do Japanese car manufacturers have factory tours?
Jul 13, 2014, 12:31 pm
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Yes car factories in Japan have tours, some like the Toyota factory near Nagoya individuals can join into a tour and is in English and Japanese.
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3308.html
Other tours like Honda located near Hamamatsu only allow members who are part of a group of 10 or more.
Mazda in Hiroshima has a mix museum plus assembly line viewing:
http://www.mazda.com/about/museum/
Yes car factories in Japan have tours, some like the Toyota factory near Nagoya individuals can join into a tour and is in English and Japanese.
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3308.html
Other tours like Honda located near Hamamatsu only allow members who are part of a group of 10 or more.
Mazda in Hiroshima has a mix museum plus assembly line viewing:
http://www.mazda.com/about/museum/
Jul 13, 2014, 3:48 pm
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See this thread (and the links within):
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/japan...t=factory+tour
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/japan...t=factory+tour
Jul 13, 2014, 5:00 pm
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See this thread (and the links within):
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/japan...t=factory+tour
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/japan...t=factory+tour
I already took a trip to a sake brewery.... LOVED the samples. Perhaps a little too much. I can't even remember how managed to get back to my hotel room. Woke up the next morning and found myself on the tatami floor without any clothes on.
Jul 13, 2014, 9:50 pm
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hope your clothes came off back at the hotel, not at the brewery.
Jul 14, 2014, 9:00 am
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In the Tokyo area there is the Nissan engine museum in Yokohama, which is interesting. Upstairs there is an exhibit about the Nissan works in Yokohama. Then down the road there is the new NISMO showroom for the Nissan motorsports division. You can view the workshop area through plexi-glass.
Not sure if it is practical to get there by train but I am sure there is a station within a mile or so.
Not sure if it is practical to get there by train but I am sure there is a station within a mile or so.
Jul 14, 2014, 10:15 pm
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On the north side of Tokyo Bay, there's a Toyota "factory" that turns garbage into electricity to power a town and an auto plant. I've done it on a special group tour, but it might be available to individuals. I have no clue whether it's accessible with public transportation from central Tokyo.
Jul 15, 2014, 12:36 am
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Further off the beaten path is the Nissan Kyushu plant which conducts tours every weekday. I have been and the size and scope reminded me of the Boeing plant tour in the Seattle area.
http://www.nissankyusyu.co.jp/ENGLIS...OUR/index.html
http://www.nissankyusyu.co.jp/ENGLIS...OUR/index.html
Jul 15, 2014, 9:14 am
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Further off the beaten path is the Nissan Kyushu plant which conducts tours every weekday. I have been and the size and scope reminded me of the Boeing plant tour in the Seattle area.
http://www.nissankyusyu.co.jp/ENGLIS...OUR/index.html
http://www.nissankyusyu.co.jp/ENGLIS...OUR/index.html
Jul 25, 2014, 2:32 pm
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I found the Mazda tour very interesting. They had, when I went, approximately 4 tours each day in Japanese and one in English, and explained both how the production line works and their theory of operations, how and why they do things the way they do, as well as showing the history of the company and some of their cars from the past history of the company and so on.
The hardest part was finding the factory, the suburb of Hiroshima that it is in is off the usual tourist path so signs are not in English, but a bit of wandering away from the railway station perpendicular to the railway tracks led us there. Once you get closer it's difficult to miss
The hardest part was finding the factory, the suburb of Hiroshima that it is in is off the usual tourist path so signs are not in English, but a bit of wandering away from the railway station perpendicular to the railway tracks led us there. Once you get closer it's difficult to miss