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R's Meeting 2023 + Japan Recap - EP.41
R's Meeting 2023 + Japan Recap - EP.41
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About this episode
Bobby and Aaron share their experiences from a 14-day trip to Japan, highlighting their attendance at the R's Meeting and various adventures. Bobby recounts traveling with his daughter, the excitement of picking up a Skyline, and the challenges of navigating Japan's attractions, including Universal Studios and the Nismo factory. They discuss the impressive car culture, notable encounters with fellow enthusiasts, and the thrill of seeing rare vehicles. The episode wraps up with reflections on the trip's memorable moments and tips for future travelers.
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In this episode we chat about R's meeting at Fuji Speedway, and recap the Japan trip.
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Hey and welcome back to right hand drive guys. I'm Bobby. This is Aaron. Yeah, yo, and this is gonna be episode 41 for us and today we're gonna kind of cover
The Japan trip with ours meeting and you know, just some of the different things that ensued while I was across the pond. Yeah, yeah, for sure
soIt ended up being14 days that I was over there like like we kind of discussed andagain brought my daughter andthat in itself was kind of aChallenge in some ways and like a blessing in others, right, but overall for an 11-year-old she definitelykilled it over there andWe had a great time that soYeah, I mean
We we got over there and of course that like 13 and a half hour flight is likeTough yeah, so it didn't get any easier the flight. No, it actually just was just as hard and
We did get upgraded into business class, which is lay flat like we did on the way home last timeSo that was cool because she kind of got to seeYou know what the next level is compared to what she's ever experienced right and I definitely wasn't complainingYeah, no way because likeJapan Airlines when you get upgraded like that. That's like. Oh, it is literally next level. It is yeah
It's like you are like your royalty or something like you snap your fingers and there's like three different platters of food and like all the stuffThe food was crazy. Yeah, it was so good
I was like, you know, and it was a good like foreshadowing for her to see like what to expect there for a different type of foodYou know because right right is Japanese baseThat's what I was about to say because Japanese Airlines is based out of JapanWhere's like if you're flying American or united or whatever?
I don't think it's like that. No, you know, you they don't have bidais in their toilets. Yeah, no, no
They do on Japan. Yeah, it's in like just the small things like that. Yeah, it makes it well worth it
It's like it's preparing you to get there. Yeah
And when you get the lay flat and you can sleep six of the 13 hours that's likeObviously you get there a little refreshed even thoughSleeping on the plane like when you're gonna be dealing with jet lag definitely tough right right but soYeah, I mean we got there. We headed over to top rank where we picked up the skyline which was
You know exciting for me of course to get back in the saddle andYou know, we kind of just headed to our hotelWhere we were gonna be the next morning dropping the car off at show gun auto sportsAnd so they did a full paint correction and ceramic coating on the carFor two days so that it would be ready forR's meeting Disa. Yeah, so because what I thought
R's meeting was gonna be and as I'll describe it later we're kind of two different things soI mean, I didn't just do the ceramic coating for rs meetingI knew that it being storedAnd then what we experienced with the r34 GTTAs it comes over it gets left outside at port it gets you know, rainOh, right, you know, yeah, and then the pain of the GTT ended up being like almost like sandpaper when I got hereIt was crazy like it didn't just come right off like no it needed like a full polish again
Like it was decent when it was over there like yeah, when we saw it. I mean it definitely was did not have all of the water spots and all
Right, right that type of thing. It was wild. Yeah, and so I was like all right
Well, my as well. I have it done in Japan. Hopefully that will put a buffer in between the actual paint and whatever all of this
You know scum is that gets on the carAnd yeah, I think it definitely does because I like last year beforeScratch was built. I had to keep my car outside even though it was covered just you know the wind and dust and all that
