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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- 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, a lift and handrailed stairs run through the building. Strollers should not be taken on the escalators — use the lift 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, a lift and handrailed stairs. The lift 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 |
Worth a look before you go
Japanese · opens translatedFirst-hand
Technoland at the Toyota museum: an indoor place where children learn by playing
Numbered tickets taken at opening; gone by 11:30. Each session is 30 minutes, and three of the rides need 120cm.
kurage-nikki.com2026
Japanese · opens translatedFirst-hand
The Toyota museum with a two-year-old: wait, is this a shopping mall?
Free stroller loan, lockers on a returnable 100-yen coin, changing tables in several toilets, jelly for kids at the cafe
note.com2025
Japanese · opens translatedFirst-hand
Eating at the Toyota museum: the restaurant, the cafe, and bringing your own bento
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.
travel.child-care50.com2025
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- Fee：¥1,000 for adults, ¥600 university students, ¥500 junior-high and high school students, ¥300 primary school children and ¥200 for age 65 and over; preschool children are free. During the spring, summer and winter holidays of Nagoya municipal primary schools, primary 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% off■
- 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 case■
- 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 smoothly■Official booking site ↗