Daikoku Futo

Daikoku Futo is the Tokyo - Yokhama high speed street racer's pit stop. This rest stop is a crazy place thats ideal for showing off your car and meeting up with friends and drivers of similar machines.

Day or night on the weekends, you can often find a swarm of Fds, GT-Rs or NS-Xs lying around the car park, in amongst the VIP lexus LS400s, Vans full of stereo gear and the odd tuned Pajero. The odd fibreglass replicas are also here from the 70's with their tailpipes 3 meters in the air and 14"x14" inch rims covered by original 1970s slicks. It is quite a sight. Especially on 7's day.

Weekdays are reserved for the more serious runners with less cars out and about, you dont get bothered by any "Bosozoku" or other cruising cars.

It allows a start point for the Aqua Line or the Southern Route of the Wangan. Sections Koseki-san knows well.

As you wind up out of the carpark you head towards the Yokohama bridges and start grabbing more gears.
Some of the activities that happen here are quite strange. The art of "engine dancing" is one that must be seen to be believed. Select neutral, then rev your car and make it like a beat near the rev limiter, while guys dance around your car like a rave party with glowing battons to direct you. NUTS! You can also climb up on the viewing platform and watch the Street drifting that takes place out-side in the wee hours of the mornings.

This is also an engineering masterpiece. There is a skywalk that follows the coil style route down from the wangan about 150 meters above this place. You are litterally between two bridges in the middle of nowhere. A great place for any lover of cars. Yahoo Map

Day or night. There is always something here.

Russ.