Following the tour of Takaoka plant, we went to the Toyota Kaikan museum, which has seven halls:
1- A hall introducing Toyota’s various means to produce an environmentally ideal car.
2- Safety and movement flexibility hall explains the group’s efforts towards producing safe cars of the highest level.
3- A hall explaining how Toyota manufactures quality cars under the slogan “good thinking...good products”.
4- “Toyota in Society” hall sheds light on the history of the group’s social responsibility activities.
5- Sports car hall that achieved success, happiness, dreams and victories.
6- A hall that displays the most modern models of Toyota and Lexus.
7- Children’s hall that educates them on car manufacturing.
The museum has a shopping center to buy souvenirs that that have the Toyota trademark. The most enjoyable hall in the museum is one which simulates the future by finding car designs that may be needed in the market, even if not approved for production yet. Among the models are the Road-1 car and “partner robots” that can make people’s lives easier in societies where the need for electric cars is on the increase, and move freely in smart cities where energy efficiency in managed carefully.
In order for a comfortable life, Toyota is working on developing clean and safe cars. In addition to its main concentration on hybrid cars, Toyota is working on increasing the efficiency of gasoline and diesel vehicles, and is promoting fuel cell cars that run on hydrogen, which does not emit any carbon dioxide.