Japan Drift Matsuri Dates, Who Wants To Come With Me?

Okay CTzens, the time has come for the Japan Drift Matsuri dates to be released. I will hopefully be going to all 3 this year and getting some awesome photos and videos for everyone to watch and lose their minds over.

Okay CTzens, the time has come for the Japan Drift Matsuri dates to be released. I will hopefully be going to all 3 this year and getting some awesome photos and videos for everyone to watch and lose their minds over. Now I am extending this offer to anyone that is reading, you can come with me to Japan!

You can either buy a drift car and i’ll give you some lessons while we’re out there and we’ll run some drift sessions.
You can come and be a spectator and watch during the Matsuri weekend and get free rides with everyone.
You can just come and spend rad times with awesome people who love to drift.

Theme Park for Cars

7 different tracks in one compound
7 different tracks in one compound

From my last 2 adventures out in Japan it will be around £1,500 for flights, accommodation, money to buy awesome bento boxes, track entry, just general money. However this depends on the exchange rate at the time as well. This is NOT INCLUDING the stuff you need to buy for your drift car, add another £1,000 for tyres and fuel and repairs (Don’t go on the School course). All of these numbers are approximations and should be taken with a bit of salt, there is no “set” price, you just have to be smart with your money.

Drifters Lodge

Run by Powervehicles
Run by Powervehicles

This is where we’ll be staying The Drifters Lodge which is run by Powervehicles. Literally a house full of about 30 people who all drift together during the day, go to the local Japanese town and get dinner and then chill out during the night. You get to meet awesome people from all over the world: Strayans, Kiwi’s, Americans, Europeans, and ME!

Ebisu Circuit & Tohoku Safari Park

Entrance to the greatest place on earth
Entrance to the greatest place on earth

For those of you that don’t know what the Drift Matsuri is, it is a 36-hour, non-stop drift festival where you can drift on all of the tracks, including the 2 grip courses which are normally not open for drifting (160 km/h entries anyone?). Last time we were there, we were drifting until 3am on Minami and had the whole track to ourselves, just doing donuts and 360 drifts (Nobody tell Andy that, he’ll tell me off again). Did I forget to mention that there is a ZOO here as well? As in lion’s and llamas and monkeys and AHHHH. Plus they bring out the baby Lion for you to play with during the hot days (OMG the next one is in spring, spring is hot, right?).

Andy Gray vs Daigo Saito

Smokemachines much
Smokemachines much

Get rides with anyone including professional drifters. Last year a lot of awesome drifters came down; Daigo Saito, Robbie Nishida and so many more that I can’t remember off the top of my head. Then there’s drift teams that come down as well, Team Orange, Team Liberal & Teams from Australia like Hit & Run.

But we all know the one you really want to go with is Milky Diamonds!

Go Milky Go Milky Go!
Go Milky Go Milky Go!

G1GP Competition

1st) Brenden Mansfield 2nd) Ken Leong 3rd) Chris DeJager
1st) Brenden Mansfield 2nd) Ken Leong 3rd) Chris DeJager

The day before the Matsuri the competition also takes place. The G1GP (Gaijin Grand Prix) a foreigners only drifting competition which I compete in (Only person from the UK! Wooooo!). It’s an awesome experience, it is all for fun and it can really improve your drifting. There are some REALLY good Australian drifters who come down and compete, it really is fun to watch them go for it. For those who noticed, that is Alexi from Noriyaro who pretty much runs it on the mic. We also play Japanese rock, paper, scissors with EVERYONE and the winners get free goodies from tires to t-shirts.

Freshly Baked Donuts
Freshly Baked Donuts

The main purpose of the event is to have fun! I’ve made this today just to inform everyone of when the events take place during the year and that I am more than happy to make CTzens dreams come true and take them around Japan drifting. If you’re lucky i’ll take you around Tokyo as well, imagine London but everything is ramped up to 100.

