The Toyota AE86 Festival Is The Ultimate Hachiroku Fan's Pilgrimage

This overview of the AE86 Matsuri from Noriyaro shows a festival full of all kinds of Hachiroku

17 Jan 2018

If you’re really, really into the Toyota AE86, there’s one event you simply must go to: the ‘AE86 Matsuri’ (AE86 festival). Held at Tsukuba Circuit in the Kantō region of Japan since 2009, we doubt there’s anywhere else you’d find so many AE86s in one spot, nor quite such a variety.

As shown in this video from Noriyaro, there are drift cars, grip cars, bone stock cars and car that are, well…just a bit mad.

There’s plenty of on-track action for people to enjoy, and it seems everyone Alexi encounters is almost disarmingly friendly.

We need to get ourselves over to Tsukuba for the next one…

Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.

Comments

Does that mean i can finally get my tofu?

But you need to find the real car out of the hundred of replicas xD

*DEJA VU! IVE BEEN IN THIS PLACE BEFORE. HIGHER ON THE STREET! AND I KNOW ITS MY TIME TO GO!

Am I the only one who can hear music?

*hear

I love how chill and friendly the scene is on Japan 😍

Yeah!! The car culture, food, scenery, etc. Love 🇯🇵

… Where’s my damn ハチロク?

nani

The real question is

Can you bring an ae85?

H A H A TOFU AND EUROBEAT IS FUNNY HAHA RIGHT HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAA no