So I went to the Honda Welcome Plaza in Tokyo (near the Aoyama el station) and they have a nice little giftshop there, where I bought this Type R pillow. It's not huge, just slightly over a foot in diameter. It looks like they also sell them on their Japanese website store.

 

I think that's look really nice. I might buy one too lol

 

Sweet. I'd sleep like a rock every night with one of these!!!

 

How was Tokyo? I really want to go, even took 20hrs of Japanese in College. (I wish I would have retained more but i kept all my books though.)

 

I heard they're bumpy and uncomfortable

 

awwww, just like the cars

stiff suspension ftw

 

ROR!!!!

 

I want one!

 

I want two

 

 

Shoot I slept like a baby for 4 hours in Ryans track car lol.

 

Now that's a good excuse for me to go to Japan!

 

I Need one for my seat booster.. since i'm short

 

lol niceeeee.

 

its to bad i dont read japanese to buy one of these

 

It was very interesting. It was mostly what I expected. And actually it didn't strike me as all that different from the States, other than obvious differences like the use of a foreign language and currency, and driving on the other side of the road. It's clearly a developed country, with lots of cars and shops and gas stations and shopping centers etc. I was expecting to see a whole lot of microcars on the roads but the cars didn't look that different from here.

I thought much of the food was not very appealing. I like some Japanese foods in Japanese restaurants in the States, like tempura, but in Japan they don't serve cooked foods hot (almost everything is served at room temperature). One thing they're big on is breaded pork cutlets served cold. Ick. They don't do American style foods well, but the one thing they do well is French food. So at breakfast buffets I ignored the Japanese foods, the grossly runny eggs, and the cold pancakes, and went straight for the outstanding flaky croissants.

Even today most Japanese don't speak English (less so than in most other developed foreign countries overseas). Two other oddities I noticed. Everywhere they have heated toilet seats with bidet and splash functions. And they don't have garbage cans anywhere. So you're walking down the street, and the sidewalk is lined with vending machines selling foods and drinks in disposable packaging, but there's nowhere to throw out the empty wrappers/cans. I've been told that the Japanese take their garbage home with them to throw out. Very odd.

Most of the traffic signs in the big cities have English as well as kanji lettering and are pretty simple, so you can figure out where you're going. But then you have signs like this one:

 

LOL, at the sign.

 

sounds like a fun trip ken...how long are you there (or how long were you there)?

see any tracks?

 

I was there for eight days, with 60-70 others from overseas. We went to Motegi Twin Ring and the Honda Collection Museum, Fuji Speedway, and Suzuka Circuit where their annual NSX Fiesta event took place, with 300 NSXs. We also went to Honda R&D and saw where they do the Honda Refresh work (to restore NSX's to their original factory condition). We also saw Soichiro Honda's gravesite. And toured a bunch of shrines and temples in Kyoto, and rode the Shinkansen (bullet train).

 

Sounds like you had an awesome time. Can you post some more pictures?

 

NSX 20th Anniversary pics from NSX Prime

http://www.nsxprime.com/forums/showthread.php?t=142760