Toyota Museum Sets November 15 Classic Car Festival; Linimo Adds Ticket Benefits

Archive photo: a 1995 Honda NSX-T in the 35th Toyota Automobile Museum Classic Car Festival parade on April 20, 2025—not the forthcoming 2026 event or confirmation of this car’s entry. Photo: 先従隗始 / Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0. Resized for display.

The Toyota Automobile Museum has confirmed its 36th Classic Car Festival for November 15, 2026, at Expo 2005 Aichi Commemorative Park in Nagakute, Japan. Its October 15 announcement sets up a public event celebrating privately owned classics, rather than a display limited to Toyota models.

A parade first, then a full day at the park

The published programme lists approximately 120 owner cars from Japan, Europe and the United States, dating from 1996 or earlier. Their roughly 12-kilometer road parade begins with an 8:30 a.m. ceremony at the museum. Cars are scheduled to leave at 8:45 a.m. and finish the parade at 10:45 a.m.; a Toyota 2000GT Roadster will lead.

The park festival runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with free admission. Eleven additional exhibition vehicles include a 1967 Toyota Corolla, 1959 Chevrolet Impala Convertible and 2012 Lexus LFA Spider. Demonstration runs are scheduled for 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. The event is planned to proceed in rain, but individual activities can change with the weather.

Linimo ticket adds separate museum admission

Visitors planning to combine the festival with the museum should distinguish those two admissions. In a notice dated October 16, rail operator Linimo announced a special one-day ticket for November 15: ¥900 for adults and ¥450 for children, sold through ticket machines at all Linimo stations.

The purchase includes a museum admission voucher, a museum-shop discount voucher and a 10% discount voucher for the museum’s AVIEW restaurant, alongside the rail day pass. All are valid only on the issue date. This is a paid transport package with benefits—not a charge for entering the free park festival.

The museum also plans event-day streaming, with details to follow, and later video coverage. Check the official programme again before traveling; a published schedule is not a guarantee that every demonstration will run unchanged.

For another upcoming museum event, see our report on Julie Mehretu’s BMW Art Car exhibition in Cape Town.