GT-R's are tough as nails!

GT-R's are still hard core tools these days. But how tough were they 10 years a go!?!

Really tough!!!



Avance 名東 "Yellow Monster" Pro Drag GT-R.


VeilSide BNR32 R-1 Street Drag.

Check out these old videos!

Japan tour photo gallery

Some of my photos:











More pics at molsa.pictures.fi/

-Juhis-

Alien2nrs in Japan - Ryokan & back home

For the last night sleep, we choose a Ryokan - Homeikan Morikawa Bekkan, witch is located close to Ueno park.


A Ryokan embodies the very essence of Japan and is surely the accommodation of choice if you wish to personally experience the uniqueness of Japan - the architecture, lifestyle, nature, traditions and culture. A great way to experience the spirit of Japanese customs that have been passed down over many generations.


The Ryokan Homeikan Morikawa offered the classic feel and the Japanese hospitality, the relaxing mineral baths etc. The door even had my name on it.


The rooms were really big and had all that you need.


The traditional Japanese bed, the futon.


UP-Garage souvenirs - Go for green!


The mineral bath was very relaxing. The water was hot and the room was really steamy. After few Biiru's the Finns were right at home.


How cool is this Yukata robe!?!


For relaxing times, make it Kirin time... lol.


This was our last stay in Japan, Ryokan Homeikan - well worth it.


When heading home, we had to leave in style - a ride in Skyline...


... well actually Keisei line Skyliner.




:D


All aboard!


Travel insurance ad.


Time to board the plane.


The Blue Wings - taking us back home.

Alien2nrs in japan - Car shop day 3

Are you ready for this? The car shop day 3!

Me & Juhis headed to Machida City, located in the western part of the greater metropolis of Tokyo. Home of the greatest tuning shops...


We had to take 5 metros & Trains to get there...

First stop was at Monster Sport.
Very clean & professional shop. Famous of their Suzuki Escudo Pikes Peak car.



This Evo is called Maziora V2 Champ RS - it was also in TAS.


Show room had Evo 6 & Sti.


On the yard was this beautiful Tommi Mäkinen Evo 6.


In the shop they had their Rally Evo...


...lots of Monster parts, Race Engines etc...

Next stop was my favorite - Bee*R (Bee Racing).


The shop.


Toyota Athlete Crown, a D1 car driven by Masayoshi Tokita.

The D1 Crown has a 2JZGTE engine from a Toyota Aristo. The 2JZ is stroked to 3.4L using HKS kit. It has HKS single T04Z turbine kit, Holinger sequential transmission with an ORC clutch and a TRD LSD. The car is pushing around 700hp.


Some customer cars as well, like the R34 Nismo S-tune and R32 GT-R.


Bee*R's famous charged S15...


...SR with Super Charger & Turbo!


D1 B324R, driven by Tsuyoshi Tezuka.


GTROC sticker :)


Yokomo's B324R RC-drifter...


The RC-drifters detail is very accurate. GTROC should be very proud of this!


An other B324R drifter. You can spot the difference between the cars, look at the mirrors ;)


Bee*R B324R type-II, non widebody. Using R34 hood.


With this kit, you can also use OEM R34 bumper.


This BNR32 belongs to certain JGTC driver. +800 bhp!


The apprentice and the Master Imai-san.

Used & Outlet - Wheel Proshop Yokohama Garage-kan was next on the line.

As the name says, it's a shop for used wheels. Representing the quality brands.


The front yard looked very promising...


... and it didn't let us down.


Gram Lights.


Trafficstar Riverside - SFR.


More wheels on the yard...

That's for the wheels for now.

It was time to go where few have gone before.


The street sign giving up some hints.


The Tomei HQ & pro shop.

After the office tour it was time to see the research & development line.


VQ35 cams, heads, ect...


New Evo turbos, custom built by Tomei.


Engine dyno room nr 1. (Tomei has 2 of them).

The production line...


The camshaft master. This man is the only man who makes cams at Tomei.
He's been making them since '68! We saw cams for new Lambos, Nismo, etc.


These Titanium headers where just mockup models :o


Test bench BNR32.


Tons of goodies to ship around the world.


Fairlady 350Z was still sporting the 3.5L engine. Other cars in the same Z masters -series where running the 3,8L. This car was still hard to beat. It's all about the power band - not the horsepower said Tomei.

Last but no least we hit the aftermarket & used parts paradise - The UP-Garage!


