I haven’t seen many cars too out of the ordinary here yet, but it’s getting there. Here are two that I saw, one quite a while ago and the other more recently. They’re more typical sports cars I’m into, and want to see more of, but I haven’t seen much yet, still not sure when I’ll get a chance to visit a track.
By the way, me and some friends have pretty much deduced that the spot where we kept seeing Ferraris (there was a black one, in the SAME spot, by the SAME shop as the white one I have pictured here) is a yakuza hang out. So I’m probably going to stop taking pictures of yakuza cars.
“What? How do you know they’re Yakuza? You’re just making things up! Aren’t you a BBMIJ, can’t you take care of yourself? Don’t be so chicken!” — If this is something you would say, my resposne is: Just the possibility of me being right is enough to deter me completely. Also, I get the disturbing feeling that Yakuza are even more brutal than some other crime syndicates, since the japanese love to take things to the next level.
Well anyway, here non-Yakuza cars I spotted…
Oh, please note, I’m in-between Photoshops right now, so the brushing was done with paint.
A yellow lexus I spotted in Shinjuku. This picture doesn't do the car justice... It had a lot of LED/NEON lights and other color touches everywhere... Very Unique. Very hard to screw up an IS.
A white RX7 I spotted on my way to try to find a festival (which I failed in doing, but more on that later)... It went by me pretty quick, but I managed to at least get this shot.
Pretty much the back of that same lexus. It was actually pretty difficult to get this shot, because that was a very active crosswalk.
Oct 26, 2010 @ 08:07:29
According to my sister, yakuza generally dress very pretty-boyish (at least the younger members do). Fancy suits and polished shoes…and they tend to roll their “r” sounds – at least that’s how the yakuza in Sapporo dress.
My sister’s students were a little uncomfortable rolling their r’s when she was trying to teach them some spanish words for this reason…but supposedly people from Osaka/kansai area also tend to roll their r’s, so it may not be a sure-fire way to identify yakuza.
Oct 27, 2010 @ 17:37:40
I thought the ferraris, along with all the clubs along the street, and one particularly sketchy looking cafe were enough. Also, it turns out that all the japanese people that live around here know it’s a yakuza hang out spot. It’s literally only the foreign students that don’t know.
But, I actually feel way safer here than I do in the US, despite everything. It’s really not that big of a deal at all, which is pretty awesome.
And I’ve seen the pretty boy guys around the sketchy parts of shinjuku (kabukicho), and some other areas I knew were pretty sketch.