UhWhenever I did bring it out to wash it for the first time there was like a layer of scum kind of like there was on the 34And it took two washes, but after that second wash it was back to its former glory like it was at the end of the seasonSo yeah, I think that stuff is definitely worth the cost. Yeah, especially if you're trying to
Protect something especially being at port and on a boat and at sea, so right. Yeah, yeah for sure
So yeah in our opinion this ceramic coating if you care about the car and it has nice paintYou might as well just suck it up and spend the money. I don't know what your guy charges
But you just spend the money and then you don't have to worry and then all the washings after that are meantYou know, so easy. I think sprays right off like yeah, I mean even like the black stuff on the back bumper
You know, sorbys like to get yeah, even that comes off pretty decent if you stay on top of it. Yeah, for sure
So yeah, we dropped it off at show gun hit the trains. We went to Osaka
That's the trains dude. Yeah. Oh, yeah, the slab. Yeah, I sent you the video
I taught my daughter how to slap the gates at the train station. Yeah
So we we went in we hit OsakaWe hit Nara, you know, fed the deer. We went to universal studios which
was insanely packed. It was a
uhThursday and it was every ride that was worth riding was 180 minutes, which is about three hours or moreHoly cow. Yeah, like it was like
Dude, I felt bad for my daughter because obviously it was leading up to that and then we get there and likeWe're not waiting three hours for one rideYeah, do that's like all day now and soSuper MarioUh, or Super Nintendo world which was like what she really want to go toLike we were like an hour after they open getting in the gate and you had to like schedule a time to go into Super Nintendo worldYeah, and the next time this is at 9.45 a.m
The next time is at 8.30 p.m
To be able to go in thereWhat? Yeah, so yes, so at this point, I was just like all right
Like I'm sorry girl, but this place isn't the juice is not worth the squeeze right now. We can't yeah
We we got 14 days sure that's a long time, but to spend you knowA whole half a day waiting for two rides can't do it. Let's keep it moving
So we kept it moving and like I said we went to Nara and then explored Osaka a bit and umYou know how to really cool Airbnb out there, butAt this point it was like kind of time to start making our way back to pick up the car at showGun on Friday. Yeah
which we did andAnd so then we got settled in because it had been a long day of travel and the next morning we met up withLike five or six guys from Coloradobecause they were all going toR's meeting as well. Yeah one of the guys dust and shout out dust and he
listens to the podcast andIs a big supporter and he was like hey, we're gonna be over here. There's a bunch of us want why don't you guys meet up with us?
He also has a daughter that he brought to Japan on his last tripSo he gave me some suggestions on kind of how to navigate with a child and whatnotSo yeah, that was coolAnd then also he was sensitive to the fact that I had my daughter with meSo everybody kind of kept it like PG which was dope. Yeah, that's cool
You know you get with a group of guys and sometimes the f bombs in the sYou know and all these things start flying but yeah, everybody was really cool about itSo we met up and there's like a midnight purple 34base-eye blue V-spect to aFord or GTT just likeThat this was dust and it was just like a beast like you know everybody else's car was kind of you know kind of quiet becauseWe all go through shuck in right and like GTR guys right? Yeah, yeah, yeah
We don't have but his sounded likeJust when he hit that throttle it was just like allJust raw like I was just like is that an rb25 in there likeAnd that thing sounds just like beast, but yeah, I've ever seen pictures and videos of it. That was probably like
Definitely a cool car. I was into it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He did a good job and
But then we also had another base GTR white V-spect soLike I said like five or six of us and thenDeowner of Rev hard was out there. He had a pro box
He's like chasing us all down like is he you know, he's the importer guy right?
So all of his money goes to like turning over the cars and like making everybody else's dreams come trueSo he's over there working. Yes, he was yeah, he was in the in the rental and his partner
Who is the Japanese side of it who is there?
