Toyota Museum

About

The Toyota Automobile Museum opened in April 1989 as part of Toyota Motor Corporation's fiftieth-anniversary commemorative program. It stands in Yokomichi, Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, in a building jointly designed by Nikken Sekkei and Toyota Motor. The museum comprises two buildings, the Car Hall (formerly the main building, 11,000 square meters) and the Culture Hall (formerly the annex, 8,250 square meters). Its exhibits trace roughly a century of automotive history since the birth of the gasoline car, systematically displaying not only Toyota vehicles but cars made by manufacturers around the world from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century; around 160 vehicles are on permanent display, with about 70 more held in storage. Most of the vehicles are kept in running condition, and the museum maintains its own repair workshop. It is open 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with last entry at 4:30, and closes on Mondays (the following day if Monday is a holiday) and over the New Year. Admission is 1,200 yen for adults, 700 yen for seniors 65 and older, 600 yen for middle and high school students, and 400 yen for elementary school students, with preschool children admitted free.