Hey guys Im heading to Japan in october and was wondering if anyone knows any info of drift action in the osaka area?? or surroundings, I would love to see it while over there. Any info would be awesome.. cheers

can anyone help?

I'm in Tokyo - I'd love to help, but have NFI about Osaka.

Good-Luck.

ANY INFO AT ALL WOULD BE USEFULL :-)

Dont think much goes on in Osaka dude, i recommend checking out the aquarium though that place is rockin!

as for drift your either going to have to catch an event or a prac day or know someone that is in the scene a bit.

sorry i cant be more help, just got back from Japan and it is and unreal place to be with or without drifting, i recommend doing a but of research to find when any sort of even is on and train it out to a track if you are that keen on seeing it.

Good luck hope you have a good trip

Osaka has epic street drifting/racing.

You need someone that's in the scene or you'll have no hope finding.

Good-Luck.

LOL Wes has just brought to my attention that i didnt exactly word that correctly.

For track drifting i dont know of any places in Osaka like events and watnot.

street drifting/touge is like anywhere i think unless you know someone in the scene that can tell you where to be at what time i think its pretty hard to stumble across it.

If you are lucky enough to find some get some footage

good luck anyway

Cheers mate for the info.. I will now also be heading to tokyo for a couple of nights so if cant see anything in Osaka I hope to be able to catch somethin there.. John, do you know any info on the drifting scene in tokyo?? also want to try to get to an Up Garage if possible to check it out :-) cant wait..

hahaha yeah John do you know how to get to up garage ???
LOL I never got there in the end, but kind of glad because im selling my 180 now anyway since im going back to Japan

Hope you have better luck than me finding one haha

Yeah man!

I had the address ready in the GPS, but you got to Shibuya late so they were all closed ..

Maybe you spent to much time with Saori ? LOL.

HAHA Yeah i think so too.......but that was time well spent

selling the 180 now anyway so im glad i didn't buy anything in a weird way, but when i get back and get a car uno where we will be heading

Hell yeah!..

Maybe this time we will rock the R8 V10

LOL john Im guessin you know where and what goes on in tokyo??? :-) any chance of gettin some inside info? also where abouts to find up garage?? ur a champ man thanks for the input so far....

http://www.upgarage.com/shop/

Enjoy.

If only I could read japanese :-) cheers john

If you are in Tokyo at all please give us a call. There should be a couple events going on at that time.

http://www.dr1ft.jp/

meihan is probably the closest track to Osaka. Good to watch aswell. A lot more exciting than Ebisu minami

I cant remember the exact suburb in osaka, but u need to go to the nightclub called pure words cant explain how good it is there.

Isn't club pure in Shinsaibashi?

Pretty sure there is also one in Shibuya, Tokyo...

Its great if you don't care how slutty the girls are..

though, there are far better women in japan..

being back in Aus... FTL

Jap chicks are fucked man - i wouldnt even snap a cable on em.

Aussie bitches ftw

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Cheers RHD ill put ur number in my phone and look you up when I get there.. thanks again

any more good japan info to talk about guys?

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From what I can see I think the D! finals are on in tokyo when im there so hopefully will get to check it out :-) cant wait only 1 and a half weeks to go.

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as previously said the www.dr1ft.jp site is the one to watch..

my advice is though, is check it just before you go, i've just come back from japan, and when i initially checked that site a few months before i left, there wasnt much listed for september, but just before i left there was stacks...

in the end, we travelled up to niigata (5 hours north of tokyo) to watch a round of D1SL at Maze circuit.

was right on the seaside and was an awesome few days...

the fellow gaijin expats we were hanging with said it was an extremely good level of drift that round, which rivalled some of the d1 rounds of late..

Club Pure in Namba!!
That was fucking off the chain. 3500yen, all you can drink 10pm til 5am. I got super messy there....

My best advice for travelling to Japan is use the forums to meet Aussies who live in Japan who have cars and know drifters / drift themselves.

We met up with Luke Huxham and Andy and went to D1SL at Nikko and went to some fucking cool Touges to see real japanese drifting.

That and getting to meet Hoshino, drive carts at ORC (Ogura Racing Clutch), meet Keiichi Tsuchiya etc etc.

But that was well North of Tokyo in Gunma Prefecture, so a long way from Osaka.

Even without the drifting the trip to Japan is awesome and well worth it.

ah we rolled with the same gaijin we met up with alexi and christian in niigata too

Good luck in Japan!! Wish i go there in one day. I want see it these amazing tough stuff!
Lucky you! Safe flight!

Hey guys back from Japan but unfortunately didnt see any drifting, as I got scammed out of 95% of my cash by nigerian club workers while out on the town BASTARDS...... but the trip overall was an awesome experience. Anyone that travels over there steer clear of the nigerian pricks out front of clubs. they get you in the clubs and make you pay all your cash before you leave, and to top it off my luggage was lost between Sydney and Brissy :-) a great end...

^^^^

oh dear, you got done by the roppongi rats...

you gotta be careful, but if you dont be silly you can still go to those clubs without too much jewish guilt...

how do they con you out of your money if some guys were like hey man give me 100 bucks i'd just tell em to go fuck themselves

To all those who said there is nothign that goes on in Osaka.......Check this out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qh6BHy4NsQ

Ah, there are a lot of huge african gentlemen in ropongi. I refused to follow them anywhere when I was there. I was expecting to be led into a dark place and mugged lol. Sounds like that's pretty much what happens. Sorry to hear they got you dude. I guess we know where deposed african presidents and their bodyguards go to escape the noose..

I didn't know how to find any drift when I was there and only saw a couple of hot cars, but still an awesome place to visit. I can't wait to go back.. with a drift event calendar this time!