Was on a 3 day layover in Nagoya, and visited the Toyota Auto Museum. Fantastic.

The 432 was great, but the show was stolen by the 2000GT.

So many great cars there. Another notable was a 42 KdF Beetle, and from the description the earliest Datsun.

Edited Tuesday at 09:19 PM2 days by DC871F

The 2000GT is certainly a nice looking car. I've always liked that version of the Celica as well. On the other hand, I've never liked the fender-mounted mirrors. They somehow spoil the lines of the car for me. I know a lot of people love them. Pretty cool visit!

Awesome! I'd love to go there someday. I'd probably spend the entire day there and never want to leave! Did they have an ST185 Celica GT-Four?

I visited the Toyota Museum a couple of years ago and highly recommend it to anyone visiting Japan. DC871F's photos here only scratch the surface of a really great collection, displayed in an attractive and thoughtfully organized way. Nice restaurant on site. Also, a huge display of model cars. Over the past fifty years, I've been able to visit most of the world's premiere automotive museums and this one ranks in my Top 5.

As a bonus, you can even use the local magnetic levitation ('maglev') train service to connect with the main JR rail station in nearby Nagoya. The museum is an easy day-trip from Kyoto or Osaka. The connections will allow you four or five hours of time at the museum.

BTW, the 240Z on display is so authentic that it even has a suitably-cracked dash pad!

On 5/27/2025 at 9:42 PM, Paulytunes said:

Awesome! I'd love to go there someday. I'd probably spend the entire day there and never want to leave! Did they have an ST185 Celica GT-Four?

No they didn't.

18 hours ago, DC871F said:

No they didn't.

I think there is a museum in Japan that has a lot of the old Rally cars and the one off MR2 prototype. If I ever get to Japan, I am going to need to convince my family that we need to go to all of these automotive places. The Nissan and Subaru museums are also on my must see list.