Are you planning a trip to Japan to see cars and automotive culture? I’ve included some tips and tricks in this video that might help.
On our mission to Osaka, we salvaged our trip to Japan by stopping at Fuji Speedway to see the old racetrack bend and visit a forgotten tuning shop.
We flew to Japan to pick up my new AE86 but were almost deported and locked in quarantine.
The Dream AE86 bumper lands at JDM Distro from Japan. Here’s a little mash-up of a work day in the life, unloading dream parts with a remarkable history.
A Panda Levin AE86, the first Corolla we spotted on our first trip to Japan, is imported into Ireland and calls down to the shed.
We break down the cost of our Japan in a Van road trip, give you a few handy tips for embarking on a similar journey and explain what’s coming next for the Juicebox channel.
What a way to see Nikko, a track I’ve always wanted to see at a dream event. The “car gods’ were good to us on this trip. It was a fantastic way to sign off our car hunting in Japan. Our 18 days of travelling from the north to the south had let us meet so many people. We had seen so much stuff, from shops to cars to scenery to tracks, engaged with many interesting people.
Drifting Legends! We finish our Japan journey at the Battle Magazine Cup held at Nikko Circuit. We also get caught in a typhoon before heading back to Ireland! It’s been a blast making these videos and reliving the trip. Cheers for tagging along and enjoying the memories with us.
After a lovely evening at N-Style, and a rather uncomfortable afternoon, we were exhausted. We hadn’t slept much the previous night for obvious reasons, and this night was shaping up to be no different.
We wanted to head out to areas around Sendai and take a look at the coastline. We never really made it up this far on our last trip and figured it would be interesting to stop seeing how the locals have been coping with the 2011 earthquake and tsunami damage.
The guys from CSS treat us to an insane night of proper Japanese street drifting on a mountain touge. We hit the jackpot on this one. We also take a trip through the Fukushima disaster area and call into our friends at N-style custom.
Once we were good to go, we decided to make the drive to Ebisu, we knew we would get there late, but that’s where we would be meeting Chogo from CSS in Nihonmatsu, the town just down from the circuit where we met the guys before.
Utsunomiya is roughly halfway between the greater Tokyo area and Fukushima, so it was an ideal spot to park up for the night. The next day we had some time to kill, so we decided to check out the Honda Museum as it wasn’t too far from where we stayed.
We visit the world’s greatest Honda Collection at Twin Ring Motegi, have a chance encounter with Asimo, and get treated to Touge mountain racing with one of the original members of CSS.
One of the things I couldn’t believe was the number of abandoned houses on the way up the road. The further we headed north, the fewer young people we saw, and it seemed like a lot of the smaller towns look deserted,