We highly enjoyed this tour....remarkably it is absolutely FREE!…read moreStart by calling 1-800-866-4485 to make your reservation. Tours are offered Monday thru Friday at 930am, 1130am and 130pm with a extra tour Thursdays only at 6pm. We choose a Thursday 930am tour. Each adult needs their photo id. Cameras, cell phones, purses, etc not ALLOWED on tour, but they provide Free lockable lockers for your use. We arrived at 830am, looked around the Visitors Center and Gift Shop, watched a 25 minute very informative movie on the World's Largest Toyota Plant. When tour began, Judy introduced herself and took us to watch a brief 10 min. Video about the tour. We were escorted to the tram carts, introduced to driver Keith and began our hour tour of this AMAZING plant full of technology and ROBOTS!!! When the tour was over, OMG I wanted 3 things...A Job there, A new Supersonic Red Toyota Camry and to take the tour again!!!! Judy and Keith were amazing The plant is the size of 169 Football Fields over 8 million square feet with 10,000 employees. AMAZING!!!!

Yelp categorizes this place as a "car dealer", which it patently is not. It's a manufacturing…read morefacility, and it offers a free tour. Weekdays only. Reservations are necessary. And pretty much mind-blowing. Everyone should see someplace like this before they die. I love a good tour, but we're better in this country at touring historical places ("look at the butter churn, kids!"), places that are charming or nostalgic (the Louisville Slugger factory is both), and anyplace that will give us a bourbon tasting at the end. This has none of that, at least for those of us who don't get misty-eyed looking at an '89 Camry. But it's a modern marvel and it's wonderful that Toyota allows the public to see it. Even if you're not interested in manufacturing logistics, the scale is staggering. This square mile of warehouse churns out 2000 cars each day, a working city with a capitalist overlord. For the curious among us, they do touch upon the Toyota Production System, which is officially a Thing, describing in a rudimentary way just-in-time production, examples of efficiency measures, how they balance the use of people and robots so that neither breaks. There are some negatives, however, most of which are unavoidable. Because the tours go through the heart of a noisy, frenzied plant, you won't be able to ask questions or take any photos. It's also really too short a tour, given the complexity of the operation. I would have loved an opportunity for Q&A, at least at the end. And frankly, it's a little soul-crushing. The workers may do very well here, but the plant is a moonscape with no art and no signs of non-human life. Even the lobby is not made for humans. But ours is a car-worshiping society, all the more reason for everyone to enjoy a visit to the mothership at some point in their lives.