Nagoya City Sciens Museum's planetarium is the largest in the world (35 meters in internal diameter and 20 meters high).
They use the latest technology with a Carl Zeiss's projector IX (UNIVERSALRIUM)
The dome is fully covered in LCD screens.
The large dome and high quarity projector show us more natural night sky than we've ever seen.
They also achieve diverse theme of videos and create an entertaining show of planetarium with music.
The dome has separate reclining seats, which turn 60 degrees from side to side, for 350 spectators.

* In 2010, Sogo Kagaku Hakubutsukan's planetarium (Niihama C. Ehime Pref.) was world No. 1in scale (30 meters in diameter)
and Kyoiku Center Planetarium (Setagaya-ku, Tokyo) had world No. 1 quarity (number of projected stars[140 million] and minimum distortion)

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Night-Time Projection

Program for adults held from 18:30 to 19:30
In addition to the general projection of the month, they feature a special laser show and topics.
Projections are in Japanese.

Date	Theme	Period for application
Dec.24(Sat) 2011	Stars of Christmas	Nov.1(Tue) - Dec.3(Sat)
Jan.21 (Sat) 2012	The creation of the universe	Dec.1(Thu) - Dec.24(Sat)
Feb.18 (Sat) 2012	fantasy - aurora	Jan.4(Wed) - Jan.28(Sat)
Mar.17 (Sat) 2012	The Solar System Adventure	Feb.1(Wed) - Feb.25(Sat)

Admission: 700yen

Reservation is required
 You have to send double post card with preferred date, and representative's name, address,
phone number, number of the participants (up to 5) to the address below.
(How to write a double-postal card is here)
If more than the fixed number of people applies, a lottery will be held to select participants.

Address
2-17-1, Sakae, Naka-ku, Nagoya 460-0008
Nagoya Science Museum OOOO/(preferred date) night projection
or
〒460-0008　名古屋市中区栄2-17-1
名古屋市科学館　○月△日夜間投影係　　

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The number of planetarium in Japan is ranked number 2 in the world.

Country/area	Number of planetarium
USA	approx. 1500
Japan	approx. 400
Europe	approx. 500
Asia (except Japan)	approx. 300

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Open
9:30 - 17:00 (last entry 16:30)

Closed
Mondays (If Monday falls on a holiday, available the next business day)
The 3rd Friday (If the 3rd Friday falls on a holiday, available the 4th Friday.)

Admission
<Exhibitions only>
Adult:400yen, Univ. student and senior high schooler: 200yen ,junior high schooler and under: free

<Exhibitions and Planetarium>
Adult:800yen, Univ. student and senior high schooler: 500yen ,junior high schooler and under: free

Address
2-17-1, Sakae, Naka-ku, Nagoya

Access
Get off at Fushimi Sta. on the Higashiyama or Tsurumai Subway Line.
Take exit 5.
A 5-min. walk to the south.

Parking lot
Pay parking lot in Shirakawa Park

TEL
052-201-4486

map


Kikuko's Website Science Museum

Nagoya City Science Museum Official Website is here