2023 Recap part 5 Japan Trip! Japan series part 2

Next day I had a very important meeting in mie prefecture….. first I had to get ice cream…..either grape or white peach flavor…… Grape it is.

Foods for the shinkansen

once I got to the destination I knew I was in the right place. I saw cool cars like this Honda FD2 type-r

Nice clean GD chassis Subaru

This advert was for a body shop

After said meeting….lawson chicken was a my dinner…

World famous Toyota probox!

My real dinner was what I ate on the drive up to Tokyo area… I stopped by a rest stop that was nothing but truck drivers. They had a shower there, I figured food should be somewhat decent there.. I was not wrong.

Very interesting USDM imported chevy

These Parking Service Areas are like mini malls. They got everything you want inside….

It is very in season…

It was very good… not sure about number 1

Another SA comes to an end.

These classic mini are all over Japan

Classic Panasports

World famous J auto. They have a very good collection of vintage mercedes benz

Rocked up to Daikoku PA….. was greated by this r34 GTT

R34 were everywhere

LBP Honda S2000 with a mugen lip and JDM Brown interior.

Must be a delight to cruise this thing on tokyo nights

Interesting DC2 with USDM inspiration

I saw this very familiar S2000

ah yes it is Albo. I had a small chat with him. Funny enough he told me this blog was an inspiration for his car (not sure if that is a good thing or bad thing…..).

USDM in Japan

Another accord euro r…. is the universe trying to tell me something…

Like my subaru at home, except I’m sure his head gaskets are intact

Crazy dent, I wonder how this happend.

AE86 with a 16v with ITBs

AE86 gang appeared

R34!

Black Ap1 S2000 and White Ap2 S2000 with a CR lip (or type-s)

CR wing too! (or type s)

Ap1 had some exhaust on it….. looks like fujitsubo?

I think next week was GTR Festival or something, so the skylines were out heavy

sweet Lancer Delta Integrale Evo….

Very cool car

Nothing but foreigners in skylines….

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 5

Late model Toyota Celica Truck conversion?

Nice RX7 from Car Shop Glow

Caught this S2k on my drive out…. Looks like it has some endless calipers

To my hotel in Yokohama which has 2 family marts built into the hotel on the 3rd floor….. back to sleep.

Next day my stuff got shipped up from Osaka…. in retrospect I should of just sent it straight to the airport….

Next day I went to ASM of course…..

The Track car was parked outside….

first time seeing this car up close..

I recall reading about these new wing stands on their blog…

Rear Brake setup.

Looks like they really use the ASM 3 way coilover setup…..

Bare bones interior…. I can’t remember if this car runs a dash or not… I think it does.

Very Clean Customer S2000. full ASM 07+ IS11 kit, ASM hood, ASM fenders, and ASM rear quarters.

White car section. ASM hood with 20th Anniversary bumper is an interesting look.

A car they had for sale..

looked very clean.

ASM header….

Cool to see they are running BMRS hoses and fittings

I bought this jacket…

No 2 car that my bumper came from…

well stocked…

R33 GTR in the house

the ASM street bumper is always an interesting look

cool Snap on basket…

Another S2000 with a 20th anniversary bumper appeared!

It’s crazy how much more agressive the car can look with just a hood.

Clean platinum white Ap1 with matching OEM hardtop.

S2000 with Type S lip and Type S wing on CE28n…

for 6.2 million yen….

Employee taking a picture for the blog… it’s cool seeing this behind the scenes.

Went into town…..

my wife wanted make up so I went to the Donki in shibuya to buy her some and bring it back… during Halloween… I saw this interesting car in the parking garage where I parked….

Unfortunately I didn’t read the sign and that garage was closed after 12am….. so my car was stuck there till 6am in the morning. So what I did was wander for 6 hours until the garage opened up… I took the taxi to other Donki’s and after getting to the Donki in Akihabara, I decided to walk back to Shibuya on foot….