Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology
A museum housed in the red-brick loom test factory Sakichi Toyoda built in 1911.
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Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology
SaveA museum housed in the red-brick loom test factory Sakichi Toyoda built in 1911.
Operators demonstrate the textile machinery in person, and a circular loom runs in the lobby as the museum's symbol.
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The red-brick building started out in 1911 as the test factory where Sakichi Toyoda worked on his weaving machines, and the museum opened inside it in June 1994.
The public opening day was June 11, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sakichi's eldest son Kiichiro, who founded Toyota Motor Corporation.
The grounds cover about ten acres, and in 2025 the museum drew 461,429 visitors, bringing the total since it opened to just under eight million.
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- The museum opened in June 1994 in the Sako area of Nishi-ku, Nagoya; the Toyota Group founded it, and an operating association runs it.source
- The opening ceremony was held on June 9, 1994, and the museum opened to the public on June 11, the 100th anniversary of Kiichiro Toyoda's birth.source
- The site covers 41,596.8 square meters, about 10 acres, and the buildings hold 26,718.58 square meters of floor space, about 288,000 square feet, as of January 2026.source
- 461,429 people visited between January and December 2025, and 7,964,219 have visited in total since the museum opened in June 1994.source
- It was built on the site of, and inside the buildings of, the test factory Sakichi Toyoda set up in 1911 to research and develop looms.source
- The red-brick building is valued in architectural history, and the Toyota Group keeps it as a historic asset of the whole group while opening it to the public.source
- The museum preserves the old Toyoda Automatic Loom Works Sako plant as industrial heritage and tells the story of Japanese industrial technology through the changes in textile machinery and automobiles.source
- Its founding purpose is to pass on the spirit of study and creation of Sakichi Toyoda, who spent his life inventing looms, and the craftsmanship of his eldest son Kiichiro, who founded Toyota Motor Corporation.source
- A circular loom runs in the lobby as the symbol of that founding purpose.source
- The museum is recognized as Modernization Industrial Heritage.source
- There are three exhibition areas: the Textile Machinery Pavilion, the Automobile Pavilion, and Technoland.source
- The library, the restaurant, and the museum shop are in the free area, along with some other spaces.source
- Staff run live demonstrations, some exhibits move when you press a button, and there are video explanations.source
- Borrowing an audio guide device costs 200 yen per unit.source
- The main entrance is about 170 cm (5 feet 7 inches) wide when both automatic doors are open.source
- Visitors are asked not to take a wheelchair or a stroller on the escalators; use the elevators instead.source
- There are four AEDs, one each in the entrance lobby, the Textile Machinery Pavilion, the Automobile Pavilion, and the south information point.source
- If someone starts feeling unwell, tell a staff member and you can use the first-aid room.source
- The restaurant Brick Age has a children's menu and children's chairs.source
- You cannot bring in umbrellas, parasols included, large cameras, selfie sticks, monopods or tripods, pets, wagons or scooters, balloons or play equipment, or megaphones. Wheelchairs, strollers and other mobility aids, and assistance dogs are the exceptions.source
- There is a prayer room for visitors off the entrance lobby, and you ask for it at the reception desk.source
- The cafe serves a halal-certified chicken curry.source
With kidsThe part that matters
If your kids lose interest in machines that just sit there, the operators here start up the old weaving machines while you watch. At some exhibits your child presses a button and the machine starts moving.
The reception desk lends strollers, though there are only a few, so ask as you come in rather than after they have gone.
The restaurant has a children's menu and children's chairs, so lunch does not have to mean leaving the grounds.
Free 45-minute tours run in English at 2:00 p.m. in the Textile Machinery Pavilion and 3:15 p.m. in the Automobile Pavilion, and you sign up on the day at that pavilion's entrance, so it is worth building the rest of the visit around those two times.
Sources and evidence (3)
- Numbered tickets taken at opening; gone by 11:30. Each session is 30 minutes, and three of the rides need 120cm.source
- Free stroller loan, lockers on a returnable 100-yen coin, changing tables in several toilets, jelly for kids at the cafesource
- Brick Age runs 11:00-17:00 (lunch to 14:30) with a children's set, and no museum ticket needed. Bento is welcome too.source
By age0-1 / 2-3 / 4-6
- Ages 0-1In the lobby a circular loom is displayed running, a machine that keeps turning for a baby in your arms to follow with their eyes. In the Textile Machinery Pavilion and the Automobile Pavilion, operators run the real machines in front of you.There is one nursing room, with hot water and a baby bed, and a curtain that divides it so two families can use it at once. Two multipurpose restrooms have a baby bed, and restrooms fitted with baby beds and baby chairs include some of the men's rooms. Strollers can be borrowed at the reception desk while they last. Ramps indoors and out, an elevator and handrailed stairs are in place, and the front entrance measures about 170 cm across with both automatic doors open. Wheelchairs and strollers are asked not to use the escalators, so move between floors by elevator. Preschool children enter free.
