About Nagoya

Nagoya is located at the center of Japan. Nagoya has a long history dating back 1900 years. It is the birthplace of the Three Feudal Lords (Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyosi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu). Nagoya is famous for industry city, for example automobiles, ceramics, textiles and so on. Today, Nagoya continues to keeps on developing as a Japanese international city.

About History

Nagoya has a long history dating back 1900 years. Tokugawa Ieyasu was victorious at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600. Tokugawa Ieyasu who became the first Shogun built Nagoya Castle and moved the whole town of Kiyosu to Nagoya in 1614. This was called the "Kiyosu-goe". Since then, the town of Nagoya continued to develop.

About Industries in Nagoya Region

Nagoya developed through manufacturing industries such as space and aircraft, automobile, and ceramics.The area within the radius of 100 kilometer, centered in Nagoya city, is called the Greater Nagoya and produces more than 50% of all Japan-made aircraft and aircraft parts.The GDP of the Greater Nagoya is the third largest in Japan, following that of Tokyo and Osaka and even ranked 20th among countries in the world as a city-based economi region, according to the World Economi Outlook Databse in April 2011.

About Nagoya Gourmet Cuisine

Misokatsu:Unlike traditional Ton-Katsu that is pork fried with breadcrumbs, Misokatsu is with sweet miso sauce. The combination of the crispy breadcrumbs, juicy pork, and sweet miso, with rice and shredded cabbage, makes this dish popular in Nagoya.
Misonikomi: Udon noodles in rich deep miso broth that is cooked for hours by craftsmen. With rather hard noodles, the deep taste of rich miso makes this noodle very unique in this region.
Hitsumabushi: Marinated and barbecued eel, cut into small pieces, is served on a bowl of hot rice.Eel's energetic properties and the wonderful flavour of the dish makes this especially popular in summer.
Tenmusu: A rice ball rolled with dried seaweed, containing deep fried shrimp (sh rimp tempura).It is smaller than ordinary rice ball, with tips of shrimp fritter sticking out of the rice ball.It comes with Kyarabuki, Japanese butterbur seasoned with soy sauce as garnish.
Uiro: A piece of soft rice cake, sometimes flavored with green tae, red beans, and citrus called Yuzu. It is much less sticky than Mochi. This is a very traditional unique sweets in Nagoya.