Toyota’s treasure trove of terrificness celebrates the car industry as a whole, and is a must-see

By Shahzad Sheikh

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You might think that Toyota’s own museum would be packed exclusively with cars pulled from the history of the one of the world’s biggest car manufacturers, but you’d be wrong. This incredible facility opens a window into the wonderful world of cars, wherever or whenever they were made. As part of our trip to Japan with Lexus, during a brief stopover in Nagoya, where one of the head-offices of Toyota is situated (and on route to interview Lexus boss Kiyotaka Ise, interview coming son) – 90-minutes from Tokyo by Bullet Train – we grabbed the opportunity to spend a quick couple of hours in the famous Toyota Automobile Museum.

There are over 120 cars on show (with considerably more hidden below) at the museum which opened in 1989, all in perfect condition, maintained and driven regularly. And there’s more cars in a Annex building opened in 1999, which focuses on the history of Japan’s motorization which exhibits not only cars, but TVs, Radios and household times through the times. Personally spent a while in here after finding an old Sony TV I used to own and thought I’d never see again!

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There’s just too many great cars to list, and the cars on show do rotate and change, particularly when there is a themed display. But here were some of the highlights from my visit.

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