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| Posted by: ZenkaiRacerEG Mar 11 2003, 03:37 AM |
| Are the race locations such as Mt. Akina real? If so whereabouts are they located in japan? EDIT BY NOMAKE WAN: Yes they are, and here's where to find lots of pics of the real-life locations! http://gallery.tsukaeru.jp/ |
| Posted by: RyousukeT. Mar 11 2003, 06:50 AM |
| yes they are real mountains and there are maps ill look to see i think i might have some pics or maps somewhere on my pc. but im sure others have em too |
| Posted by: KenshinX Mar 11 2003, 10:18 AM |
| Well, on the Initial D World home page, there is a real life map of Akina if that counts....... I would assume that most, if not all the race locations are real. After all, ID takes place in Gunma prefecture and the locations are based off from that. And the fact is that Gunma prefecture does indeed exist in Japan. I've seen a pic of the actual Fujiwara Tofu shop before. |
| Posted by: |[ .tainted. ]| Mar 11 2003, 10:49 AM |
| yeah, the mountain passes are real... mt. akina and c-121 i've seen pictures of... i didn't manage to save it before... actually i was searching for the pictures again and that's how i ended up here in go2initiald  |
| Posted by: ImprezaSTi27 Mar 11 2003, 11:05 AM |
| The animators went to the mountain passes and took pictures of key distinguishing locations and characteristics of each mountain pass so that they could put them in the anime. Alex |
| Posted by: Jayson Mar 11 2003, 12:23 PM |
| There was a thread on here that had all the pics from every mountain they raced on. Start looking |
| Posted by: karasac Mar 11 2003, 12:30 PM |
| for those of u that dont know how to use the search, or r just too lazy here ya go: http://www.h2.dion.ne.jp/~eg9/gallery.htm i think ill pin this one |
| Posted by: *Capsulesâ„¢* Mar 11 2003, 07:14 PM |
I seen these before. It's pretty cool to see that they are the samething as in the anime.  It's Crazy.  |
| Posted by: ZenkaiRacerEG Mar 11 2003, 08:15 PM |
| I see, thats cool. Do people actually gather and race at those locations? |
| Posted by: *Capsulesâ„¢* Mar 11 2003, 09:04 PM |
I was wondering the samething.  |
| Posted by: ZenkaiRacerEG Mar 12 2003, 12:52 AM |
| Ive been looking up stuff on the area and wonder if akina was renamed haruna? Also is haruna lake the lake that Itsuki falls into after the failed attempt to kiss Saori in the boat? |
| Posted by: *Capsulesâ„¢* Mar 12 2003, 12:25 PM |
| I think that is the same lake . . . hehe boats and all. Akina = Haruna you say? I gotta do some research. |
| Posted by: karasac Mar 12 2003, 03:50 PM | ||
haruna? u get that from a battle gear site? |
| Posted by: ZenkaiRacerEG Mar 12 2003, 10:58 PM |
| No, from maps. Akina is named Haruna on all the maps Ive seen. |
| Posted by: karasac Mar 12 2003, 11:02 PM |
| well then i have no idea |
| Posted by: Jayson Mar 13 2003, 11:12 PM |
| I would race there! |
| Posted by: ImprezaSTi27 Mar 14 2003, 01:26 AM |
| People race on these mountain passes all the time. The police are actually pretty lax about it, I guess there's some "understanding" that as long as the racers keep it to late nights when the roads aren't really used then it's okay and they won't harass. Alex |
| Posted by: ZenkaiRacerEG Mar 14 2003, 01:46 AM |
| Kick ass! If I get stationed in japan I will definetly make it there to race. |
| Posted by: Jayson Mar 14 2003, 10:56 AM |
| Stationed? |
| Posted by: alikax Mar 14 2003, 11:51 AM |
| military? if japan you'll probably end up in Okinawa, alot of my military friends came from there, pretty cool drift scene, I'd like to go! |
| Posted by: Jayson Mar 14 2003, 11:59 AM |
military=boo  |
| Posted by: alikax Mar 14 2003, 12:27 PM |
| military + young ppl = brainwashed killers |
| Posted by: Jayson Mar 14 2003, 12:35 PM |
| BOOOO! |
| Posted by: ]{aya Mar 14 2003, 06:51 PM |
i want to go to mount Akina one day ...like muslism(sp?) go to the Mecque 
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| Posted by: ZenkaiRacerEG Mar 14 2003, 07:24 PM |
| Im going into the Air Force. Definetly not a killer here. I would really like to get stationed at Yokota Air Base thats near Tokyo, but Im sure Ill probably go to Okinawa before Yokota though. Either way it would be cool since theres a racing scene in both places. |
| Posted by: Jayson Mar 15 2003, 08:55 PM |
| Mang, just go there then, no need to join the airforce |
| Posted by: killerenergy Mar 15 2003, 10:13 PM | ||
Young people brainwashed killers? The military is so sensitive about feelings now, I don't think so.  Reasons to join the military, especialy the Air Force, is free edection and with the air force you get a free ride as really only ploits see danger. Do good on the Air force academics test and you got it made. Plus with from houseing you're dodgeing the bullet on Huge cost of liveing in Japan. Ths prices at the Base store are so loww... Sorry, but I too am planing to join the air force.
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| Posted by: Jayson Mar 15 2003, 10:39 PM |
| First you but the Probe, and now the Military. Could I hate you anymore? |
| Posted by: killerenergy Mar 15 2003, 11:03 PM |
| Yeah if I stole your rx-7... |
| Posted by: Jayson Mar 15 2003, 11:07 PM |
| I wouldn't call hate really, because I'd be happy to kill you then |
| Posted by: killerenergy Mar 15 2003, 11:10 PM |
Ok then I got nothing else to say...  |
| Posted by: Jayson Mar 15 2003, 11:13 PM |
| Sure you do. You can say, "I'm going to sell my Probe and get a real mans car, and I won't join the Air Force." |
| Posted by: S15-guy Mar 15 2003, 11:35 PM |
| Jayson = Online Dr Phil |
| Posted by: Jayson Mar 15 2003, 11:39 PM |
| That means I should be getting $$$ for my services |
| Posted by: killerenergy Mar 15 2003, 11:54 PM |
| Dude knock it off, if you wanna rip on my car do it in the other topic |
| Posted by: Jayson Mar 15 2003, 11:57 PM |
| Don't get mad at me, I'm not the one who purchased it |
| Posted by: killerenergy Mar 15 2003, 11:58 PM |
| I'm not I'm just sayin if you wanna rip on it go to the topic on it no need to bring it here. |
| Posted by: Jayson Mar 16 2003, 12:02 AM |
| thats no fun though |
| Posted by: *Capsulesâ„¢* Mar 16 2003, 09:33 AM |
| Ford Probe? Now I can see why you really want to steal Jayson's car. |
| Posted by: Jayson Mar 16 2003, 10:55 AM |
| I can't blame him really |
| Posted by: killerenergy Mar 16 2003, 06:15 PM |
| Just wait until I get a Lan Evo, and a job, then you'll see... |
| Posted by: Jayson Mar 16 2003, 08:17 PM |
| FD>LanEVO |
| Posted by: Guest Mar 17 2003, 11:28 AM |
| maybe with a 20b you say your getting... Nothing can match it's awesome power in the rally. Ah j/k rambleing on... |
| Posted by: killerenergy Mar 17 2003, 11:29 AM |
| me^ |
| Posted by: *Capsulesâ„¢* Mar 17 2003, 04:33 PM | ||
With or Without 20B. |
| Posted by: Jayson Mar 23 2003, 08:41 PM |
| FD>EVO, and thats IN rally! Only reason FDs don't rally is because they don't want to get dirty |
| Posted by: killerenergy Mar 24 2003, 03:24 AM |
| really? You sound like that guy in ex-driver, talking about a cars feelings... still never answered the question, |
| Posted by: SuperMazdaKart Mar 24 2003, 06:56 AM |
| woooo eX-Driver Souichi Sugano - "Those that forget to love their cars don't deserve the right to drive." |
| Posted by: Jayson Mar 24 2003, 10:41 AM |
| What question? |
| Posted by: killerenergy Mar 24 2003, 11:28 AM | ||||
this question |
| Posted by: S15-guy Mar 24 2003, 11:51 AM | ||
because FD drivers are pansies! |
| Posted by: Jayson Mar 24 2003, 01:29 PM |
| Naw, they just like to look good for the ladies Doesn't matter, FD would win regardless |
| Posted by: S15-guy Mar 24 2003, 08:56 PM | ||
thats why there are car washes |
| Posted by: Jayson Mar 25 2003, 11:47 AM |
| Too busy trying to keep the ladies off you to keep going to the car wash |
| Posted by: Guest Mar 28 2003, 04:34 AM |
