Team Tokyo · Japan
Tokyo → the Hakone passes → Mt Fuji · seven days, private
Seven private days through the Japan car people cross the world for — behind the gates of the makers and the tuning ateliers, Tokyo’s legendary night meets, the mountain passes that made the legends, and a full race weekend at Fuji Speedway, the great circuit at the foot of the mountain. Driven, not watched. Private, for up to eight guests, three departures a year.
Entirely private for your party alone — up to eight guests — with the price shown per person. Three departures in 2027, each built on a real Fuji Speedway race weekend — Super GT in May, the FIA WEC 6 Hours of Fuji in September, and Super Formula in October. Your exact figure comes with your enquiry.
The journey
Normally this kind of access runs through private clubs and personal connections — the makers, the paddock, the people who engineer the cars. Automotive Legacy opens all of it to you with none of that: no membership, no favours called in, nothing to arrange. It is made for people who live with these machines — collectors, connoisseurs and families who have loved cars for a generation. You simply arrive, and drive.
1 Day 1
Arrive in the Peninsula’s Century · into Tokyo · settle in
We meet you at Haneda or Narita and bring you into the city in the Peninsula’s own Toyota Century or Rolls-Royce — the trip begins on four wheels that matter. Settle in at The Peninsula Tokyo, central and grand. A simple arrival day; the big days come next.
2 Day 2
The Nissan Heritage Collection · the NISMO Omori Factory · Daikoku
The side of Japanese car culture most travellers never see — the Nissan Heritage Collection at Zama (every Skyline and GT-R generation) and the NISMO Omori Factory, where GT-Rs are built, both privately opened — then, after dark, the legendary Daikoku parking-area meet near Yokohama.
3 Day 3
Top Secret · Super Autobacs Tokyo Bay · the Porsche centre
The enthusiast’s day — inside Top Secret, “Smoky” Nagata’s legendary Wangan-era workshop where 1,000-horsepower GT-Rs are built; Super Autobacs Tokyo Bay, Japan’s flagship parts superstore; and a 90-minute driving session at the Porsche Experience Center Tokyo, coached one-on-one on a closed circuit.
4 Day 4
A scenic drive to Fuji · taxi laps of the circuit
A scenic chauffeured drive to Mt Fuji through the legendary Hakone mountains, then the laps that need no licence at all: a professional driver takes you around Fuji Speedway at race pace, over 250 km/h down the great straight. The museum downstairs, dinner on the track-facing terrace.
5 Day 5
A team garage, qualifying & the engineer’s briefing
Not a spectator — embedded. Into the pit lane and a team’s garage, qualifying understood from the inside, and the centrepiece: your private, one-on-one briefing with a race engineer — setup, tyres, aero, the thinking behind the race. The access that normally takes a club or a lifetime in the sport.
6 Day 6
A grid walk, then the main event
The moment that beats every grandstand — a grid walk in the charged minutes before lights out, standing among the cars and crews — then the race itself (Super GT, Super Formula or the WEC 6 Hours of Fuji) from a premium hospitality suite, the machines at full cry on the great straight with Mt Fuji behind.
Arrive, and settle in.
Stay · The Peninsula Tokyo | Meals · at leisure
Inside the company and the culture that built the GT-R legend.
Stay · The Peninsula Tokyo | Meals · breakfast (dinner at leisure)
The tuning world up close, the parts you can’t get at home, and your first time behind the wheel.
You drive today — a closed Porsche circuit, with an instructor. Everything else is chauffeured.
Stay · The Peninsula Tokyo | Meals · breakfast & a Michelin dinner
To Mt Fuji — and your own laps of the circuit as the race weekend opens.
Stay · Fuji Speedway Hotel | Meals · breakfast & dinner
Behind the scenes of a live race weekend — the part no spectator sees.
Stay · Fuji Speedway Hotel | Meals · breakfast & hospitality
The main event — watched as an insider, not a ticket-holder.
Stay · Fuji Speedway Hotel | Meals · breakfast & hospitality
A last look, then home.
Meals · breakfast
The one thing that changes everything
Most “VIP” motorsport is a better seat and a lanyard. The moment our guests remember is different: thirty to forty-five minutes with a race engineer or team representative during the Fuji weekend — car setup, tyres, aerodynamics, the thinking behind a six-hour race, explained to you, in the paddock. Not a meet-and-greet; a real conversation with someone who does it for a living.