- Ages 2-3Some exhibits move when you press a button, so a child can push it themselves and watch the machine in front of them start up. Operator demonstrations and video explanations run alongside.The restaurant Brick Age has a children's menu and children's chairs. Drinks may be brought in as long as they are capped, a plastic bottle or a thermos, and food is allowed if it fits in your bag, but you cannot eat in the exhibition halls; eating happens in the designated spots inside the building. Balloons, toys, hand carts and scooters may not be brought in, though strollers, wheelchairs and other mobility aids are fine. One family with a two-year-old went in at 15:00 and stayed the two hours until closing at 17:00.
- Ages 4-6Free operator-led guided tours run 45 minutes each: in Japanese the Textile Machinery Pavilion at 10:00 and 13:30 and the Automobile Pavilion at 11:15 and 14:45, in English at 14:00 and 15:15. Sign up at the entrance to the exhibition halls on the day and walk around with the guide. The audio guide app is free in eight languages and downloads over the museum's free Wi-Fi. And the red brick building itself is the test factory Sakichi Toyoda built to develop his looms.Of the exhibition areas, Techno Land needs a numbered ticket handed out first-come inside the museum on the day; everything else can be seen freely without a reservation. The entrance desk closes at 16:30, and the museum is closed Mondays, or the next day when Monday is a holiday. Preschoolers enter free and elementary school children pay 300 yen. The library, the restaurant and the museum shop are in the free zone.
By weatherRain, heat, cold
- Rainy dayThe exhibit areas — the Textile Machinery Pavilion, the Automobile Pavilion, and Techno Land — are all inside the red-brick building, and umbrellas (parasols included) may not be brought in.
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- Cold dayNot checked yet
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Worth a look before you go
Japanese · opens translatedFirst-hand
Numbered tickets taken at opening; gone by 11:30. Each session is 30 minutes, and three of the rides need 120cm.
Technoland at the Toyota museum: an indoor place where children learn by playing
Japanese · opens translatedFirst-hand
Free stroller loan, lockers on a returnable 100-yen coin, changing tables in several toilets, jelly for kids at the cafe
The Toyota museum with a two-year-old: wait, is this a shopping mall?
Japanese · opens translatedFirst-hand
Brick Age runs 11:00-17:00 (lunch to 14:30) with a children's set, and no museum ticket needed. Bento is welcome too.
Eating at the Toyota museum: the restaurant, the cafe, and bringing your own bento
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Where it is
1-35, Noritake Shinmachi 4-chome, Nishi-ku, Nagoya 451-0051 Japansource2
Before you go
- Showing a Nagoya transit day pass at the information desk, such as a one-day subway and city bus pass, a Donichi Eco Kippu or a Meguru 1-Day Ticket, gets you 20% off admission; the discount cannot be combined with any other.source
- No reservation is needed; just walk in, as long as you reach the ticket desk by 4:30 p.m.source
- Strollers are available to borrow; ask at the reception desk, and note that numbers are limited.source
- Wheelchairs can be borrowed in adult and child sizes, and canes are available too; both are at the reception desk, and numbers are limited.source
- You can bring in drinks in closed containers such as plastic bottles and thermoses, but no alcohol.source
More notes (4)
- Technoland needs a numbered ticket, handed out inside the museum on the day, first come, first served.source
- You can take photos with a handheld camera or a phone for personal or in-house use, but tripods and similar equipment are not allowed.source
- Eating and drinking are not allowed in the exhibition halls or anywhere other than the spots set aside for it.source
- Smoking is not allowed anywhere inside the buildings, exhibition halls included, and that covers e-cigarettes and water pipes; the garden (Power Garden) is non-smoking too, so smokers use the designated area outdoors.source
Basics
- Fee：¥1,000 for adults, ¥600 university students, ¥500 junior-high and high school students, ¥300 elementary school children and ¥200 for age 65 and over; preschool children are free. During the spring, summer and winter holidays of Nagoya municipal elementary schools, elementary school children get in free. Visitors with a disability certificate and one companion are free. Combined tickets with Noritake Garden (¥1,200 adult) and the Toyota Automobile Museum (¥1,800 adult) are cash only, as is the annual pass (¥2,400 adult). Showing a subway/city bus day pass, a Donichi Eco Kippu or a Meguru 1DAY ticket at the information desk gets 20% offsource
- Hours：9:30-17:00, with the last admission at 16:30. Closed Mondays (the following day when Monday is a public holiday) and over the New Year period. The museum may close at short notice for storms, typhoons or disasters, and admission is not refunded in that casesource
- Time to allow：2 hsource
- Booking：No booking needed — you can visit any time it is open. The one exception is Technoland, which needs a free numbered ticket handed out on the day inside the museum, first come first served. Groups and school parties are advised to book so entry goes smoothlysourceOfficial booking site ↗
Basics in detail (20)
Getting there
- The address is 4-1-35 Noritakeshinmachi, Nishi-ku, Nagoya 451-0051.source
- The phone number is 052-551-6115.source
- It is a three-minute walk from Sako Station on the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line.source
- The Meguru sightseeing loop bus leaves from stop 11 at the Nagoya Station bus terminal and stops on the museum grounds.source
- It is a five-minute taxi ride from Nagoya Station.source