| Just had a look at that site posted before with the race locations- the pic of C121 at Usui looks good But doesnt it have that text at the start of each epsiode something about places being fictional? I didnt think they places where real til i saw that site posted there |
| Posted by: karasac Mar 28 2003, 04:09 PM |
| that thing at the beggining probably says thatthe places r real but the characters r fictional and drifting is dangerous and wear ur seat belt and blah blah blah |
| Posted by: killerenergy Mar 28 2003, 08:48 PM |
| Yeah I agree don't be a jacka$$, trying to do that stuff, I would almost compare it to jacka$$ exept drifting serves a point. |
| Posted by: S15-guy Mar 28 2003, 08:56 PM |
| jackass is an awesome show! and drifting is even more awesome! |
| Posted by: Jayson Mar 29 2003, 10:49 AM |
| Drifting=*thumbs up* Jacka$$=*thumbs down* |
| Posted by: vvalentine Mar 30 2003, 08:43 PM |
| http://www.trilon.com/bapom/maps/map-myogi.pdf Seems like the race course for mt. myogi in the initial d arcade game was taken from here. Just remember the curves in the game, and you'll see they are exactly the same as in the game. |
| Posted by: pbpyrojust Mar 31 2003, 07:44 PM |
| Holy Crap! This is awesome! I am loving ID more and more! I have been playing the arcade game more since my friend play it now too. Now finding out these locations are real and that people race on them!!! AWESOME!!!!!! I want to go to Japan some day and check this out! Anyone know if there are any videos or pictures of these races??? I would LOVE to see that!!!!! newbie hehe Justin |
| Posted by: karasac Mar 31 2003, 10:06 PM |
| welcome to the board |
| Posted by: |[ .tainted. ]| Mar 31 2003, 10:28 PM | ||
have you watched the anime?  cause if you haven't... you haven't seen what's really to love about initial D and welcome to the boards |
| Posted by: pbpyrojust Apr 1 2003, 12:44 AM |
| Of course i have watched ID!!! My friend has the whole ID dvd set, bought it from some fle market! Its freakin awesome. And Tankumi's friend looks like my friend! is scary!! I love it man. My favorite are the races with the EMPERORs Evolutions I love! I have a EVO III in the arcade. |
| Posted by: Jayson Apr 3 2003, 09:30 AM |
| FD>EVO |
| Posted by: KenshinX Apr 3 2003, 10:50 AM |
| Heh lol.... Welcome to the boards. The arcade game is indeed very sweet, but version 2 is even better. Evos are pretty cool, though I like the FD and FC better in my opinion. Right now, I'm stuck at Ryosuke in the arcade game, version 1 that is. Oh well, I'll beat him eventually..... |
| Posted by: killerenergy Apr 3 2003, 12:14 PM | ||
noo! well I guess some times. heh |
| Posted by: Jayson Apr 15 2003, 10:42 AM |
| nopes, all the time |
| Posted by: limejuice Apr 16 2003, 02:14 AM |
| I didnt even had a chance to play the acarde game1 cuz whenever I reach there.. there's always a whole lots of guys Quening up behind them.. dUh... |
| Posted by: Rotaryman May 7 2003, 08:35 AM |
| hey Jayson, FD vs. FC Zenki Turbo ?? |
| Posted by: motorprestige May 11 2003, 01:04 AM |
| i like the diologue in the manga better, but the anime has more heart pumping action, i want to someday go to those locations, they must be much more soothing than tokyo is, not that i dont love tokyo. |
| Posted by: Woffle May 11 2003, 11:38 AM | ||
same ding as me cuz weneva i get dere itz like i gotta wait for ma hole life and wen me finish me gotta wate allll over again and again |
| Posted by: UnKnOwN May 25 2003, 11:39 PM |
| Yes, as a matter of a fact, the mountains and raceways are real. If you go to the locations in Japan. You're for certain to find them. They're exactly the same as in the game. Just wanted to let you know. |
| Posted by: S15-guy May 26 2003, 08:32 AM |
| thank you for double posting |
| Posted by: Perry May 26 2003, 12:41 PM | ||
Deleted the extra post. |
| Posted by: karasac May 26 2003, 02:24 PM | ||
i belive we coverd that already, its on the board somewhere |
| Posted by: 4WD Jun 9 2003, 01:35 PM |
| Auto Modellista has Akagi track , the game sucks big time though |
| Posted by: Jayson Jun 17 2003, 10:17 AM |
| I told you it would! |
| Posted by: IntegraToast Jun 21 2003, 11:05 PM |
| irohazaka..i really want to drive that road |
| Posted by: Jayson Jun 22 2003, 01:59 AM |
| w3rd |
| Posted by: IntegraToast Jul 1 2003, 11:19 PM |
| yeah man i cant wait to visit japan and just drive slowly down Mt. Nikko(irohazaka) done it on arcade stage...wonder if those jumps exist |
| Posted by: S15-guy Jul 1 2003, 11:31 PM | ||
try jumping them, then you can tell us! |
| Posted by: IntegraToast Jul 30 2003, 08:29 PM |
| hmmm i will in my rented car and never go back to japan..that would suc |
| Posted by: S15-guy Aug 5 2003, 08:51 PM |
| crash the car, then jump the country, not much they can do about it then lol |
| Posted by: IntegraToast Aug 5 2003, 10:32 PM |
| thats agreed i think i will actually if ido crash....which i wont |
| Posted by: volcom9volt Aug 9 2003, 05:17 PM |
| yea dude..im pretty sure the locations they race at are real. im pretty sure if u look 4 the sites that they race at..it'll come up. |
| Posted by: S15-guy Aug 9 2003, 07:10 PM | ||
dude, seriously, you have resurected about 50 dead threads so far, and have just stated the obvious, it was established on page 1 (i think) that the race locations were real. PLEASE read the thread before making a reply!!! |
| Posted by: KeNgai_rcrZero Aug 12 2003, 12:43 PM |
actually, here's a picture of iro. |
| Posted by: Ichiban Aug 14 2003, 08:21 AM |
 oi peeps have a look aht the guy standing in the pic who does he resemble |
| Posted by: karasac Aug 14 2003, 12:46 PM |
| too bad hes not driving a rotary |
| Posted by: IntegraToast Aug 15 2003, 01:13 PM |
| so iro is real....muahahahaha i will drive it cause my bro is in saitama right nwo and will be there for a couple more years....saitama is right next to gunma |
| Posted by: Jayson Aug 20 2003, 02:23 AM |
| Iro would be bad ass to see, more so when your going 60mph |
| Posted by: Neo Xian Wu Aug 21 2003, 10:03 PM |
| hell yeah... i wanna take Iro in my Starion... tho flingin a 3000lb car down the mountain at over 70 is kinda cool until you do it... lol |
| Posted by: temple Sep 1 2003, 03:04 AM |
| When I put in a search for initial d photo gallerys I found this |
| Posted by: temple Sep 1 2003, 03:05 AM |
| and this (it's Mt.Akagi)
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| Posted by: Evolution Sep 1 2003, 05:39 PM |
| That would be great to drive down. I got to go and see that with my own eyes. |
| Posted by: AE86Tureno Sep 3 2003, 04:29 PM |
here is a map of Akina.  |
| Posted by: Nakazato Takeshi Sep 4 2003, 05:20 AM |
Hey, Yea I know another website that has alot of the pictures of all the mountains, they are real, and really kool the hairpins are sharp but looks like fun, I will find the website and put it on here.    |
| Posted by: temple Sep 6 2003, 05:05 AM |
| I was going through smoe images on my computer and this is one of the gutters on Mt. Akina. They look like could help you turn and be able to get out of them without ripping off your wheels. |
| Posted by: temple Sep 6 2003, 05:07 AM |
| Unlike this one in PROJECT.D No.1 (M-Line) |
| Posted by: temple Sep 6 2003, 05:08 AM |
| Or would you fancy putting your front wheel in this? |
| Posted by: |[ .tainted. ]| Sep 6 2003, 02:41 PM | ||
that was in one of 'em mangas the difference of the gutters of akina to that 'other place' i forget the name  |
| Posted by: AE86Tureno Sep 6 2003, 05:36 PM | ||
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA I might just try it!!! LOLZ!!!!!!! |
| Posted by: Kev Sep 6 2003, 09:56 PM |
| of course i will anyways heres a couple of iro EDIT: I couldnt find any of my iro pictures that were in .jpg or .jpeg format so i'll just post the one that i (didnt really finish) editing with the FD in it. |
| Posted by: temple Sep 7 2003, 03:37 AM |
| Here's photo of Irohazaka |
| Posted by: temple Sep 7 2003, 03:38 AM |
| And another |
| Posted by: temple Sep 7 2003, 03:40 AM |
| And another |
| Posted by: temple Sep 7 2003, 03:42 AM |
| And the last one, just like the shot in 3rd stage (I think is the 3rd anyway).
