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Fukushima Drift Experience|Skyline Snow, Circuit Smoke, and a Pilgrimage Worth the Miles

Fukushima Drift Experience|Skyline Snow, Circui...

On a clear April morning in Fukushima, winter hasn’t left so much as folded itself into the shoulders of the mountains. The gates on the Bandai-Azuma Skyline lift, and for...

Fukushima Drift Experience|Skyline Snow, Circui...

On a clear April morning in Fukushima, winter hasn’t left so much as folded itself into the shoulders of the mountains. The gates on the Bandai-Azuma Skyline lift, and for...

Yamagata Drift Experience|Green Ridges, Snow Walls, and Roads that Remember

Yamagata Drift Experience|Green Ridges, Snow Wa...

Some prefectures speak in straight lines. Yamagata speaks in seasons. In spring the mountains open like a book you’ve been waiting to finish; by early summer the snow still lingers where...

Yamagata Drift Experience|Green Ridges, Snow Wa...

Some prefectures speak in straight lines. Yamagata speaks in seasons. In spring the mountains open like a book you’ve been waiting to finish; by early summer the snow still lingers where...

Miyagi Drift Experience|Snow Corridors, Green Ridges, and a Temple of Speed

Miyagi Drift Experience|Snow Corridors, Green R...

There is a morning in Miyagi when spring still tastes like winter. You climb toward Zao and the sunlight fractures on wet tarmac, the road lifting you into a world...

Miyagi Drift Experience|Snow Corridors, Green R...

There is a morning in Miyagi when spring still tastes like winter. You climb toward Zao and the sunlight fractures on wet tarmac, the road lifting you into a world...

Akita Drift Experience|Sea Wind, Blue Lines, and the Quiet After Snow

Akita Drift Experience|Sea Wind, Blue Lines, an...

There are prefectures where the road demands horsepower, and there are prefectures where the road demands humility. Akita belongs to the latter. Drive here and the landscape edits you—first with sea...

Akita Drift Experience|Sea Wind, Blue Lines, an...

There are prefectures where the road demands horsepower, and there are prefectures where the road demands humility. Akita belongs to the latter. Drive here and the landscape edits you—first with sea...

Iwate Drift Experience|Snow Corridors, Quiet Valleys, and the Art of Restraint

Iwate Drift Experience|Snow Corridors, Quiet Va...

There’s a kind of silence that only mountain roads can make—a hush shaped by altitude, distance, and weather. In Iwate, that silence becomes a teacher. Here the road does not...

Iwate Drift Experience|Snow Corridors, Quiet Va...

There’s a kind of silence that only mountain roads can make—a hush shaped by altitude, distance, and weather. In Iwate, that silence becomes a teacher. Here the road does not...

Aomori Drift Experience|Seventy Hairpins, Sea Wind, and the Taste of Snow

Aomori Drift Experience|Seventy Hairpins, Sea W...

There are roads that ask for power, and there are roads that ask for patience. Aomori belongs to the latter—a northern province where wind from two seas combs the slopes,...

Aomori Drift Experience|Seventy Hairpins, Sea W...

There are roads that ask for power, and there are roads that ask for patience. Aomori belongs to the latter—a northern province where wind from two seas combs the slopes,...