Wheels waiting to get checked in.


Toyota Mark II sporting Work Emotion XT7's.


SSR - Star Formula!



Work Meister S1 3P's.


BBS LM's.


OMG - there was 4 halls of wheels!!!

SSR, Rays, Work... you name it - they had it.
All used, good condition. Why don't we have places like this!?!


Second floor was full of aero parts, hoods, wings, bumpers... brands like RalliArt, Mugen, Greddy, Nismo...

Then they had one shop just for the mechanical parts.


Endless brake kit.


Exhausts.


CoilOvers.


BNR32 engine with turbos etc - ¥159.000.

Shop for seats, electronics & other accesories... just mental.


UP-Garage <3

Alien2nrs in Japan - Roppongi

Tokyo is famous of it's nightlife and Roppongi is the place to go, so we headed out for the night.


Metro to Roppongi.


Spotted R35 GT-R on the way.


Shark in a fish tank...


... next to this interesting big creature.


TGI Firdays offered great meal in a American style.


Gas Panic!


We found this cool robot with a light stick escorting cars by, lol!


Sweet Lexus - Kurihara Taxi.


Roppongi main street.




Teemu was the hero of the night. He ended up with some locals, drinking Sake til 7 am in the morning on a roof top somewhere in Shibuya, whatching sun rise!
It was a good night out :D

Alien2nrs in Japan - Asakusa, Ueno

Asakusa is known for it's old temples. This traditional area is Tokyo's most famous for the Sensō-ji district, a Buddhist temple dedicated to the bodhisattva Kannon. We had to check it out.


But first we had to get some breakfast – DOUTOR Gourmet Coffee.


This place had really good sandwiches, not to mention a pleasant ambience and, ofcourse, decent coffee.



Front of the shop we spotted this nice WRX Type RA. Souped up with Prodrive gear, like the roof scoop.


Narrow buildings - this is how it's done.


Kitchen store in Ueno - Asakusa dori ave.


Asakusa - few others heading to the the tempel as well...


Purify your hands before the temple.


The Kaminarimon (Thunder Gate), with its giant chōchin, is the outer gate of the famous Sensō-ji.


This place was founded in 628 A.D.


Girls all dressed up - Why? Because every year, Japan celebrates "Coming of Age" day (Seijin no Hi) annually on the second Monday of January. It's the celebrating day if you turn 20 years old that year. It's also a day where every city and town celebrate, it's considered as a National holiday.


Uuh, Gaijins (foreigners) - We were like superstars! Paparazzi's were everywhere, lol.




On the "Coming of Age" girls wear coloured traditional kimono or more specifically, the "hakama". While most men wear suits.


DoCoMo FAIL - not connecting people :D


Spotted this sweet Hatchi-Roku in Asakusa. Genuine RS watanabe wheels, nice!


What about this HotRod? Japan is full of sweet rides.


Suntory BOSS, Café au Lait - ¥100. Good price!

After Asakusa we hitted back to Ueno.


Ueno center, OICITY.


Ueno boys...


ŌEDO Sushi. ¥126 per plate, not bad.


These dudes were keeping the plate lines full.


Hotto-Sake!


Tobikko = Flying fish Roe.


Random tiger found on the streets of Ueno.

Alien2nrs in japan - Shibuya, Akihabara

Shibuya is a shopping and entertainment district in Tokyo.


About million people goes trough this intersection daily!


When the light turns green...


R34 spotterd on the way to the center.


Center Gai - birthplace of many Japanese fashion trends.


Gundam's everywhere.


Nice Kitty poster... Hello rescue!?!


Pikachu.


The famos Shibuya crossing. On the background is the Shibuya 109, witch is a trend setting fashion complex. Over hundred boutiques on ten floors!


People about to cross the intersection...


Unleash the mayhem :D


On our way to Akihabara the electric city - we spotted this S15 Spec R.


Akaihabara is also the gamers paradise.




More robots.


An other clean S15 followd by tuned Lexus.


Aria Company Lancer was spotted as well.


Next we ordered some Robot food. How to use the machine? Here is how...


Teemu having hes Robot snake soup dinner.


My set was good, Sapporo beer crowning it.

Alien2nrs in japan - Harajuku, Shinjuku

We had to check out the tourist sights & attractions in Harajuku and Shinjuku.


The clothing alley - Takeshita-dori in Harajuku.


Rabbits...



Clothes for animals as well, just silly.