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| Posted by: vicious_127 Sep 13 2003, 04:12 AM |
| if you want a picture of all the mountains, here's a link: Mountain Passes |
| Posted by: killerenergy Sep 17 2003, 10:27 AM |
| Irohazaka is a god like mountian, great curves. Thanks vicious_127, nice site.... |
| Posted by: AE86Trueno Sep 21 2003, 08:57 PM |
| are the people in initial D real???? LOL. mabey someone out there could drive like bunta??? that would be cool with his eyes close. |
| Posted by: Mr Tofu Sep 22 2003, 09:59 AM | ||
OMG they've put speed bumps on mt. akina's 5 hairpins 
no i don't think there really is someone that would even imagine letting their 13 yr old kid drive the car to deliver tofu at 4:00am...lol if u mean if there are actually any street mountain racing gods like bunta....maybe the drift king himself.... |
| Posted by: |[ .tainted. ]| Sep 22 2003, 11:06 AM |
| speed bumps!? really!? damn... that's gotta suck... |
| Posted by: Evolution Sep 22 2003, 12:06 PM |
| Did they just put the speed bumps there recently? Or was it there for awhile. |
| Posted by: Mr Tofu Sep 22 2003, 12:10 PM |
| http://gallery.tsukaeru.jp/haruna/h017-3-79p.JPG my guess is, they started putting them on when initial d became really popular |
| Posted by: Evolution Sep 22 2003, 12:16 PM |
| I was thinking that too. I bet so many more people started racing down that mountain. |
| Posted by: |[ .tainted. ]| Sep 22 2003, 07:37 PM |
| maybe it's my dark monitor... who knows... but i don't see the speed bumps... |
| Posted by: S15-guy Sep 22 2003, 09:34 PM |
| I dont see speed bumps either, i think that putting speed bumps on a mountain hairpin would actually be quite dangerous, especially if you were riding a motor bike. |
| Posted by: Mr Tofu Sep 23 2003, 06:53 AM |
| http://gallery.tsukaeru.jp/haruna/h011-2-48p.JPG http://gallery.tsukaeru.jp/haruna/h018-3-85p.JPG http://gallery.tsukaeru.jp/haruna/h022-4-63p.JPG well, if you look at the arrow and line marks on the road you can see it curve on the hump. now that i think of it, they don't look too big for speed bumps, probably just mini 'humps' to warn of the hairpin ahead, which still looks like a hassle if you wanna drift round it |
| Posted by: solypsist Sep 23 2003, 06:04 PM | ||
they're not so much speed bumps as a serious method of deterring drifting. if i were dricing over those, it wouldn't be at 75 mph. |
| Posted by: Evolution Sep 23 2003, 06:32 PM |
| I think they dont want anybody racing or trying to drift. I bet some people there who had no clue about drifting and they saw ID and they decided to try it. They might be some accidents and stuff. |
| Posted by: GC8VSkyline Oct 18 2003, 09:00 PM |
| probably installed some new traffic thingy that did. it's cool they put mirrors on the corners to see if there's ne oncoming traffic...sorry to those but i've never seen that...meh i don't remember. |
| Posted by: Wes Nov 30 2003, 04:29 PM |
| Maybe this has been posted, i duno http://ekboy.tripod.com/86/init-d.html |
| Posted by: Steve Feb 7 2004, 06:55 PM |
 Found a pic of Iro. |
| Posted by: sileighty_00 Feb 7 2004, 07:33 PM |
| ^^^^^ that's the same pic as the first one of Iro that temple posted just a little bit up on the page just a different angle |
| Posted by: Dark Echo Feb 13 2004, 11:23 PM |
| hahahahaha...bumps on the 5 hairpins...imagine that...how dangerous would it be for takumi...or anyone else trying to drift... but u hav to say thats a pretty safe thing to do, this will "sorta" make people slow down on the 5 hair pins, i think... heres a site i found with all the places in initial d, including the gas station takumi works at, and other mountain passes... http://initialdheaven.netfirms.com/ check the site bar for real initial d places or sumthing like that... |
| Posted by: id0ru Feb 29 2004, 04:23 AM |
| Has anyone found this allegedly real photo of the Tofu Shop? |
| Posted by: Evolution Feb 29 2004, 06:51 AM |
| Someone posted it here in this thread look through it or it was posted somewhere else. I forget, but I remember seeing it |
| Posted by: slyfox Mar 5 2004, 04:44 PM |
| man i really cant waits to get my car. i'm planin on makin my own team. darn... 9 months and 25 days left. heh the first place i wanna race tho is up on mt. akina |
| Posted by: Evolution Mar 5 2004, 06:13 PM |
| YOu wont be able to there are speed bumps leading up to the hairpins |
| Posted by: Buddah Mar 24 2004, 10:07 AM |
 OMG ! THAT LOOKS LIKE FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Posted by: Buddah Mar 24 2004, 10:09 AM |
 holy happy i wana race on mt.akina bat man! |
| Posted by: temple Mar 28 2004, 04:27 AM | ||
I posted that a while ago, I was meaning to edit the post And put a grab from the divx I've got of the movie or which ever stage it was from, but I completly forgot about it until I was going through my favorites (only about 400 or so) and came across it again. So here it is: |
| Posted by: vanilla Apr 2 2004, 01:31 AM |
| hahahahaaa.... wouldn't those speed bumps trash takumi's early morning toufu delivery? I bet his cup of h2o would have spilt no matter how smooth his diving is.. |
| Posted by: knd Apr 26 2004, 02:10 PM |
| hi guys 1st post go see.... do you recognize this?    do you remember where Takumi's girl got a job?  moggy's place  Mt.Akina  Mt.Akagi  Usui pass  |
| Posted by: knd Apr 26 2004, 02:12 PM |
| More Mt.Myougi   Syoumaru pass   Irohazaka      See ya  |
| Posted by: GC8VSkyline May 10 2004, 12:11 PM |
| wait did u say mogi gettin a job at that place? i thought mogi worked at some restaurant that said hamberger on it. haha nebody find the FamilyS restaurant? whew! Shomaru looks like a fun place to drive haha. |
| Posted by: MagjickFingers May 10 2004, 02:39 PM |
| thats insane those pics are awesome i wish i could go to japan its okay ill bust in some roads up near camp in the adirondacks lol |
| Posted by: Saito May 11 2004, 05:21 PM |
| i dun think that the resturaunt and names are the same as in real life...i reckon that they just took some real buildings and added them in the anime...then putting different names...(except the courses) |
| Posted by: Instant-Noodlez May 14 2004, 03:53 AM |
| i agree wit SAITO but still... the producers did their research to give us such a cool anime! |
| Posted by: Larz Jun 11 2004, 06:22 AM | ||
Brainwashed? No. Cocky? Yes. |
| Posted by: Initial D Jun 14 2004, 08:20 PM |
| Wow! All the same places, just different names like the gas station. And GCV8 i think that is the restaurant... just a different name or something. But that is the building all right. |
| Posted by: Jsan? Jul 13 2004, 02:22 PM |
Hi guys.. Iam new and just read through this thread... I've lived in Japan for 3 years and I first saw ID when it was out in Japan. Naturally after reading it some friends and I went to investigate the areas. Just to tell ppl who've been wondering iam not sure if its been cleared up yet or not but Akina is not Akina in real life its called Mt Haruna and i've never seen anyone gathering at these locations in real life. I remember Shigeno san writting something about calling it Akina for legal issues or something. But just to clear that up its Haruna.  Those locations roads are WAY to small to have those kinda drift battles at night. Its been said ppl like go practice there now but there wasn't a big scene when I was there and that was just like last year when I finally returned to Canada. I drove a car in japan but it was a crappy honda FF car so I didn't do any drifting but I did like going to those mountains at night to see the real kings of the street EDIT as for the "Fujiwara Tofu shop" rest assured theres no 86 sitting at the side |
| Posted by: mujjuman Aug 25 2004, 08:20 PM |
| still as real as it gets thanks for the pics everyone |
| Posted by: KeNgai_rcrSmaSh Aug 25 2004, 08:27 PM |
| That's crazy. I wouldnt think people would actually try to drift those mountains. I would of thought the roads would be all messed up. But it would be a cool thing to see. |
| Posted by: 4g63 Aug 30 2004, 07:28 PM |
| YEAH they are real... My bro's been to some of them.. Im going sometime this year |
| Posted by: ragingSPAM Sep 8 2004, 12:17 PM |
| akina as a mountain road exists in japan but it is known as Haruna moutain...but it doesnt matter cuz its still the same |
| Posted by: xkhol Sep 8 2004, 12:20 PM |
| some of those courses look big enough to race on, but it would still be ridiculously dangerous....and shomaru really is in crappy condition |
| Posted by: ragingSPAM Sep 8 2004, 12:49 PM |
