From Tokyo: 2-Day Komatsu Car Museum Customizable Tour

The Motorcar Museum of Japan in Komatsu, Ishikawa holds over 500 cars from around 1900 to the 1970s. It is the largest car collection in the country, and few foreign visitors know it.

Floor after floor is filled with Japanese and foreign cars: early models, family cars of the post-war years, and the sports cars of the 1960s and 1970s. Your entry ticket is included, and your guide explains the cars and the history of Japan's car industry.

You also visit Natadera, an old temple with rock caves, maple trees and small halls built into the cliffs. The night is in Yamashiro Onsen, a hot spring town of the Kaga area. The tour is run by a Japanese used-car dealer, so your guide knows the cars as well as the roads.

This is a private tour. Only your group. Your group of 1 to 6 people rides in one van with one English-speaking driver-guide, who also speaks Hindi and Urdu. No other guests ever join.

Komatsu is about 470 km from Tokyo, so both days include long drives with breaks. The museum is closed on Wednesdays and from 26 to 31 December, so the tour does not run on those days.

If the museum is closed on your date, you can take a full refund of your booking, guaranteed. If you prefer, we can instead spend longer at Natadera and the Kaga onsen towns.

Day 1 Pickup in Tokyo, drive to Ishikawa, Natadera temple, evening in Yamashiro Onsen

Day 2 Motorcar Museum of Japan in Komatsu, then the drive back to your Tokyo hotel