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Originally Posted by Nyororin
Because it`s not a huge tourist spot.
Tokyo is, well, Tokyo - with everything centered there as it`s the capital.
Kyoto was a capital in the past and somehow managed to keep most of it`s important cultural stuff from being destroyed during the US bombing of Japan during the war.
Nagoya is a huge manufacturing and commercial center... But it`s not the capital, and most of the historical parts of the city were destroyed by heavy bombing. The city was rebuilt as a place to live and work, so it has a great design with wide roads, tons of parks, etc... But normal and comfortable life isn`t what people visiting Japan want to see. They want the incredible crowdedness of Tokyo or the historical stuff of Kyoto.
It`s kind of sad as there is a lot of history in this area - most of the big figures in Japanese history (founders of Tokyo, etc) were from this area. Oda Nobunaga, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and so on. Atsuta Jingu, where the Kusanagi is held.
But it`s just not a huge tourist spot for foreign visitors to Japan.
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Exactly the kind of place I would have settled down as well.
But fortunetly entire Japan is still like that, especially now!