Thursday 30^th March 2017

Last night Michael arranged to pick us up and take us to the Toyota Automobile Museum. Two floors of a very eclectic range of cars. All in beautiful condition and many in original condition, including the upholstery.

Just getting out of the car we heard a distinctive Morgan sound. Up drove Mr Teshima in his 2002 very dark green 4/4. Walked around the museum together. The only Morgan in the museum was a late 1920’s aero 3-wheeler in original condition. We did the obligatory photo of the Morgan people standing in front.

After 2 hours admiring the well-kept cars in pristine condition (Bugatti typre 57, an Alpha 6C supercharged 1750, a Duesenberg, and several Hispana Suiza. we headed back to Nagoya.

We wandered down the street to find the location for the hop-on, hop-off bus for tomorrow. It wasn’t far from the hotel and right outside the galaxy platform of the Spaceship Aqua. This is an elevated glass platform containing a shallow water pond, about 30mts above street level.

Nagoya was destroyed during WW11 as it manufactured Zero fighter planes so all the architecture dates from the rebuild in the 1950’s. It is the third largest city in Japan.

For dinner we found a tiny hole in the wall type place and sat at the bench (with 6 others) in front of the kitchen watching the chef prepare everything. A man seated next to us had his own private bottle of “something”, it didn’t look like sake and was clear. Apparently regulars keep their numbered bottles in a special shelf for the next time they visit (which must be fairly often).