It is arranged privately for your departure — an authentic, contracted introduction, never access we don’t control. And on request, subject to the calendar, we’ll pursue a session with a professional driver: a technical conversation, coaching, or a supervised lap — the kind of story you tell for years.
“You don’t need to call in a favour, know an engineer or belong to a club. For seven days, the gates simply open — and you drive what’s behind them yourself.”
The Team Tokyo doctrine
Where you'll stay
Just two hotels, so you unpack and settle rather than live out of a suitcase — and both are part of the car story. Three nights at The Peninsula Tokyo, the only hotel in Japan with its own bespoke car fleet: you arrive chauffeured in the hotel’s Toyota Century or a Rolls-Royce — your choice of a hero arrival car — central to the city for the days of makers, garages and parts shops. Then three nights at the Fuji Speedway Hotel, The Unbound Collection by Hyatt — the one hotel built for people like you. It is trackside at the circuit, with floor-to-ceiling windows over the start-finish straight, the Fuji Motorsports Museum and its forty race cars downstairs, and Bar 4563 — a communal table shaped like an F1 car. Where available, we book you a villa with its own glass-walled showcase garage, or a circuit-view suite. You wake up at the track. (Prefer a classic onsen night on the way? We can add Gora Kadan, Hakone’s benchmark ryokan, on request.)
The 2027 departures
Every departure is built on an actual Fuji Speedway race weekend — so there is always a race to see, never a maybe. Three a year, each a different kind of motorsport, each timed for good weather on the mountain.
Spring · Golden Week
3–4 May 2027
Super GT · Fuji Round 2
Japan’s premier GT series at its most electric — factory Toyota, Nissan and Honda GT500 machines, the biggest home crowd of the year, and cherry-blossom-season Japan in mild spring weather.
Autumn · Endurance
24–26 Sept 2027
WEC 6 Hours of Fuji
The Le Mans championship comes to the mountain — Hypercars from Ferrari, Porsche, Toyota and Cadillac over six hours. The most internationally prestigious weekend, and a true three-day event: practice Friday, qualifying Saturday, race Sunday.
Autumn · Single-seaters
8–10 Oct 2027
Super Formula · Fuji Round 6
The fastest single-seaters on earth after Formula 1 — open cockpits, immense grip, the series where tomorrow’s F1 drivers are made. The closest thing to an F1 car you can watch at Fuji, in crisp autumn light.
Dates follow the 2027 circuit calendar. The WEC weekend is confirmed; the Super GT and Super Formula dates are provisional pending FIA/JAF ratification and may shift by about a week — we book around the confirmed weekend and reconfirm with you. Prefer the Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka? That is a separate journey — just ask.
The driving, made clear
You drive once, where it is safe — a closed Porsche circuit with an instructor. At Fuji, a professional drives and you ride at race pace. No guest drives on Japanese public roads, and no one is left out.
At Fuji Speedway you can drive the circuit yourself — three laps of the full track in a Toyota GR car (closed circuit, licensed guests) — or ride at race pace with a professional at the wheel, over 250 km/h down the straight. The taxi laps need no licence or experience, so every guest gets circuit time.
At the Porsche Experience Centre Tokyo a professional instructor coaches you one-on-one through car control, cornering lines, low-grip handling and braking on a closed circuit, in Porsche’s own cars. Yes — there is real training, and you leave a sharper driver.
A private car and driver throughout — airport, city and race days — so you never think about logistics, licences or parking. You are at the wheel only where it is controlled and coached.
Where you drive yourself it is always a closed circuit — the Porsche track, and your laps of Fuji — never a public road. Closed-circuit driving needs a valid licence (an International Driving Permit for most nationalities; a few need a Japanese translation; some aren’t recognised); we confirm yours before you book. The Fuji taxi laps and every transfer need no licence at all, so no guest is ever left out.
Why this journey
The Nissan Heritage Collection, the NISMO Omori Factory and Top Secret — Smoky Nagata’s legendary tuning workshop — the makers’ side of Japanese car culture, privately opened.
Drive two closed circuits — the Porsche track and Fuji Speedway itself — and take Fuji at race pace in a pro’s taxi laps too. All the thrill, never a public road.
Tokyo’s legendary parking-area night meet, read for you by a fixer who knows the scene — the real thing, not a tourist stop.
Fuji Speedway with premium hospitality and paddock access — practice, qualifying and race day, inside the ropes.
Thirty-plus minutes with a race engineer on setup, tyres, aero and strategy — the one insider moment that no ticket includes.
