Bling ALL The Rides
Q. What’s got four wheels and sparkles and can totally give you ear damage?
A. The cars on display at Tokyo Auto Salon, of course!
Yes, there’s a gigantic car show dedicated to over-the-top blingmobiles. Sure, there were plenty of ho-hum cars there too, but it’s the lowered, skirted, spoilered, rhinestoned-encrusted, flame-covered, subwoofer-blasting eye candy that everyone pays good money to see.
There’s still time to go see these delights for yourself if you’re in Tokyo right now, because the Tokyo Auto Salon continues tonight until 20:00 and tomorrow (Sunday 1/17) from 9:00 – 17:00 at Makuhari Messe. Admission is ¥2200 at the door. A map is on my website, The Tokyo Guide I Wish I’d Had.
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Jonelle Patrick View All
Writing mystery books set in Tokyo is mostly what I do, but I also blog about the odd stuff I see every day in Japan. I'm a graduate of Stanford University and the Sendagaya Japanese Institute in Tokyo, and a member of the International Thriller Writers, the Mystery Writers of America, and Sisters In Crime. When I'm not in Tokyo, I live in San Francisco. I also host a travel site called The Tokyo Guide I Wish I'd Had, so if you're headed to Japan and want to check out the places I take my friends when they're in town, take a look!
wow shiny! what’s a goombas?
Ah, sorry, American slang (><). A goomba is…that kind of guy. The kind in the picture, doing dumb stuff with other guys. You know?
and what does it mean?
That Lambo looks like it drove right out of the Trapper Keeper I always wanted. :O Is there another one of these coming up? I have several car nut friends and I feel it is my duty to rub this in… er…. take pictures and report back to them.
It happens every January – sadly, only once a year! But if you’re in port you gotta go because it’s amazing. (Also, big selling point for me, the lines for the mens room were WAY longer than the ones for the womens bwahahahaha)
Long lines to the men’s restroom?? Outrageous! Surely just as many women come to look at the all-female car models. 😛
Yeah, you probably noticed I didn’t include any snaps of the frickingly ubiquitous car models, because they constantly attracted huge scrums of cameramen and my curses everywhere I was trying to elbow my way through to just SEE THE SPARKLY CARS, DAMMIT!