Hello Kitty - this Kitty White had it's own carriage.


ehkä söpö - funny store name, it translates to finnish as: maybe cute :)


Shinjuku streets.


Domokun corner in Kiddy Land.


Hello Kitty floor in Kiddy Land.


The Harajuku bridge - spot the panda.


A view from the Harajuku bridge. In the horizon is the DoCoMo tower.


Yoyogi Park.


Mid Knight gang.


They had really cool bikes.



Black Shadow gang.

Alien2nrs in Japan - Bosozoku night

We meet up wit the bunch of drift maniacs in the restaurant called Tony Romas.

Next we hit the stormy weather out. It was freezing cold & dark, but still the locals were gathering and having fun at the parking lot.




Local car clubs meeting at Toyosuna parking lot.







Bosozoku, fantacy cars, vanners, call it what you will - they're crazy.


Here's a vid of them on the highway. LOUD!


Widebody 4-door liner.


Autech S15.


Uras S15.


The Police had a raid - Bosozoku bike gang was near by...

Alien2nrs in Japan - Car shop day 2

Next was the visit to Kazama-Auto. Yamashita-san was there to show us the goods. Andy helping with translateing some of the stuff.


D1 baby!


Work in progress, just fitted the body work, next was the interior.


Pretty wild aero & nice custom one off Volk wheels.


RC Drifting is getting bigger in Japan. That's why Kazama built their own RC Drift land!



They have a line of top cars & accessory for sale as well.


Sexy Knights RX7.




Yard full of goodies for sale.

Alien2nrs in Japan - Car shop day

So we went to see Andys & Emilys shop - The Powervehicles.

First it was an 1 h train ride of to Saitama. Nice contry side area up nort of Tokyo.


Emily picked us up in this beast!



Hella flush!


Scooby & Evo.



Make-Up - yellow RB26 powered Silvia.






An other RB26 powered Silvia! It's cool how the engine sticks out.




This is the Mark II, we were running the night before. It has a 1,5JZ engine swap - Nice!
The streets of Tokyo are never the same again! :D

Thanks for the tour Andy & Emily - Domo-Arigato!!!

Alien2nrs in Japan - Tokyo Auto Salon

Today started with butterflies in my stomach. It was the Tokyo Auto Salon & Import Auto Salon -day!

First we had to get to the event, the Makuhari Messe.


By using this simple metro-map, you're sorted.


Yamanote Line rocks!


From: Ueno -okachimanchi station to kaihimmakuhari station.
First Yamanote Line then Keiyo Line, about 40 min to get there.


Metro is a great place to sleep ;)


Finally here!


Breakfast - ready to hit the show.


Konnichiwa!


Checking the map. A total of 9 halls of cars.

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The Style Wagon Fuji -stand, DJ pushin' some tunes.


The Liberty Walk -stand had Air Ride Lambos, Sick!


After the show, we hooked up with Andy & Emily.


JC & his better half (he's from Autoworks -mag France - live's in Japan).


Allen (from Tomei Powered) & Kent.


Dino Dalle Carbonare & his better half. In the middle is the Canadian mad man :D

We enjoyed the hotel lobbys extra costly drinks, after few we decided to go to down town Tokyo. Ofcourese the transportation was chosen well... Only a Wangan ride would do.


Allen's weapon of choice. Hachi-Roku, with widebody kit & a pretty nice engine.


Andy's & Emily's family saloon. The JZX100 Mark II.


Yeah, it's street legal - fo'shure :D


Street racing is not a crime.


AE86 storming on Wangan. The roar of that engine is just pure pleasure for you're ears.


Tomei Powered vs. Powervehicles JZX100 Mk II


Just a view of Tokyo Bay Bridge & Tokyo Tower etc... Just luvin' it!


It's 11:30 PM (23:00) - a traffic jam in Tokyo...

Alien2nrs in Japan - Tokyo

We have seen Osaka for now, time to move on. So we grabbed the Shinkansen train to Tokyo.


The service was good, as always. Sapporo beer...


We saw Mt. Fuji


Finally at the Tokyo - Ueno.


Ueno First City Hotel, japanese style rooms :D


Hai!




Lol... it's got a warmer too ;)


Sushi place just cross the street - nice!


We had the chefs special tonight.



We had some Yakitori - Chicken, pork, heart, tail, skin, you name it.

Then off to Akihabara.





Tomorrow is a long day, so gotta get some sleep
- Tokyo Auto Salon 2009, we're ready!

