D1GP Autopolis 2026 Tickets: Prices, Parking and Access (Oct 24–25)

D1 Grand Prix Rd.7 and Rd.8 run at Autopolis (Oita) on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 October 2026, with a practice day on Friday 23 October. A one-day ticket is ¥5,500 if you buy in advance and ¥7,500 at the gate, and general and overseas sales open at 10:00 JST on Thursday 1 October 2026. We checked the official D1 Grand Prix ticket page, the round page and the Autopolis site on 30 September 2026, a week after D1 published the prices on 23 September.

The event is billed as 2026 AUTOPOLIS DRIFT and doubles as a Kumamoto earthquake recovery support round, which is printed on the official poster. It runs on the 4,674 m racing course, not the short Lakeside course where Kyushu’s club drift days happen.

How much does a D1 ticket at Autopolis cost?

Every price below is per day, tax included, from the official ticket page. General admission is the base ticket. The other items are add-ons you stack on top of it.

Children of junior-high age and under get in free with a guardian, but they need their own ticket for the Gekikan area, the pit walk or a Premium seat. The Final Corner stand is mostly unreserved, so the good spots go to whoever arrives first.

There is also a Kumamoto price: ¥4,400 a day or ¥8,800 for both days. It has to be issued on a Loppi kiosk inside a Lawson in Kumamoto Prefecture, and the page says the app cannot be used for it. That is only useful if you are already in Kumamoto before the weekend.

Which way of going actually costs least?

Here are three realistic weekends for one person, using only the official prices.

Leave it to the gate and the one-day plan becomes ¥7,500 plus ¥2,500 parking, so ¥10,000. The two-day ticket cannot be bought at the gate at all. The page also warns that gate sales will not happen if the planned allocation sells out.

When do sales open, and can you buy from overseas?

All tickets sell through Lawson Ticket (ローチケ) under L-code 82986. The sale runs in waves.

The D1 ticket page carries a separate link labelled “overseas only” to its own Lawson Ticket entry. The page does not say which cards it takes or how the ticket reaches you, so read that entry’s terms when it opens on 1 October. The standard route is harder: Lawson Ticket’s own FAQ limits phone verification to Japanese mobile numbers, the e-ticket works only in the Japanese-language Lawson Ticket smartphone app, and resale is not possible. The family ticket is paper only. Our guide to buying Japanese drift event tickets from overseas explains how each platform treats a foreign card and phone number.

How do you get to Autopolis without a shuttle?

This is the step most visitors cannot finish alone. Autopolis sits in the mountains at Kamitsue, Hita, Oita, and it has no station and no route bus. Asked whether you can come by public transport, the circuit’s FAQ says shuttle buses run from Kumamoto city and Hita city for big events, and at other times you come by car or taxi. As of 30 September 2026, neither the D1 ticket page nor the Autopolis D1 page mentions a shuttle for this round.

So plan on a car. The circuit names Ueki, Kumamoto and Kikusui on the Kyushu Expressway and Hita on the Oita Expressway as its nearest interchanges. Its access guide gives routes in from Fukuoka, Hita, Oita, Kumamoto and Kumamoto Airport, and still warns that some roads were affected by the earthquake. There is a petrol station inside the grounds, but the nearest one outside the gate is 14 km away. A taxi from Hita or Kumamoto is possible, but you need one to come back up the mountain for you at the end of the day, which means arranging the pickup by phone in advance.

More on the circuit itself, including why you cannot drift there on an ordinary day, is in Can you drift at Autopolis?. For other tracks in the region, see our Kyushu drift tracks guide.

What if Autopolis doesn’t fit your trip?

The official timetable and gate times for this round had not been posted when we checked on 30 September 2026. Watch the round page in the sources below. If Kyushu is too far, the season finale, Rd.9 and Rd.10, runs in Odaiba, Tokyo, on 14–15 November 2026, and we cover it in D1GP Odaiba 2026: dates, tickets and access. The whole season, venue by venue, is in D1 Grand Prix 2026 rounds and venues, and every dated event we track is on the TSUISO event calendar.

For Autopolis, the decision is simple. Choose your day, decide whether you are driving, and be ready at 10:00 JST on 1 October.