Port Messe Nagoya

Port Messe Nagoya, formally the Nagoya International Exhibition Hall, occupies reclaimed land at Nagoya Port in Minato-ku, Nagoya, at 2-2 Kinjo-futo. Its history as a trade-fair site dates to 1973, making it one of the earliest purpose-built exhibition locations in central Japan, and it remains the principal venue for the manufacturing and automotive supply chains of Aichi Prefecture. Shows such as Manufacturing World Nagoya and the mechatronics technology exhibitions use it as their regional home, drawing exhibitors from the Toyota production network and the wider Chubu industrial belt. The complex comprises three exhibition halls plus a Convention Hall, an Event Hall and a Main Hall with seven meeting rooms of various sizes for seminars and scientific meetings. Exhibition Hall 1, completed in October 2022, is the newest and largest element: 20,000 sqm of pillar-free floor with a 20 m ceiling, divisible into four sections by movable partitions. Hall 2 offers 6,576 sqm of pillar-free space with large shutters on two sides for fast build-up and dismantling, and Hall 3 is a square pillar-free hall of up to 13,500 sqm that can be split into quarters of 4,050 sqm. Indoor exhibition space therefore totals roughly 40,000 sqm. The Convention Hall adds about 1,300 sqm of conference and banquet space with halls of 1,000 and 300 sqm that also divide into four, and it is placed at the centre of the site as a physical nexus between the three exhibition halls. The Event Hall has four simultaneous interpretation booths and can be partitioned. Access runs on the Aonami Line to Kinjo-futo Station, about a 5-minute walk from the halls and roughly 24 minutes from Nagoya Station; taxis take about 30 to 40 minutes from the station, and the port location puts the halls close to the city's expressway network.