| i've seen some videos of people racing on akina(haruna) in real life...i was tense watching the video seeing them drift around the corners and stuff...i was like WOW!! are they crazy?!?! |
| Posted by: sideways Sep 8 2004, 01:26 PM |
| Love to see em- know where they can be found? and do you remember the cars they were driving? |
| Posted by: Jin Sep 8 2004, 02:01 PM |
 Zomg, its Keisuke! |
| Posted by: Jsan? Sep 20 2004, 07:55 PM |
| Yeah I enjoyed when NekoKuma chan posted those pics in his gallery. That was awefully cool. He said in his forum he's going to post more of them from the upcoming chapters like that in his words "Cosplayed Stage". |
| Posted by: InitialD_83 Sep 22 2004, 01:29 PM |
| i have alot of pics of the real roads of initial d on my web site http://www.geocities.com/supercars20001/tr...ofinitiald.html |
| Posted by: thewird Sep 22 2004, 02:24 PM |
| Does anyone have or know where to find the video's of people racing down akina/Haruna (or any other ID related map). I've search everywhere for like a year but never found any. Thanks. thewird |
| Posted by: Jsan? Sep 22 2004, 02:30 PM |
| There is no such thing... If you've ever been there you know its virtually impossible because the speedbumps and what not would rip up your tires. And Initial D 83 If your going to steal pics/maps from Initial D Gallery stage for your own site atleast give credit to the original site by linking to the site. The guy who runs that site happens to be a friend of mine and he's sick of people ripping off his images and using it as their own. I told him he should put up a disclaimer in there in english so people wouldn't do that shit but he only put it in Japanese. I guess thats why the site says "SORRY THIS SITE IS JAPANESE ONLY" |
| Posted by: thewird Sep 22 2004, 02:37 PM |
| Actually I saw one of those video's already but the person who had them deleted them and doesn't remember where he got them since it was a long time ago. And BTW I have an OLD video (in color still) of the drift king when he was younger drifting down a mountain in an AE86. I downloaded it off of edonkey2000 if you want it. thewird |
| Posted by: Jason_H. Sep 22 2004, 03:30 PM |
| Wait...they said Mt.Akina was bs... confused.gif |
| Posted by: Jsan? Sep 22 2004, 05:12 PM |
| Its not BS its just called Haruna in real life... Iam not exactly sure why Shigeno changed only THAT name. |
| Posted by: xkhol Sep 22 2004, 05:17 PM | ||
i think that's the only place he didn't have the permission to use the real name, and akina does kinda sound better |
| Posted by: Jsan? Sep 22 2004, 05:22 PM |
| Well he says why he called it that in the art book. Iam just too lazy to go find it now. But its something along those lines anyways. I dont like "AKINA" but thats cause i'vebeen to Japan and visited certian locations... If your in the town near Haruna you'd understand why its called that. But I GUESS akina does sound kinda cool. |
| Posted by: Akira Sep 29 2004, 05:57 PM |
| Look through those gelleries.. some of those roads look too public to race on, but, something I noticed, Happo seems like quiet the hot spot to race in! Look at those roads and look for tire marks, you can see apexing tire marks from racers, so, yeah, people race at these places. :] But, if you look at some, they have speed bumps, and certain little things that makes it dangerous to cross over the line, like mentioned earlier. Example. Look at the hairpins in Akagi you'll see little thinsg on the yellow line, I know what they're really for, but really, could you drift over that? |
| Posted by: babba-r32 Oct 2 2004, 05:30 AM |
| Found a website with all the real race locations Real race locations enjoy they are from the movie |
| Posted by: sideways Oct 2 2004, 06:06 AM |
| That link is old, way old... actually i think it was posted in here before, and who said this was from the movie? These are way before the movie. And from what i know the movie was being filmed somewhere in china, these are japanese roads. |
| Posted by: Jsan? Oct 2 2004, 06:55 AM |
| Sideways is CORRECT this is my friends site gallery stage. He is usually going by the manga not anime but even though its pretty much the same. The Romanji names are as follows. Haruna(Akina), Akagi, Usui Myougi,syomaru,Irohazaka Project D Momiji,Enna,Happogahara S-Line, M-line,?-line (unknown name) Tsuchisaka, F-line There ya have it... As if even the noobest noob couldn't tell by the pics i guess. |
| Posted by: GC8VSkyline Oct 14 2004, 06:28 PM |
| wtf is an the FD doing sitting there?!? haha it doesn't even have a REDSUNS sticker!!! |
| Posted by: Jsan? Oct 14 2004, 06:31 PM |
| Uh its the PJD FD there is no redsuns sticker on it ROFL LOL |
| Posted by: GC8VSkyline Oct 14 2004, 06:38 PM |
| PJD FD? sorry for being a noob but please explain why i mean i assumed wrong haha sorry. |
| Posted by: ID_Brega Oct 26 2004, 06:28 AM |
| (w00t)OMG!!!! after seeing the anime and manga so many times I can actually recognize most of the locations, that's awsome. That just makes the whole ID experience all the more exiting. Tks for the research guys,  |
| Posted by: Smiley_DC2 Oct 26 2004, 01:26 PM | ||
PJD FD = Project D FD(3S) .. basically the new team is Project D, therefore no 'Red Suns' or other stickers are required .. Ryosuke prob feels that stickers or anything (distracting) like that would take away from the importance of the mission, u notice in episode 5 *SPOILERS* ryosuke's FC is brought in and he himself has removed all the stickers from his car too the only stickers remaining would be the 'Project D' logo on the vans and the 'Fujiwara Tofu Shop' on the 86 |
| Posted by: GC8VSkyline Oct 27 2004, 10:18 AM |
| omg haha i can't believe i never noticed that. haha i'm just so into the racing i don't even care haha. |
| Posted by: AJS13 Oct 27 2004, 10:25 AM | ||
They cant take the 'Fujiwara Tofu Shop' off the 86 as Bunta will get pissed. |
| Posted by: Smiley_DC2 Oct 27 2004, 01:13 PM | ||||
Yeah of course .. besides it is still an active delivery car, even when the WRX starts being used .. i couldnt imagine the 86 without that sticker actually .. just wouldn't be right! |
| Posted by: cappuccino_driver Nov 20 2004, 02:52 PM |
| ya on one of my dvds it has these two guys drivingdown mt.Akagi |
| Posted by: Smiley_DC2 Nov 20 2004, 02:54 PM |
| That's on the Tokyopop DVD right? |
| Posted by: Jiraya Nov 20 2004, 08:27 PM | ||||
Jump it and say bye to the suspension |
| Posted by: Patkar Nov 20 2004, 09:25 PM |
| They Closed down Happogahara on like the 23rd of october. |
| Posted by: BlazinDRIFT Nov 22 2004, 11:13 AM | ||
serious? |
| Posted by: goota Dec 5 2004, 02:30 PM |
| I remember reading, the courses on Initial d are like at a max on any point a 1cm difference from the real roads. |
| Posted by: Gizzmo Jan 23 2005, 01:08 AM |
| These mountains are so beautiful. I liked trees, bushland , nature etc etc but after Initial D I like mountains. I got alot of pics of mountains I took. |
| Posted by: Spirit Jan 27 2005, 02:51 PM |
| these are vids of people driving on the tracks. http://isshixi.cool.ne.jp/d_touge_zissou_douga.html The links are: Akina downhill Akina uphill Iro downhill Akina Snow downhill Akina Snow Uphill ? downhill ? uphill ? downhill ? uphill Happo outbound Happo inbound Iro reverse |
| Posted by: lep Jan 27 2005, 06:35 PM |
| for some reason i just got the erge to see a iD player to try and drive the roads of akina and see a really driver who can drift play iD... i rekon it would be pretty funny |
| Posted by: Gamedon Jan 28 2005, 04:33 AM |
| The bumps in the road looked place there for really dangerous turns not for races. There like rumble strips on american roads. |
| Posted by: GC8VSkyline Feb 3 2005, 02:07 PM | ||
yeah...the coppers really wanted to take down drifting on mountain roads... who cares?!? LOTS OF MOUNTAINS TO CHOOSE FROM!!! WHEEEE!!!  |
| Posted by: whitebeau Feb 8 2005, 08:43 PM |
| this might have been covered already but, Akina is Hasuma (SP?) in real life... for whatever reason they changed the pass name in ID. You guys should check out Kaido Battle 2 on the PS2... pretty much has ALOT of the initial d passess.. even the course for emperor's.... akina... and Genki based the game course design on on shoot locations. plus they have a car modification listing from mercedez to honda's in it.. yes even the 86' in both levin and trueno form. now whats really wicked is in the kaido battle 2 game.. you can win/gamble pink slips for actual D1 cars.... + some of the actual D1 drivers had direct input on the development of the game! |
