MAZDA Museum

An automobile manufacturer MAZDA has headquarer office in Hiroshima.
They offer Museum and factory tours on weekdays(Mon.-Fri.).

Recently I joined their tours!
They hold English tours from 10:00-
Duration approximately 1.5 hours

You can learn and see their history like rotary engines, former car lineups, and actual production lines.


You will take a bus to go to the museum after showing up the entrance at the headquarter office. You can not take pictures on the way to the museum since you are moving in the Mazda property. I was surprised that the long bridge we went across is owned by Mazda. It was explained that it is one of the longest bridges owned by private company.
Of course almost all cars we passed over on the way were Mazda cars.



I saw Axela,Demio,RX-8, Roadster, etc. that could actually get in at the lobby of the museun.
And we took guided tours about an hour and saw production lines.

I was reassured that one of our key industries is engineering to join this tour.

Mazda is renovating their technology with "SKIACTIV" or new clean diesel engines against rising Yen and hybrid automobile share.



You should join this tour if you have interested in Mazda!

Mazda Museum English website
Map

doraemon

Japan is known as "Cartoon country".
You may be know Dragon ball and Naruto is on the TV world-wide.
If you are fun of Japanese cartoon, you should have known "Draemon" which is acknowledged as a most well known and respectable cartoon character.

Do-ra-e-mon

Hello!!

In Wikipedia,He is the cat-robbot is invented in 22 century.
The pocket he has on　his body is the miracle pocket.

He removes "secret items" from it and they are all from 22century.
He speaks Japanese and loves "Dorayaki"(sandwich of red beans and Japanese pancake) so that he is named "DORA emon"
He hates a mouse.

He has a partner "Nobita" is blunderbuss. Nobita always ask for a help to Doraemon to solve his mistake or laziness with his"Secret items"

The most famous items are "Take koputaa(bamboo propeller)"

Putting on one's head to fly


and "Dokodemo door(anywhere door)"


It is accessible to anywhere in the world(even to the girlfrend of Nobita's shower room:)

In Wikipedia again, they live in Tokyo, Nerima-ku.Probably nobody knows.

If you are coming to Japan, it is on TV asahi channel every friday.
Check this out!