Perhaps the face of Aichi in terms of
popularity is Nagoya. This is one of the metropolitan cities of the country
aside from Tokyo and Osaka.
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The Nagoya TV Tower and the Central Park |
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You are now at the city center when you see the stainless steel spiral art sculpture in front of the Nagoya Station. Its name is the FLIGHT which symbolizes the people creating a new city and bright future. |
Like the latter metropolises, Nagoya
has its popular icon called Nagoya TV Tower. It has a similar image and features to
the ones in Tokyo and the Eiffel Tower in France, although they differ in
height. The 180 meter-high tower is the oldest TV tower in Japan and offers two
observatory decks (the 90 meter-high indoor deck is called Sky Deck, and the
100 meter-high outdoor deck is called Sky Balcony) which give a 360-degree
view of the city and its surrounding areas. A stroll at night is ideal to
see the illuminations of the structure.
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Hiyasa Odori Park, where the Nagoya TV Tower situated |
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Sakae District |
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Sakae District |
The Nagoya TV Tower is located at the
heart of Hiyasa Odori Park, the central park within the
downtown district, Sakae which is ideal
for shoppers and food lovers. The two-kilometer park is also the venue of the
annual Nagoya Festival which attracts many visitors.
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Sakae District |
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Saw this sculpture around the area near our Hilton Nagoya, where we checked in. |
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Manga Stores are just around the corner of Nagoya City. |
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Haagen Dazs with different flavors. I recommend you try the 'matcha'. This is just one of the items you'll see while strolling around Sakae District. |
When you say Toyota, the first thing
that comes to a Filipino's mind is a car. Indeed, Toyota is one of the biggest players in the automobile
industry in the Philippines. Let's take a look at how one of the biggest car
companies in the world began.
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The facade of the Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology |
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One of the advance looming machine inventions of Toyota |
The viewing of the Toyota
Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology also known as Toyota
Techno Museum is one of my favorite parts of the tour. I
learned the humble beginnings of Toyota that started from the founder Sakichi
Toyoda’s brilliant idea which was then turned into reality in 1926 through a
company called Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, Ltd. Needless to say, his
impressive inventions went through numerous trials and errors from a series of
manual to machine-operated looms.
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Different types of looming machine |
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Different types of looming machine |
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The life-size sculpture of the two founders of Toyota, Mr. Sakichi with his looming machine and his son, Mr. Kichiro with his bicycle |
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The line up of Toyota's first of each model |
I heard a story from our tour guide, Akiko
'Ako' San, about Mr. Sakichi Toyoda. He has a son named Kichiro who became the
successor of his business. His son traveled the United States of America (USA)
and the United Kingdom (UK) in 1929 to sell the patent of one of their
inventions to Platt Brothers, a textile company in the UK. During that visit,
his attention was caught by the automobile running the streets. It was then
when the young Toyoda wanted to begin the new line of business. His father
Sakichi said to him to 'Try first and don't be afraid of failure'. But due to
the opposition from stock holders, it took him 4 years of preparation for
starting the car division of the company. He decided to build factories in
Koroma City, known today as Toyota City. The interest of the young Toyoda
brought forth the shift from a textile company to an automobile enterprise in
1933. It is known as Toyota Motor Corporation and today, it is the world's
largest automobile manufacturer.
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The wooden prototype of AA |
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The wooden prototype of AA |
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AA. The first Toyota passenger car |
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AA. The first Toyota passenger car |
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The Sake barrel along the way to the shrine |
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The Atsuta Jingo Shrine |
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This is the biggest among the seven camphor trees in Atsuta Jingu Shrine. Shinto believes that it is where the white snake resides. |
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