- Parking is free, with space for 220 cars and 10 buses.source
- There are five accessible parking spaces: two in front of the south entrance, two in front of the east entrance, and one in front of the restaurant.source
Hours and closures
- The museum is open from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.source
- Admission closes at 4:30 p.m.source
- It is closed on Mondays, or the next day when Monday is a holiday, and over the New Year period.source
- It may close without notice for storms, typhoons, or other disasters, and admission is not normally refunded in that case.source
Fees
- Admission is 1,000 yen for adults, 600 yen for university students, 500 yen for junior high and high school students, 300 yen for elementary school students, and 200 yen for visitors 65 and over.source
- Children who have not started elementary school get in free.source
- Elementary school students get in free during the spring, summer, and winter holidays of Nagoya's municipal elementary schools.source
- Visitors with a disability certificate or a certificate for designated medical expenses, plus one companion, get in free; the Mirairo ID app works too, and either is shown at the information desk.source
- Visitors 65 and over and university students need to bring proof and show it.source
- Groups of 30 or more pay 800 yen for adults, 480 yen for university students, 400 yen for junior high and high school students, 240 yen for elementary school students, and 160 yen for visitors 65 and over.source
- A combined ticket with Noritake Garden (Noritake Craft Center) is 1,200 yen for adults, and a combined ticket with the Toyota Automobile Museum is 1,800 yen for adults, 980 yen for university students, 640 yen for elementary school students, and 460 yen for visitors 65 and over; both are cash only.source
- An annual pass is 2,400 yen for adults, 1,400 yen for university students, 1,200 yen for junior high and high school students, 700 yen for elementary school students, and 500 yen for visitors 65 and over; it lets you come back as often as you like for a year from the purchase date, works only for the person named on it, and is cash only.source
- Annual pass holders borrow the audio guide device free (normally 200 yen) and get 5% off at the museum shop, books excluded, and 5% off at the Brick Age restaurant.source
Once you've decided
evidence & sources (8)
- Official: Stroller friendly, Nursing space, Diaper changing table
- Official: Outside food allowed, Indoor / outdoor
- Official: English support
- Official: main site
The museum keeps the red-brick buildings of the loom test factory Sakichi Toyoda founded in 1911, now listed as modern industrial heritage. Exhibits fall into three halls: textile machinery, automobiles and Technoland. Machines are shown working, run by operators or started with a button, with video explaining each step. A circular loom turns in the lobby as the symbol of the founding idea. A free audio guide app covers eight languages, and operators give free tours in English. About 461,000 people visited in 2025.
| Stroller friendly | Yes | Strollers are lent at the reception desk (limited numbers) and are explicitly exempt from the ban on wheeled carts. The main entrance is about 170cm wide with both automatic doors open, and indoor and outdoor ramps, an elevator and handrailed stairs run through the building. Strollers should not be taken on the escalators — use the elevator instead | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | tcmit.org |
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| Nursing space | Yes (1) | One nursing room with hot water and a baby bed. A curtain divides the room, so two families can use it at once | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | tcmit.org |
| Diaper changing table | Yes | Toilets with baby beds and baby chairs, including some of the men's toilets. Two of the multi-purpose toilets have a baby bed, and the nursing room has one too | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | tcmit.org |
| Family restroom | Yes (9) | Nine multi-purpose toilets, one of them ostomate-equipped. Two of the nine have a baby bed, and toilets around the museum have baby chairs | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | tcmit.org |
| Elevator | Yes | Indoor and outdoor ramps, an elevator and handrailed stairs. The elevator takes one wheelchair at a time | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | tcmit.org |
| English support | English-speaking staff | Free 45-minute guided tours in English run by museum operators — Textile Machinery Pavilion at 14:00 and Automobile Pavilion at 15:15; sign up at the pavilion entrance on the day. The free audio guide app covers eight languages (Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Spanish), and leaflets and a recommended route map are stocked in the same eight | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | tcmit.org |
| Outside food allowed | Designated areas only | Drinks may be brought in as long as they are capped (plastic bottles, flasks); alcohol may not. Food may be brought in if it fits inside a bag. Eating and drinking is only allowed in the designated places — not in the exhibition halls. The restaurant Brick Age has a children's menu and children's chairs, and the cafe serves a halal-certified chicken curry | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | tcmit.org |
| Indoor / outdoor | Indoor | All three exhibition areas — the Textile Machinery Pavilion, the Automobile Pavilion and Technoland — are inside the buildings, so weather does not change the visit | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | tcmit.org |
| Diaper disposal bin | Not checked yet | ||||
| Kids' toilet seat & step stool | Not checked yet |
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