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1939382 No.1939382 [Reply] [Original]

How much does does /jp/ know about touge?

I would say my picture is very related.

>> No.1939385

Nothing at all.

>> No.1939396

>>1939385
I thought you were "Japan/General".

Surely someone knows, as not only is touge the majority of the Japanese street racing scene, it is also the source for many of Japan's great racing drivers and a considerable amount of manga, anime, movies, and so on.

>> No.1939399

I dont think I have EVER seen a thread about street racing

We arent faggot ricers here

>> No.1939405

>>1939396
I never thought about touge. Ask Mr. Owl.

>> No.1939420

/o/ would probably know more about this. A very large amount more, actually.

>> No.1939426

>>1939405
Mr. /o/wl. How much do you know about touge?

>> No.1939430

>>1939382
Well, I watched The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift earlier. Shit sucked.

>> No.1939437

>>1939399
Actually there was one yesterday, with all the regulars from /o/.

>>1939430
Not representative of the actual thing, since lolHollywood and faggot ricers.

>> No.1939451
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Not much aside from games. The Shutokou Battle series (Tokyo Extreme Racer/Tuner Import Challenge in US) is easily my favorite racing game series.

>> No.1939459
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>>1939399
We are when it comes to VN/anime decals and high performance cars mashed together.

Those goddamn Touhou/Nanoha cars are awesome.

>> No.1939467

/o/ knows a lot about the tooj; ask them

>> No.1939469

North Carolina mountains are very similar to the touge, I was raised going to deal's gap.

>> No.1939471

NC mountains are very similar to the tooj. I was raised going to the Deal's gap area.

>> No.1939472

>>1939459
Though some Japanese actually said those cars were an insult to the car itself. Fine when it's on a Civic, but doing it on a surviving Lancia Stratos = a little too far.

>> No.1939474

>>1939471
Shut up turtletron, jerk.

>> No.1939497

>>1939471
wat

>> No.1939517

>>1939472
It's called an itasha for a reason.

>> No.1939739
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I've had the good fortune to personally drive up and down Mt. Haruna in Gunma-ken (the actual mountain that was given the fictitious name Mt. Akina in Initial D). The first thing that struck me was that it's absolutely fucking GORGEOUS. I've been through mountains before in Pennsylvania and the like but this was totally different. Incredibly beautiful greenery, highly recommended, etc.

The second thing that struck me was how mind-numbingly impossible it seemed to even think of racing on this road and NOT DIE. Even without the speed bumps they added to discourage racing, it's so perilously thin and winding.. they're not kidding in the anime when they go on about the "point of attack".. the road is too narrow for two cars to exist side by side in all but a few select locations. Also, there's lots of tourists during the day.

Finally, having also played Initial D Battle Stage in the arcades, the recreation of Mt. Haruna in 3D is amazingly accurate, especially the town area that surrounds the lake at the crater top.

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Sorry my shitty camera does not do the place justice. Also forgot to resize last pic lawl

>> No.1939825
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At the peak they sold these delicious caramel candies. It made the whole trip worth it.

>> No.1939890

OP here. Wonder what's going on in my thre-

>>1939813
>>1939739
>>1939825
Oh. My. God. PLEASE more hi-res pictures of this stuff. PLEASE.

I'M BEGGING YOU MAN.

>> No.1939919
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>>1939890
Aight

>> No.1939940
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Starting out near the top of the downhill. The top of Mt. Haruna is a crater lake, but right next to it a small, extremely triangular peak (visible here) called Haruna-Fuji.

>> No.1939954

>>1939940
>>1939919
Appreciate it, also, keep giving basic info; I'm naming these and making wallpaper.

>> No.1939948
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One of the first hairpin curves.

>> No.1939958
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The lake at the peak. It was too bright to look at no matter how long you let your eyes adjust. (camerasux)

>> No.1939978
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A scenic little rest stop halfway up the broad side. Can you spot the famous 5 hairpins?

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A closer view.

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A mossy wall carved in mysterious moonrunes.

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>>1939978
Dude, I SO can.

I love you for this, I can stay up all night if that's what it takes to get all this stuff.

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>> No.1940042
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Hooray for GPS!

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Piney.

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It's hard to get a real sense of the scale and steepness of it all with a point'n'shoot, but I think this one does a good job.

>> No.1940068

Where in Japan is this?

>> No.1940077
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A running jump would probably send you careening a good thousand feet or so.

>> No.1940084

These are all still Haruna, right? Just for my naming purposes, you understand.

