15 July 2010 - Most people skip Japan's fourth city of Nagoya, but I wanted to have a look. Nagoya was almost completely destroyed during World War II, but rebuilt with wide, straight streets. One arrives in the ultra-modern JR Nagoya Station, which is officially recognized by Guinness Book of Records as being the world's largest building containing a railway station. It also contains 50 floors with the Takashimaya department store, offices, restaurants and a hotel. The main attraction is Nagoya Castle (see picture), but I only found out on the spot that it is a replica built in 1959, as the original was also destroyed during the war. Although people make effort to point out that it is an exact replica, it has an elevator up to the fifth floor. In sum, it looks better from the outside than from the inside.
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