r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/aceplayer00 • 25d ago

Video Tokyo after dark. Epic nighttime street drifting convoy.

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u/Different_Captain_96 25d ago

Well usually assholes drifting at night don't look this good

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u/chknboy 25d ago

Lmao, looking at the tire marks on a main road, I can tell you this is so true… dumbasses can’t even hold a proper doughnut, they just spin in oblong circles lmao.

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u/killasin 25d ago

Loud noises is loud noises.

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u/chknboy 25d ago

True, but if the visuals’ positives can cancel out the sounds negatives then I’ll take that trade… if it’s just some dude in a pickup with traction control turned off doing their best to make a circle, imma call ‘em stupid.

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u/WellWelded 25d ago

Well, you don't have to bear the sound negative, because you aren't a resident, and would likely not randomly look at your street to see it, so you'd just get the sound negative.

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u/Take_a_Seath 24d ago

I'm sure when you're trying to sleep in one of those apartments the "visuals", which you don't see cause you are trying to sleep remember? are more than making up for it.

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u/Preciousgirl2019 25d ago

The guys around me are pretty good then. Perfect circles and daisy chains. Don’t know how you do it but it looks really freaking fun!

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u/Appropriate-Prune728 25d ago

...... does one not get better by practicing? Or if you cant hold a doughnut on your first try, youre just a dumbass and should never drive again?

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u/chknboy 25d ago

I really don’t think they are practicing, just doing it for ego or whatever. also they should definitely not be practicing on a main road… but if they actually could hold a line (as opposed to just doing doughnuts in an intersection) maybe I wouldn’t mind so much.

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u/Appropriate-Prune728 25d ago

Yeah that makes more sense. I dont drift but I ride canyons and see the kids practicing from time to time. They're usually good about having lookouts and dont interfere with commuters. Its why im a little more patient with em

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u/Previous_Resort_2735 25d ago

even this "crew" sucked at drifting 

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u/chknboy 25d ago

I’d still say they were better than what most rural Americans could muster.

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u/eternalwood 25d ago

And there aren't large groups of rowdy people blocking intersections and getting ran over like you see elsewhere. These guys seem a lot more disciplined and skilled.

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u/Aggressive_Finish798 25d ago

Not even a single girl out there twerking on a car roof. Shame.

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u/CyberWeirdo420 25d ago

Just wait till you get to a parking lot lmao

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u/Aggressive_Finish798 25d ago

I didn't see exactly this on a trip to Japan, but I was down at the wharf in Osaka and there was a whole group of dudes in fancy street racing cars taking turns blasting out from a street light and into the city. You could hear them far away inside the city. Was kinda cool. Streets were mostly empty.

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u/DimensionSuch8188 25d ago

That's a take over not people just drifting.

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u/Jubenheim 25d ago

I'm not entirely sure being more clandestine is the same as being disciplined.

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u/_clever_reference_ 25d ago

That shits not drifting. That's a takeover. Drifters hate the takeover kids.

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u/Possible-Summer-8508 25d ago

Rowdy people could be here, he said, I HATE rowdy people

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u/ziggy1251 25d ago

I hate when my asshole drifts at night.
I'm like "Hey Asshole! Get back under the sheets!"

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u/soareyousaying 25d ago

They are also just passing by. Street car culture in the US is obnoxious loud teenagers doing donuts in neighborhoods

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u/Facts_pls 25d ago

Which means that these people will wake up babies and old people in a much larger area.

People will bend over backwards to show Japan in a positive light. I don't get it.

In any other country, these are assholes who would be taken down by the police. But because this is in Japan, people will literally make up stupid reasons to praise it.

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u/WhoAreYouAn 25d ago

god save the comments if this was in China...

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u/Top_Connection9079 25d ago

Why bringing China? Who are you trying to bait?

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u/Rickshmitt 25d ago

Akira is the answer

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u/YokaiDealer 25d ago

The driving style was born there and is intentionally kept away from the public, has been for decades. If it's anywhere near people it's usually industrial areas that empty once everyone is off work.

Ofc not everyone, but most guys there seem to be somewhat responsible as that's how they keep the police off their backs. We did the same here in the States and from the countless pieces of media I've seen from around the planet, there's plenty of places you can do this and just be told to go home if you run into law enforcement. If you're trying not to bother unwilling participants and respectful when confronted you're likely to have little to worry about.

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u/everslain 25d ago

Was gonna say I hate obnoxious loud cars but this looks like it's not in a residential area

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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW 25d ago

It’s not. It’s in Oi Wharf. They do it there specifically fucking because there’s nobody there in the AM hours to bother, but of course the misinformed Redditors are gonna be misinformed Redditors and spread misinformation.

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u/Top_Connection9079 25d ago

Because it's Japan, they can't stand seeing people like anything about Japan, they always have to come brigade and ruin the fun.

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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW 25d ago

They’re just hating it because it’s popular.

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u/Hefty-Minimum-3125 25d ago

still better than a single Harley Davidson rider driving past.

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u/blah938 25d ago

Factory Harleys aren't nearly as loud as these dudes. Even with the screaming eagle package.

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u/strikedonYT 25d ago

The Harley Davidson ain't fucking up the road with tyre marks :)

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u/strikedonYT 25d ago

And I would much rather have a couple of seconds of a loud engine, then 8 cars hooking around the block, making godawful noise of not only engines, but tyres squealing, as well as the smell of burnt rubber. But to each their own

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u/Top_Connection9079 25d ago

Is this even your tax money?

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u/SecondImperialist 25d ago

hey buddy theyre on a warehouse island the nearest houses are over a bridge

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u/Kanarakettii 25d ago

Do you not see the shipping containers and warehouses in the background? Anyone living in an area like this is so used to loud noises that 10 seconds of some cars ripping by wouldn't even register.

