureau journey search by date2026-10-08Transportation Bureau: Nagoyako → Nagoya subway fare check2026-10-08

Take SRT’s Nagoya Castle route. It runs Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays and public holidays, so select both your castle-bound and return services in the timetable for your travel date. This SRT itinerary cannot be used on ordinary Tuesday–Thursday weekdays.

Nagoya City: SRT operating days and fares2026-10-08Return timetable effective 11 September2026-10-08

Walk about four minutes from the stop to the main gate, then another ten minutes to the Honmaru Palace entrance. Explore the palace and castle grounds, allowing breaks. The keep interior is closed. The castle closes at 4:30 pm and palace admission ends at 4 pm; allow the walk to the palace entrance and any queue.

Castle official access guide2026-10-08Main gate to the palace entrance2026-10-08Nagoya Castle: facility and visitor guide2026-10-08

After your visit, return to the SRT stop where you arrived and take a bus for Nagoya Station’s Taiko-dori exit. Reach the stop in time for your chosen departure, then have dinner or rest near the station.

Return timetable effective 11 September2026-10-08Nagoya City: SRT operating days and fares2026-10-08

Walk about 600 metres north from the JR station, then take the diagonal road to the right at Ushijimacho intersection. Continue about 150 metres past Wanouchicho intersection, then another 50 metres to the East Gate on your left. The walk takes about 15 minutes from JR Nagoya, or 20 minutes from the Meitetsu and Kintetsu stations.

Noritake East Gate walking map2026-10-08

Find the exhibition entrance on the site map to see pottery production and historic tableware and design material. The paid exhibitions open 10 am–5 pm; painting activities are separate. An outdoor walk and an exhibition visit are different options. The exhibitions close on Mondays, except public holidays when they open and close the next weekday instead, and from 26 December to 3 January. Check the separate exhibition calendars if adding the gallery.

Site map2026-10-08Noritake exhibitions and admission2026-10-08Noritake: hours and closures by facility2026-10-08

After the exhibition, have lunch nearby and retrace your route to JR Nagoya Station. Allow about 15 minutes for the walk, plus time to find your way.

Noritake East Gate walking map2026-10-08

Use Meitetsu’s journey search to select both Inuyama-bound and return services for your date. Choose a stopping service with ordinary cars. Special cars require a μticket in addition to the base-fare ticket. Check the platform, destination and Inuyama stop before departure.

Meitetsu route and fare search by date2026-10-08Meitetsu special cars and μSKY guide2026-10-08

Leave by the west exit, turn right at Honmachi intersection and follow Honmachi-dori towards the castle. The official station-to-castle walk takes about 20 minutes. Climb Otemichi beside the National Treasure Inuyama Castle stone marker to reach the ticket office.

Inuyama Castle: access2026-10-08Otemichi, ticketing and keep entrance2026-10-08

Buy castle-only tickets from the vending machine; exchanges and combined tickets are handled at the staffed counter. If steps are difficult or rain is heavy, focus on the streets below the castle. To visit the keep, remove your shoes at the entrance and climb the interior stairs, then have lunch in the castle town. The castle opens from 9 am to 5 pm, with last admission at 4:30 pm, and closes from 29 to 31 December.

Otemichi, ticketing and keep entrance2026-10-08Inuyama Castle: facility and visitor guide2026-10-08

Retrace your route to Inuyama Station and take an ordinary-car service stopping at Meitetsu Nagoya. Allow the walk from the streets to the station and boarding time, then have dinner and rest in Nagoya.

Inuyama Castle: access2026-10-08Meitetsu route and fare search by date2026-10-08

Take the Higashiyama Line towards Fujigaoka to Sakae, then change to a Nagoyako-bound service travelling towards Kanayama on the Meijo Line. It continues from Kanayama onto the Meiko Line. Check the platform destination: the loop service goes elsewhere. Allow transfer time using the journey search for your date.

Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium: access2026-10-08Transportation Bureau journey search by date2026-10-08Transportation Bureau: Nagoya → Nagoyako subway fare check2026-10-08

The official walk from exit 3 to the aquarium takes about five minutes. Choose your preferred performances first, then plan North and South Building exhibitions and lunch around them. Dolphin performances are held at the North Building’s Level 3 stadium; allow time to move there from other galleries. Programmes may change with weather and animal conditions, so check the day’s locations and times.

Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium: access2026-10-08Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium: opening calendar2026-10-08

Return to Nagoyako Station and choose a service via Sakae. At Sakae, change to the Higashiyama Line towards Takabata for Nagoya. Check through-service arrangements at Kanayama and the Sakae transfer in your return journey search, then have dinner or rest near the station.

Transportation Bureau journey search by date2026-10-08Transportation Bureau: Nagoyako → Nagoya subway fare check2026-10-08

Use the date-specific journey search to choose an ordinary-car service stopping at Tokoname. Even for airport-bound services, check stops and transfers. The checked adult fare for this direct ordinary-car journey is JPY 750 one way; special cars cost extra.

Meitetsu route and fare search by date2026-10-08Meitetsu: Nagoya → Tokoname regular fare check2026-10-08Meitetsu special cars and μSKY guide2026-10-08

Pick up a map at the Pottery Hall information office, 400 metres east of the station. Course A starts at the hall and is 1.6 km, officially about an hour’s walking. Explore the sloping lanes lined with pottery pipes and workshops, adding lunch and breaks. Course B is a separate four-kilometre walk taking about two and a half hours. House admission, workshop activities and cafés are additional. Shorten the hilly walk in heavy rain.

Information office 400 metres east of the station2026-10-08Tokoname tourism association: walking Courses A and B2026-10-08

After the walk, return to Tokoname Station and take an ordinary-car service stopping at Nagoya. Check destinations, stops and transfers in the date-specific Tokoname → Meitetsu Nagoya search. Under the same checked conditions, the fare is JPY 750 one way, or JPY 1,500 return.

Meitetsu route and fare search by date2026-10-08Meitetsu: Tokoname → Nagoya regular fare check2026-10-08

Walk about 600 metres north from the JR station, then take the diagonal road to the right at Ushijimacho intersection. Continue about 150 metres past Wanouchicho intersection, then another 50 metres to the East Gate on your left. The walk takes about 15 minutes from JR Nagoya, or 20 minutes from the Meitetsu and Kintetsu stations.

Noritake East Gate walking map2026-10-08

Find the exhibition entrance on the site map to see pottery production and historic tableware and design material. The paid exhibitions open 10 am–5 pm; painting activities are separate. An outdoor walk and an exhibition visit are different options. The exhibitions close on Mondays, except public holidays when they open and close the next weekday instead, and from 26 December to 3 January. Check the separate exhibition calendars if adding the gallery.

Site map2026-10-08Noritake exhibitions and admission2026-10-08Noritake: hours and closures by facility2026-10-08

After the exhibition, have lunch nearby and retrace your route to JR Nagoya Station. Allow about 15 minutes for the walk, plus time to find your way.

Noritake East Gate walking map2026-10-08