Toyota Automobile Museum

[Manfred M]

Another reworked image; the Toyota Automobile Museum in Nagakute City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. A large collection of historic Japanese and foreign automobiles.

Toyota's R&D Centre is located in this city. It was also the home of Expo 2005.

[rpcrowe]

Neat image - gives me the impression of viewing a miniature layout... I like the way that the three human subjects are arranged in a triangle with the semi circular auto layout and walkway enhancing the triangle. Even the potted plants between the vehicles add to the composition...

As an aside: I'd love to visit the museum. I remember driving a Japanese edition of the Toyota Corolla (my girlfriend's car) in Japan prior to Toyota introducing that model to the USA (this was sometime in the mid 1960's) and thinking, "This car might be a pretty good seller in the USA!". That was an understatement

[zen]

Interesting point . . . none of the four cars in the shot are Japanese . . .

[Manfred M]

Interesting point . . . none of the four cars in the shot are Japanese . . .

The museum has three floors. The first floor is largely the entrance, admin and offices, the second floor has the non-Japanese vehicles and the top floor is for the Japanese ones (not surprisingly, mostly Toyota ones).

The shot was taken from the third floor down to the second floor.

[Tom Barry]

Love
it. Looks almost like a diorama.

[mugge]

I love the colours. It is a shame that there was not a car with a different colour instead of the blue one left side of the image. One can not have everything.
Cheers Ole

[Wavelength]

Nice point of view. I too had an immediate feeling that everything is miniature model before realization. Is it shot through a glass?

[Manfred M]

I too had an immediate feeling that everything is miniature model before realization. Is it shot through a glass?

No glass - taken from an open balcony overlooking the display on the floor below.

[Antonio Correia]

You always do a very good work. This is another excellent example !