--- title: "Most walkable neighbourhoods in Nagoya (2026) · How Walkable" description: "15 neighbourhoods of Nagoya ranked by walkability score, from Sakae (99) to Minami-ku (85), with each one's distance from the centre. From open map data." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/nagoya/neighbourhoods updated: 2026-10-22 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- 1. [Cities](https://howwalkable.com/cities) 2. [Japan](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan) 3. [Nagoya](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/nagoya) 4. Neighbourhoods # The most walkable neighbourhoods in Nagoya By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 15 neighbourhoods of Nagoya ranked by walkability, each scored across the area around its own centre. Sakae leads with 99/100, then Naka-ku (97) and Higashi-ku (96). All 15 score 70 or more, where most errands can be done on foot, and the lowest we rank is Minami-ku (85). | # | Neighbourhood | From the centre | Area scoring 70+ | Score | | -- | ----------------------------------------------- | --------------- | ---------------- | ----- | | 1 | Sakae | 650 m | 100% | 99 | | 2 | [Naka-ku](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/nagoya/naka-ku) | 1.1 km | 100% | 97 | | 3 | Higashi-ku | 2.8 km | 100% | 96 | | 4 | [Chikusa-ku](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/nagoya/chikusa-ku) | 4.4 km | 100% | 94 | | 5 | Fujigaoka | 11.3 km | 100% | 93 | | 5 | Kita-ku | 3 km | 100% | 93 | | 5 | Kawanayama-chō | 6 km | 100% | 93 | | 8 | Nishi-ku | 2.3 km | 100% | 92 | | 8 | Horibata-chō | 2 km | 100% | 92 | | 8 | [Atsuta-ku](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/nagoya/atsuta-ku) | 4.7 km | 100% | 92 | | 8 | Shōwa-ku | 3.9 km | 100% | 92 | | 12 | [Nakamura-ku](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/nagoya/nakamura-ku) | 2.8 km | 88% | 90 | | 13 | [Mizuho-ku](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/nagoya/mizuho-ku) | 5.4 km | 100% | 89 | | 13 | Meitō-ku | 10.2 km | 100% | 89 | | 15 | Minami-ku | 8.8 km | 98% | 85 | "From the centre" is the distance from Nagoya's busiest point to the neighbourhood's centre. "Area scoring 70+" is the share of points across the neighbourhood where most errands can be done on foot. ## The top 5 up close ### Sakae Sakae is the most central of these five, 650 m south-east of Nagoya's busiest point, and scores 99/100. It has the most banks of the five: 76 within a 30 minute walk, the nearest 北國銀行, about 2 minutes away. ### Naka-ku Naka-ku scores 97/100, 1.1 km east of Nagoya's busiest point. 7,929 everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of its middle, the nearest grocery about 4 minutes away. [More on Naka-ku](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/nagoya/naka-ku). ### Higashi-ku Higashi-ku scores 96/100, 2.8 km east of Nagoya's busiest point. Schools are where it leads the others, 47 of them within a 30 minute walk, starting with 愛知県立愛知商業高校, about 2 minutes away. ### Chikusa-ku Chikusa-ku scores 94/100, 4.4 km east of Nagoya's busiest point. 1,768 everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of its middle, the nearest grocery about 2 minutes away. Its thinnest category against the others is parks, with 102. [More on Chikusa-ku](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/nagoya/chikusa-ku). ### Fujigaoka Fujigaoka lies the furthest out of these five, 11.3 km east of Nagoya's busiest point, and scores 93/100. None of the others has as many parks, with 315 in a 30 minute walk; 明が丘公園 is the nearest, about 4 minutes away. It has the fewest cultural venues of the five, 12. ## Centre and outskirts The 7 neighbourhoods within 3 km of Nagoya's centre average 94, and the 8 further out average 91, so walkability holds up away from the centre. The nearest to the centre, Sakae, 650 m away, scores 99, and the farthest, Fujigaoka, 11.3 km out, scores 93. ![Map of Nagoya's 15 ranked neighbourhoods around its centre, numbered by rank and coloured by score, with rings every 2 km. The most walkable is Sakae, 650 m to the south-east; the least, Minami-ku, 8.8 km to the south.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/japan/nagoya/neighbourhoods.svg?v=e8dc419ac1e6) Each dot is a ranked neighbourhood, numbered by rank and coloured by score, placed by its distance and direction from the centre of Nagoya. Nagoya as a whole scores [92 out of 100](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/nagoya) across the 5 km around its centre. Other cities in Japan with ranked neighbourhoods: [Tokyo](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/tokyo/neighbourhoods), [Osaka](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/osaka/neighbourhoods), [Yokohama](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/yokohama/neighbourhoods). ## Questions about Nagoya's neighbourhoods ### What is the most walkable neighbourhood in Nagoya? Sakae is the most walkable of the 15 neighbourhoods we rank in Nagoya, with a walkability score of 99 out of 100 (Walker's Paradise). It is followed by Naka-ku (97) and Higashi-ku (96). ### How are Nagoya's neighbourhoods ranked? Each neighbourhood is scored at points 100 m to 500 m apart across a circle around its centre, sized to its area, and its score is the mean of those points. Each point's score counts the groceries, restaurants, shops, schools, parks and other everyday places within a 30 minute walk, as described in the methodology. Nagoya scores 92 across the 5 km around its centre. This page is generated from open map data with a published walkability method, explained in the [methodology](https://howwalkable.com/methodology). Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighbourhoods and where they lie from Overture Maps and Wikidata. Scores, rankings and text by How Walkable (https://howwalkable.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); credit How Walkable and link to this page when reusing them.