Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology

The Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology has preserved the Toyota factory, which opened in the Taisho Era, as a museum for its important industrial history. The Textile Machinery Pavilion, the Automobile Pavilion, Technoland, and the Toyota Group Building are the four pavilions. The red-brick structures themselves have been protected as historic landmarks. A circular loom built by Sakichi Toyoda, the father of Kiichiro Toyoda, who founded Toyota before it became an automobile manufacturer, is on display in the museum foyer. The loom was built to demonstrate Japan's technical prowess at a time when the country was still reliant on Western technology, and it has since become a symbol of the museum. As well, the museum has been recognized as a Heritage of Industrial Modernization for its contribution to Japan’s modernization.

The Toyota Automobile Museum is a site where you can learn about the history of the automobile from the late-nineteenth-century development of gas-powered automobiles to twentieth-century automobiles by looking at the actual automobiles. There are Western vehicles on show on the 2nd story, and Japanese cars on the 3rd floor, for a total of 120 models to examine closely. In the Annex, there is also information and car exhibitions about the history of Japanese people and the automobile. There is also a children's area, eateries, and a souvenir shop where you can buy items like minicars. It's a museum where the whole family can spend a whole day.

Address: 1-35, Noritake Shinmachi 4-chome, Nishi-ku, Nagoya 451-0051
Website: tcmit.org