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The curving tower on the north side of Nagoya Station is directly connected by the underpass (Lucent Avenue) from the station. There is a restaurant and a bar on the top floor where all seats can enjoy a night view. Credit cards are available.

A commercial facility that was opened in 1965 and has become familiar as a landmark in front of Mei Station, was newly opened on March 9, 2016. Shops and restaurants and cafes of fashion and miscellaneous goods such as the select store "Isetan House" are on the 1st to 5th basement floors. On the 7th to 16th floors there are showrooms, financial institutions, medical institutions, schools, etc.

A combined large department store located within the hotel wing of the Twin Towers "JR Central Towers", the station building of JR Nagoya Station. The building, which is 53 stories above the ground, has a variety of shops including fashion from the second to the eleventh stories below the ground, and features a spacious space and layout, such as the installation of a rest space "Rose Patio" and a baby room (nursing room). There is also a panoramic salon on the 51st floor of the office building, and you can enjoy the best view from the cafe and beauty salon. Along with the "Hands Nagoya Store" on the 5th to 11th floors and the restaurant street on the 12th and 13th floors, you can enjoy shopping slowly.

A high-rise complex building with 46 floors above ground and six stories below ground, directly connected to JR Nagoya Station. The first floor is a bus terminal, the first to eighth basement is the “Takashimaya Gate Tower Mall” with approximately 150 stores, the 9th to 13th floor is a large specialty store and restaurant floor, and the 18th to 24th floor is the “Nagoya JR Gate Tower Hotel”. In the "Gate Tower Plaza Restaurant Street" on the 12th and 13th floors, there are 37 restaurant stores, about 90% of which are the first to open in the Tokai region. Together with the adjacent JR Central Towers "Towers Plaza Restaurant Street", it will be the largest restaurant district in Japan with a total of 76 stores.

A fashion building with a focus on women's fashion at about 70 stores, which are popular among women in their 10 s and 20 s. B1F's food counter includes prepared foods and bento that make you feel the taste of your mother, as well as Nagoya specialties such as chicken wings and Tenmusu.

There are 28 elaborate private rooms, some of which are available in private rooms where Wii can be made (room charge 500 yen per hour, reservation required), and karaoke private rooms (room charge available, reservation required). The food is varied, ranging from Margherita baked in a full-fledged pizza kiln to ¥ 1922, and domestic beef grilled steak to ¥ 1814.

A golden clock stands on the central concourse, just steps from the Sakura-dori entrance, and the second-floor section, raised by an escalator, leads to Towers Terrace.

The facility consists of an indoor play place, "Kidokido", and a Boonerund shop for sale of playground equipment. From a 6-month baby to a 12-year-old elementary school student, you can choose a variety of play equipment such as blocks and cyber wheels according to the age and way of playing of the child, and events are also held and you can play all day. Active Ocean, Discovery Town, Baby Garden and three worlds spread out. There is also a space where you can play from 0-year-olds, so you can feel safe. Access is also excellent because it is directly connected to Nagoya Station.

The largest international exchange and information base in the Chubu area, located on the 3rd to 5th floors of the 102m26-story international center building facing Nagoya Ekimae Sakura-dori. The information counter on the third floor provides daily life information and tourist information to foreigners, including English, in many languages. They also respond to various inquiries from Japanese people such as international exchanges and volunteer activities. Consultation windows for foreigners, including administrative consultation and legal consultation, are also set up. In the library, books, picture books, DVDs, etc. that introduce countries of the world are loaned. It is also designated as the "i Information Center" and includes paid Internet copying service, free Wi-Fi service, and distribution of foreign language information magazine "Nagoya Calendar" and tourist brochures.

A complex on ceramics of Western food maker "Noritake". In the green garden, there is also a craft center where you can visit the ceramic production process and have a painting experience (for a fee), a museum displaying Old Noritake, a directly managed shop and restaurants and cafes where you can enjoy meals at Noritake's tableware. In addition, there are monuments of six chimneys in remembrance of the red brick buildings and factory sites at the time of the founding, a place of peace that cannot be considered a city.