Toyota city?
2018.02.27
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- Have you ever heard that there is a city named Toyota in Japan?
Well, we all know Toyota Motors Corporation, which is very well known for its brand car “Toyota”. However, not many people know that there is an industrial city on the east side of Nagoya city (Aichi Prefecture), central Japan.
Until 1959, the area was named Koromo, but to reflect the importance of the area`s major employer, the name of the city was changed to Toyota city. Since then, this city has developed a lot, and now has its status today. Toyota is a sister city of Derby, UK, where Toyota has a factory and of Detroit, USA.
Today, the biggest number of foreigners living in Toyota city are Brazilian and other South American immigrants of Japanese descent who have come to the area to work in Toyota's car factories and other associated industries.
Although, Toyota city does not appear in many tourists guide books about Japan, it has a large number of foreign workers working in Toyota group companies (including factories) and doing researches at different facilities. 
- People who know Toyota city as an industrial area, also know that it actually has its attractions, number of interesting museums. These include the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (15-minute walk from Toyota city station), the city's premier museum, with a number of modern art exhibits and installations as well as contemporary buildings and structures.
Another Toyota Kaikan Museum showcases Toyota company's latest products and displays a history of the Toyota company. This is one of the main reasons to have a large number of visitors, who can get inside the cars to feel the history and technology progress. A number of video displays and panels demonstrates Toyota's production process and the safety features in Toyota cars.
The other attractions located in Toyota city are Toyota City Museum of Modern Industry & Living (free admission), which exhibits machinery once used in the silk industry and recreates typical tatami-rooms from the Meiji Period, Toyota City Folk Craft Museum (free admission), with many exhibition halls that display Japanese arts and crafts. There is also a Toyota Industrial Culture Center (Toyota Sangyo Bunka Center) near Shin-Toyota Station is great for children. It introduces children basic science through play, with a planetarium. It also offers a number of community activities and classes including language, dance and yoga classes.
Toyota city is also famous for hot springs (onsen) as well as hotels, and what we call “monthly apartments”, close to both Toyota city station.
Nowadays, many foreigners who come to work in Toyota city prefer monthly apartments rather than staying in a hotel, which is expensive when the period of stay is long. Besides, room size is bigger than that of at the hotel, and has kitchen with utensils, where you can cook and even invite friends for a party.
In Toyota city area atinn Co. Ltd. provides different type of monthly apartments (Studio, 1 Bedroom, 2 Bedroom types), such as Klassie Toyotashieki, Klassie Mikawatoyota, Klassie Mikawatoyotaekimae, Clastay Toyotashieki, Roorent Toyotashieki. By offering different type of apartments atinn Co. Ltd. also provides foreigner life support during stay in Toyota city - (http://en.at-inn.com/klassie-mikawatoyota2-3/).
- As you know people visit Toyota city not only to work, but also stay to participate and enjoy Toyota Festivals in the city. For example, the Koromo Festival held in October which is a harvest festival paraded through the city by happy-clad participants. Also, the last Saturday of July is the Oiden Festival, a modern dance competition and parade, through the main street in Toyota City leading up to Toyota Stadium. The next day, on Sunday you can see and enjoy f dancing people dressed up in different costumes and lots of fireworks. The fireworks take place along the banks of the Yahagi River near Toyota Stadium, and lasts about two hours with about 10,000 fireworks.
- Toyota city is somehow busy place, with a department store, different shops, restaurants, supermarket, city hall, bank, show pubs, Toyota stadium and more.
If you decide to come to work in Toyota city, there is no problem with accommodation and places to visit for shopping, eating and relaxing. All the apartments provided by atinn Co. Ltd. are fully furnished, with kitchen utensils as well as necessary appliances such a washing machine, microwave, rice cooker and etc. as well as internet with WiFi connection.
Staying in Toyota city will allow you to have easy access to the transportation, such as trains, buses. 
- The closest bullet train station to Toyota city will be Mikawa Anjo station. Coming from Nagoya city is also very easy and convenient using Tsurumai subway line. Some Tsurumai line trains go directly to Toyota-shi Station otherwise you can always change at Akaike Station, from where there are also Meitetsu buses to Toyota city. Also, you can find bus stops in Toyota-shi station which takes about 50 minutes to get to the Oasis 21 bus terminal in Sakae downtown in Nagoya city as well as direct buses going to Chubu International Airport.
We hope you will enjoy your stay in Toyota city in one of our apartment, with multilingual team support from atinn Co. Ltd. which owns the biggest number of apartments in Tokai region (http://en.at-inn.com/)
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