The things you need to know around £1,500 for the whole trip without a drift car, with a drift car it’ll be around £2,500 (extra £1,000 for tires and fuel). You also need to consider the price of the drift car which is around £3,000 for a non-missile (but missiles are cheaper). I will be posting a detailed how-to blog post in the coming weeks on exactly what to do and how I done it for anyone who can’t make the matsuri dates. For now take a look on Powervehicles to find out what drift cars they have in stock to see what you may potentially buy. DRIFT CARS

I will give you the exact dates I am going for the Spring Matsuri soon. It should hopefully be around 2 weeks in Japan, so start saving CTzens, this is one you don’t want to miss!

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Comments

Lomitos

Me want to but me no money :-(

01/12/2016 - 19:01 |
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Milky Diamonds

In reply to by Lomitos

Then you save monies

01/12/2016 - 19:01 |
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Willgud

Oh my god, a drift Matsuri would be like a heavenly christmas for me, I wanna go so badly :( How much would a drift ready car cost? Like a JZX90/JZX100 or Laurel. Just curious :)

01/12/2016 - 20:01 |
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Milky Diamonds

In reply to by Willgud

You can find a missile for around 400,000 yen and a non-missile for around 600,000 yen.

01/12/2016 - 21:01 |
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Nissan 420sx

OKAY I REALLY WANT TO DO THIS
but i have no money cries maybe next year… It would be so great if you could show me how to drift

01/12/2016 - 20:21 |
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I’ll make a post soon on how I learn’t to drift.

01/12/2016 - 20:57 |
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Anonymous

I’ll no doubt be at the Spring or Autumn one. Screw going to the summer one again, too hot.

01/12/2016 - 21:06 |
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Milky Diamonds

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Awesome I’ll see you there Peter! I’m still gonna try summer even though my car has no aircon.

01/12/2016 - 21:10 |
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McNuggetBandit

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

You get used too the heat after the 2nd time around! plus summer is more likely to be dry (not to mention some awesome festivals to hit up, Nebuta festival up in Aomori is one of my favorites and is the week before (2nd to 7th of august)

01/12/2016 - 22:20 |
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McNuggetBandit

I’m heading over for the summer matsuri from New Zealand so ill see you guys there!

01/12/2016 - 21:10 |
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Yes! I met this group of Kiwi guys when I was over there for autumn, awesome group of guys.

01/12/2016 - 21:31 |
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miatafanover9000

how big is your suitcase? im not that big and weigh 55 kilos

01/12/2016 - 21:16 |
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I have to change flights, half-way through, even if I didn’t have to do that I take a small suitcase cause I have to travel for 3-4 hours from the airport to the drift track.

01/12/2016 - 21:30 |
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Adnan Ebrahim

Can confirm there is a big ass lion and multiple tigers chilling outside the beginner’s track. Scared me sh!tless

01/12/2016 - 21:24 |
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Pretty weird, apparently all the animals are used to the drifting now so I can’t even say they’re more scared of you, than you them.

01/12/2016 - 21:28 |
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01/12/2016 - 21:46 |
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Mr.Roberts

“Come with me to Japan” he says after i committed to a house last week and is now stuck with $2800 a month mortgage. Y U DO DIS?????

01/12/2016 - 21:59 |
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Ahhhhhh no way! I’m so sorry! I was meant to put this up last week as well but just didn’t get round to it. Would this have actually swayed your decision?

01/12/2016 - 22:04 |
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Anonymous

Hey bro will be there for spring, gonna do matsuri and the week after instead this time. Just booking flights ATM. Can’t wait!!!

01/12/2016 - 23:19 |
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Milky Diamonds

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

YES Riki, you joined! Awesome! I’m also gonna do the week after as well, I want to do the week before and the week after. I think that will be the perfect balance, well when all the guys are set we should all talk to Andy together for a room at the Lodge, he’ll hook us up cause he loves us!

01/12/2016 - 23:27 |
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Nissan 420sx

Hey Milky Diamonds, I have a question. Can you tell me what a paisa drift is? Saw this a few days ago.

01/16/2016 - 11:58 |
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It looks like a Los Angeles based drift event

01/16/2016 - 23:09 |
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