| Posted by: pusher1 Feb 8 2005, 09:11 PM |
| I think it's Haruna. And since when did emperor hold akina? or are you just metioning random places? Emperor is based at Iroha slope afaik |
| Posted by: whitebeau Feb 13 2005, 11:31 PM | ||
Yes.. i was referring to the other courses/passes kaido battle 2 has... it also has Iroha both up and down... which it'll even have you run both ways which is odd.. but from what genki said, they have it based on location spec's.... i played the game for 6+ months straight .... and i consider this game more fun then Gran turismo 3. because you can setup the cars literalllly.. for grip or drift... all based on one's suspension and tire settings... it's crazie it even has better tactile feedback then gt3 and to add actual mountain passes! ..... only downfall is the music is sookie sookie  that aside it's a must buy... thanks pusher1 for the mountain name.. can't keep tabs on em. |
| Posted by: Kurama408 Feb 24 2005, 08:22 PM |
| what i find amazing is how the courses resemble very much like the real ones....but I wouldn't race on these kind of courses. Too dangerous for my taste. |
| Posted by: Akira Mar 16 2005, 05:23 PM |
Yes a lot orf these mountains are raced on in real life after dark. usually late like 1-2am when no one's around to interfere, but not all, see, some roads have been made to prevent racing, like Akagi, they have little wedges in the roads for better viewability which makes it impossible to take a line. But the only course I know of that were renamed were Akina, which is Haruna in real life, you can see why this place was renamed, for security reasons, and I think it was Usui that might have..  Hope that helps everyone out, any other questions can probably be answered so shoot. And might I add some smart ass punk kids nearly die every week because they have the similar ideas that some of you may, people, don't race on these roads, I'm not entirely against street racing, I'm on in Id forum here, but if you're going to take this is recreation, remember to be responsible and keep it safe and have extra precaution... and people, I speak from experience.. |
| Posted by: Jsan? Mar 16 2005, 05:32 PM | ||||
Usui is called USUI smart guy...  If you'd been there you'd know.They renamed it simply cause they didn't have permission to use Haruna for whatever reason copyright issues. Or so i read in some interveiw. Obviously shigeno has his reasons... Who knows maybe "Haruna speed stars" sounded really foolish to him. If kids are stupid enough to die cause of ID then good riddence... I mean theres NO reason to go copying this crap... ESPICALLY those who are copying based on experiences from Arcade stage... Who try turning their cars at 140 KM perh our.
LOL |
| Posted by: Untitled Mar 23 2005, 12:59 PM |
| I dont know if this been posted here before but wat the heck The courses in the game/videos are real.... Here are real life videos to prove em....Guess which is which Enjoy |
| Posted by: Gold_Ultima Mar 27 2005, 01:32 AM |
| it was posted like five posts above yours with all the places labeled |
| Posted by: dewey Mar 28 2005, 08:21 PM |
| do they work for anyone else? |
| Posted by: sdfgdg Apr 7 2005, 10:43 PM |
| I've been to Iro and akina and mogi before there all not that far apart i went to japan on a working holiday for 18mths saved shit loads of money and made the time to take 4 days off to tour all of gunma ect the town of akina looks exactly the same, akina is named haruna, and it wasn't renamed its always been Haruna, Akina was made up and YES there is a tofu store that looks similiar to bunta's and takumi's but no trueno or sti just a van. as for iro, it makes you feel sick cause its as steep as a mofo and all the turning makes ya stomache go owww, i don't recommend tring to drift it, too scary usi is just like a ring road that services houses and farms in the area, very wide bumpy road recognising places out of the anime and the arcade stage was sooo exciting and after all that and saving money and sending 2 container loads of crap to australia i now own a cappachino and trueno and a r34 if you can be bothered with 4 hrs travelling a day so u can save some money then its the best way, or save up and go over anyways, if u have any questions ask away, no pics cause the camera the pics were on was in one of the containers and got smashed on the boat over so yeah, so cut over that anyways, too much typing Benjhi |
| Posted by: sango Apr 8 2005, 09:43 AM |
| Hi Benjhi, I'm quite interested to go Gunma and view the race locations, maybe during my school vacations. I do have some questions. Hope you don't mind. 1. Is Gunma near to Tokyo? What accommodation I can consider to stay in Gunma? 2. Is it better to rent a car to travel around or I can just take a cab? 3. What is the estimated budget to stay in Gunma for a week? I do hope to travel around in just 1 week. Yep, that's all. Hope I can make use of my basic jap knowledge to communicate with the Japanese in Gunma. Thanks! |
| Posted by: Ran-x Apr 8 2005, 07:29 PM |
| Thanx for the post Spirit.....just wondering....there was a link which was not labelled and on the address of the link it states there shiona......was that the track which takumi raced with daiki (ek9)?....it looks hell alot familiar....just a thought |
| Posted by: sango Apr 8 2005, 08:25 PM | ||
Yah, Ran-x you're right. Anyway, here are the full names of the race courses that are "?" in the previous post. momijiline downhill もみじライン (race where Takumi beat Tohru's Mazda Roadster) momijiline uphill shiona downhill 塩那 (race where Takumi beat Daiki's EK9) shiona uphill |
| Posted by: Ran-x Apr 9 2005, 01:03 AM |
| cool.....thanx alot sango.......now i hope i get to see the roads where keisuke races the black FD (sh**Tz i forgot what her name was.....i can't believe that.....and i'm too lazee to check it out).... |
| Posted by: Blizzars Apr 9 2005, 08:12 AM |
| Wasn't it Kyoko or something? |
| Posted by: Ran-x Apr 10 2005, 12:00 AM |
| Oh yeah thats the name i was looking for....damn i can't believe i forgot about that...i must be getting old.....thanx by the way.... |
| Posted by: projectevo5 Apr 10 2005, 01:21 PM |
| i would love to see some pics of Tsuchisaka, i love that course |
| Posted by: sdfgdg Apr 14 2005, 12:56 AM |
| SANGO !!!111 Gunma is North/West ok Tokyo Gunma is the kind of place where they dont really have cabs lol You have to rent a mini mini car from the city and drive there, There is the hotel at Akina Lake Theres some road side motel things out that way but not alot i splurged on a car so i dind't get a mini mini car so i could sleep in it slept at the top of akina one night, so many stars Well i can really tell you te cost in american cause i dunno the conversion but in australian i think i spent something like, let me think........this might sound like alot but remember its f**king exspensive over there, AU$1500 for the week including food, rental, fuel ect, so 75% of that is how much american it will cost you i suggest if your really on a tight budget get a getting a car bigger than a mini mini is better cause it works out cheaper than a mini mini car and hotel cost, live on ramen and rice and snack foods only bottled water and for about $70US you can get a room in Tokyo, the room is 2meter x 2 meters and you have to use public wash house and toilet theres not much more i can tell you except if u wanna drift while your there your gonna have to borrow one or rent another car cause tokyo = mini mini cars, country side = bigger cars ID cars dont exist in the city's hope i could have helped |
| Posted by: sango Apr 14 2005, 09:55 AM |
| Thanks for your reply. Now I really have to save a lot. Btw, I'm from Singapore |
| Posted by: sdfgdg Apr 15 2005, 05:14 AM |
| sorry for assumeing my bad but yeah, save heaps cause the worst thing ever is to be stuck in the middle of Gunma with no money and no one to turn to for help then u have to open a tofu store to save money till u can go home, but at that point why would you |
| Posted by: shippo May 25 2005, 08:50 AM |
| i was just at the "are the race locations real" thread, and saw a video of some dude driving down akina. well, guess what, there are NO gutters in Akina... that means it's impossible for takumi to beat anyone with his 86... SHIGENO lied to us..... damn you shigeno....DAMN YOU!!!!!! |
| Posted by: r3d$unz May 25 2005, 08:59 AM |
| you ever thought that throughout the years that MT. Haruna was there they may have altered,changed or removed the gutters? |
