Toyota’s History Garage in MegaWeb Tokyo

The Tokyo Motor Show was two days away from the time we landed, so we got shown around town by UMW Toyota. One of the stops was Palette Town in Odaiba, it’s a regular shopping area but we were there to visit the MegaWeb and the Toyota City Showcase.

The “City” is essentially an exhibition hall of all current Toyota road-cars as well as some of the race-cars, Toyota also uses the City to make all new-model announcements as well as to motorsports events. But just to our luck, the most important part of the City (to me at least) – the motorsports square was undergoing maintenance and it was therefore inaccessible.

After checking out the cars at Toyota City which were mostly about cars we see on the roads daily, and after glancing through what seemed like hours of great open spaces of nothing but clothes, cosmetics and toys, I almost died at the sight of a History Garage. Finally, entertainment.

The History Garage takes you back into the years of racing that Toyota has competed in and also houses some of the most lustful and iconic cars of yesteryear. Cars like the Toyota MR2 race car, Toyota GT-1 Le Mans racer, Celica rally car and the Supra Super-GT race car now call the History Garage home. But that’s just on the racing side of things, upstairs is where the action really is. Everything from a Toyota GT2000 “Bond Car” to a Ferrari Dino and the original Nissan Skyline GTR were on display. A portion of a true petrolhead’s dream indeed.

I didn’t get to spend a lot of time at the garage and had to take my shots quickly but I did manage to get almost everything on display. Here’s the History Garage Car Collection, Grease – a gallery that houses miniature collections and motoring book collection, and the Alessandro Nannini Cafe (named after the F1 driver).