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A Car Lovers Guide to Japan
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items I love cars and I love Japan! I have visited Japan 5 times in the last 8 years and done something car related each time. Check out this list of must do activities if you are visiting Japan and love cars.
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Ebisu Circuit is the spiritual home of drifting located is high in the mountains 3 hours drive north of Tokyo in the Fukushima prefecture. Make sure you travel there for a matsuri event where there are hundreds of cars racing all weekend. You can h...
Ebisu Circuit
The daikoku futo parking area is busy every night with car enthusiasts there to show off their cars. I have visited here 3 times, some times as late as 3am and it has still been very busy. It usually starts to get busy after 10pm
Daikoku Parking Area
This Honda museum is one of my favourite collections. The best part from me was seeing the timeline of Hondas first agricultural engine for towing trailers released in the 1950s and then their Formular 1 engine 30 years later. There are some seriou...
Honda Collection Hall
If you are planning on visiting Hiroshima book your self in to visit the mazda museum. The collection is very well presented and the guide was very informative. We even got to watch the factory production line seeing them assemble an mx5 and a bong...
MAZDA Museum
Liberty Walk isn't quite my style of modifying cars but the experience when we visited was great. The staff are friendy and welcoming and presented us with gift packs. There were lots of models and show cars on display, we visited in the evening an...
Liberty Walk | リバティーウォーク Complete car and customize!
R31 house is a tuning shop dedicated to restoring, modifying and tuning the R31 skyline. We visited without booking and got a 2 hour tour, the facility is huge with hundreds of R31 skylines on site. They were very welcoming and friendly and gave us...
R31HOUSE
I love Tomei because they build everything in house, you can buy an engine from them where they buy the head and block from the oem but fit their own components. We got a 1 hour tour around the premises, shown their shop and customer cars, the engin...
TOMEI POWERED
A very well presented large collection of Nissan cars. This is not just race cars but models from their entire range. My favourites were the silhouette race cars and the MID4 prototype that I never even knew about despite being a life long Nissan f...
Nissan | Heritage Collection
If you would like to drive a Japanese sports car around Mt Fuji, Fun 2 Drive is the only place to go. All popular models are available, I drove the Honda NSX and Kenmeri Skyline with some friends on a 3 hour guided tour. The guides are very generou...
The fun2drive Owners’ Club Co., Ltd.
UpGarage is a famous shop for used Japanese cars parts like wheels, steering wheels, gear knobs, suspension etc. This particular shop is the biggest of its kind in Japan and well worth the visit.
UPGARAGE YOKOHAMA HAS EVERYTHING YOU NEED
This huge super autobacs is worth stopping in at if you are driving past. It has a huge selection and some great displays.
Super Autobacs Nagoya Bay
RE Amemiya is a shop famous for tuning Rotary powered cars, especially Mazda RX7s. It is an interesting place to visit but the staff are not as friendly as many other tuning shops. Probably because they are right next to the airport so get a lot of...
RE Amemiya
A very famous tuning shop from the mid 2000s, we visited on our first trip in 2016 and bought merchandise from the shop. The staff were friendly, we seen smokey nigata out the back and asked to meet him but he said he was too busy. Still a great ex...
Top Secret
We visited this shop in Chiba and happened to meet Nakai San which is rare because he is often overseas building cars. He was changing brake pads on a Porsche in the driveway out front of the store in bare feet, a very authentic experience!
RWB JAPAN - RWB/RAUH-Welt BEGRIFF is a Porsche tuner ...
If you are in the area on a weekend the chances are there will be an event on at fuji speedway. One time we dropped in mid week and caught a drift day, i have also been to a round of D1GP and the festival of speed here. Keep an eye out for events d...
FSW GUIDE | FUJI INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY CO., LTD.
Meihan is the most popular drift track close to Osaka, and home track of famous drifters Naoki Nakamura. My favourite event i have been to here a few times is Kansai Allstars, but check the track calendar for your visit, the practice drift days are ...
Meihan Sportsland
If you love Hondas and especially Hondas in racing, this tuning shop is a must see. A pristine show room right in the city, words can't do it justice, check out the photos and put it on your list!
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