| Posted by: WRX May 25 2005, 09:02 AM | ||
Yeah,I agree.They might reconstructed the place and took it off. |
| Posted by: Nd4SpdSe May 25 2005, 09:20 AM |
| I though there was picture on a japanese site that had picture of each location and showed the gutters |
| Posted by: ryot4 May 25 2005, 09:26 AM | ||
the gutters are still there mang. some deeper than others, check your eyesight.  |
| Posted by: hatchi-roku1984 May 25 2005, 12:24 PM |
| Looking at those gutters make me think that its impossible to use them in real life, but then again ive never tried and probably wont try |
| Posted by: Nomake Wan May 25 2005, 12:38 PM |
| For repeating what's been said already in other threads, I tap you on shoulder and give you a verbal warning: use the search function... ...but more importantly, why didn't you post this in the "Are the race locations real?" thread? I think I'll merge this in there right now... Ah, and you could use those gutters if you really tried... it just would be very difficult. <topic merged!> |
| Posted by: WRX DEMON Type R May 25 2005, 12:46 PM |
| the pic a couple posts up is what the gutters look like in Haruna (the real name of Akina). Iniital D makes the gutters appear blocky, hence you "drop" your wheel into the gutter, when in fact, you cant drop it like that. You merely drive into them. Kaido Battle 2 does the most justice for the gutters - you can see that the gutters are sloped and not blocky. |
| Posted by: xXD3SIR3ZXx May 25 2005, 06:27 PM |
| akina, akagi, irohazaka are all real but usui and myogi im not so sure about |
| Posted by: ryot4 May 25 2005, 09:16 PM | ||
every location is real, the thing you don't see in initial d is the speedbumps and trees the city put on most roads in '98. |
| Posted by: WRX DEMON Type R May 25 2005, 09:25 PM |
| myogi and usui are not circuits, but they are real 2 way mountain roads that have a beginning and an end. Akina is not the true name - it's Haruna. |
| Posted by: city_hunter Jun 30 2005, 06:29 AM |
| So desu ne... Mt. Haruna is the actual place...i tot the race locations in the anime are made up... how u guys know tt? |
| Posted by: zer0 Jun 30 2005, 10:44 AM | ||
Must someone post this again? http://www.h2.dion.ne.jp/~eg9/gallery.htm |
| Posted by: city_hunter Jul 1 2005, 12:05 AM | ||
oh nvr notice tt along the threads... thanks anyway zer0 for the link... am looking at the pics now... |
| Posted by: SanosukeR34 Jul 1 2005, 05:43 PM |
| hu watch the initiald movie edi? |
| Posted by: city_hunter Jul 1 2005, 08:28 PM |
| i've watched it... |
| Posted by: Smiley_DC2 Jul 1 2005, 08:34 PM | ||
discussion on the movie in this thread ~ https://idforums.net/index.php?showtopic=11692 quite a number of members have watched it already |
| Posted by: Xibal (ER34) Jul 2 2005, 05:04 AM |
| yess keep on topic anyway just curious how many hairpins are there exactly on real irohazaka |
| Posted by: TachiTJRS Jul 4 2005, 07:05 PM |
| Actually being Japanese myself and having studyed there for 4 years in 1997, I can tell you that its not easy to drive fast on these roads. First off, unless you have friends to tell you if there cars coming like in Initial D, its a big risk as many of the corners are blind. Downhill is dangerous unless you are so confident of the road conditions and your car and ultimately your driving skills. While Initial D sort of glorifies the whole concept touge street racing, a lot of nice driving I do is actually on flatter roads like Ashihino Skyline. Its nice and even and has a lot of curves much like England's B roads except better. A pity I will not be going back to Japan for a while as I am now staying in Singapore. |
| Posted by: sdfgdg Jul 8 2005, 05:25 AM |
| i've driven akina and akagi, cause there really quite close together, there are like 3 mountains next to each other, haruna, akina and mogi, can't be bothered spelling properly and tachi is so right, so can't go fast no matter what time or day or night because unlike the anime there are always cars about :/ cause its the major road that links the lake to the town oh and the house/restaurant places at the top and bottom or akagi are owned by the same guy, no relevence but i think its cool plus the whole concept behind the gutter tech. is its just a faster line its just drifting into the line of the gutters, the gutters just give you a most consistant speed and fast exit speed also something else which is fun, haveing dinner at the top of akina under the weather station, then tring to climb it ... but thats another story lol |
| Posted by: TachiTJRS Jul 8 2005, 06:58 PM |
| Hey 'Itsuki'.....interesting story man...Looks like you have explored the Initial D locales in detail....when I was there, Initial D was in its infancy of popularity (1995-1998) as you can see, it was only around the last year that I bothered to go to Haruna and look around only because I was interested to know if we could try brisk driving (drift was kinda out of the question) on Haruna as depicted in the manga....so..you could say I was with Initial D from the beginning. The craze at that time was wangan battles in cities while touge driving was quite isolated but people still went, normally in smaller power cars like Hondas, Silvias, 86, occasional FD. In Tokyo, the Wangan was the superhighway battle of the fast and the furious Nippon version. Tell us more stories |
| Posted by: Nomake Wan Jul 9 2005, 12:03 AM |
| Actually, as moderator, I'm going to have to suggest making a new thread for that. This is mainly to answer questions about the places that people ask. Stories about them without prompt aren't really on-topic. I think. o.o (But I do wanna hear more stories!) |
| Posted by: bROCKoLEE Jul 9 2005, 01:16 AM |
| gutters doesn't seem to meet my expectations. I thought that you could actually hook your tires into it, but instead they look like just an extention of the normal road surface =\ |
| Posted by: NBK Jul 17 2005, 06:29 PM |
| Akagi style gutters. |
| Posted by: Kerxn Jul 17 2005, 07:05 PM | ||
Akina man, AKINA |
| Posted by: Xibal (ER34) Jul 18 2005, 05:06 AM |
| akagi still have gutters u noe |
| Posted by: RandRace Jul 18 2005, 08:22 AM |
| Google maps can now do Japan: Akagi Akina/Haruna Usui Can't seem to find Myogi (Gunma Route 196 is the road IIRC) |
| Posted by: Mugen_Shinsei Jul 20 2005, 04:28 AM | ||
Dang no zoom for the satellite, really cool find though. |
| Posted by: InitialDRulz Jul 21 2005, 03:43 PM |
| HEY GUYZ, CHECK THIS OUT!! http://www.angelfire.com/anime5/initial_d0/tracks.html |
| Posted by: punkboy316 Jul 21 2005, 06:07 PM |
| most of the locatiosn are real if u wanna find em jus do a search |
| Posted by: Nomake Wan Jul 23 2005, 06:02 AM | ||
Wow. Yet another guy stealing from the Initial D Gallery site. Amazing. I just don't get it... why do people do that? It's so dumb... |
| Posted by: RandRace Jul 27 2005, 11:57 AM |
| Found it! Myogi And the alphabet road: Irohazaka |
| Posted by: cd1105 Aug 17 2005, 02:00 PM | ||
damn som1 plz tell me they saved these my files on my comp got deleted |
| Posted by: InitialDG Aug 20 2005, 04:50 PM |
| Now I dont know if someones already posted the link to this website but here goes. And this ones got all of the Maps all the way to the last battle of Stage 4... http://gallerystage.com/ Oh yeah and u gotta go to the "GoToGallery" section on the left menu bar Hehehehehe... |
| Posted by: Nomake Wan Aug 20 2005, 07:12 PM |
| Wow, double-posting again in the same section? Tsk, tsk. And where do you think people have been getting these images from, hmm? That site is old, and anyone reading this thread knows about it. ^_~ I promote reading a topic before you post in it. Saves you from similar embarrassment. *merges posts* Done. Oh, and I came up with a great line while doing it: "The Edit Button; not just for moderators anymore." |
| Posted by: striker2005 Aug 21 2005, 10:13 PM |
| wow...i just saw da pics 4 da areas...and they ARE real (just sayin' it 2 make sure i'm not jokin' wit myself)...wow...now I wish 2 drive there one day...o...i'm jumpin' just thinkin' 'bout it... |
| Posted by: lee_integra Sep 7 2005, 09:30 PM | ||
DAMN!!! Why do Japanese kids get all the awesome mountain pass roads? It just isn't fair! |
| Posted by: -SS- Sep 18 2005, 04:39 PM |
| Great finds, people - nice to see all that info (maps/pictures). Well done. |
| Posted by: BOZZ Sep 19 2005, 06:55 AM | ||
Seems the website for this is down now... >< |
| Posted by: Frij Sep 20 2005, 11:16 PM | ||
