Aichi

Sakae, Nishiki 3-chome, Meieki and Kanayama

The City of Nagoya ranks Nishiki 3-chome among the city's foremost nightlife quarters, drawing people from the business district next door, on a grid laid out for Nagoya Castle's castle town where merchants prospered. Sakae, in the words of the Nagoya Convention & Visitors Bureau, is Nagoya's second downtown, a 5-minute subway ride from Nagoya Station.

Nagoya designated its touting-ban zones on 1 October 2018: the Sakae district (Sakae 3 to 5-chome, Shin-Sakae 1-chome, Nishiki 3-chome), the Nagoya Station district (Meieki 1 to 4-chome, Tsubaki-cho and others) and the Kanayama district (Kanayama 1, 2 and 4-chome and others). Touts who ignore an order face a 50,000 yen fine and may be named. Choose venues yourself.

Access

AichiNow puts Nagoya Station roughly 1 hour 40 minutes from Tokyo on the Nozomi, an hour from Shin-Osaka and 40 minutes from Kyoto. Meitetsu trains such as the μSKY run from Centrair to Nagoya Station in 28 to 35 minutes, and with a subway change you reach Sakae or Fushimi in around 40; the prefectural Nagoya Airport at Komaki lies some 35 minutes north of the centre.

NIGHT LIFE JAPAN's Aichi areas

NIGHT LIFE JAPAN's Aichi is made up of nine areas: Nagoya, Toyota/Okazaki, Toyohashi/Toyokawa/Gamagori/Tahara, Anjo/Kariya/Chiryu/Nishio, Kasugai/Komaki/Inuyama, Handa / Tokai City / Oobu / Chita City, Ichinomiya/Inazawa/Iwakura/Kitanagoya, Owariasahi/Seto/Nagakute/Nisshin and Kanie/Yatomi. The areas outside Nagoya are split further by city.

Inside the city, Nagoya is divided again into Sakae/Shinsakae, Nishiki, Osu, Meieki / Nakamura Ward, Marunouchi, Chikusa / Imaike / Ikeshita, Kanayama, Ozone/Kita Ward/Nishi Ward, Fujigaoka, Moriyama Ward, Minami Ward/Minato Ward/Nakagawa Ward and Tempaku Ward / Mizuho Ward / Midori Ward. Hostess clubs (kyabakura), girls bars and lounges are listed on each area page.