Joypop

 

The Joy Pop is one of the K-Tours Osaka transport vehicles. It is surprisingly fast with its ability to weave through traffic and  holding 100km/hr+ around any of the wangan bends. It made it’s debut last year when it was transformed over a few days.

Retro Workshop 1/2

Embarking on a search for upgarage and  autobacs second hand stores is the perfect excuse to pack the bike and head to an area far off the tourist maps. Armed with a few a4 prints and mobile phone photos of rail stations and major intersections, a backpack of camera gear and the desire to get lost I boarded the first of three trains needed to make the journey.

Low Down Carry

On a site seeing trip around Kyoto we spotted this Carry, I jumped off the bus to later meet up with the rest of your crew.

Picture this… (Part 2/2)

Continuing on from part one at Top Secret….. I didn’t really have any idea where I was in relation to public transport, no internet in sight. This is what I planned for in Japan, getting lost somewhere far from home and hopefully making the midnight last train. I had optimistically printed out maps to two Up Garages hoping to have time to make it to at least one.

Background

Just a quick desktop background, Click the image for a full size version. It’s 1000px wide so set it as centre with a black background then it will work for any screen size (post 1998)

This is the road between Osaka airport and the city centre, from this window I saw 2 35 GTRs, a few s15s and about 200 vans and k-cars. Enjoy.

Spotted: Japan 1

My maiden voyage to Japan ended only a matter of days ago, the next is already in the planning stage. Due to the huge density of the main cities (Tokyo: 5,751 persons per square kilometre compared to Sydney with a mere 345) there are so many things you can miss by not looking around one more corner. I left with the intention of deliberately getting lost, aimlessly walking in a place where I had absolutely no idea which way was north let alone where I had started from, and the plan worked well. Below are some of the gems in encountered randomly wandering.

Vans in J/Land

Service Station Shakotan Cima.

This Y33 Cima is owned by a service station attendant in down town osaka. drove past this a few times and had to take a few pics when we refuled the kei truck.