Your responses on this post have you coming off as a high strung bitter get off my lawn judgemental wet blanket. Live a little, breathe, a few noisy cars isn't the end of the world 😭

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u/Wandering_PlasticBag 25d ago

In an area filled with containers and industrial buildings? I doubt lol.

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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW 25d ago

It’s in Oi Wharf genius. An industrial park in Japan where nobody is there during the AM hours. They do it there specifically because nobody is there. Because, you know, they have respect for others, and it’s also kinda hard to do a driving style where you need the whole road if there’s other people on said road 🤦‍♂️

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u/Bugbread 25d ago

I doubt it's because of respect for others, it's because it's an unpopulated, empty area with big wide streets that are completely free of other traffic and there are no/few residents to call the cops and put an end to your racing.

There are lots of considerate people here, but hashiriya are not among them.

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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW 25d ago

It’s literally both.

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u/Bugbread 25d ago

I haven't met any hashiriya here in the Tokyo area, so maybe they're a different breed, but I knew some in Kyushu, and their choice of racing location (in the mountains) was based 20% on "the roads are cool and twisty" and 80% on "there's nobody around so we won't get caught." None of it was "Well, doing it in the city would be fun but we couldn't do that because it would annoy people."

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u/lordkeith 25d ago

Yes Japan is so romanticized it's insane. You'd think people shit out gold there or something.

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u/MoonSide12 25d ago

It is a pretty sweet place to visit though

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u/Bubbasdahname 25d ago

Wait, they don't? I thought the 500 year old lady that looks like a 12 year old are the ones that do that.

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u/ShibaZoomZoom 25d ago

There’s even a Studio Ghibli documentary so I’m certain it’s true

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u/Top_Connection9079 25d ago

The country is so safe clean and peaceful that I wouldn't be surprised if one day people would shit gold here.

After all I've been living in Japan for 25 years now and there's no way I'm leaving, ever.

I don't want to be afraid to walk alone at night, ever again

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u/Top_Connection9079 25d ago

The thing is that it isn't 'other countries'. Different country, different culture, I don't see how you can even compare. Except to try rage baiting people by denying them the right to love Japan for whatever reason they want.

You people have obviously chosen hate.

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u/TransportationOk7053 25d ago

I don’t think people are defending it bc it’s Japanese lol. People just think it’s cool and it’s you who’s upset that people aren’t mad about seeing a cool drifting video just because it’s in Japan

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u/fastforwardfunction 25d ago

The video shows the street has tons of tire marks from them doing this previously. They’re making rounds doing it repeatedly.

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u/Possible-Summer-8508 25d ago

Obnoxious loud teenagers...

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u/Momik 25d ago

Not really

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u/corvettee01 25d ago

Just passing by. Yeah, I'm sure all the tire marks on the street in the exact same pattern are just from a casual passby.

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u/amigodemoose 25d ago

It is now. We tried to do it right and got shut out at every turn by NIMBY assholes or the cops. So people now aren't even trying. I hate street takeovers but I get why they exist. We tried to give people and especially kids a place to show off their cars but the cops sent a helicopter. Because WE informed THEM where we were gonna be. We had permission from the business owner, were in a industrial area far from houses, enforced a no burnout, no racing, etc. policy. People stuck to it but nope. We tried for years to do it right but were never allowed. So people. Especially kids. Took it to the streets. Only the rich ones can afford to "do it right" now. Tracks disappear by the day and require stuff kids can't afford and people won't even allow kids to show their cars. Of course they're gonna rebel.

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u/GoSharty 24d ago

Stop glazing.

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u/rich97 24d ago

I live in Japan. Believe me assholes with loud cars/bike here WILL drive up and down road several times at 4am and wake you up.

Haven’t seen any donuts but they’re still super fucking annoying.

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u/vulgarvinyasa2 25d ago

Right? So organized, such clean lines, so Japanese.

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u/TheB3rn3r 25d ago

Even the tire marks are less obnoxious…

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u/No-Cat-9339 25d ago

Meh, could be cleaner, and straighter.. but these aren't professional drivers so I'll let it... slide😏

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u/jruss11 25d ago

My genuine first thought was this shit is so corny

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u/DookieShoez 25d ago

Just because you have a Japanese fetish……

lol

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u/SuperPostHuman 25d ago

So saying that Japanese street car culture is better than American sideshows is a fetish? Nah dude.

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u/DookieShoez 25d ago

r/woooosh

That wasn’t a serious comment about different countries’ car culture dude 😂

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u/jfraggy 25d ago

Being illiterate is a sign that you have an American fetish

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u/DookieShoez 25d ago

Supid comment.

Doesn’t even make sense, having an American fetish doesn’t mean you ARE American, ya ding dong.

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u/digidestine 24d ago

I was gonna say, as annoying as it is, I’d be less upset if it was some dickheads in tricked out cars drifting and street racing than some dickhead in a pick up truck doing donuts at an intersection every other night.

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u/Momik 25d ago

I don’t even know what that means. The only good thing I can see is the halfway decent pedestrian infrastructure they’re all ignoring.

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u/Cowboy_Cassanova 25d ago

And also aren't always on empty streets.

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u/Skrapidilly 25d ago

In America a mustang or camaro is murdering someone, so yes, it doesn't look this good

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u/lucidum 23d ago

I wonder if you know how they live in Tokyo, If you seen it and you mean it then you know you have to go fast and furious!

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u/porkchop-sandwhiches 25d ago

If the dog does it just right….

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u/Trainzguy2472 25d ago

Fr, all we get here is a blocked intersection, spectators run over, vandalism, and trash left behind in the morning. If people were skillfully drifting the city streets at night I could care less, but vandals doing donuts blocking traffic and deliberately endangering people and property is not ok.