Redpark Skyline museum has closed....

[Ant]

Just got back from a weeks holiday in Japan, catching up with a mate who teaches english in a small town about 100k north of Tokyo.

Thanks to the directions supplied by Demon Dave we went looking for the Redpark Skyline museum, which is supposed to be in Mitsukaido.

However we when got there we found one very empty ex-museum, according to the people in a shop in the same building the museum closed down in January this year. Which probably explains why the website for Redpark doesn't show an address, and is titled 'Virtual Museum'!

Thanks anyway for the directions Dave!

[Rezz]

AFAIK Dave went post-January...? Wierd...

[sewid]

I thought it was only ever open for parts of the year. Might be closed for good now though?

[Ant]

I thought it was only ever open for parts of the year. Might be closed for good now though?

I think that is the other Skyline museum, AFAIK down south somewhere in the mountains, probably snow closes it for part of the year? No idea what it is called - anyone know what/where this one is?

We saw where the museum was, it was partitioned off and empty behind the partitions, our Japanese speaking driver talked to the people who work in the flower shop next to it and they were pretty certain that it closed in January.

Yup, definitely a bit wierd as we stopped at the local council building to check the address (despite Dave's directions we drove past it about 3 times!) and they knew what and where it was, they didn't say it was closed.

In any case we found a car yard specialising in performance cars on the way back - a few GTR's, some late model RPS13's and heaps of Stageas (one a manual RS4 - they do exist!) so we got our fill of Skylines there instead!

[Demon Dave]

Nah, I went to the other (and better ) one in Nagano - they have (well, had) two branches - one in Ibaraki and another in Nagano, just north of Suwa (what a name) city Bit of a bugger, cause I just yesterday recommended one of my students to check out the musuem in Mitsukaido when he passes through Ibaraki today!

I wonder what happened to the R33 LM GTR they had there...

[Demon Dave]

BTW - glad my directions were of use, but sorry you weren't able to see the collection of cars at the musuem.

But, there is always the Nagano branch (which is more modern and has a nice collection of cars...) From Tokyo I guess it would be around 2, maybe 3, hours drive depending on how heavy the traffic (and your right foot) is

[Ant]

BTW - glad my directions were of use, but sorry you weren't able to see the collection of cars at the musuem.

But, there is always the Nagano branch (which is more modern and has a nice collection of cars...) From Tokyo I guess it would be around 2, maybe 3, hours drive depending on how heavy the traffic (and your right foot) is

Thanks again for the directions!

Unfortunately I'm back home in NZ now, unlikely to be heading up that way again any time soon. But I'll pass that info about the Nagano branch on to the guy I was staying with over there (he teaches English in Ibaraki, near Tamari village).