Nagoya Adventures: Local Travel Guide to Nagoya, Japan

Tourists treat Nagoya as a train stop between Tokyo and Osaka. That's their loss, and your opportunity

Welcome to the Chicago of Japan: a city where food is deep-fried, cars are exorcised at Shinto shrines, and the cafe scene is so competitive that they serve free breakfast.

I'm Cindy Liu, a (part-time) travel writer who prefers grit to glitz. I wrote this guide because Nagoya is the most criminally underrated city in Asia, and you need me to show you the back alleys, not the tourist traps.

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