#9: The Toyota Automobile Museum (June 22-23)

This weekend I was out and about a lot, riding trains on the subway, in the city, and through the countryside seeing lots of new scenery, enjoying some snacks and sweets at some cafes and restaurants, and taking whatever else came in two there-and-back-again full days. The biggest highlight was the visit to the Toyota Automobile Museum on Sunday: an absolutely spectacular museum with over 150 vehicles from all eras and manufacturers--not just Toyotas--from 1890s horseless carriages to Rolls-Royces to a Ferrari to the massive, tail-finned 1950s Cadillac Eldorados to one of the first Toyota Corolla models to the Tesla Roadster. 

And that's just the vehicle exhibit: in another building you venture into the Automobile Culture Showroom, with license plates from over 75 different countries and all the unique international license plate styles, hundreds of miniature model cars all on one giant highway in formation, with famous vehicles from the early 1900s in the back to 2010s ones up at the front, toy cars and games featuring automobiles, car badges, car magazines, and more. A car lover's dream: some people I know could be there from open to close and still want to go back. I was glad I was able to take my time with it and soak it all in unrushed: I was there about 4 hours. 

Here's several photos of the museum and the vehicles. It was really neat how they had and highlighted famous and revolutionary vehicles from all of the world and not just Toyotas and not just even Japanese vehicles. A great museum on a great weekend. 

President Roosevelt used this type of car throughout his presidency, & equipped it with bulletproof glass and reinforced plating

One of my favorite kind of cars ever: the massive 50's & 60's tailfins

WWII U.S Army Jeep (which just shows you how deep our country's friendship with Japan has become in that they'd display this in their museum)

Roaring Twenties Rolls-Royce

DeLorean

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