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<blockquote data-quote="offroadkarter" data-source="post: 16058707" data-attributes="member: 79484"><p>Okay so, since the forum is rejecting my long posts and at this rate it'd probably take me another 5 hours to post everything out, I'll share the full album links instead.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://offroadkarter.smugmug.com/Vacation/Japanjam-2018/Honda-Collection-Hall-11618/" target="_blank">Honda Collection Hall at Twin Ring Motegi</a></p><p></p><p>This museum had a ton of honda race cars, classic cars and more motorcycles than I could count. Was the perfect thing to visit on a rainy Tuesday afternoon.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1529736[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1529737[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1529738[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>Once we left the Honda museum, we drove around the grounds of Twin Ring Motegi. It turns out you can actually drive INTO twin ring, we were driving around the pit area. I could be wrong but I don't think most large race circuits in the US would allow this.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://offroadkarter.smugmug.com/Vacation/Japanjam-2018/Twin-Ring-Motegi/" target="_blank">Twin Ring Motegi Full Album</a></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1529739[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1529740[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1529741[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>On the way back from the track, we visited an Up Garage. Up Garage is a company with stores all around Japan that specialize in selling new and used car parts. Lots of people will trade in parts including exhausts, wheels, even body parts, either to offset the cost of new parts or just to sell for cash. I managed to buy a R33 GT-R gauge cluster with 10,000 KM's for 250 bucks and picked up a Blitz intake pipe w/ BOV for 40 bucks for a friend with a R32 skyline in the states.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://offroadkarter.smugmug.com/Vacation/Japanjam-2018/Up-Garage-Ninomiya/" target="_blank">Up Garage Tsukuba Full Album</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1529742[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1529743[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>Next was the Nismo Omori Factory. Apparently a lot of people don't know this, but you can actually bring your Skyline, GT-R or Fairlady Z to the Nismo Omori Factory and they'll upgrade it for you. I was a bit sad they didn't have a R33 400R on display this time as I had seen in some videos of this place in the past. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://offroadkarter.smugmug.com/Vacation/Japanjam-2018/Nismo-Omori-Factory/" target="_blank">Nismo Omori Factory Full Album</a></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1529744[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1529745[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1529746[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>We later drove down to see the battleship Mikasa. IIRC this is the oldest suriving battleship in Japan, I believe it predates WW1. These old ships were not made for someone 6ft 5</p><p></p><p><a href="https://offroadkarter.smugmug.com/Vacation/Japanjam-2018/Battleship-Mikasa/" target="_blank">Battleship Mikasa Full Album</a></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1529747[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Finally driving quite a distance from Tokyo, we drove to the Gunma prefecture and made a stop at D'z Racing Cafe Garage. This Cafe is pretty much all Initial D themed, they even have a show accurate AE86 and FD3S RX7 parked outside.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://offroadkarter.smugmug.com/Vacation/Japanjam-2018/Dz-Racing-Cafe-Garage/" target="_blank">D'z Racing Cafe Garage Full Album</a></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1529748[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1529749[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Down the road, we stopped at another place I had heard about from the internet. The Ikaho Toy, Doll and Car museum. This is a pretty uh, interesting place, it's essentially a maze that leads you through like 4 or 5 gift shops. They had a good car collection and it didn't cost that much to get in. They also have some of the set as well as 2 of the movie cars from the Hong Kong live action film version of Initial D.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://offroadkarter.smugmug.com/Vacation/Japanjam-2018/Ikaho-Toy-Doll-and-Car-Museum/" target="_blank">Ikaho Toy, Doll and Car Museum Full Album</a></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1529750[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1529751[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1529752[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The last stop in Gunma after the toy museum was driving up the Jomo-Sanzan Panorama Highway to see Mount Haruna and Lake Haruna. If anyone reading this also has no life, this is the real life Mount Akina which is the start of Initial D. The entire mountain pass was covered in skid marks, even with speedbumps installed in the switchback section of the pass, people were still drifting over top of the speedbumps.