The afterparty is all the time the place it’s at, and after the super crowds skilled at Tokyo Auto Salon closing Friday (after which proper throughout all the weekend), putting out on a chilly and windy rooftop carpark in Tokyo with a host of vehicle nerds was once a breath of clean air in additional techniques than one.

Remaining yr’s Underground Tokyo Meet was once a heady buzz of vehicles and fanatics from around the globe. The development title can have had you considering it was once totally underground within the sense of being secret, like a techno rave in an deserted quarry, however in truth it was once actually held in an underground carpark. Round 40 or 50 vehicles rocked up by way of invite handiest, with loads of spectators there to test them out.

I don’t steadily get complications, however spending a longer period of time in a poorly-ventilated underground carpark as vehicles steadily cruised via had my eyes watering from the fumes and my head throbbing till mattress time. This time round despite the fact that, the Underground Tokyo team teamed up with NVRFUKNSUC and automobile way of life logo Peaches to ramp issues up a notch.

A brand new location on a rooftop carpark in Tokyo’s Koto Town ward was once secured. There was once quite a few house and, most significantly, breathable air.

Having spent all the day at Makuhari Messe, Rick and I arrived lovely past due to the birthday celebration, lacking a different look from the Nissan Hyper Pressure GT-R idea and in addition Nissan’s Skyline Tremendous Silhouette race automotive. Bummer. Nonetheless, there was once lots to peer – more or less.

The rooftop location would had been further superb if the parking space had overhead lights, however unfortunately it didn’t. The organisers introduced alongside a couple of enormous transportable lighting fixtures, even if they had been by no means going to light up the whole website. A few other people had torches and there was once the peculiar videographer round with an LED mild unit, however for those who got here unprepared, you may have been wishing you’d eaten extra carrots the week prior.

Annoyingly, Rick appears to be uncannily solid together with his digicam and will shoot proper right down to a 1-second publicity and now have his photographs pin-sharp. I attempted my easiest, however I may just handiest effectively get right down to part a moment. Nonetheless, I felt a way of delight because it was once significantly better than my standard 1/twentieth of a moment go-to shutter velocity for night time capturing.

A smorgasbord of 911s, GT-Rs, Evos (together with the unique reference automotive for The Rapid And The Livid: Tokyo Go with the flow Evo), Imprezas, RX-7s and the whole thing in between coated the rows of what would in most cases be parking for grocery-getters and minivans. 108 invited visitors in general. Lovely particular.

The bustle of the gang, the cold iciness air and the nice and cozy under-glow of tuner vehicles was once an actual vibe.

The lined parking ranges beneath the rooftop had been full of spectator vehicles, and we discovered some beauties down there too. An actual combined bag.

All just right issues will have to come to an finish despite the fact that, and with simply 20 mins left to run within the match the police confirmed as much as with politeness ask other people to depart, which they did.

No longer that it in point of fact mattered, since the following night there was once any other meet to try. Keep tuned for that as our protection from Tokyo Auto Salon 2024 and the entire different TAS week actions in Tokyo continues.

Toby Thyer
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Further Pictures by way of Rick Muda
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