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Core city in Chūbu, Japan
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Toyota (豊田) is the largest city in Aichi Prefecture by area, and the sixth largest city in the entire Chūbu region by population. 30 km southeast of Nagoya, it is best known as the home of (it was in fact named after) Toyota Motor Corporation.
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豊田市美術館
トヨタ会館
Fortunately, this Toyota museum is here. You can see some cars made by Toyota, and try some small vehicles here. You may still want to visit some other facilities related to Toyota, anyways.
豊田スタジアム
Home stadium of Nagoya Grampus soccer team.
プラザホテル豊田
The simple hotel is across from Toyota headquarters. You can see it from the hotel. The hotel provides capsule rooms, single rooms, and double rooms. An Artificial Hot Spring is also available.
ホテルルートイン豊田陣中
There's a small mall across from the hotel, and restaurants nearby. The hotel features an artificial hot spring as well.
By train
Toyota's two main stations are Toyota-shi (豊田市), run by Meitetsu, and Shin-Toyota (新豊田), which is on the Aichi Loop Railway (also known as Aikan: Aichi Kanjo Tetsudo).
By bus
The following buses serve Central Toyota:
Toyota is, atypical for Japan, a car city with a very good road network and very sparse public transportation, which is quite fitting, considering that Toyota is a popular car brand!
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