Our last day in Nagoya and the morning was spent at one of Toyota’s museums. This very interesting complex was built on the site of one of their textile factories. Toyota originally made mill machinery before becoming the world’s biggest car company. They had some very impressive displays including real vehicle manufacturing facilities.

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Today we went out to the old Expo 2005 site. It was so different to how it looked when we visited during the expo. Very little remained. Today it is a huge parkland and has a indoor swimming pool and a few other leisure activities. The afternoon saw us visit the spectacular Nagoya castle- check […]

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Today we travel by bullet train from Yokohama to Nagoya it only took about 2 hours reaching speeds inexcess of 300 km. Seeing Mount Fuji was one of the highlights of the trip. The afternoon saw us start to explore this city and we certainly found some fun. When we visited in 2005 for Expo […]

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