He had a McLaren so that was cool. It just kind of broke up all the GTRs would like him McLaren
So we met up and we went to the Nismo and Mari factoryWhich we missed last time so that was cool to be able to go andIt was like really sick because we got there like right when it opened andIt was like maybe six or seven other people there, but like nobody would GTRs or anything. Yeah, and
It was like crazy like no one parked andOn this whole one side of the building where the famous little Nismo sign is and everythingAnd so we all got to park there and as we're rolling in there's like five people taking videos of us getting different anglesYeah, it was like it felt like you know like you're celebrity or something rolling in there, you know, but it's just 34 is rolling into a Mari factoryYeah, it was like pretty legit. I'd have my phone out. Yeah
And so they like parked us all in like a row and everything and that's sick so we got to look around and you knowOf course the Penns oil and calsonic cars were inside the Mari factory along with that Mold tool 35 and that was really cool to be able to see and thenRev hard had a customer who was getting I believe a CRS done soThat it was a midnight purple 34 and it was in the shop as we're thereSo that was cool from the villa point out like hey, this is my customer's car. This is what he ordered and
Just to see all of the rest of the vehicles in there too was really cool. Yeah, you know, and so
This was the day beforeThe actual meet so then we cruised over to Fuji which was like, you know a couple hours and we just you know took termsRipping and you know having some funand made it over toThe Fuji Speedway hotel. Yeah, that was like that was the coolest like I mean, I've been in like really really fancy hotels
But like none of them geared towards likeYou know my thing so to speak and this was like a really really fancy hotel gear towards my thingSo it was like the best hotel I've ever been right because Fuji's been there a while like the speedway yeah decades right rightBut the hotel is fairly new. I think it was probably since covid right yeah
It was it's less than one year old right yeah, that's sick. So everything is like top notch like yes
It's clean and perfect and like nothing's broken the amenities were crazy man likeThere was just so much stuff in the room that was like free that was branded and like just likeYeah, everything was brand new like you could do anything with the touch of these buttons like whether it was open theShades the lights you know everything like that. So so did you say on the trackside or the Fuji side the trackside
soI originally I didn't have a room thereI went to book it and it said that they were all full and I was like oh manSo I booked a hotel 20 minutes away on like Lake Yamamoto or something and soWe're like in the lobby because I'm with all the Colorado guys. We were downstairs cleaning our cars and stuff getting them ready for
For the next day and I was saying bye to him. I'm like all right, you know. I'm gonna get her back whatever and
This this due name Kenden was likeHey, dude actually I have a spare room. I had booked three and I only ended up needing to like you want this other room and I'm like
Yes, absolutely dude because I don't want to have toLeave my hotel super early, you know parkside and because what was super dope was that Fuji Speedway hotel they haveIn underground parking garage. Oh, okay. Yeah, I remember you posting. Yeah, so you can imagine there's
Just everything dude. There's three are 35 Nismos all park next to each other. There's there's a Tommy Chiara
32 there's a bunch of V-Spec 2s like this parking garage has likeMillions of dollars worth of cars and then just chilling likeLike I when I posted pictures a bunch of people were like what meat is that right? Whatever and I'm like, no, do that's just the part
No, bro. This is a little keen to yeah, this is yeah, this is the little keen to me. Yeah, no, this is a Nashville
Yeah, that's sick though becauseObviously everyone that was going to the show with the sickest cars and stuff. We're staying there. Yeah, yeah if you could get
The room you were definitely staying there and and like yeah the next morning it made it super convenient to literallyDrive like 500 feet and be at the gate. Yeah
So umSo yeah, we kind of got so then Bella and I went down to the museumThe other guys are gonna do it the next day. We just went and did our thing went to the museum. Yeah, it's a
Three floorsThey have cars and bikes and pretty much everything or just cars just cars. I didn't really see any bikes
But yeah, I mean they had all kinds of cool cars. They had the hks 32 over there
They had like some really coolRally art evosThey had some jgtc cars. Yeah, yeah
And they may have actually been jgcc like that original one that the r32 is inBut they were a bunch of really cool cars like that some even older likeThey had one that Ford built as a race car like a model t race car type thing, you knowYeah, it was like it is wild but get that out of here. Yeah, it was it was really cool for
