The museum, a few miles outside of the city of Nagoya and just 100 minutes by Shinkansen (Bullet Train) from Tokyo, celebrates the worldwide history of the automobile and its culture.

Featuring cars from Europe, the US and Japan, the attractions are displayed in a timeline demonstrating the diversification of ideas and engineering from different eras of development spanning from the Dawn of the Automobile through to the Search for a Sustainable Future.

Nearly 150 vehicles adorn the building's two floors, with Toyota having recently added a superb Cultural Gallery with diverse artefacts like toy cars, period posters and brochures. Here’s a taster of the museum with some choice exhibits to whet your appetite: