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Aichi’s Industry Tourism

One of Many Reasons to Visit

Donny Kimball
6 min readFeb 6, 2018

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Statues of men pour molten metal at the Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology in Nagoya
This story was originally published on donnykimball.com and has been syndicated here on Medium

Have you ever heard of “industrial tourism?”

Yeah, I didn’t think so… Truth be told, I hadn’t encountered the term either until recently when I was invited by the government to go check out Aichi Prefecture’s budding scene. According to Wikipedia, industrial tourism refers to an…

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Donny Kimball

I'm a travel writer and freelance digital marketer who blogs about the sides of Japan that you can't find in the mainstream media. https://donnykimball.com/