Bella to be able to kind of see like how things progressed because they had it from old to new. Yeah, yeah, that's super cool
and yeah, likeDude, yeah, that's yeah, it wasI mean, it wasn't like overly huge. It's like basically like
these like circlesAround an escalator type thing like but it there was like a solid 20 something cars thereSo it's decent. Yeah, that I was just like wow that it was cool. They had like a
Car elevator in there, you know that like brought the cars up and stuffI wonder how often they like rotate theirOr if they do that I think they do because when they first I saw picturesThat somebody posted the other dayThat were from when it first opened and there was like quite a few different cars in thereYeah, so they must come on loan first certain like period of time that's agreed upon and get swapped out with something elseIt's coming in next right. That's pretty sweet
soAt this point, you know like yeah, it's been a long dayHit the sack get ready for the next morninguhBella fell asleep I went down and hung out with those guys again because two of them were in an actual booth. Yeah
and soThey were really cleaning their cars so I just got to know them a little bit better while they were doing that and stuffYeah, and then the next morningWe all met up down in for breakfast had breakfastGet in the parking garage and head over to ours meetingAnd like I said I thought like ours meeting was gonna be more of a meat yeahThen like a kind of like a show so to speak in the sense of I thought like it was kind of gonna be
A bunch ofOur cars, you knowAll in like these big parking lot type things with like maybe vendors like around it or whatever right on and then there was a special section for like theGallery or whatever they would call it yeah, butThat wasn't it like theThere was the vendors in the gallery and that's up in Fuji like in the centerbut the
LikeRest of us were all parked like in these other parking lots with just a bunch of different cars, you knowI mean there was definitelyhundreds ofLike GTRs and and whatever else in the parking lot yeah so many it was unbelievable like it probably would have taken68 hours just to look around all these cars like there was four huge parking lots just full of them like just full and thenYou know other cars that like spectators brought kind of mixed in but right so that was like the kind of the bummer for me because I had to choose like there wasn't like a
Like I couldn't see the parking lot cars and do the whole right, you know actual event so because I'm sure the parking lot yeahStacked up with cool stuff that didn't get into the show not even GTRs, right? Yeah, yeah, just other stuff too. Yeah like everything that you could think of and
High aces and all yeah, like but you you couldn't like you either had to sign up for the gallery way in advanceWhere that was it, you know and a lot of people like myself included justDidn't sign up for the gallery, right? Like and so
umWe were there right for the gate open andFew guys in our group like made sure to let us know that they were gonna have a sticker forLike it's like an annual sticker every year and it's limited in its first come first serveSo we went straight to that boothing like got those stickers and made sure that because I mean that's like commemorative toTo the experience soWe did that and then yeah, we likeTrotted around and there was so much stuff to look at it was like kind of mind blowing, you know all of the
All of the iconic brands were there of course andYou know global brought their 400 r and c-tune and that was a bigdraw becauseThat's a z-tune yeah, and 400 or I didn't realize the z-tunes were likeKind of like thisNot mysterious, but like they don't know how many they made right right something like that and they don't know how manyGot out to actual buyers and right there's it's a very small amount yet and it's like a
Number that is like, you know, whatever 20 to 20 to you know, it's like rightThey really don't know in a lot of them not a lot, but a few are off the radar to the point where registries don't even know where they areYeah, which is wild yeah, and so z-tune number 18Which the owner of global auto owns was thereAnd then I think it was 400 r number. I don't know. It was a low number, but he also owns that so
Brayden was there yeah running around doing his thing, but yeah, I mean top secret was there mines was thereJune was therelike so many of these likeGarage, Yoshida and built by legends was there they hadTo their two new r34s. They just got done then they had an r32 on the rotisserie
Which is the first that they created their own color for ohAnd it's a narrow blue yeah, and it was a pretty cool blue. It's like a darker blue
And so it was cool to seeJust the process to that point where they had all the sound deadening in and like all that type of thingI remember seeing pictures as that thing and it was likekind of mind blowing just howStraight and clean and likePerfect it was like that thing is perfect. Yeah, no, they they do a great job
