I'm back on my bullshit, like Jordan, no Pippen....If this is my life then I'm Tokyo drifting
I’m a huge car guy, I can’t tell you how many times I would read about an international car show and be kicking myself that I hadn’t gone and seen it firsthand...one side of car culture that I always see reported on through my favourite car blogs are the customising and tuning vendors of Japan.
The absolute best place to take all of that in is the Tokyo auto saloon. This is just another example of divine timing and my amazing luck with everything in the world, but it just so happened that the Tokyo auto saloon was going on during my unplanned trip to Japan.
I’m sitting in in my mates house reading a car blog talking about the auto show and then it dawned on me, oh my gosh I can just fly up to Tokyo and go see that myself. So that’s what I did!
It's a quick flight from Osaka to Tokyo so I didn’t plan on doing anything here that was gonna require an overnight stay. I just arrived early in the morning and made sure that I had a really late flight out. I chucked my day full of three things... Team labs museums, Tokyo auto saloon, and sittin' by the dock in the bay.
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| Tokyo bay that is ...mission 1 complete |
TeamLabs had come up from all of my other mates who talk about Japan, and I had never fucking heard of it but here we are ...TeamLabs - of which there are two flavours: Borderless and Planets to choose from in Tokyo. Of course, I had to go because I had the time to live someone else's dream.
One of them (Planets) was a bit more physical and the other one (Borderless) was more interactive art, of the two I connected more with the art side of things - it felt the more physical one was geared towards children and families. Nonetheless, I was able to squeeze both of them into the itinerary. I won't spoil it with a huge photo dump and even still, you can't grasp the movement and dynamic from a still photo but go see it for yourself!
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| Me in my natural habitat ....surrounded by balls |
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| At times it felt like I'd taken a heroes dose of mushrooms and forgot about it |
TL Planets was more interactive in terms of having to climb shit, slide down shit, or feel like you had to throw a child out of your way... so I didn't get a chance to take heaps of photos....imagine holding a phone and balancing on a bunch of broken rainbow steps. I digress, the wait time was worth it - but if I had to only do one, it would have been Borderless.
The main event tho was of course the Tokyo Auto Saloon.
I cannot say enough. I fucking love minivans and supercars. Specifically adventure mini vans ....speaking directly to the Mitsubishi Delica here which was a very popular van to have customised in the show because it comes out the factory already kind of prepared for an off-road camping adventure. Was it weird for a grown man to run around a car venue sporting an 8" boner for all to see cause he can't hide his adventure-van love? No...not here anyway., if anything it'd be weird not to. Sport that van boner mate, this is a safe space!
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| OH MY GAUUUUUDDDDDDDDD |
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| Bro, I am feeling so AlphaHard rn |
And of course you had all of your showstoppers ...the latest Lexus supercar and latest Lexus minivan....
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| I liked this far more in person than I had in magazines |
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| M'urica |
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| I'm gonna give you my Initial-D 😏 |
There’s a really cool vibe to the whole event that makes you feel very connected to what each tuner is delivering.
Already know what you've got goin' on down there
It's that lacy black pair with the little bows
The ones I picked out for you in Tokyo
