The Mums (Carol and Susan) in Japan


We arrived home from Kyoto and the next morning, again up at 5:30am and off to Tokyo.

(Photos by everyone involved)

Day 9 - doing our own things

We decided to split for the day and follow up some special interests

Michael and Carol

The Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium. Contains an aquarium, imax, show pool for animal shows and for an extra 400 yen you can get a ticket to the Port museum and observation tower (From where the photo below was taken) and the Arctic Explorer ship, the Fuji (In the foreground of the photo below)


Nagoya Port from the observation tower. You could just make out the animal shows in the pool


The observation tower from just outside the aquarium.


Dolphins having fun


The stand holds 3000 people and being the golden week holiday it was very busy


We saw one of the shows with dolphins and a killer whale performing


The show was terrific


The aquarium contained lots of tanks of very strange fish. This one with the big lips was especially funny.


The sardine tank was a blur of fish racing by








Kids were always posing for their parents. A very popular spot


THAT.. is a big fish. It is bigger than most of the kids staring up at it.


There must have been over 100 penguins of all types bouncing around in the penguin tank.


This penguin just floated beside the glass and watched everyone outside, completely ignoring the penguin mayhem in the background.




The port museum was very industrial and had a strange collection of ships in bottles.


Diorama of the Port in the 1600's from the Port of Nagoya museum


Day 9 - Pam and Susan

Pam and Susan went to the Toyota Museum of Industry and Technology and then to the Nagoya orchid gardens.


Toyota Museum of Industry and Technology


The Toyoda family started in weaving. This room traces the history of inventions by Sakichi Toyoda.


A 1936/37 Toyoda Model AA. The prototype car. Note that the name is still Toyoda at this stage


The orchid gardens



Day 10 - Toyota Automobile Museum and Home to Oz

Well it was the last day in Japan, so we decided to take it easy. The Toyota Automobile museum is only a short drive from our house and is an interesting place for a quick visit. It contains a number of vintage cars including a Rolls Royce Silver Ghost.


Looking at this photo now just makes me think of the Beverly Hillbillies.


Walking through the museum


These cars are just so tiny. I am hiding in the back of this picture.


The side mirrors! someone moved the side mirrors!


My favorite car at the museum (and favorite mother). The 1969 Mazda Carol.

That's it, packed the bags and took the plane home...bye


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