Museums in Japan

The Honda Collection Hall, a facility that conveys the history of Honda is located at the Mobility Resort Motegi in Tochigi. It reopened on March 1, 2024, after undergoing a thorough renewal.

The exhibits include Honda products such as automobiles, motorcycles and power products as well as racing machines. The exhibition areas are divided into four sections by era, and exhibits are arranged in a way that it is easy for all visitors to understand unique characteristics of each era. 

A rather nice collection of toys, dolls, wine, chocolate, classic cars and motorcycles.

Mr Iwashita has a collection of around 600 motorcycles and there are around 200 on display, including the world's only remaining Ducati Apollo and plenty of Japanese bikes. Additionally there are dolls, stained glasses and more.

Located inside the Uminonakamichi National Seaside Park this exhibition displays around 60 Japanese cars, made in the 1950s and 1960s in running condition.

Kawasaki's in-house museum, displaying among other products vintage motorcycles. It is part of the Kobe Maritime Museum.

"The Museum offers an overview of Mazda's history, a look into the technology of its automobiles, and the prospects for its future developments. The tour also passes through an actual vehicle assembly line. Multiple models are on the assembly line, so visitors can see a variety of different cars being made. At the end of the tour there is a shop featuring Mazda goods. The tour takes 90 minutes from start to finish" - says Japan Guide

Housed in the Town Hall, this is a small collection of classic motorcycles.

The Mitsubishi Auto Gallery (MAG) was established in 1989 at the Passenger Car Engineering Center to familiarize you with the various Mitsubishi passenger cars produced past and present, beginning with produced in 1917, as well as their developmental history. In the space of approx.1100 square meters, the MAG clearly introduces the history of Mitsubishi passenger cars and Mitsubishi's production concepts which have been applied to today's high performance vehicles.

This museum was established in 1978 by Shoso Maeda, a local entrepreneur, mainly as a way to display his personal collection of cars.

Seichi Watanabe's small but colorful collection, which includes a 1901 De Dion Bouton, a 1910 Fuller and the record-breaking 1930 MG EX120, an eclectic bunch of US power machines (Corvette, Mustang, Buick convertible, Hudson coupe), red European sports models (Ferrari Dino 264GT, Alfa Romeo 2000 Spyder, Porsche 356B roadster, Jaguar E-Type, Daimler SP250 roadster) and examples of practical transport (Holden, Morris Minor, Fiat 500, Citroen 2CV)