Two friends and I headed up on a nice, clear spring day last year to check out cars near Fukui City. Matsuda-san drove his awesome Chevrolet. So cool and so classic.

We arrived in the late morning to see quite a crowd. I was pretty surprised that there were these many car enthusiasts in Fukui Prefecture. Honestly, day-to-day, I rarely see any decently modified cars. Usually, they have some slightly nice wheels, but that’s about the extent I see typically.

There are lots of JDM older cars like Skylines.

Unfortunately for Matsuda-san hoping to represent other US classic import cars, there were not many other American or European import cars. Personally I was impressed with the range. I have never seen these many cool cars in one spot in Fukui.

Better to just enjoy the pictures…

It might have been called a Mazda Cosmo Show, with about a half-dozen pristine examples…

Are MR2s old enough to be considered a “classic” already? Man, I ‘m getting old…

Okay, this is just ridiculous. NSXs are not classics. But they sure are still gorgeous. — Okay, this is just ridiculous. NSXs are **not** classics. But they sure are still gorgeous.

This was perhaps my favorite car of the show… a Daihatsu Mira. While most may think it’s pretty pedestrian, given that it used to be an extremely common car (well, the newer ones still are a dime-a-dozen), this one was bought new by one owner ever since 1986. The car remains in superb condition and he has quite a few photos to prove his travels around the country… He even still has the original window sticker! One has to appreciate the love he has for his car.

The remainder of the parking lot was no less exciting…

A few exotics made a showing, like this 458.

As you can tell, I have a bit of an affinity for an old Fairlady Z.

There were plenty of other cars in attendance, but I couldn’t possibly upload them all! Let me know if a car catches your eye, I’ll upload more if anyone requests.

Now that it’s spring soon, I’m looking forward to this years’ event! I hope to see you there!

I took a summer road trip to Hokkaido last year and I passed through the Tohoku (North Eastern) Area of Japan on my way back to Fukui. As you probably already know, Japan really loves cars, given especially many cars around the world are designed and/or manufactured here in this rather tiny country. So it’s no surprise that there are also quite a few cool car museums all over.

Here is the one I went to most recently, the Nasu Classic Car Museum located in Nasu District, Tochigi Prefecture.

At 1000¥, the entry ticket price is a bit expensive, but for the beautiful quality collection of classic foreign cars, it was well worth the price of entry for me.

Many of these cars are exceedingly rare anywhere in the world and even more so in Japan, as most of these were not imported in any large quantity.

I’ll admit I don’t know much about classic cars, so please enjoy my pictures.

There were also a few cars you could sit in.

They even have a genuine Mach Five from the 2008 Speed Racer movie.

While this small collection may not be worth a separate, long trip to see, I highly recommend stopping by the museum if you happen to be remotely nearby.

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Fukui Classic Car Meeting 2019 in Fukui City, Fukui

Nasu Classic Car Museum in Nasu, Tochigi