Alien2nrs in Japan - Random madness

Random madness @ Osaka, just something before Tokyo.



Osaka - Shopping alleys.


Racoon & Teemu...



Hello Kitty Hell - Kitty store's are everywhere!


I <3 Panda

Makksu-san at the tobacco vending machine.


New RC Sports cover car - Bee*R ofcourse!




Well, it's pretty cool that it's also a RC Car of the Year.


We recommend. 130 per dish, some Asahi & you're sorted.


Chefs in action.




Pic your plate from the conveyor belt.


Sake kudasai!


For me 9 dishes was the total, lol - I love Sushi


Osaka streets at night.


Sheratons own mascot. Mr. Children - The Super Exciting Friend.
Japan is full of weird characters like him :D


The breakfast - the most important meal of the day.


Ahh, Japanese style ofcourse.


Updating the blog - Asahi helps a lot ;)

Japan day 4

Todays to-do list was:

- NHK Tv-station
- Osaka Castle
- And Den Den town electric stores


First visit was to NHK - Osaka Broadcasting Station, Japans biggest TV-station.


The home of Domo-kun.


Live morning show.


Max reading the news in English.


He did well. Can you see his backpack in the pic, lol.


Teemu did the weather broadcast - he failed.


Blue screen testing.


Domo-kun and Domo-kun.


Guys testing their acting talents :) It was on the national morning TV-show for kids...

Then we checked the palace near by NHK, the Osaka Castle.


Sumimasen! Japanese are always bowing, so are we - sumimasen...


The rock walls were enormous. 60m2 & 130 tons.


Emperors' Osaka palace.




The photographing was limited to just a few floors, so no more pics.
Tons of cool Samurai swords, costumes, art etc.


Deep moats to protect the castle.

Japan is well known of its elecrtic stores. Ofcourse we had to go and check it out! So we walked to Den Den Town.


On the way we stopped at the mall, in front we saw this Merc.


During exhausting shopping, it's good to chill and relax.
The malls atmospere was pretty royal.


HyperREV books in the Junkenda book store.


Pretty cool looking pet store.


Dog shaped tree.


Juhis in bike paradise.



De Rosa specials.


Tons of top quality bikes & parts. Great find.

Street view of Den Den town.


The Osaka mega-super-hyper electronic play ground.



Then we found a place called "Kids Land" - yeah...
This place was sick. Floor after floor, stuff you just had to have.


Juhis found a new car... Gunmetal BNR32 Tamiya Collector's Club...
There was 6-floors full of all this stuff. About 150 other GT-R diecast models.



Witch one to chose, Bososoku or the Top Secret!?!


Big enough? HKS BNR32 model.


A few metallic small scale skylines, well about 200 of them!




Gundam's robot store.




Random heavy hitter, GTS25 4-door racer.



Evo with Kansai goodies at Den Den car park cruising.


There were more cars, but not that much light, so no more good pics.


Some random stuff from the Osaka streets. Well it felt real :D

Tomorrow we move to Tokyo -->

Alien2nrs in Japan - transportation

There's been more transportation in a few days than in a year for us.
Everything works great once you get your self on the map.


Osaka metro in the morning, not too crowded yet.


Randon train action. Hiroshima - Osaka. +330 kms in 90 mininutes.

Alien2nrs in Japan - Hiroshima trip

To day was trip to Hiroshima. Mainly to see the National Peace Memorial Museum, Atomic Bomb Dome and other sights related to the A-Bomb dropped to Hiroshima. Well it wasn't all about the bomb - We toured around the city and some shops as well. Nice city.


Hikari 455 to Hakata (our stop was Hiroshima).


Shinkansen - Hikari Rail Star to Hiroshima.


From Shin-Osaka to Hiroshima +330 kms, by Hikari train it took 90 minutes, not bad.


View from train to Osaka Airport.


Shopping in train ;)


From Hiroshima station we took tram to A-Bomb hypocenter area, (2 kilometer area that was totally whipped out).


Alien2nrs crew, A-Bomb Dome behind us.


At 8:15 am on August 6, 1945 City of Hiroshima fell victem to the world's first atomic bombing. The city was gone in less than a second, killing instantly more than 10.000 people, totaling the bill up to 140.000 after the radiation, heat wave, blast wave and fire killed the rest of the citys surrounding areas.

