Mille Miglia Japan – The Finish in Harajuku

This past weekend when I was in Fuji Speedway for the D1-GP there was another event back in central Tokyo that I really wanted to check out, the yearly Mille Miglia Japan classic car race. 103 cars set-off from Harajuku, right in front of the Meiji shrine on Saturday afternoon and headed on a 3-day, 1000-mile drive that would take them all the way up to Fukushima-ken and back down towards Tokyo, passing Honda’s Twin Ring Motegi race track in Tochigi-ken and the famous Umihotaru Parking Area in the middle of the Aqua Line expressway. Their return to Harajuku was scheduled to begin on Tuesday evening so I jumped on the train and headed to what has to be one of Tokyo’s most fashionable areas. Continue reading at Speedhunters

By Dino Dalle Carbonare