I look forward to the Tokyo Auto Salon every year. Each year seems to be bigger and better than the one before,…
Throughout this series I’ve explored roads mainly in the north and south of Tokyo. For obvious reasons exploring the…
Museums may not be the first thing you think of when it comes to Japan’s car scene, but there’s a surprising amount…
After starting my search for the best driving roads near Tokyo, I found Mount Akagi to be the most fun—so far. I…
Obviously when you’ve rented a JDM hero car for a few days over the weekend, it’s tempting to spend the whole time…
As fun as it is doing these driving road adventures in Japan in fancy sports cars, I realize not everyone who’ll be…
If there’s one thing I hope you learn from reading A Car Nerd’s Guide to Japan, it’s that there’s never a shortage…
One of my favorite things to do when visiting a country is to check out its local car museums. It’s a good…
More than 1.8 million people in Japan bought new kei-cars in 2017, meaning one in three new cars sold in Japan last…
When I first heard the Gumball 3000 Rally was coming to Japan this summer, I wasn’t entirely sure how well it’d go…
There’s no shortage of glitzy motorsports events in Japan. A lot of it happens at the bigger and more well-known…
As I got closer to the infamous RWB HQ in the quaint town of Kashiwa just north of Tokyo, the smell of barbecue fille…
This looks like a Lamborghini Miura Jota SVR, but it’s not a Lamborghini Miura Jota SVR. It’s not a replica, or a…
My search for the best driving roads in Japan hasn’t gone quite as well as I had hoped. So far the biggest problem…
Every now and then there’ll be a weekend where the whole world gets together and dials its car culture all the way…
Life, as they say, is full of surprises. But how many of them are genuine? Every now and then something pops up…
The Tokyo Wan Aqua-Line Expressway connects Tokyo to Chiba, and boasts a six-mile long underwater tunnel—the…
Ask anyone where their dream driving road is and they’ll probably tell you it’s somewhere in Europe. Perhaps somewher…
In Japan, the festival for all things cars at the foot of Mount Fuji is quickly becoming one of the must-see events…
When I got an invitation from Yasu-san, a member of the Supercar Club of Japan, to check out “an afternoon of about…