Japan Rally - Tokyo to Osaka

My neighbor and I participated in a road rally last weekend from Tokyo to Osaka. Event is by a company just starting out called WorldXSeries who is apparently starting some of these in multiple places around the world.


Took a few photos and had a really good time - got to drive the hell out of the GTR for more then just a trip to work or the store for once.


I was planning on being back in time to show up early and have the staff put the stickers on the car once I arrived. I ended up needing to extend my trip in Russia and left there on Wednesday morning, got home Thursday morning to take a shower and then literally jumped in the car, grabbed my buddy and drove 7.5 hours from Kobe to Tokyo just in time for the welcome party. Made for an interesting experience with the jet lag initially.

Guy who went with me came over and put the decals on the car a few days before - apparently it took a couple hours.

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Didn't get any shots of the car before the rally with it all cleaned up so took a couple right after getting home - still have not had time to take the stickers off so gets a few looks on the drive to/from work this week.
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Morning of the start - last minute prep and some photos.
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And we're off...
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We ended up driving directly through the Shinjuku district which is essentially the busiest place in Tokyo - same area you see the videos of with the thousands of people crossing the street all at once - fortunately for us it was Friday morning and not so terrible to get through and get some shots and then head out of town. Was interesting trying to keep the cars all together down there though - not easy.
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Looks interesting! I like that brick driveway!

Words can not express the level of envy!!!

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JDM R35 GTRs will allow Circuit Mode to be enabled here.
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They had a couple pretty prepped up Toyotas for us to rally in addition to the KTM. There was a 718 Boxter S but the tires were roached out on that pretty quickly. Once everyone got their fill of some laps we took off for Odawara for drinks and dinner.

It was pitch black when we arrived at Odawara so we had some pretty amazing views when we woke up the next morning.

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Ate breakfast, took a few more photos, had the driver's meeting and then we were off again.

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Headed off to the Hakone Turnpike and then to the Ashino Skyline.

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Lunch!
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Im jealous...but how do you have a road rally in Japan without a single Asian?

There were Japanese on the rally but I simply didn't take a lot of photos of them.

My friend and neighbor (black GTR) and his nephew and a buddy of ours that has recently moved into the neighborhood.
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Here's a shot of one of one of the photo guys - guy is from the UK and was pretty cool - spent probably half the rally hanging out the open door of the support van or running around in traffic.

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After the scenic drive around Mt Fuji was over we then all were hustling to Osaka. I didn't take hardly any photos after that - too busy driving. What was cool though was some of the Kms that we thought would be the most ponderous ended up being the most fun. The conditions were perfect and the highways were quite empty. We had a chance to do a lot of highway pulls and see how the cars stacked up. I had a few runs with the Audi and the Jag and could pull on them at about any speed. The 570s though was a different story - a complete animal on the highway up top.

Burned a lot of fuel on this trip!
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Finally arrived at the Osaka Hilton for the checkered flag in time for the awards and drinks/dinner. Had a really good time and would like to do another one at some point. Met a lot of very interesting people.

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There were some videos made that came out pretty good.

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Not sure how this site manages instagram or facebook links - looks like not.

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Originally Posted by Roadrage

Im jealous...but how do you have a road rally in Japan without a single Asian?

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Lol...