Am I seeing this clearly, but those dark lines on the gutters seems to look like skid marks. Somebody MUST have been doing gutter turns! Awesome awesome pictures! |
| Posted by: Sainz Sep 20 2005, 11:20 PM |
Oil and water runoff. :--> |
| Posted by: Sainz Sep 20 2005, 11:24 PM | ||
 Who needs Japan? |
| Posted by: Fong Sep 21 2005, 12:30 AM |
| Isn't that a New Zealand road? |
| Posted by: Sainz Sep 21 2005, 12:33 AM |
| Not telling where... but it's a local one... for me. |
| Posted by: Azuma-Feint Sep 21 2005, 02:39 AM |
| Hey guys what's up? I just moved to great ol'Gumma this past August. After driving an s2000 in the states of course I had to get a nice car over here. I recently bought a nice Lancer Evolution 2 RS. The interior is shitty as is to be excpected of the RS but all in all it's fast and is quick in the turns. This past weekend was respect for the old people day so I decided to hit up Haruna, Akagi, and Miyogi. I'll review Haruna but I wasn't able to get to Akagi and Miyogi's passes(more on that later) Haruna- The Haruna(akina) pass that you all know and love blows. 1st- Haruna is a famous tourist spot and busses run up and down this road a lot. Even at 11pm I ended up being stuck behind a tourist bus. 2nd- Even if it wasn't for the traffic there are all the measures taken on the road to make fast driving impossible. I think most of you know about the famous hairpins and their infamous "dips". Well just as you thought those wavy portions in the road make anything about 50km/h pretty dangerous. But all was not lost. Route 33(the haruna road) also goes down the other side of the mountain. While it's not as twisty as the famous one it's a hell of a lot faster(I hit 160km/h at one point). Of course almost everyone else knows that the other side of Haruna is the place to be. Going up I saw only a handfull of nice cars/bikes(a lotus esprit mind you) but on the way down I was greeted by a lot of nice bikes, a nice assortment of r33 and r34 gtrs, fds and some fcs. Most of those guys were cool to me(especially me being a "gaijin"). They said that the cops always hang out on both sides of Haruna so no one really comes here on the nights/weekends. As I said before the other side of the mountain is a lot faster when it comes to speeds, and this is the reason why I wasn't able to head to Miyogi and Akagi. In all my prep I overlooked the breaks and needless to say they were cooked 1/2 into my 1st highspeed run. Thankfully the 1st turn I noticed the heavy break fade had no one coming in the opposite lane because I was well into the other lane before I could turn. It really sucked as my brake fluid was boiling and I decided to call it a day at that point. No real fun if you can't even get to the bottom of the mountain with out the brakes fading to no end huh? I placed an order for some quality brake fluid, some good pads, and a set of speed-bleeders to make sure there is no air in the system. Hopefully they will all come in before it starts to get really cold. All in all I was really sad that the Japanese govt. really "nurfed" the Haruna pass. It'll be missed smb |
| Posted by: Nomake Wan Sep 21 2005, 06:59 AM |
| Sainz, wherever you are, know that I envy you. Where I am right now, there are zero good roads. Period. Major metropolitan area, after all. And back home there were only a few, and all of them were quite short and for the most part uninteresting. If anyone says Azuma's lying about being in Japan, I'll smack 'em. XD *pats him on the shoulder* You are one of the lucky ones... it is you whom I truly envy, living in Japan and all. Yes, Haruna sucks now. It's really too bad. When you get a chance to check out the other places (or hell, to even find out about other areas from those local guys...), be sure to keep us informed! |
| Posted by: Fong Sep 23 2005, 02:40 PM |
| OHHHHH! So that's where the road is!! Damn Sainz, you guys really are "The Lucky Country" |
| Posted by: KhmErEvolutioN Sep 24 2005, 06:52 PM |
| Sainz, i know it is a aussie road because of the tree type, if it was in nz then it be native trees around and ohh also nz has 2 yellow lines for when ur not allowed to cross not white ones and the picture is also hosted in aussie so thats also adds to my conclusion and i havent been everywhere in nz but there are many roads like that aswell along the country roads and also on the way to the beaches and stuff. |
| Posted by: Sainz Sep 24 2005, 09:57 PM |
| hahahaha... It might be an Aussie road...  But it's one of about... a dozen passes in the general area.. Muhahaha   See that big East Coast... nice long mountain range runs right down the majority of it. That helps good and proper.  |
| Posted by: cd1105 Oct 6 2005, 09:36 PM | ||||
some1 has to have em PLZ!!!! |
| Posted by: Supra Saiyan Oct 6 2005, 10:08 PM |
| sainz, would u know of any good roads in/around canberra or of a site that shows them |
| Posted by: irvanie Oct 7 2005, 02:09 PM |
| Man... Those Irohazaka pictures really inspiring me. Wonder if i take my Cherokee Jeep drift the corners. Maybe i might ended at the hospital for sure. Anybody got any Tuschisaka pictures? my favorite battle area. Hohoho. Cheers Doc Irv |
| Posted by: drift_or_dai Oct 8 2005, 12:54 PM |
| They are actually starting to close some of the mountain passes at night. It will mean less drifiting they suppose. There are cameras on some of the more popular and most daily driven Touge. Speed bumps also exist I believe. I'd still drift on them, even if it is illegal. But for practice, I recommend going to the Ebisu Circuit. The tracks and mock touge there are pretty fun. |
| Posted by: xdriftx Oct 11 2005, 02:23 AM |
| i don't know about here in the philippines but on another BBS some dude posted a route to a "touge". he says it's mostly vacant, or just cyclists. mostly asphalt, allegedly, but knowing how crappy and life-threatening mountain roads here are, i don't know. here's the route: The first one is in Pillilia, Rizal. It's up a small mountain cyclists call "Bugarin". I've actually tried this one (going uphill) and although my 1.6 GLi was having a bit of a hard time, the car was as its limit and I could feel the rear end barely holding on as I rounded teh switchbacks and tight corners at 60kph. To get here, pass through Ortigas avenue. Go straight and go up Antipolo. Stay on this mainroad and just keep going straight. Eventually you will go down antipolo (another Initial D type of road , but too much traffic to "hataw") and hit the bayan of Teresa. Stay on the main road until you reach Morong which is a T-intersection. Turn left and you'll hit a fork, take the left side and keep going striahg for around 12 kms. You'll hit another fork, take the left side and that';ll be the start of the climb. 8 kms of mostly asphalted roads with minimal traffic. Be careful though, maraming siklista dito and you don't want to hit them. Marami rin trucks going downhill. |
| Posted by: keisuke69 Oct 13 2005, 01:10 AM |
| no akina doesn't exist but akagi does |
| Posted by: EA99 Oct 13 2005, 02:17 AM |
| akina DOES EXIST but its name is not akina.... mt. haruna if im correct |
| Posted by: Xibal (ER34) Oct 14 2005, 04:43 AM |
| yes u are correct |
| Posted by: BUNTA#1 Oct 18 2005, 04:42 AM | ||
no way there real wow cool |
| Posted by: ilikefireworks23 Oct 23 2005, 12:34 AM |
i know they are real i have a bunch of pictures....but if anyone has a USEFUL link to the drive through videos....i need them  |
| Posted by: ZenkaiRacerEG Nov 1 2005, 11:46 AM |
| Holy crap! Crazy to see this post is still alive after my original posting of it a couple years ago. After all this time Im actually going to Okinawa for 3 years! You can bet Ill be going to the mainland too. |
| Posted by: TachiTJRS Nov 5 2005, 11:54 AM |
| Nice going guys! BTW, I have finally returned to Japan. Living in Tokyo now and more interestingly, I stay right behind the R246 track from GT4. It's not a real track obviously but a road that is actually the emperor's garden of sorts. And near the Honda Aoyama showroom which you can see in GT4. If you are interested, I can post pictures of the area that makes the GT4 R246 and you can compare it with the game. I will also try and make a vid of me going around the 'track' with my DC2. As for the Initial D locations, I am planning to go to Nikko to Irohazaka for a sightseeing trip and will definetly up and down the Touge. |
| Posted by: Spirit_R Nov 5 2005, 03:24 PM |
| Oh! If you would oh so kind enough, please upload the pics! And hope you have a good stay there in Japan! |
