Back in Nagoya for the first time in a while.
After surviving an intense 18-month stretch at work, there’s finally a bit of breathing room.
While home, I wandered around Nagoya Station and Sakae for the first time in ages.
I used to work part-time in Sakae as a student, so it feels nostalgic.
Nagoya TV Tower and Oasis 21.
The TV Tower will stop broadcasting TV signals in about a year and a half. (FM and other transmissions will continue, so it won’t be fully retired.)
Oasis 21 mostly means the bus terminal to me. Am I the only one who feels like the plaza in front of it has a similar vibe to the plaza near the Imperial Palace in Tokyo?
A breathing space in the middle of a big city. That’s the feel.
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Matsuzakaya, scheduled to close in August 2010. Took a commemorative photo.
By this time next year, the feel of this place will probably have changed completely.
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Apparently Dai-Nagoya Building is also slated for reconstruction starting in 2012.
Within a few years, this whole streetscape will look completely different.
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Going forward, more and more tall buildings are expected around Nagoya Station.
There’s a perennial debate in Nagoya about whether the Station area or Sakae draws more people — with all this redevelopment happening around the Station, maybe the balance is about to shift.
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The Nana-chan doll is keeping quiet watch over all these changes.
