EVENT: S30.world Japan tour pt. 6 – Car spotting & Goodbye

Day 8: Car spotting & Goodbye
While some extended their stay to visit some friends and family, my time in Japan ended on the 8th day early in the morning with a healthy and delicious Japanese hotel breakfast:

Once I’ve said goodbye to everyone, I headed through the Nissan Gallery passage one last time in direction Yokohama Shin station, where they were showing a video of the Z development (and other cars), which was quite fitting for the end.

I took the Airport Limousine express bus to the Airport, which gave be a hazy but nice view of the Yokohama Bay Bridge:

I made sure to grab some nice magazines before boarding my flight and leave Japan behind.

Bute before we close the topic, I’d like to highlight a few cars we randomly spotted on our journey. It started with a good sign at the Airport in Switzerland, where this model of a Honda / Racing Bulls F1 car was exhibited at the Tudor Watch booth:

We also spotted this HKS Kansai modified Altezza (aka Lexus IS200) in a random parking lot:

Along our travels we spotted many great cars on the road, like a proper dekotora truck and – a personal highlight for me – an EK9 on the Osaka Kanjo highway loop, but sadly most photos ended up like this. Once I had my camera ready, the cars were all gone.

Nevertheless I managed to grab some cool shots, like this S15 spec-R Silvia with an MR-2 parked behind:

During our Road trip with the Fairlady Z owners, we spotted this Nice S200 parked at the dam, where we took a short break to regroup:

We also spotted this JZX100 chaser in a parking lot, with some questionable modifications:

In front of our hotel, this nice Toyota Century luxury car was parked.

And another day, this cool Toyota Land Cruiser:

We had to grin a little when we saw the “Bayside Blue” bus in Yokohama. Those who know, know:

Cars like this were basically everywhere.

The Porsche Dealership in Yokohama, Kanagawa had some photo shooting going on with a race car when we passed by, so I snapped a quick pic:

This nice Godzilla R32 GR-R was spotted in Akihabara district on the road:

And every now and then you were greeted by something unexpected:

I think this is a Karmann Ghia? Sorry for the burry photo:

Of course also the rolling billboards is something you don’t see outside of Japan:

They look especially cool once lit up fully at night:

A car I really like is a nice modified Toyota Hiace:

We also enjoyed seeing a Crown police car with the detached Signal lighting on top:

Obviously, Japan is also the land of strange cars, like this “rusty” Kei car:

While waiting at RS-Watanabe, I snapped some photos of their shop and employee cars:

We also enjoyed the view of this Pikachu school bus in the wild:

One of the rarer sights was this Subaru Legacy B4 station wagon “Blitzen” edition.

Blitzen is kind of a Works’ tuner of Subaru. So this is kind of the highest spec Legacy Wagon you can get with very nice modifications.

While waiting for our entrance to the Zama warehouse, t his Roadster / MX-5 passed by:

And on the way back home from RS-Watanabe we spotted this Liberty Walk / LB-Works Daihatsu Copen GT-K “Baby GT-R”: