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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/

This post has been edited by Nomake Wan on Apr 29 2007, 12:56 PM

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

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.

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

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

There was a thread on here that had all the pics from every mountain they raced on. Start looking

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

I seen these before. It's pretty cool to see that they are the samething as in the anime. It's Crazy.

I see, thats cool. Do people actually gather and race at those locations?

I was wondering the samething.

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?

I think that is the same lake . . . hehe boats and all.

Akina = Haruna you say? I gotta do some research.

haruna? u get that from a battle gear site?

No, from maps. Akina is named Haruna on all the maps Ive seen.

well then i have no idea

I would race there!

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

Kick ass! If I get stationed in japan I will definetly make it there to race.

Stationed?

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!

military=boo

military + young ppl = brainwashed killers

BOOOO!

i want to go to mount Akina one day ...like muslism(sp?) go to the Mecque

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.