Down to putting their own plate on it to like commemorate that theyYou knowThis is the one of the first one, you know, right especially in that color. So I mean it was cool to see them and of course
Um, all the companies are kind of given away stickers and little swag bags and all that type of stuffumThey had a big stage up there where they would they kept bringing guys up there toKind of talk and be interviewed which was really cool um, we saw a catchy shoe up there. Yeah, and he was
Just you know, he's in his race suit like you know, he's is he's just out there. He never takes that thing off to that green race
So you can you notice it and he's like so old that likeIt's sweet because he still has a sense of humorStill like has a love for it like you can tell by the way he is justLike always trying to make the other guys on stage laugh like he's always cracking the jokes, you knowEspecially again at that age when you've been there done that yeah, he still has that excitement for itWhich is like inspiring right and dude's like definitely into it like I've seen other
People have experiences with him where he'll come over and check out their car at an event and like ask them questions about it and you knowJust chop it up with him and likeHe's the man. Yeah, he's like
Decay dude. He's drift king. Yeah literally he is. Yeah, imagine just chilling in a paddock and dude walking up to your car
Just checking it out and then asking some simple questions about it like that would blow my mind or one up a guy that I know andFrom Instagram and then actually get to meet at ours meaning named Jesse Wooji. He's a
He's a navy colonel. Yeah, and he's into this stuff pretty hard. He's got an R34 over there
Tashia actually ends up driving his car takes because this guyIt is not only a colonel in in the navy, but is it in the NASCARInfinity series or X-Finity series? Yeah, so he's a NASCAR driver
And so he's in his suit, you know his like whatever and good yearYeah, and so Tashia takes him for multiple lap run in his own carAnd drifts every corner of Fuji speedway in dudes own carThat is you imagine likeYeah, dude like he like bucket list to the max. Yeah like in the knees, you know, sign dudes car and
The owner mind signs dudes car and that is so sick. Yeah, how did that even get lined up?
I don't know, but like good for him dude. That is so cool. Yeah, um, and so
You know all of these guys I've mentioned were there smoking a gato was there like it wasdefinitelyIf you're like an R owner, right like it's definitely the pinnacle like for sure. I'm glad I was able to check it off
But as the day went on, you know like it's a ton of walking yeah like because it's in the center of the speedway like I saidsoYou have to walk like in this crazy tunnel underneath the speedway. Yeah, yeah
It's pretty wild how they have it set up. It's like a it's an amazing place
Right race tracks are huge. Yeah, they really are they are he huge dude
They might only be like a whatever two mile circuit, but everything around that and all the infrastructure and how to get to from one side to another like is wildIt is a lot. Yeah, and so
We did go up in the stands, which the stands wereSuper cool like it's a really nice setup. They have a ton of lights like for at nighttime and stuff and so you know
They were doing differentLike kind of times that you could be on the track depending on what car you had yeahAnd so we went out there for when the R35s were out thereOh, wow Lee moly do you hope you had your air plugs? No, I wish we did because these cars were so
Wow dude like there was just one that when it went by it like shook the place and I'm just likeWhat would it be like in a real rate like what's it like when a real real race is going on? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Like with race race cars like it must just be crazy. Yeah, so you know to be able to experience that even if it was just
Kind of for fun was was a cool thing to see yeahBut yeah, the the day kind of ended andThis at this point we separated from the Colorado guys asWe were headed to a different hotel for our plans the next day, butWe made sure to stop at the gate of Fuji, which I got I got a little flack for on IG for hard parking in front of FujiBut dude I had to do it everyone does it yeah, I know that's the it's just like a
It's another bucket list thing. It's like 12 lanes wide or something really is sick
Is enough room like yeah, no the guy get his pick. I know everyone everyone was doing and yeah
They're just mad they're not there. I know and and it was just like a bucket list thing right like I have that picture for whatever
I would want to do for it, but likeFor me personally, it's like yeah, it's just a memory of like that certain occasionSo yeah, I meanThat was kind of the pinnacle of the trip when it comes to the car stuffYou know we at that point went to Nogano hit the98sNogano Olympics area and checked out some of that stuffUh, I was like 13 when that popped off so like
