Getting there
How to get to Ghibli Park from Nagoya
It's a short, well-signed trip — but the connecting line has a name that trips up first-time visitors.
The route
From Nagoya Station, take the subway or JR line to Fujigaoka Station, then transfer to the Linimo line — Japan's commercial maglev train — to Ghibli Park Station. The maglev leg itself is a genuinely fun, distinctive part of the trip, and it's a rare chance to ride a commercial maglev as part of an ordinary day out rather than a novelty attraction in its own right.
Total travel time
Door to door from central Nagoya typically runs 45–60 minutes including the transfer, depending on which Nagoya-area station you start from and how the connections line up.
From the station to the gate
Ghibli Park Station sits inside the wider Aichi Expo Commemorative Park (Moricoro Park) grounds — Ghibli Park's areas are distributed through the park rather than walled off as a single standalone gate, so allow a short walk between the station and your first pavilion. The walk itself passes through genuine parkland, not a car park or retail strip.
Day-trip logistics
Most visitors base themselves in Nagoya and day-trip to Ghibli Park rather than staying locally in Nagakute — Nagoya has far more accommodation and onward transport options for the rest of a Japan itinerary, and the short Linimo connection makes a Nagakute base unnecessary for most trip plans.
Combining it with the rest of a Nagoya visit
Because the round trip from central Nagoya comfortably fits inside half a day even before accounting for park time, Ghibli Park pairs naturally with a Nagoya Castle visit or a walk through the Osu shopping district on the same day, rather than needing to be its own dedicated day if your itinerary is tight.
If you're coming from Tokyo or Kyoto instead
Nagoya sits on the Tokaido Shinkansen line, roughly 100 minutes from Tokyo and 35–50 minutes from Kyoto depending on the service, which makes a Ghibli Park day trip realistic even from those cities if Nagoya itself isn't otherwise on your itinerary — though building in the Nagoya-side connection time on both ends is worth planning for.
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