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Adam Laws
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Re: Going to Japan..where to go??	Mon, 01 November 2004 11:32

I have interests in Toyotas and Subarus, this was posted to the WRX club group when I visited Tokyo in May...might be of interest...sorry for its length... There is the Toyota Amlux showroom in Ikebukuro, mentioned in the Lonely Planet and worth a look if only for its size. It is mostly still "just" a Toyota show room but I did enjoy having a poke around some of the cars we don't have here, plus there was the opportunity to have a go on Grand Turismo 4 Prologue on some Playstations set up there (wheel, pedals and race seats etc) which was a bit of fun - ran a TA22 as a matter of interest. The Sony showroom is in Ginza and was definitely worth a look. A bit further down the road is a Nissan showroom. It had two whacky Jap small cars - something called a Cube that looks like a cube and a March. The staff seemed to like the fact we were tourists taking photos. Subaru has an office in Shinjuku. Take the west exit from the station and its hard to miss with the whopping sign on its roof. Its not far from Yodobashi Cameras which is a massive gadget shop. The Subaru building has a small showroom and they had a B4 and another Liberty. I got some great brochures including a WRX one and one for an STi Forrester there. The Toyota Megaplex out at Odaiba was good fun, and I particularly liked the museum they had as I used to own an RA23 Celica and there was a RA28 n a TA22 there for me to reflect on the memories ! My girlfriend got a buzz out of taking a ride in an electric car there that drives itself. I was fairly impressed the thing had done 60,000 kms, presumably all on the one kay track we got to drive around !! Go have a look at the computer games arcade there too, its friggin massive.....4 corridors of driving games ! There is a chain of parts stores called Super Autobacs I discovered. One I found was a few stations down from Odaiba, at a place called Shinonome on the Rinkai train line that comes from Shin-kiba, is a place that was one of the highlights for me. They have quite a large showroom and workshop and it was like heaven !! Row upon row of coil overs for sale, more shiny wheels and exhausts than i imagined possible. Plus the usual crapola we see at Super Cheap. Great magazine collection too that I bought a wrx magazine from. The car park was a great place to go for a wander...evo, 180sx drift machine, a porsche road/race car complete with detachable steering wheel, roll cage, dry break fuel system and baby seat that was being used !! They also have a showroom for Tommy Kaira cars (Gran Turismo fame) Lots of good stuff and highly recommended. Plus I tended to have a wander around any big car park we came across and usually found some interesting stuff there too. Anyways, hope this helps with your trip [Updated on: Mon, 01 November 2004 11:35] [Report message to a moderator]

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