| Posted by: Don100492 Nov 5 2005, 09:20 PM |
| Do you have any pics of the Rev duo's home track and Momiji Line? |
| Posted by: TheVampire Nov 8 2005, 11:04 AM |
| If someone knows the exact locations of the roads, since google maps now has Japan, we can create a Frappr map showing the locations of all the races! www.frappr.com |
| Posted by: Tessou Nov 8 2005, 11:24 AM |
| I still have a video of Irohazaka DH from that site. Irvanie: Tsuchisaka Don100492: Momiji Line Pretty much all of the locations are real, but Akina is actually based on a town called Haruna, which is in the same area as Akina is in the series. |
| Posted by: poisonfruitloops Nov 8 2005, 10:25 PM | ||
thats awesome. i've been told of some good touge-jap-style roads in perth (where i am) i mite take the FC out to those places and check em out sumtime:) if they're any good i'l post piccies:) |
| Posted by: Bladeoz Nov 9 2005, 09:05 PM |
If your ever in Adelaide bro, try a place called Gorge rd... its has a broken rythm - short, tight corners in between rock walls and a creek (with no barriers in a lot of places) and then it switches to long wide corners and long stretches. This goes on back and forth over the entire stretch of the road. + its a mix of uphill and down. (just the start of the road) Two hills over is a place called Norton Summit. Thats just like Izonhara (however the hell u spell it). This one is a two lane road, but there is an old and new road. both steep and coupled with loads of hairpins. There are plenty of other roads there as well. |
| Posted by: DALAZ_68 Nov 9 2005, 10:28 PM | ||
shit reminds me of tsuchisaka no joke |
| Posted by: Bladeoz Nov 11 2005, 03:15 AM |
| what road is that mate? Anyway - this is my favorite road, good place to lose tires |
| Posted by: TheVampire Nov 11 2005, 07:23 AM |
| Here's a map of akaina ( lake haruna ) that I pulled off of Google maps. Thanks to RandRace for pointing out that the town name is really Ikaho. My wife told me the name, but I forgot it. http://home.ioa.com/~raven/Akina.html Also, look at http://home.ioa.com/~raven and http://home.ioa.com/~raven/id.1 for some of my favorite roads that I drive on. |
| Posted by: RandRace Nov 11 2005, 08:54 AM |
| Actually the lake and mountain are named Haruna and there is a town called Haruna but it's on the other side of the mountain from where Takumi lives. The town he lives in is, I think, Ikaho. |
| Posted by: cd1105 Nov 12 2005, 04:39 PM | ||
come on do i have to beg......PLLLLLZZZZZZ POOSSTTT |
| Posted by: TheVampire Nov 16 2005, 12:15 PM |
| Here's another map to a road near Chichibu, which is where Wataru is from I believe. Don't know if this is his particular road, but it's the most awesome one I saw around the town. This place is about halfway between Tokyo and the Gunma area. If you find Tokyo on Google maps, then you can move to the northwest not too far outside the city and locate this place. Zooming in closer will show you the contour lines of the terrain.  |
| Posted by: Legend of Speed Nov 21 2005, 11:35 AM |
| I dunno if anyone has posted this, but I found a video that has a couple of people racing on Irohazaka, or it looks like Irohazaka. http://videos.streetfire.net/Player.aspx?f...CCD1C&kw=6&p=16 |
| Posted by: Gizmo Nov 21 2005, 03:03 PM |
| in the uk, we have the "BR Touge" XD "Back Road Touge" to me, they are just as complex as MT Akina and Akagi, although they are flat, being as they are backround, they arnt very well kept, and the road condition is bad, and, it sinks into the banks, creating a cambered road. i have prepared some "stage" infomation involving my local area, the smallest stage is stage 1 obviosuly, and is around 1.3 miles long, and stage 5 which is the lonest, stretchs to 3.2 miles long. all i need now is my car to test them >_> |
| Posted by: cd1105 Nov 25 2005, 06:43 PM | ||
thnk u for this 1 kinda short anymore? |
| Posted by: But she looked 18 officer Nov 25 2005, 07:58 PM | ||
 It's a ricer epidemic |
| Posted by: darkpaladinzz Dec 1 2005, 11:13 AM | ||
is that supposed to be irohazaka? |
| Posted by: Cowman715 Dec 4 2005, 07:29 PM |
| I wonder if the real Iro has spaces of no road divider thingies and people actually take jumps like that xD |
| Posted by: Tessou Dec 4 2005, 07:33 PM |
| The crew running Irohazaka Road has put new barriers around those "jump" corners sometime after the jumps were illustrated in the manga. Thankfully, they haven't put speed bumps on the corners like they did with Haruna (Akina), so you can still race/drift the course if you're crazy enough to try on the narrow road. Add that to the fact that the pavement is in terrible shape and you're just asking for a wreck. @darkpaladinzz: That's a map of a road near Chichibu, in Saitama. Irohazaka is in Tochigi. EDIT: Since I've been asked and PMed so many times about it, I'll post the REAL Irohazaka video on this thread TOMORROW. EDIT2: He're it is! the REAL Irohazaka! Enoy! Irohazaka Downhill EDIT3: I just noticed that somebody posted the same video in another thread. Guess I'm not the only one with a working copy from that site! |
| Posted by: cd1105 Dec 7 2005, 05:42 PM | ||
THANK U |
| Posted by: borokokok Dec 8 2005, 11:10 AM |
| how come i dont see any skidmarks from tires in any of the pictures of irohazak, akagi, etc. ? |
| Posted by: sftmb Dec 15 2005, 05:16 PM | ||
ya, most of da locations are real, but not the actual roads,just the mountain itself |
| Posted by: baaka Dec 15 2005, 08:12 PM |
| I didn't feel like sifting through 12 pages of stuff, so I dunno if anyone's said this or not. Yes, many people race and gather at these mountains. Yes it's illegal. Cops in Japan don't really care that much, which is evident by the fact that they come to the scenes in something resembling a golf cart. Mount Akina now has barriers in the middle of the road so people can't cross lanes and really race anymore. Gay. I'm sure others have them too by now. |
| Posted by: Tessou Dec 15 2005, 09:29 PM |
| Haruna (Akina), like most of the roads featured in the series, has speed bumps on the major corners. I haven't heard about those median barriers, though. That's something new... |
| Posted by: darkpaladinzz Dec 16 2005, 07:07 AM | ||
you mean like.. muslims going to mecca??? muslims will get pissed if they see your post |
| Posted by: TachiTJRS Dec 21 2005, 10:56 AM | ||
Unfortunetly, all the roads and locations are all real. Right down to the scenery in the background and all the signs, even the resturants. The thing is astute forums here are right about the bumps and barriers on the the popular roads now. Its almost imppsible to race on these touge. Even the famous Wangan highway crowd has died down. Man, I picked a wrong time to return to live in Japan! |
| Posted by: lee_integra Jan 8 2006, 03:42 AM |
| I'd kill a dozen stupid white men to have an Irohazaka replica all to myself. I can only dream of driving on such a downhill mountain pass. |
| Posted by: Hayaku Haku Jan 19 2006, 11:05 AM |
| Can someone mirror the videos? I'd like to see them. |
| Posted by: xsleepydrifterx Jan 25 2006, 04:24 PM |
As always I am choc full of pics. This is where I used the leave gutter against Kai Kogashiwa on the last turn before the three tunnels.  Got plenty more by request. |
| Posted by: cd1105 Jan 29 2006, 12:28 PM |
| well i got most of the videos now i was running around looking for them and ran into some chinese site (which i didnt know how to read) so i clicked randomly and found ill upload em. some 1 give me a good upload site? |
| Posted by: xsleepydrifterx Jan 29 2006, 05:07 PM | ||
Id say photobucket, others say imageshack |
| Posted by: Nomake Wan Jan 29 2006, 07:01 PM |
| But those are for images, not movies. Try rapidshare.de or yousendit.com. |
| Posted by: Team Evolution Jan 30 2006, 04:30 AM | ||
Hi all ^^ Whas i see is the Road on Mt. Akina very good, i wish my Team can Race one Night on it Its a great Backround for a showdown In Austria our Mountain Roads very bad and Bumpy, but its fun to Race on it. Greets Mario |
| Posted by: cd1105 Jan 30 2006, 05:15 PM | ||
thank u and heres 1 http://zshare.net/12203594/akagi_...ill_1_.wmv.html |
| Posted by: xsleepydrifterx Feb 2 2006, 05:57 PM |
| Where I used the gutters the first time in a race against K.T.: Where Kai made the jump against me on Irohazaka:  The turn where Kyoichi pushed me to the edge "literally" and I had to pull for my life: More on request |
| Posted by: alientospace Feb 2 2006, 07:18 PM |
| Its real I hope I can go there too. |