[Aichi] Nagoya Toyota Commemorative Museum Private Half-Day Tour

Toyota started as a loom company, and the museum still runs the machines to prove it. Housed in the original red-brick mill where Sakichi Toyoda built his automatic loom, the collection is almost entirely working exhibits - staff operate century-old textile machinery, and in the metalworking hall you watch casting, forging and machining demonstrated live. Your guide connects the two halves: how the loom's automatic stop mechanism became the jidoka principle behind the Toyota Production System, and how a weaving firm in Nagoya turned into a carmaker.