r/Nagoya

It's my first solo travel on October and looking at staying in Trip & Sleep Hostel. thoughts on the area?

i'm planning to go see some places and would love to know also if you guys have reco eg. Onsen/food/restau/activities i can immerse with japanese culture

Must visits are:
Kamikochi
Gifu Shirakawago

Appreciate it!

Hey everyone,

I will be coming to Nagoya for about two months to study at a language school, specifically Nagoya JaLS.

I will be coming here by myself and would love to know if anyone else will be going there. Let me know, and I hope we will be able to meet each other.

I am very excited to join some Nagoya running clubs and do as many cultural activities as possible while I am there. My main purpose is to improve my Japanese language skills as much as possible (Yes, yes, I know two months is not a lot of time, but I will enjoy it as much as I can).

I was also thinking about doing some day trips or weekend trips, but I am still researching what to do. A few years ago, I already visited the Golden Route, and I would like to explore some other locations. One recommendation I received was Nikko.

My Japanese level is not very high, estimated to be around N4, and I am aiming for N3. According to the school, based on the placement test I am around Lessons 40 to 50 in Minna no Nihongo.

I am really excited about this trip, as this will probably be my last chance to take a long “vacation” as a student before getting a full time job.

PS: Any extra Nagoya tips and tricks would be highly appreciated. Thanks!

If anyone has exported cars, could you explain it for me like novice.

Hi there!!! I saw that there were people playing MTG on the weekends!! I actually checked Hareruya Nagoya today to see if anyone was playing haha. Please let me know! I’m interested on playing on weekends. I just started playing this week. I’m building a Godzilla based deck.
I’m also open to learning to play Pokemon! I use to play Yu-gi-oh 10 years ago so I can learn again.

Please message me we can add on Line or discord 🙂‍↕️.

-Looking for English speaker group
-Weekends I can only play.
-Nagoya area or the area around Miyoshi/Toyota/Okazaki

So this might sound odd but does anyone need help with something tomorrow? If the answer is yes then I would like you to reach out to me!

So usually I'm very busy due to the nature of my job but things have improved and suddenly I have some spare time at hand but apart from my usual hobbies I don't have much to do. And it's kinda super boring 😅

Oh and to make it a lil less creepy I'll give you some details about me, hello you can call me Mesh, I am 23 years old and a man. I have finished both my graduate and post graduate studies and have been living in Nagoya for more than a year.

What kind of help can you ask me? You wonder? Well

Honestly anything, I'm decently strong so if you need help carrying something, picking up that second hand thing you bought on Facebook but it's too heavy ? I can help. Need someone to listen to your problems? I can help. Want to go somewhere but need a plus 1? Count me in.

(This is not a paid service, I just like helping people and am bored) Tomorrow I'm definitely free but if you see this post later on and need help, well feel free to ask, if I have time I'll be happy to help out :!!

Edit 1 : Got to help one person today! It was a good time!! Posted a comment to share the experience so check out out if you see this post. Though the day has ended the quest board will remain open!! If you need help with anything please feel free to reach out to me, no matter how much later you see this post!!

If you you interested ! Drop comment

(semi-rant post)

Hello everyone, i wanted to make this post sharing my experience with the school and hear how people who have attended the school after me felt about the school.

I attended NUCB's global MBBA program after graduating from my high school in the summer of 2019. To be honest, I was a mediocre student with mediocre grades so I had no hopes of attending a well known or good college anywhere but I always wanted to experience living in Japan and hence why I chose NUCB. They pretty much accepted anybody that can breathe and have money lol.

Looking back at it I enjoyed a lot of aspects of NUCB,

living in the countryside of Nagoya, being 40 mins by foot away from the nearest Komenoki station, the Aeon supermarket, that one Indian place with the cheese naan.

I loved the diversity in the classroom, NUCB proudly showed off during orientation that our class had students from over 120 countries and to this day I don't think there is an institution that has beaten that level of diversity. The classrooms being the law school like style that encouraged discussion was another thing I remembered favorably.

The students I were with were interesting... I wasn't able to find anything about it on this reddit page but there was a huge controversy where one of the international student smuggled in marijuana and sent it out to multiple dorms and had everyone in each of the dorms arrested by the Japanese customs agents. Honestly felt like some of the students were like tourists who were let loose.

Anyways, here are the things I hated about NUCB, every part of the administration felt like they were there to drag money out of me. Of course the school needs to make money to function, I wouldn't mind paying if the things that I paid for was good quality. The books were printed and stalled copies of articles you can find online. The material that's taught at the school besides the actuarial classes were a fucking joke. I don't think there was a single moment during the business classes where I felt like I learned something new. Youtube channels like modern MBA would probably teach more than NUCB. This might sound a bit racist but I wish the professors they hired had a decent amount of English proficiency. I remember I had have multiple back and forth with professors because their instructions or comments weren't clear.

During COVID, I decided to take a break from the school to do my military service and administration told me I would have to pay $4000 a semester just for them to "keep me in the files." After that I knew this school ain't it and I quit NUCB. I was the first of many of my class that eventually left NUCB. Now I attend UCLA as a data science major and I would say I don't regret leaving NUCB.

I would love to hear other people's good/bad stories from the school!

Hey everyone! I'm looking to buy a reliable, second-hand 35mm film camera, an slr, and pick up some film while I'm here.

I know the big chains like Bic and Yodobashi have film, but I'm looking for spots that have a good selection of serviced/tested vintage cameras.

Would love any recommendations for hidden gems, fair prices, or local shops with decent film stock.

Thanks!

Hey people!

I have been in Nagoya for a few months now and I have started feeling the need to play some TTRPGs again but i don't have anyone to do it with!

Ideally i would really like to try out Draw Steel but i have experience with both Pathfinder 2e (as DM) and D&D 5e (as both player and DM) and would be down for those too

I live in the Motoyama area and i could potentially host up to 5 other people (6 counting me) at my place for games so location isn't an issue

No prior experience needed!

I got my driving license renewal "invitation" and it says 「更新期間 ８月12日から 8月14日まで」so I scaned the QR code today (11th) and tied to make a reservation within that period of time but it was all full so I made it for 2 weeks from today

The thing I don't understand is... if I need to make a reservation, and the reservation can be made any day, what is the 更新期間 (renewal period) for ? Like, can I go without reservation any of those days and do my renewal ? Or what is that period for ?

Planning on doing a 14day quick driving school. I am in nagoya any suggestion on which school is good and where i can take exam in english(no problem if lessons are in Japanese).

Am visiting Nagoya in a few months, was an exchange student there in the mid 00s and have planned my trip so I'm in town for my birthday, spending it with some old friends.

Does anyone have any recommendations for wine/cocktail bars with good vibes for my friends and I to have a nice birthday drink in? Will be mostly in Sakae/Osu.

Looking forward to being back for a few days - Nagoya has a very special place in my heart.