The science museum and the planetarium were the focus of my recent day trip to Nagoya from my home in Shizuoka City- especially the planetarium, since I'd read that it is the world's largest and I love planetariums. The building itself was beautiful and quite impressive and the staff was helpful. I believe that the cost was reasonable - 800¥ for an adult.

The extensive science displays were large and well done - and quite crowded on the day we attended, with lots of families with children. And, although the focus of the displays was obviously school-aged children, I think they were interesting enough to engage adults as well - as it should.

The planetarium was indeed large, the projecter powerful, and the reclining swivel seats comfortable, yet I felt disappointed by the current 40-minute show. It was presented live in Japanese, which I expected, but especially given that the focus is youth, there was too little use of the awesome capacity of the room and equipment to show the wonderfully beautiful and awesome spectacle of the universe and its movement. There was far too much talk accompanied by projected facts and figures.

Overall, an impressive facility, in spite of my being somewhat underwhelmed by the current program - maybe next time.