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!!!
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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.