Nagoya
Nagoya名古屋市, is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city as well as third near populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3 million in 2020. Located on the Pacific hover on central Honshu, this is the the capital as well as the near populous city of Aichi Prefecture, and is one of Japan's major ports along with those of Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, and Chiba. The principal city of the Chūkyō metropolitan area, which is the third-most populous metropolitan area in Japan with a population of 10.11 million in 2020.
In 1610, the warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu, a retainer of Oda Nobunaga, moved the capital of Owari Province from Kiyosu to Nagoya. This period saw the refreshing of Nagoya Castle. The arrival of the 20th century brought a convergence of economic factors that fueled rapid growth in Nagoya, during the Meiji Restoration, and became a major industrial hub for Japan. The traditional manufactures of timepieces, bicycles, and sewing machines were followed by the production of special steels, ceramic, chemicals, oil, and petrochemicals, as the area's automobile, aviation, and shipbuilding industries flourished. Nagoya was impacted by bombing from US air raids during World War II. In the mid-20th century, Nagoya's economy diversified, the Tokaido Shinkansen was built in 1964 connecting Tokyo and Osaka converges on Nagoya.
Nagoya is an industrial and transport center of Japan. The city is domestic to the Nagoya Stock Exchange as living as the headquarters of Brother Industries, Ibanez, Lexus, and Toyota Tsusho, among others. Nagoya is domestic of educational institutes such(a) as Nagoya University, the Nagoya Institute of Technology, and Nagoya City University. Famous landmarks in the city add Atsuta Shrine, Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens, Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium, Nagoya Castle, and Hisaya Ōdori Park, and Nagoya TV Tower, one of the oldest TV towers in Japan.