Visiting Japan 2025
A few weeks ago I decided to go to Japan to check out the car scene and to do some general exploring in the Tokyo area. The last time I…
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The Car Lovers Guide to Japan, The Nissan Heritage Museum
Located in Kanagawa, a suburb of Yokohama on the grounds of Nissan’s Zama plant is the Nissan Heritage Museum. The museum is a must see place if you are…
The Car Lovers Guide To Japan, Nismo Omori Factory
While we were in Yokohama we dropped by Nismo’s Omori Factory located just outside Nissan’s Oppama assembly plant. The Nismo Facility is a relatively new one. I worked FOR a…
The Car Lovers Guide to Japan, Tomei
As a treat, we got to visit Tomei’s facility located in Machida City, a suburb in Western Tokyo. Most of you know of Tomei as the supplier of top quality…
The Car Lovers Guide To Japan, JDM Treasure Hunting at Up Garage!
While we were in Yokohama, we decided to visit Up Garage’s main store. Up Garage is Japan’s largest retailer of used car and bike parts and has several stores in…
The Car Lovers Guide To Japan, The Nissan Gallery, Nishi Yokohama
Nissan’s headquarters used to be in Toyko’s prestigious baller Ginza district. As the company started to have financial trouble in the early 2000s, Nissan was forced to sell there Ginza…
The Car Lovers Guide to Japan! Part Two, Non Car Stuff to Do in Tokyo and The Nissan Crossing Part 2
A few days ago we left you back at the Nissan Crossing with a look at the latest GT-R replacement concept. Please, Nissan, have the balls to build this! Besides…
The Car Lovers Guide to Japan! Part One, Non Car Stuff to Do in Tokyo and The Nissan Crossing Part 1
So in our last story, we wrote about how to get around in Japan and how to eat well and relatively inexpensively. In this edition, before we get into our…
The Car Lovers Guide to Japan! Part One, Eating and Getting Around Inexpensively
So we decided to take a last-minute trip to Tokyo to get a snapshot of the Japanese car world and to get a quick look at Tokyo all crammed into…