When you have a young child you would see them driving around toy cars and trains. Moreover, they love seeing, touching, and driving them as well.
The Nagoya City Tram & Subway Museum is located in Akaike as well, and it is an admission charge free facility that children can enjoy driving trains and riding inside the tram exhibits.
Akaike is a developing suburban area of Nagoya and is on Nissin city. It is recently famous for the newly built Prime Tree Akaike shopping mall. However, there is a better area to visit if you have a train loving child!!
What you will learn
Drivable train diorama
Tram and subway exhibits
Easy Access
The Nagoya City Tram & Subway Museum is about 5 minutes walk from subway Akaike station of Tsurumai line. It also have a parking space of about 5 cars, so it is also accessible by car.
You might want to note that there us a ticket at the Akaike station where you can exchange with a sticker and tissue. The ticket will be placed inside the entrance gate so if you want the ticket, you must ride on the subway to get to Akaike station.
The museum is located adjacent to the subway maintenance garage, which you can also tour on weekdays. *You’ll need to make appointment for factory tour.
Your kid will enjoy everything here!!!
You can drive trains in the diorama
The main event in this museum is absolutely the train diorama!! There is a huge train diorama strait in front of the entrance.
This diorama runs many trains that runs all around Japan. They include Dr. Yellow, cargo trains, express trains. They would have an explanation on the glass, so you would know what trains are currently running!!
The fun however is not just looking at the running trains, but that you can actually touch the controller panels and drive each train! They have about 6 trains running, and you can drive every one of them. Your child would enjoy driving trains through the city and tunnels on the diorama.
Subway driving simulator
There are several driving simulators placed next to the train diorama. The simulator is the city subway and you can enjoy being a train driver of a subway line.
If you have a pre schooler child, the child may enjoy train wrapping game. If you have completed the game, the museum will print out the train in a paper crafting format for free, which you can enjoy building once you get home!!
Tram exhibits
There are several trams and antique subway inside the facility, where you can actually step inside and take a seat. Usually the museum would prevent you from touching, but this museum allows you to touch almost everything. What is amazing is that your child can touch the buttons or the wipers at the driver’s seat!!
Train driver’s hats
There’s a photo space in the museum right next to the entrance. They have men’s and women’s city tram official hats. Your kid will enjoy wearing them when they ride on the tram exhibits or driving the train diorama. The hats will certainly up the fun of the museum experience!!
Summery
Nagoya City Tran & Subway Museum is a must go facility if you have a train living child!!
