1. Toyota Commemorative Museum
2. Lunch: Sapporo Kanihonke
3. Nagoya Castle
4. Supper: Tebasaki
For the last day of our Nagoya Trip, we purchased the one day tourist pass, for the unlimited rides on the sightseeing bus, as well as discounted entrance fees for the sites.
You can obtain more information over: http://www.nagoya-info.jp/en/access/getting_around_nagoya/routebus.html
The bus leaves in interval of minutes (please see the site for the exact information, i can't recall) and you really have to plan your route well. If you take from first stop back to first stop, it's gonna be an hour plus ride. So you might want to look deeper into the bus stop locations, and plan to walk to cover certain places, and then walk to another stop to hop on the bus, i.e. bus stop 2 and bus stop 8 might be just few streets away, but if you take from bus stop 2 to 8, it might probably takes you 40 minutes.
We did not really maximise the pass itself as we under-estimated the beauty and attractions of Toyota Commemorative Museum. Inside this museum, it shows Toyoda to Toyota and how everything about Toyota that you know today came about. Toyoda started from cloth weaving business if you do not know, and this museum brings you through time, from 1G to current generation and the future.
The museum is probably the best museum that we went to, they have guides to bring you through the exhibits, and the exhibits are 'live', i.e. upon pressing of a button, the exhibits will start to demonstrate you to certain tasks. It is really very attractive and we spent half a day just solely here. That's why we were saying that we did not maximise the one day pass as we did not had time to go other places already! Ok stories aside for now, enjoy the photos!
Also in this museum, it has a comprehensive collections of exhibits to show you how each part of the car works, i.e. gear, axes, steering etc etc. At the click on the button at each of the exhibits, it shows the movement of these parts, and there is a section that combined all parts together, showing the mechanisms in how a car moves. It's really pretty amazing. I can totally trust Toyota cars now!