Nagoya is known for it's wide noodles, rice cakes, and eel. It's located in an ideal location in between Tokyo and Osaka. It is also the headquarters of Toyota and Mitsubishi which makes it kind of a blue collar town. The people in Japan are quiet compared to Korean people. The whole time I was there I got bumped into once but it wasn't a Japanese person, it was somebody from India.
When I arrived, it was already 3pm so it didn't give me a lot of time to do some sightseeing. The first place I went to was the Nagoya Castle which was just a few minutes walk from this subway station.
This is on the way to the castle. It only took about 5 minutes from the subway station to the front gate. By the time I got there it was already closed but I was able to walk around the outside and get some pictures.
I was able to see the outside of the castle. It was originally built in 1525 but it burned down during WW2. Most of the artifacts were destroyed but some of the paintings have been preserved. It was rebuilt in 1959 and it is much more modern with elevators and air-conditioning.
Surrounding the castle is this large trench. Just as I was leaving I noticed a few deer running around the corner playing and having a good time.
After I left the castle I almost stepped on this snake. I wasn't sure if it was a garter snake. I've seen many like this in Canada but this one seemed a little bigger than a usual garter so I approached it carefully. I found out later that it was just a Achilinus Werneri or a Amami odd scaled snake, relatively harmless.
After the castle, I made my way to this place and unfortunately forget the name of it right now but I thought it was a nice place located right in the middle of a bunch of modern buildings and next to a covered street market. There are quite a few of these street markets around this area.
Below is a video I got taking off from the Chibu Airport in Nagoya.
1 comment:
nice work on the photos and video... pretty action packed post.
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