Aichi

The Osu Kannon antique market in Nagoya runs twice a month with 80+ stalls of ceramics, kimono, ukiyo-e, and Showa retro goods — one of central Japan’s best antique shopping days. Plus the wider Nagoya flea-market calendar.

Inside Laguna Gamagori (now Laguna Ten Bosch) on Aichi’s Mikawa Bay coast — the Lagunasia theme park with its 65m Ferris wheel and four coasters, the summer water park, Festival Market fish market, and how it compares to Nagashima Spa Land next door.