Kirin Beer Park Nagoya

If you are a fan of Japanese beer, then a trip to the Kirin Beer Park in Biwajima just one stop on the JR Chuo Line from Nagoya Station might be for you.

Turn right out of Biwajima Station and a regular free bus will ferry you to the brewery.

The rather long-winded tour (in Japanese) introduces the visitor to the main ingredients of beer, plus the history of beer and the production facilities at the Nagoya brewery, which supplies the whole of the Chubu area.

The highlight of the tour is how to learn to pour a perfect glass of Kirin in three easy stages.

Participating on the tour allows the visitor two free draft Kirin beers. There is also a shop and a restaurant on the premises.

Kirin Beer Park
Kiyosu
452-8562
Tel: 052 408 2000

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Shirotomi Garden Nagoya

白鳥庭園

Shirotomi Garden in Nagoya is close to Atsuta Shrine and the Nagoya Congress Center.

Opened in 1991, the 3.7ha Shirotomi Tei-en is a modern Japanese garden representing the countryside of the surrounding areas of Nagoya city. The mound in the south-west corner of the garden represents Mt. Ondake, located on the borders of Nagano and Gifu Prefectures and  the second highest volcano in Japan at 3,067m. The stream running from the mound represents the Kiso River in Gifu.

The garden contains a traditional teahouse, Seiu-tei, built in the Sukiya style by carpenters from Kyoto. Other features of this beautiful, strolling garden include a perfect, turf lawn, traditional wooden bridges and a number of waterfalls.

There's a cafe for visitors to refresh themselves and contemplate a garden that seems a million miles from the hustle and bustle of downtown Nagoya. Can you spot the toad/frog in the image below?

Shirotomi Garden
Atsuta Nishi-machi 2-5
Atsuta-ku
Nagoya
Tel: 052 681 8928
Admission: 300 yen; Yearly pass 1,200 yen
Hours: 9am-4.30pm; closed Monday and the 3rd Wednesday of the month.
Access: A 10 minute walk from Jingu-Nishi Station on the Meijo Line

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Akaike Station Nagoya

赤池

Akaike Station (lit. "Red Lake") is at the eastern end of the Tsurumai Line of the Nagoya subway before the line becomes the Meitetsu Toyota Line to Toyota city.

The area around the station includes the Oxport sports center and pool, a popular McDonalds, a Piago supermarket, a branch of the Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ bank, a florist, a convenience store, a pachinko parlor and a number of bars, cafes and izakaya.

Akaike Station has full wheelchair access and a free motorbike and bicycle parking lot.

Buses from Akaike no longer run to Chubu International Airport but there are bus services to Toyota, Nagoya Shoka University, Yufukuji and Toyota Nishi High School.

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Nagoya Dome

ナゴヤドーム

Nagoya Dome near Ozone in Nagoya is the home stadium of the Chunichi Dragons baseball team and also plays hosts to music concerts, conferences and trade fairs.

The Rolling Stones played here back in 2006. Other bands to have performed at Nagoya Dome include Aerosmith, Backstreet Boys, Steve Barakatt, Bon Jovi, Celine Dion, Fuel, Billy Joel, Luciano Pavarotti, Queen + Paul Rodgers, and Wayne Shorter.

Nagoya Dome opened in 1997 and has a capacity of around 38,000 people. The dome is opposite a huge Aeon shopping mall and is a popular spot for joggers running around the stadium.

Nagoya Dome is best accessed by subway to the Nagaoya Dome-mae Yada Station on the Meijo line or Ozone Station on the JR, Meitetsu and subway lines.

Nagoya Dome
Tel: 052 719 2121


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Brother Computer Solutions Osu Kannon

BCS ノートブック　ショップ

Brother Computer Solutions in Osu Kannon, Nagoya is a new computer store in the Ameyoko Building 1.

The friendly and committed staff speak English, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese and buy and sell new and used PCs.

BCS also offers general computer maintenance and repair including hardware cleaning, OS maintenance and upgrades, virus check and removal, upgrades for Windows XP, Windows Vista & Windows 7.

All notebooks have a 3 month guarantee, 1 month free support and online real time support.

BCS Notebook Shop
Brother Computer Solutions
Ameyoko Building 1, 1F
Naka-ku
Osu 3-30-86
Tel: 052 251 6226
osu-ameyoko.co.jp
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O2 Business Hotel

The tallest building in my neighborhood is the O2 (Oh-two) Business Hotel, though the kind of business going on inside this tower is not associated with paperwork, filing and data input.

No O2 is an upmarket love hotel. This six-floor palace even has a large food menu on offer.

In an effort to whip up new custom the hotel is offering an autumn stamp rally drive, the more you come, the more you save!

O2
Nisshin-shi
Akaike Mochiguchi 153
Tel: 052 806 7200

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Nagoya Congress Center

The Cop 10 conference on biodiversity is being held this month at the Nagoya Congress Center just south of Kanayama Station in Nagoya.

Nagoya Congress Center is close to Atsuta Shrine, Nagoya Gakuin University and the beautiful strolling garden of Shirotori Park.

The nearest stations to the Nagoya Congress Center are Nishi Takakura and Jingu Nishi on the Meijo Line of the Nagoya Subway and Hibino Station on the Meiko Line.

Nagoya Congress Center
1-1 Atsuta-nishimachi
Atsuta-ku
Nagoya
456-0036
Tel: +81 (0)52 683 7711
Fax: +81 (0)52 683 7777
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Ten no Yu Super Sento

天の湯

Traditional Japanese bath houses or sento usually open around 4pm. If you fancy a soak before then, you will need to search out what is called a "super sento."

Larger and more up-market, drive-in super sento have replaced the smaller, family-run bath houses in places like Nagoya. Only really Kyoto among Japanese cities has a large number of smaller, more intimate sento.

A good example of a super sento is Ten no Yu up the hill to the left from the Ueda subway station on the Tsurumai Line. There is a spacious rotemburo (outside bath) and sun lounge for topping up the tan and Vitamin D level, two saunas, a massage parlor and jacuzzi.

An early morning soak and sauna is a great way to shake off any hangover and leave you feeling much happier about life.

Ten no Yu
Tenpaku-ku, Ueda 1-703
Tel: 052 807 1123
Admission 700 yen
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Manaca Card マナカ

マナカ

Nagoya is to launch the Manaca IC card for use on the city area's trains, buses, taxis and subways.

Similar to the Pasmo and Suica cards in use in Tokyo, the contactless IC transit card will first be valid on Nagoya's subway, bus network, Aonami Line and local Meitetsu trains and buses.

The pre-paid card will also be valid on Meitetsu taxis some time after its release on the public transportation system in Nagoya city in February 2011.

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Nagoya Agricultural Center

名古屋農業センター

Nagoya Agricultural Center is a large city-operated public gardens in the east of the city.

The gardens are especially known for their plum blossoms in March.

It's free to get in, there's a cafe/restaurant, a shop selling often organic vegetables as well as plants and health foods, glass houses, a bamboo forest, streams and even a model farm with battery chickens, pigs, sheep, goats and cows.



The nearest station is Hirabari on the Tsurumai Line - head east from the station on the road to Toyota. The Nagoya Agricultural Center is about 15 minutes on foot on your right.



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Record High Temperatures in Nagoya

名古屋

Temperatures continue to be very high throughout Japan. I recorded a temperature of 50.5 degrees Centigrade outside my house today.

Forecasts are for the area of high pressure over the Japanese archipelago to continue to bring searing heat for the next week.

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