It was really kind of a big deal back then because I was in the winter sports. Yeah, yeah
So we checked that out and you know saw the mountains and everythingAnd at that pointKind of headed back to TokyoWe did the Disney thingBella had a blastAnd then we met up with Albo for a dayOh nice yeah, and soWe were originally gonna go to gunman do some initial D stuff, butJust where we were it just didn't make sense. So we ended up meeting up in Hacone and
There is a tree top experience there. Yeah, and so
We were trying to do something a little different than just driving just cars becauseBella has had already been in the car for whatever get me out of the same life for like quite a whileUm, so we did the tree top experience and that was different for meI'm normally not a huge fan of heights and these things go like 50 or 60 feet up in the air like crazy like it wasLike you didn't look down you just focus on what you're doing, but uh, you know they had
umThe zip lines and a bunch of obstacles while you're up in the trees that you like kind of went over and it definitelyLet you know that you hadn't worked out. Yeah, like for sure like I was like soar the next day
Um, but then we went and we took some Hacone drives. We hit the toge
He showed me different sides of the toge than we did last time. Yeah, that's cool
We were able to catch the sunset um on the mountain and get some really cool videos and pictures of the car. Yeah
And then we actually got to go back to albo's houseWhich was cool like it was a little bit more like you know personalUh, and we hung out with him at his house. He showed us his studio and stuff like that
Uh, and then at that point like it had been a long daySo we kind of headed out time like really food by uh, that day. It does with albo. Yeah, it really does
Um, you can pack in a full day for sure. Yeah, and so
uh, we um headed back to our hotel and umThe next day we kind of just took it easy and then because we knew the following dayWe were meeting up with Massey and so if you don't know who Massey is he's a photographer in TokyoWho um has a motorcycle? Well, it used to be a Harley now. It's a can-am and
He has totalFour cameras on the motorcycle. Yeah, and so he takes like
Super high quality video and then takes pictures out of that video andSo we decided we're gonna do the C1 loop and uh, focus on rainbow bridge. Yeah, and so
That was a really cool experience just seeing how he does things like you know just seeing like the whole process was really coolRight, right. Is he like radioing you like telling where to be and stuff? Yeah, it's pretty sick
Yeah, you have like a headset on and he's likeTelling you to slow down speed up like keep that speed and after like it was a little tough at first and I felt like I was likeSucking at it, but likeThen I got used to like where he was telling me to be and likeFigured out where the camera was in relation to that rightAnd then I kept the camera right there and it ended up working out a lot better than trying to just operate off him saying faster slower fasterYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
But so this is his hobby. He has like a
Normal quote unquote normal job. He just really enjoys doing this. Yeah, and he's shot hundreds of cars
And then bikes as well and so this took about seven hoursHoly cow, that's all day. Yeah hundreds of kilometers on the car hundreds
Yeah, Bella was not enthused by the end of itBecause she's like dude, he said that this was the last one the last three times and we're still doing thisAnd I'm like listen, we just need to get these shots because I know it'll be worth it. Yeah, yeah
You know, he would stop after every loop around C1 he would we would stop and at the tatami plaza and he would show meLike last runs pictures and so when he shows the pictures, Bella was like, oh wowThat's what we're doing likeI see okay, I get it this still sucks, but I get it you know like type thing soYeah, that was a really cool dayum, and so we did that and then we went out toDaikoku which we had also done the night before and
Yeah, we just you know checked out the cars and tell everything got shut downAnd then once it did get shut downWe went and found some conveyor belt sushiYeah, and so you know how many plates you put away 12 I put down 12 plates. Yeah, that's a good number
Yeah, if it didn't feel like a good number after the fact because it was a little too much, you know, but like still cool like still totally coolAnd so yeah, I mean we we did a lot other a few other little thingsBella had a friend who she's been friends with over the internet in homeschool for like a yearAnd she they finally got to meet so one of our days was consumed by them kind of meeting up and
Running around a mall and like kind of doing their thing. Yeah, that's cool. So that was cool