Also, didn't think I'd save the nav system photo, but that's awesome. (Tr/o/ll here, if that wasn't blatantly obvious.)

>> No.1940100
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>>1940068
Mt. Haruna in Gunma-ken, Japan. Paste this into google maps: 群馬県榛名山
It's basically right smack dab in the center of Honshu.

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Those swan-shaped paddle boats. Again, looks dark due to camera exposure, but was actually blindingly bright.

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Ikaho onsen-town (hot springs) viewed from the rest platform.

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Near the bottom of the downhill there is this little coffee shop 'White House' in the middle of nowhere nestled between some trees.

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That volcanic peak again.

>> No.1940136

does mt. haruna really have gutters like they show in initial d?

>> No.1940144

thanks mr. picture dumper

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They're not so much gutters as they are places where the pavement just ends and the ground slopes down, but yeah. You can kind of see one here.

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One of the eeriest things was finally reaching the bottom of the mountain and driving into the town. It was a bizarre sense of deja vu; I'd never been there before, but I'd seen that scene so many times in the anime it felt like a homecoming, as nerdy as that sounds.

>> No.1940213

>>1940179
OP again. I aspire to do this just to feel the same way. Actually, that, and go to the Mazda Museum in Hiroshima.

Still downloading these images and fapping to them, by the way.

>> No.1940217

>>1940179

what do you drive btw?

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That's all for now I guess.

>> No.1940243

>>1940225
I love you.

/jp/, ask me for any of my wallpapers, and I will give it to you, as a token of my undying gratitude.

That's if I have it, of course.

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>>1940217
When I was back in the states, I drove, stereotypically, a hachiroku
(<-- this) and a BMW M3. I had to sell both when I moved to Japan, and I don't have my japanese driver's license yet so I haven't bought a car here yet. When I went up Haruna with a friend we took her Prius, so yeah uh, no drifting in that bad boy. It was nice not having drop a single yen on gas though.

>> No.1940290

>>1940252
So clean, so shiny.

Fuck I hate winter and what it does to my car.

>> No.1940410

>>1940252

i must know if this is true: LHD cars makes the bitches holla in japan. even better is it some huge american car with dubs. y/n?

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Now it's even more /jp/ related

>> No.1940459

>>1940410
I don't know if he's still here, but from what I have read from /o/'s news article links, it is true.

>> No.1940464

I take it you made some money on the ricer tax resale?

>> No.1940468

>>1940459

please provide said news links. you will make me laugh heartily.

>> No.1940502

>>1940468
I don't have them. But the upshot of the thread was this:

While idiots in America are busy making their Civics look Japanese, idiots in Japan are busy making American-made cars look "American" in much the same fashion. Both of them are paying the same level of attention to performance, that is to say, none at all.

Okay, I don't know about gettin' bitches. But I know about the rest of it. Sort of.

>> No.1940640

>>1940449
Wait, that's translated? Well damn, I might actually check it out now, despite how stupid it sounds.

>> No.1940749

Let's agree that OP knows nothing about actually touge.

Leave those who actually do it alone.

>> No.1940762
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Touge has nothing to do with Japan, evidently. Only VNs and touhou.

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>>1940502
Any BIPPU car is bound to get an attention. Though personally I would have loved an Impreza.

>> No.1942085

Has anyone mentioned Eurobeat yet?

You HAVE to listen to Eurobeat when driving the touge.

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>>1942085
Oh fuck, don't mention that. The moment you start using EUROBEAT as BGMs for racing games, you'll never look back.

Unless you're using BGMs from WMMT, because they're awesome.

>> No.1942110

>>1942095

Yep.

Once I started listening to Eurobeat, I can no longer listen to anything else while driving.

Fuck you very much, Initial D.

>> No.1942136

Get out of my /jp/.

I left /o/ for a reason, why does it follow me.

>> No.1942134

Get out of my /jp/.

I left /o/ for a reason, why does it follow me.

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>>1942136

fagg/o/ts, m/o/r/o/n,s and tr/o/lls stick together.

one of us, arktis. one of us.

>> No.1942614

>>1942146
I'M NOT THE SAME PERSON FROM BACK THEN! I'M TRYING TO LIVE THE GOOD LIFE NOW! WHY CAN'T I GET AWAY?!

WHAT AM I FIGHTING FOOOOOOOOOOOOOR???!!!

>> No.1942635

>>1942614

indeed

WAT are you fighting for? You cannot resist /o/, so come and wat.

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