RWB's New Year's celebration is proof Japanese car culture is on another level.
. Before anyone could stop the two for pictures, both figures made their way to the shrine inside the temple to bow and pay their respects.After the prayer session, Nakai and Walker make their way to a stage positioned to the left of the shrine, overlooking the garden now filled with hundreds of enthusiasts. They each give speeches thanking the crowd for its love and support before bowing out to let two ceremonial dancers perform a traditional Shinto ritual dance.
The performance is a unique juxtaposition to the average American car meet, which takes place in the parking lot of a coffee shop that tells everyone to leave after a few hours then threatens to call the cops. Even at more formal, organized events in America, I could never see two cultures converging like this. It’s clear just how deeply intertwined the public’s passion for cars and everyday life can be here.
At that moment I realized how the culture has been able to thrive in Tokyo despite laws, regulations, and an industry shift away from fun cars. In Japan, they do car gatherings right. No one looks down on another’s car, no matter how it looks or sounds. Everyone’s also supremely respectful. People would make sure the zippers of their coats never touched a car’s paint, and drivers never once revved their cars for attention, no matter how many dumb Americans in the crowd egged them on.
Meets like this one make it easy to understand why Tokyo and Japan are Meccas for the car enthusiast. Aside from the incredible JDM cars at every corner, there’s also a deep-seeded community dedicated to keeping car culture alive and thriving. No other city I’ve been to—yes, even in Los Angeles, the car capital of the world—has this type of passion for cars so centrally implanted into its culture. If I had to pick any place to live and explore my passion for the automobile, it’d be here.
Road & Track staff writer with a taste for high-mileage, rusted-out projects and amateur endurance racing.
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