Places in Tokyo

[Clint32]

My Dad is going to Japan next week and will have a day or so in Tokyo, so im after some names of some decent easy to find places to get some small parts considering he wont have much time, cheers Clint

[Demon Dave]

I take it you mean car parts. Probably the best place to go would be SuperAutobacs (see Rezz'z Photo diary for an example of what can be found there). Also, Yellow Hat, Drivers Stand and Nismo Omori are worth checking out. There's so many great places to part with money in tokyo!

[akeenan]

If your going to Tokyo for a day I recommend you check out Akihabara and shinjuku oh and as your in the area get off at shingawa station and go check out nismo!

[Ryan D]

if you get off at Shinonome Stationg theres superautobacs just across the road under the bridge, has a nice car hire place next door too

[king_kw13]

Superautobacs is definitely worth a tour.... last time i was there, they were servicing LHD corvettes hehehe

[DRIFTDAVE]

upgarage quality used parts. I was at one last week, it took me about 1 hour by train,plus 15 min walking. It you want the exact details ill post them. Sorry... I was staying in shinjuku.

Cheers

Dave

[king_kw13]

Hey DoriftoDave

Can you post details how u got to upgarage in Tokyo..... please?

[DRIFTDAVE]

Sure, but they are detailled and I still don't guarantee that you will find it. Remember the streets in Japan don't have names, just numbers indicating a region.So you are going to have to walk around and look for it. Mabye the best idea is to buy a Option or Drift Tengoku mag as upgarage advertise in both.Show the ad to the hotel desk guy, as it has all shop addresses shown and ask for directions to the closest shop (there are 54 shops in Japan). This is what i did, he was extremely helpful and even called them asking there hours. Ok i was staying in Shinjuku i got on the JR yamanote line and went to Shibuya where some suburban lines leave from, it took about 5 min.Here we changed to a private line which was called the tokyu private line the green one in map attachment. Third last stop minamimachida, three symbols on map. Don,t catch the express it only stops at the pinks dot stops. Ok go out of the station, shopping centre on one side, road on the other. There is a bridge over this road. Don't take bridge but it goes over the road you want to walk up. Walk in the direction so that the shoping centre is on your right. This is a big road with car yards on it, you may have to walk around the shopping centre to get to this road. About 600m up this road you will see the inter section/ over pass as on the upgarage map. Once across the road, under the over head motorway look right. You should see a yellow Upgarage sign , if you don't see walk right down this road.Then you are there.

Cheers

Dave

[king_kw13]

Dave

THanks for the tips. I will probably print out the list of Upgarages in Tokyo and show it to the hotel guy too

BTW - did u find any good deals? What did u get there?

[Merli]

UpGarage has a website here:

http://www.upgarage.com/index.html

And a list of all their stores here:

http://www.upgarage.com/store/index.html

[DRIFTDAVE]

Yep an apexi air filter about Au$20 and Trust Gauges about $140 for the pair.

That list of stores on the website is not all correct. one said it was in Shinjuku prefecture, and hotel desk guy said it was about an hour and a half away. The second train ride took about 45 min.

Cheers

Dave

[Merli]

Yep an apexi air filter about Au$20 and Trust Gauges about $140 for the pair.

That list of stores on the website is not all correct. one said it was in Shinjuku prefecture, and hotel desk guy said it was about an hour and a half away. The second train ride took about 45 min.

Cheers

Dave

I think you underestimated the size of Japanese "prefectures"