Super Autobacs Tokyo Bay — Japan’s flagship car-parts superstore — and a personal JDM concierge, with the part, or a bespoke keepsake, shipped home after you leave.
The price holds it all
Included
Not included
On request
The studio
Team Tokyo is Team Oslo’s Japan studio — a private travel studio built for people who live for cars. We don’t run tours; we compose private journeys around the things money alone can’t easily buy — the access, the people and the permissions.
Behind the gates of the makers, a road that made a legend, an engineer who’ll tell you how the car really works — our craft is the way in, and the arranging, so your only task is to drive and to be there. Every journey is fully private, for up to eight guests and timed to a race weekend, and we look after you on the ground in English and Japanese. Authentic access only: we never advertise what we don’t control.
Good to know
It is a route, Tokyo to Mt Fuji, and it uses just two hotels — you pack and move only once. Three nights at The Peninsula Tokyo for two full days of car culture — the makers, the garages, the parts shops and the Daikoku night meet; then three nights trackside at the Fuji Speedway Hotel for the race weekend. The scenic Hakone mountain roads are your route from Tokyo to Mt Fuji on the day you move, so you get the great scenery without an extra hotel change. Everything in between is by private chauffeured car — no domestic flights, no trains, no logistics. (A classic Hakone ryokan night at Gora Kadan can be added on request.)
Collectors, connoisseurs and family offices — people who live with these cars and want the Japan behind the curtain rather than a grandstand ticket. A private journey for up to eight: a collector and their partner, a parent and a grown child who share the passion, a few friends who speak the same language of machines, or a family office travelling together.
Entirely. The journey is private to your party alone — up to eight guests, never a shared group — with your own host, driver and arrangements throughout. It is the privacy that makes the access possible.
Three in 2027, each built on an actual Fuji Speedway race weekend, so there is always a race: Super GT on 3–4 May (Golden Week), the FIA WEC 6 Hours of Fuji on 24–26 September, and Super Formula on 8–10 October. The WEC date is confirmed; the Super GT and Super Formula dates are provisional pending FIA/JAF ratification and may move by about a week. We book around the confirmed weekend and reconfirm with you.
Two things, and both are handled. On the Porsche day you drive Porsche’s own cars on a closed circuit, coached one-on-one — real seat time, entirely off public roads. And at Fuji Speedway a professional driver takes you around the full circuit at race pace — no licence, no track experience, so every guest shares it. We don’t put guests behind the wheel on Japanese public roads. The one self-drive, the Porsche circuit, needs a valid licence: an International Driving Permit (1949 Geneva Convention) covers most nationalities; a few (France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Monaco, Taiwan) need an official Japanese translation; some aren’t recognised at all. We confirm yours before you book — and because the Fuji laps and every transfer need no licence, no guest is ever left out.
We arrange a private briefing with a race engineer or team representative, as a genuine, contracted introduction. We never advertise access we don’t control: if a particular weekend can’t deliver it, we tell you before you book and shape an equivalent insider moment. The same honesty applies to any professional-driver session.
By the race. May (Super GT, Golden Week) is cherry-blossom-season Japan in mild spring weather and the biggest home crowd of the year. September (WEC 6 Hours of Fuji) is the headline endurance weekend — Hypercars, autumn light on the mountain. October (Super Formula) brings the fastest single-seaters after F1 in crisp autumn air. Each departure is timed to one of these.
Fly into Tokyo (Haneda or Narita); that is your only flight. From arrival to farewell you have a private car and driver, with one day at the wheel yourself on a closed Porsche circuit — no domestic flights, no trains, no logistics. Mt Fuji and the Fuji Speedway Hotel are about two hours from Tokyo, and the Hakone mountain roads about forty minutes from the hotel.
Most nationalities enter Japan visa-free for a short stay; your passport should hold at least six months’ validity. We recommend completing Visit Japan Web before you fly to speed immigration and customs, and we confirm the current rule for your passport when you book.
Begin your journey
Four simple ways to begin — a message, a call, an email, or the form. Whichever you choose, a real person replies.
Tell us your dates and which race weekend draws you. We reply within 24 hours — in English or Japanese.
Book your journey
A booking request — not an instant confirmation. We check supplier availability and reply personally within 24 hours.
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Cancellation, in brief. A 20% deposit secures your journey and is non-refundable. Cancel more than 60 days before travel and only the deposit is charged; 30 to 60 days, half the journey; fewer than 30 days or a no-show, the full price. This is why we ask every guest to hold travel insurance with cancellation cover from the day they reserve. Full details in our Booking terms.