Motoyama (本山) is a district in Chikusa-ku (千種区), a ward in the east of

Nagoya City is the largest city in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is the list of cities in Japan, fourth-most populous city in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020, and the principal city of the Chūkyō metropolitan area, which is the List of ...

. It is located between Higashiyama and Kakuozan, and is close to both

Nagoya University , abbreviated to or NU, is a Japanese national research university located in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya. It was established in 1939 as the last of the nine Imperial Universities in the then Empire of Japan, and is now a Designated National Universit ...

and Higashiyama-Koen Park (東山公園).

Transportation

At the heart of Motoyama is a traffic intersection, underneath which the Higashiyama and Meijo Lines of the

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(地下鉄) cross each other. There are six entrances/exits to the subway station at Motoyama station. Motoyama Station (本山駅) has 4 floors; The

Higashiyama Line The is a subway line in Nagoya, Japan, part of the Nagoya Municipal Subway system. It runs from Takabata in Nakagawa Ward to Fujigaoka in Meitō Ward, all within Nagoya. The Higashiyama Line's color on maps is yellow and stations are labe ...

is located on the third floor, and the Meijo Line is located on the fourth floor of the subway station.

Culture

Motoyama features tourist attractions, English friendly cuisine, and foreigner-friendly temples.

Sight Seeing

Higashiyama Zoo is a Botanical Gardens and Zoo combined, within the heart of suburbia, located next to Motoyama and Hoshigaoka. Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens is a major attraction within Japan, as it is the only place in Japan that is home to Koalas.

Temples

Togan-ji Temple is located one street from the main intersection of Motoyama. It is considered the "hidden gem" of nagoya. Togan-ji Temple boasts a 100 ft high Green statue of buddha, that is known as "the great buddha.Japan Info. (2016) ''The Great Buddha of Toganji Temple, Nagoya . Retrieved from'' http://jpninfo.com/7396 In the Motoyama area there is a

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department store (松坂屋), various restaurants and fast food outlets, karaoke and an interesting and tourist-free Buddhist temple ( Tōgan-ji), home to Nagoya's largest seated Buddha statue. Yotsuya-dori (四谷通) stretches from Motoyama station in the direction of the university, and houses a number of clothing outlets, as well as a large branch of Mujirushi Ryohin (Muji - 無印良品) Motoyama is also famous for many so called

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stores. On the Yotsuya-dori side of Motoyama are Plus and Mizuiro. On the opposite side around nekogahora-dori there are Hulot, Sahan, and the cafe Millou. Recently the zakka stores Moka, Ming Ming, and the zakka cafe Myshica have closed. Motoyama is around 8 minutes by subway from the downtown Sakae area (栄), and around 15 minutes from

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, popularly abbreviated to

Meieki is a major railway station in Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Japan. It is Japan's, and one of the world's largest train stations by floor area (410,000 m2), and houses the headquarters of the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central). Much of this spa ...

(名駅), with JR,

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, Kintetsu and

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services to all of Central Japan and beyond

References

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