CAFFEINE & MACHINE DAIKOKU NIGHTS

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When you take a look at car and bike culture as an entity, vast amounts of it can trace its roots back to a certain cluster of islands in the North Pacific. If its got wheels, then you can be fairly certain that somewhere in Japan, theres a group of people with boundless enthusiasm for it.

There are the obvious things the Japanese cars themselves, so distinct in flavour and style from any other countrys products. From diminutive kei cars that show how much charm and variety can be spun from 63bhp and 660cc, all the way up to the sports cars that have again and again rewritten the rules on delivering face-bending performance.

There are their efforts in global motorsports, pretty much all of which have been dominated by a Japanese manufacturer at some point or another Hondas F1 engines, Subaru and Mitsubishis rally cars, Toyota and Mazdas Le Mans-conquering prototypes, Yamahas screaming MotoGP machinery not to mention drifting, the nations most famous motorsport export, which is really more of a noisy, smoky art form.

That brings us to the modifying culture. Building an engine for mind-bending power figures, setting up a car to slide gracefully around a track, or augmenting bodywork with the most outrageous aerodynamic addenda Japan is the heartland of it all.

Its not just Japanese cars either whether its the groups illuminating the nighttime streets of Tokyo with neon-clad Lamborghinis, the visionaries up in the hills turning old Dodge vans into unlikely race and drift machines, or the countrys thriving classic car collector scene, nothing goes unappreciated in Japanese car culture.

And it all converges in an unassuming car park on an artificial island in Tokyo Bay. The Daikoku Parking Area, from which the first of our monthly events takes its name, is one of the worlds great automotive melting pots, one of those places where everyone with even a passing interest in cars and bikes can find something to keep them occupied.

Its from this magical place that we take our inspiration for Daikoku Nights, a celebration of Japan, its machines, and the thriving, endlessly diverse culture around them. First Wednesday of the month.

TICKET INFORMATION

Car: 10.00

Bike: 5.00

*Please note that tickets are per vehicle (including motorbikes), and if you do not have a ticket, you will not be able to enter.