Tokyo - Osaka

[Powered by Jay]

Hey guys. Well I'm having trouble finding shops other than autobacs, yellow hat, and up garage around sendai where i currently live so I decided to travel south for about a week before I go home. I was wondering if anyone knew of any specific shops i could check out for aftermarket and used (especially) parts down between tokyo and osaka. TIA.

Jason

[Bill Roberts]

Jason....find a riced out car (or a performance vehicle) and try to talk to the owner of that car. Word of mouth on locale is best. Things happen fast in Japan at times, a shop that was doing good parts and work...may be gone and moved to better things. I have seen shops shift to other business in sight of 4 weeks.

Most of the coolest stuff happens out of peoples houses or small machine shops...usually suburb residences.

See if you can find someone that has a hot car while cruising and ask them...best way to get something done and fresh info IMHO.


Inqire at many forums for this.

YMMV..

[Powered by Jay]

looks like i'll have to try that out. my only problem is my very limited japanese. I hope their english is better than my japanese. :D

[zero.counter]

Some of the shops and peoples homes should speak some english however broken up it may be.

[aeontony]

I've visited Apex'i in Kyoto. There's also Signal in Osaka, and Pitroad M (for GTOs, mostly) around Osaka as well. There are a buttload in Tokyo, but I've only been in Tokyo once. I have a listing with a bunch of shops if you need it. You just have to give me specific regions, and be able to read the Japanese addresses I type out =P

[Powered by Jay]

aeontony,
are the shops you have listed for used parts as well? anyways I could really use that list if a lot of them are in the tokyo area. I can probably read the address given time. Thanks.

Jason