Toyota Museum

The second day in Nagoya, Craig and me went to the Toyota museum. At first we wondered if we would be able to spend the whole day there, though in the end we got removed from the museum because they were closing.

The Toyota museum is close to the Nagoya station. It's split into 2 parts, the first part contains the Toyota looms and the second part related to Toyota automobiles. We first went through the loom part and thus thought the history and creation of the Toyoda spinning and weaving company. All the looms were pretty impressive and they had videos explaining the history of things and how everything works (so, I now know a lot more about spinning and weaving than I ever could have imagined). One of the nicest things was that the museum personnel would actually demonstrate most of the looms, even the very large and modern ones which are created these days.

The second part of the museum contained the automobile things. It was divided into three big sections. The first one was the evolution of the automobile, especially the different parts. The second part was the evolution of the manufacturing processes and the last part just showed the evolution of the cars themselves (so, different models etc). We spend quite some time in understanding the automobile parts and evolution, but wanted to move on to the manufacturing since that's what we came for. At first we were slightly disappointed since they just showed machines and didn't talk much about TPS. Though the die press machine was impressive. Finally we found that in the center of the room there was a TPS section with videos and explanation of the history, so we spend the last hour there. We didn't have time to see the automobiles and some other sections of the museum. Maybe someday, we'll be back to see the last parts.

Anyways, the trip was a nice success.