| QUOTE (r35gtr @ 3 hours, 18 minutes ago) |
| Anyone who lives in Japan who can tell us how to go there using public transport? Can I reach this by train? |
Anything's accessible via JR, you just gotta walk from the station to the actual shop ~
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| Posted by: hackgrid Sep 11 2016, 11:02 AM |
| Hi, next year I am going to Japan for the first time and just found this: http://jpninfo.com/57058 Anybody been there yet? :-) |
| Posted by: Import_Lexus Sep 11 2016, 03:52 PM |
| wow looks like a really cool place! |
| Posted by: r35gtr Sep 11 2016, 08:03 PM |
| Any one who lives in japan who can tell us how to go there using public transport? can I reach this by train? I want my fried tofu delivered by an 86. I hope I do not need a car to get there, I always end up driving at the wrong lane (in Ireland at least) |
| Posted by: xiao Sep 11 2016, 11:24 PM | ||
Anything's accessible via JR, you just gotta walk from the station to the actual shop ~ ☆ |
| Posted by: hackgrid Sep 12 2016, 03:34 AM |
Walking would be a bit too far, 5km from Shibukawa Station  Can you visit Mount Haruna / Lake Haruna with public transportation? I guess I could rent a car (is that easy for foreigners?) but then I would need to translate my drivers license in the embassy which sounds like a big hassle  Maybe some random street racer could take me up to the hill  edit: Is there a list of adresses of famous Initial D places? This guy found the tofu store, has anybody the adress for it?  http://forums.nicoclub.com/the-real-initia...no-t356992.html |
| Posted by: xiao Sep 12 2016, 08:34 AM | ||
http://moemoerabu.net/2008/09/23/driving-to-gunma-open-air-baths-and-the-wangan... http://moemoerabu.net/2008/09/18/driving-out-to-mt-fuji it is. Things in life are usually easier if you have https://idforums.net/index.php?showtopic=48144&view=findpost&p=1324978. $$ |
| Posted by: JKaiba Sep 12 2016, 10:57 AM | ||
Tofu Shop's not there anymore. 5km isn't that bad of a walk. AAA can make you a ridiculously kindergarten craft looking "International Driving Permit" That works in lieu of your license. If you absolutely must take public transit to and around Haruna: http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e7480.html. Hope you speak and read a minimal level of Japanese to find some lodging if you get lost or stuck out there. Otherwise there's onsen resorts around the area but they can be pricy. If you go for anything at least go experience an onsen instead ofl just Car tour stuff. From experience- if you really want to do Initial D tour, just rent a car for the day. It makes getting around Gunma so much easier and getting to the turn offs easy for photos and taking in the sights. Otherwise you're on a bus and your view and stops are limited. Obviously don't be a hoon. You're there to sightsee, not act like a criminal. |
| Posted by: Tessou Sep 12 2016, 11:01 PM | ||
I had this posted on the facebook group page many moons ago and a certain site owner decided against promoting it (or, more probable, he's just lazy).  |
| Posted by: xiao Sep 13 2016, 05:40 PM | ||
I think Perry is busy posting 3Pac videos and highly ...come to think of it ~ Perry's brain is even more complex than a Rubix Cube ~ he's probably working for Google/Baidu & won't even tell us !!  |
| Posted by: hackgrid Apr 15 2017, 05:29 AM |
| Last week I've been to the cafe, it is still there and it is great! I visited by public transportation and even got to lake haruna / akina. More info and pictures to come :-) |
| Posted by: streetstyle Apr 16 2017, 12:12 PM |
if anyone... goes there again Im happy to buy them some puddings (to eat) if they would post me the empty containers  Asked a few people who been visiting Japan, but have no ID interest  |
| Posted by: avkel May 6 2017, 09:31 AM | ||
I just back from D'z Garage last week, nice place  !Enjoy the short video Initial D Real Stage x D'z Garage RacingCafe
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| Posted by: kyonpalm May 8 2017, 10:01 AM | ||
I swear, next time I go to Japan I'm doing the pilgrimage, and I have to see that cafe. Nice to see a Cosmo there too. |
| Posted by: hackgrid Oct 21 2018, 12:32 PM |
| I try to upload pictures and videos from my visit soon :-) |
| Posted by: hackgrid Sep 29 2022, 04:18 AM |
| I am very sorry, that this took so long! Hopefully someone is still interested! :-) Here are some pictures from my travel from Shibukawa JR Station (the old man from the "Shibukawashi Information Centre" was very helpful with the busses and had Initial D stuff in his office!) to D'z Racing Cafe Garage (3715-1 Shibukawa, Gunma 377-0008, Japan) (they also helped us with the bus, I think it was 2-3 transfers to other busses) to Lake Haruna. Unfortunately we were there out of season, so there only were like 3 busses / day and we were completly alone in bus and at the lake! A old lady came from one of the businesses, to offer us tea and look at her initial d merchandise, very nice! :-) We only met very nice people on that day, which helped us very much! Traveling to Shibukawa was a bit hard, since there were no english signs or texts, even at the train from Tokyo, so I had to compare the Kanji like pictures  We got an used bus map from the information office, which the worker there circled our stops, but unfortunately there were already many different markings from different people  Travelling by bus is something I would really not recommend, unfortunately there were no racers there to drive up to the the lake Some nice family offered to take us with them, but they only had one free seat in one of smallest cars I have ever seen  So there is the Album on IMGUR (73 pictures which should cover the whole trip! - on April 9th 2017): https://imgur.com/a/eC7vYzp (it seems the pictures are out of order, sorry!  )I forgot, I also made a very anti-climatic "bus-drifting" video for the corners of Mount Haruna/Akina ;-) https://www.veed.io/view/bf9cd1ca-90fa-43b9...dc-c38810071b6f Have fun! |