Visiting the Toyota Commemorative Museum is a lesson both in history and the Industrial Revolution. Before Toyota there was Toyoda Spinning and Weaving Co. Ltd. operating from the very factory building which now houses the museum during the Taisho Era of the 1920s. A small square of 100 ancient looms in painted steel lie dormant, their needles poised over the work bench. With the precision that thread was punched through cloth, heavy equipment created holes in sheets of metal in the stages of assembly in a car. It was in this region of Aichi that Toyota was born, long before its name spread to the farthest corners of the earth as a revolutionary in automation and household name. Tailored cloth gave way to decades of innovation in locomotion as seen on display within the museum, vehicles in all shapes and sizes that had once populated the streets of all the major cities.

Ironically, the museum next is also a look into where the cars of the present will take us to in future. In a scene out of science fiction, partner robots call out before playing a merry melody on the violin. This is the future of Toyota, a makeover sifting in the backgrounds. The museum promises to keep your hands and eyes busy as you explore the world relative to Toyota in the past, present and future.