so the convention centre where the show is on
its about 50 minutes out of the city by train
you can drive around here but
its probably cooler just to get public transport
you can see more
not get stuck in traffic
so its about 50 minutes on a train
I would stay near the city
because there's heaps to see
all sorts of mad food, you can be a tourist
then you can jump on a train
which is really easy to navigate
to the convention centre
where autosalon's on
there is also a massive difference on public transport
between weekdays and weekends
if you go on weekdays prepare to be in a sea of people
everyone who is
going to work
if its a weekend, like a sunday, like it is today
its much more chilled out and easy to find your way around
autosalon does go for three days
Friday's like special entry
Saturday and sunday is just general pop
so we're going with the general pop!
so this thing has a handy English button
and you get yourself one of these things
which is "watermelon"
is what that stands for
its like a pass card or whatever
and you can buy a new one
there
or you can charge it
or you can top it up
for example
when you buy a new one, whatever
umm or you can charge it
which is what I wanna do
insert your "suica" card thing
it asks you how much money you wanna jam in
umm
I'm gonna be here for a while so I'm gonna jam 2000
which is
roughly 20 US dollars
is a good way to look at it
the machine are so smart you can jam in notes
two at a time
and go there you go
and it figures it out
now I had 33 yen credit
now I have 20 and 33, ready to go
and then
you go and jam this
this thing
onto a "suica" reader
which'll take care of our whole trip
all the way from this station, which is fairly central in the city
all the way to the show
like this
bam
red means warm
blue means cold
that's all you need to know
so another mad tip is that there's lots of different kinda lines
some are subways, some are trains
in our case we need to get two trains which means we're above ground most of the time
which is cool because you get to see more stuff
there's also subways, which are handy
because you can just like pop up right in the middle of the city
but your card, that we showed you before
umm will work on both
this is why you get the train
super important to fuel up, in this case we have
a chicken teriyaki roll
somewhat western because it just takes too long to eat noodles this time of the day
especially when we're about to stand in the biggest queue in history
it's been five years since I've been here, one thing that hasn't changed
dudes still love taking photos of girls
not wearing much, in front of jdm cars
that was Tokyo autosalon
if you've never been, you've gotta come here at least once in your life
if you're into cars
it was five years since we were last here
some of the fashions have changed
a lot hasn't changed
theres still some really old cool classic cars to see
but do yourself a favour vou've gotta come and see this for yourself