We we hit Daikoku one more time just to see what we could find out thereWe met up with Massey there and he gave me these beautiful prints ofUm that he took no way already had prints. Oh, yeah, he stayed up the whole night
In the whole next day editing all of the everything I got 120 pictures likeMore videos than I can kind of do it is motivated. Yeah, he's a beast. He is a beast. He's an extremely
Extremely cool guy. Yeah, yeah, just like very calm collected like
knows how to work with youSo yeah, he really took care of me and he gave me six prints and one of them is likeHuge John even know what the size is but it was it's like poster size. Yeah, so it was like really cool to
Kind of meet back up with him and have him kind of present them to me and he's proud as he was of them and me to be as excited as I was for themyeahandSo you know at this point we're pretty much atThe end of the trip we wanted to make sure we hit mines and top secretumSo we went down to mines which is kind of in southern like the southWestern side of Tokyo and
That was a nice place. It was a little smaller than I thought but it was like a really nice place like most of these places are right right
Um and at that pointThere was no way we were gonna make it to top secret unfortunatelyYeah, that's on the north end in Chiba in it right so the exact opposite side and I still needed this is a crazy thingA buddy of ours had asked me to find him some MPB the umThe Japanese baseball hats yeah, you cannot find them dude. It was
Crazy how hard I had to look because they're sold out or they just don't sell they it's not a thing like they don't sellYeah, like I guess it used to be and then the emergence of likeUSSportswear over there like took over and nowPretty much adults don't wear anything but US baseball team hats or don't wear hats that's strange dudeOnly kids wear the nbp hats
That is so weird. Yes, because like yeah whenever I was over there like you would see everyone with like a new york hat or LA
You go to donkey hote and they have just like stacks of new era. Yeah, like
I went to three donkey hote is trying to find them. What so that is so weird
I know and they even used to have a store on the front side of the Tokyo dome that sold all of that stuffBut they got rid of itYeah, so I had to go to this place called selectionsup by it is up in Shinjuku yeah and umI found them there and I got them but it kind of took us way out of our way about an hour and a half out of our wayYeah, to get the hats, but I told my do it so I was gonna do itum andWe kind of we at that point we went to our
Last air bnb. Yeah, and kind of we're getting prepped to fly out
andso we goum and we drop off the car at top rank pdiandI got to meet yasca who is likeThe man over there when it comes to GTRs at top rank. Yeah, he's like he's been doing
GTR stuff for over 20 years. He worked at multiple tuning shops like he
He was very wise like you could tell he was like the man. Yeah, yeah, yeah
He knew what was up. Yeah, and so you know, I get to chat with them for a solid 45 minutes to an hour and then
instead of going through the whole uh train to baco that we went through on our last trip. Yeah
I sucked it up and I just caught a taxi becauseWe had collected quite a few souvenirs and just different stuff at that point and the bag was extremely heavy for BellaYeah, yeah, so you know, you get a little girl out there carrying a heavy bag and it's just likeNot happening, you know, this is not happening so to avoid all that we just jumped in the taxiYeah, um and that kind ofConcluded our tripThere was obviously some other small things here and there, you know, throughout the trip that we're cool, but for the most part
That's how it all went down anduhTo end it though we get off the plane to go through customs. Yeah, and Bella lost her passport
I'm like dude, I start for wreaking out. I'm like no, no, no, no, no, no like this isn't not what we're doing
We need to make it through there like we can't not like we're home like we live here, you knowLuckily like they some people saw me kind of like rifling through my bag and stuff and they're like heyAnd they go back on the plane and it was like in this little crevice and they found it and we were able to get throughNo problem, but like it was like awesome trip, but then right at the end. It's like heart drop like oh wait like I swear
This is my kid. I'm not trafficking her
I don't want to try to get it like you know, but um it's good lesson. Yeah overall. Yeah, never let her handle her own passport
Got itBut overall great time definitely thankful to be able to do itUm, and if you got any questions about Japan or you know getting over there getting around there anything like thatI mean we're not professionals, but we at least got a little experience and maybe save you some hassles that we went throughYeah, yeah during our trip andIf you haven't checked it out we got merch hit the link in our IG, which is at our HD
GUIS and for episode 41 I'm Bobby. This is Aaron. See ya. Peace
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