Drift in Japan — we make it happen

There are three ways to get into drifting in Japan as a visitor: drive a drift car on a real circuit, take the passenger seat on a real drift day — the ride most people mean by “drift taxi” — or stand in the paddock with people who know everyone there. This page covers 12 circuits across 4 regions, checked 14 September 2026, so go straight to the prefecture your trip touches. Chiba, Tochigi and Shizuoka are on the Tokyo & Chiba page (Minami Chiba and Mobara in Chiba, Nikko and Tsukuruma in Tochigi, Fuji Speedway Drift Park in Shizuoka). Nara, Shiga and Hyogo are on the Kansai page (Meihan Sportsland in Nara, Okuibuki in Shiga, Central Circuit in Hyogo), and if you are based in Kyoto or Osaka, Kansai is your page: there is no drift circuit inside Kyoto or Osaka prefecture, and those three are the ones you reach from a Kyoto or Osaka stay. Aichi, Gifu and Mie are on the Nagoya & Aichi page (Motorland Mikawa in Aichi, YZ Circuit East in Gifu, Suzuka Twin Circuit in Mie), and Fukushima is on the Ebisu & Fukushima page, which is Ebisu Circuit. Heading somewhere we have no regional page for yet, such as Kyushu, Tohoku, Hokkaido or Okinawa? Send your dates anyway and we will tell you honestly what can be arranged there.

Send us your dates 》 E-mail us Instagram DM (slower) Best with at least 3 days' notice. Cars, staff and track slots are booked ahead, so next-day requests are often too late, but ask anyway and we'll suggest the nearest day we can do.

• Drive

  Seat time in a drift car on a circuit with free-run drift sessions. We bring the car to the track, cover fuel and circuit entry, and pick you up from the airport or your hotel. Never drifted before? Say so — the day gets planned around that.

  Comparing who rents drift cars in Japan first? Every operator, circuit by circuit, is in our drift car rental directory.

• Ride along

  The passenger seat on a real drift day — the thrill without the licence. We arrange the seat and the day around it. Where the circuit allows it, a partner or friend can ride too.

• Watch with us

  D1, Formula Drift Japan, a matsuri or a grassroots track day — picked for your dates, with someone beside you who can walk you into the paddock and introduce you to the people running.

What we take care of

One thing to settle before the day: tyres. The car comes on the operator's rubber, and a full day uses two to three pairs of rears. What those cost, which compound drifters actually run and why, is in the drift tyre directory.

How it works

Pick the region your trip passes through. Each page lists the circuits, what you can do at each, and the drift days and competitions coming up there.

• Kanto

  Tokyo & Chiba

  Minami Chiba Circuit · Mobara Twin Circuit · Fuji Speedway Drift Park · Nikko Circuit · Tsukuruma Circuit Nasu

  See what's possible 》

• Home turf — where we live

  Nagoya & Aichi

  YZ Circuit East · Motorland Mikawa · Suzuka Twin Circuit

  See what's possible 》

• Osaka · Nara · Shiga

  Kansai

  Meihan Sportsland · Gransnow Okuibuki / Okuibuki Motorpark · Central Circuit

  See what's possible 》

• The mecca

  Ebisu & Fukushima

  Ebisu Circuit

  See what's possible 》

Requests we've had lately

The kind of thing people send us — so you know yours isn't too small, too big or too strange:

• One driver from South Africa, four days in early December, wants seat time in a drift car at a circuit near Tokyo.
• A visitor from the US with his girlfriend, one Saturday in November — half a day of driving, and passenger laps for her.
• A couple from the Netherlands, two and a half weeks in autumn, want to see the drift community up close — and, quietly, to ride along.

All three are the kind of thing we do. Yours will be different, which is why we don't publish a menu — we reply to what you actually want.