I am from Nagoya, well, actually from Kasugai city next to Nagoya city. Poor David. Since I lived there and never thought of "going sightseeing" where I lived, he never was introduced Nagoya's culture and history. I have to admit though, there are so MANY places that I have not been and would enjoy seeing. I am so grateful for our Bishop Ishikawa, our local church leader, asking if we would like to visit a weaving museum for his boy scout assignment. On the train up to Nagoya, the Bishop found out that David has not visited anywhere for sightseeing in Nagoya city. So he changed the plan and we bought a day pass for city bus and subway. This is a quick summary of the Bishop's Nagoya tour for the Tuellers.
It was a beautiful day. We started at the Twin towers in Nagoya station. This is a view from the 15th floor but both buildings have 30 floors and up. They were the highest buildings in Nagoya city but ironically, a few years later, Toyota built their office building in front of those buildings, just a few meters higher than the towers.
From the towers, we took a bus to Toyota industry and technology museum, in other words, weaving museum. This exact place and the facility was where the founder of Toyota started his business. He started out as weaving factory and his son expanded the company and started making cars.
It was fascinating to see their creativity. I liked Yarn-spinning demonstration, David liked the display of the different parts of the cars and how they developed over the years, and Yuna liked this.
The bigger version of the yarn spinner. Recently, she likes anything that spins. She says "kuru kuru, kuru kuru," which is an onamonapia for the spinning sound in Japanese.
I learned that Toyota was called "Toyoda" before. (see the logo above)
After the museum, we took a bus and went to a restaurant in 名古屋能楽堂 Nagoya Nougakudou, by Nagoya castle. Can you see the symbol of the castle as a slice of kamaboko, the mashed fish cake? (I know it sounds disgusting, but tastes good. David and missionaries think it tastes nothing though.)
Sashimi on sushi rice.
Noh is a Japanese traditional play using these masks. We did not see the play but visited the museum and saw bunch of these masks.
In front of shyachihoko, the symbol of the castle. People believed that the golden killer-whale will bring water and protect from fire.
Luckily, David didn't have to wear fundoshi to help build the castle.
Our Yuna baby could not take it all.....
We said farewell to the Bishop and headed to David's favorite place, Osukannon.
Another computer project has kicked off.
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