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Nagoya doesn’t have a single obvious neighbourhood to base yourself in the way Kyoto or Osaka does — it comes down to what you’re prioritising. Nagoya Station (Meieki): the default choice, and the right one if you’re passing through on the Shinkansen the way I did. Everything — trains, department stores, an entire underground food …

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Nagoya’s food culture has a name: Nagoya meshi. It’s bold, built on rich red hatcho miso, and it doesn’t apologise for any of it — this is a city that serves pork cutlets under miso sauce instead of the usual tonkatsu sauce, and treats deep-fried chicken wings as a food group. If you’re wondering where …

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Hobart sits close enough to the rest of southern and eastern Tasmania that most visitors end up choosing between five or six properly different days out, and every “best day trips” listicle online treats them as interchangeable. They are not. I did two of these myself, researched three more properly rather than guessing, and there …

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I got into Nagoya on a late Shinkansen from Tokyo, checked into a hotel two minutes from the station, and had exactly one day to see a city most people skip entirely. Nagoya sits on the Tokaido Shinkansen line between Tokyo and Kyoto, and a lot of travellers treat it as nothing more than a …

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