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://offroadkarter.smugmug.com/Vacation/Japanjam-2018/Mount-Haruna/" target="_blank">Mount Haruna Full Album</a></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1529753[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1529754[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1529755[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="offroadkarter, post: 16058707, member: 79484"] Okay so, since the forum is rejecting my long posts and at this rate it'd probably take me another 5 hours to post everything out, I'll share the full album links instead. [url=https://offroadkarter.smugmug.com/Vacation/Japanjam-2018/Honda-Collection-Hall-11618/]Honda Collection Hall at Twin Ring Motegi[/url] This museum had a ton of honda race cars, classic cars and more motorcycles than I could count. Was the perfect thing to visit on a rainy Tuesday afternoon. [ATTACH=full]1529736[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1529737[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1529738[/ATTACH] Once we left the Honda museum, we drove around the grounds of Twin Ring Motegi. It turns out you can actually drive INTO twin ring, we were driving around the pit area. I could be wrong but I don't think most large race circuits in the US would allow this. [url=https://offroadkarter.smugmug.com/Vacation/Japanjam-2018/Twin-Ring-Motegi/]Twin Ring Motegi Full Album[/url] [ATTACH=full]1529739[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1529740[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1529741[/ATTACH] On the way back from the track, we visited an Up Garage. Up Garage is a company with stores all around Japan that specialize in selling new and used car parts. Lots of people will trade in parts including exhausts, wheels, even body parts, either to offset the cost of new parts or just to sell for cash. I managed to buy a R33 GT-R gauge cluster with 10,000 KM's for 250 bucks and picked up a Blitz intake pipe w/ BOV for 40 bucks for a friend with a R32 skyline in the states. [url=https://offroadkarter.smugmug.com/Vacation/Japanjam-2018/Up-Garage-Ninomiya/]Up Garage Tsukuba Full Album[/url] [ATTACH=full]1529742[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1529743[/ATTACH] Next was the Nismo Omori Factory. Apparently a lot of people don't know this, but you can actually bring your Skyline, GT-R or Fairlady Z to the Nismo Omori Factory and they'll upgrade it for you. I was a bit sad they didn't have a R33 400R on display this time as I had seen in some videos of this place in the past. [url=https://offroadkarter.smugmug.com/Vacation/Japanjam-2018/Nismo-Omori-Factory/]Nismo Omori Factory Full Album[/url] [ATTACH=full]1529744[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1529745[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1529746[/ATTACH] We later drove down to see the battleship Mikasa. IIRC this is the oldest suriving battleship in Japan, I believe it predates WW1. These old ships were not made for someone 6ft 5 [url=https://offroadkarter.smugmug.com/Vacation/Japanjam-2018/Battleship-Mikasa/]Battleship Mikasa Full Album[/url] [ATTACH=full]1529747[/ATTACH] Finally driving quite a distance from Tokyo, we drove to the Gunma prefecture and made a stop at D'z Racing Cafe Garage. This Cafe is pretty much all Initial D themed, they even have a show accurate AE86 and FD3S RX7 parked outside. [url=https://offroadkarter.smugmug.com/Vacation/Japanjam-2018/Dz-Racing-Cafe-Garage/]D'z Racing Cafe Garage Full Album[/url] [ATTACH=full]1529748[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1529749[/ATTACH] Down the road, we stopped at another place I had heard about from the internet. The Ikaho Toy, Doll and Car museum. This is a pretty uh, interesting place, it's essentially a maze that leads you through like 4 or 5 gift shops. They had a good car collection and it didn't cost that much to get in. They also have some of the set as well as 2 of the movie cars from the Hong Kong live action film version of Initial D. [url=https://offroadkarter.smugmug.com/Vacation/Japanjam-2018/Ikaho-Toy-Doll-and-Car-Museum/]Ikaho Toy, Doll and Car Museum Full Album[/url] [ATTACH=full]1529750[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1529751[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1529752[/ATTACH] The last stop in Gunma after the toy museum was driving up the Jomo-Sanzan Panorama Highway to see Mount Haruna and Lake Haruna. If anyone reading this also has no life, this is the real life Mount Akina which is the start of Initial D. The entire mountain pass was covered in skid marks, even with speedbumps installed in the switchback section of the pass, people were still drifting over top of the speedbumps. [url=https://offroadkarter.smugmug.com/Vacation/Japanjam-2018/Mount-Haruna/]Mount Haruna Full Album[/url] [ATTACH=full]1529753[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1529754[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1529755[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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