Pics fron the Peace Memorial Museum



The "Little Boy" dropped by American air plane Enola Gay. The bomb is about 3 meters long, had 50 kg Uranium 235. The energy of the fission bomb equivalent of 16.000 tons of TNT. The bomb exploded 580 meters above the city.



The heat rays where so violent, that they left shadows permanently on the elements that didn't vanish.


Melted statue and some other remains.


View from the museum to the A-Bomb Dome.


Stairs to the underground Peace Museum of A-Bomb Victims.


Inside the hall remebernce is a panorama that recreates view of the A-Bombed city. The panorama is made out of 140.000 little tiles, the number of people estimated to have died by the end of 1945. Huh, just makes you think - never again.


After the museums it was time for some other sights, like electronic shops.


We saw this super sleek lowrider motorbike with stereos, lol.


Old Mazda Coupe.


Wacom <3

Alien2nrs in Japan - Osaka 2nd day

After Endless-R it was back to Osaka. Then the next was trip to Global-Auto.



Some super clean cars in house, like the Autech Stagea RS260 puhshing +700 bhp, HKS V-Cam syestem, T51R... One off wide body NSX... Spoon Demo S2000 hard top. Huh, some serious rides.







Spoon Sports S2000 street warrior.

Mr. Matsumoto was very kind and showed us all cars he had. He was sorry that "he didn't have anythin special in" at the moment. - Yeah right.


+800 bhp stroker kitted V-Spec BNR34, +700 bhp Autech RS260 Stagea, RE-Amemiya FD RX-7, Evo's, Supra's, NSX's, tuned single turbo Skyline GT-R's, Trial Tuning demo cars, etc. This place was off the hook.

Matsumoto-san, thank you!

Alien2nrs in Japan - Osaka/Kobe 2nd day

Early wake up & break fast. I called Rick at Endless-R, "dude - We're coming over - OK!". Rick was some where around Tokyo or something like that, but he hooked us up anyway - great!

First by to metro to Shin-Osaka, then Shinkansen (bullet train) to Kobe, then an other metro to Endless-R.


The home of power = Endless-R - total tune & performance.


Some used goodies on their store.


White carbon daddy next to Rain's silver R32, witch is probably the best GT-R in the world!


R35 GT-R Brembo's, full Endless-R engine, carbon & more carbon ;) Just sick!
- Rain you're one lucky bastard, LOL.


Isono-san showing us the secrets of the RH9 (9.874 sec @ 1/4 mile) R32 GT-R drag monster.

Domo-arigato to Sugino-san, Isono-san, Rick & Endless-R crew!!!
________

Back at Shin-Osaka station, I found this mag.




Uuh, All carbon R35 GT-R.

More pics later... ait!

Alien2nrs in Japan - Osaka 1st day

Finally in Osaka. Booked in to our hotel, We decided to ride over that super jetlag.
Argggh! We've been up more than 26 h straight.


Neon show is on... everywhere.


Some dude with VeilSide/custom kitted 350Z... we saw like 30 of these just in few hours.


View from our hotel window :D

Well, I got to hit the bed, more stuff tomorrow. Good night!

Alien2nrs in Japan - NGO airport

10 h plain ride, bad Jetlag, yeah! We,re in Japan!


Alien tuners have landed... Now let's find our way to Nagoya.
Nice metro map ;)


Once in Nagoya, we had to sort our Japan Rail Passes out.
The vouchers were changed for these.
Unlimited travel for Shinkansen & JR trains, etc. – nice!

After seeing the city breefly, we decided to book our selves to our Osaka Hotel.


Hikari 373 – Okayama... Kyoto, Shin-Osaka... Let's take that one. Reserved seats of course.


70 mins from Nagoya to Shin-Osaka. Bullet trains are fast as hell... +400 km/h!

Then 2 more metros and we hit our destination – Osaka Sheraton Miyako Hotel.

Alien2nrs goes Japan - HEL airport

OK, so we're here!


Ready to go...




10h flight to Nagoya, Japan.

Kuvauskalustoa Japania varten

-Canon 40D+akkukahva
-Canon G10
-Canon G7 (ei kuvassa, kuvat otettu sillä)
-Canon mvx35i videokamera
-Canon 70-200 4L
-Canon 16-35 2.8L
-Canon 15mm Fisheye
-Canon 580ex salama
-Sigma 500super salama
-Manfrotto 190MF4 hiilikuituinen 3-jalka
-Manfrotto 680B monopod
-Manfrotto 486RC2 kuulapää
yms.. pikkusälää.....

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