Owara Circuit
FREE-RUN
Drift is part of normal sport running, sold by the half day — but first-timers must pre-book the briefing (form closes 16:00 the day before) and straight-through exhausts are refused at the gate. No English, no rentals. Closed Thu–Fri.
What you pay
Sport running (four-wheel, drift, bike and racing kart share one tariff): half day 9:00–12:00 or 13:00–16:00 ¥7,000 visitor / ¥5,000 member; grip-and-drift 2Way (グリ＆ドリ) 30 min × 6 runs ¥8,000 / ¥6,000; one hour ¥5,000 / ¥4,000. Timing ¥1,000 per car, second driver on the same car ¥3,000. Entry to the site ¥500, free for members, high-school age and under, and holders of a disability certificate. Drift passenger ride ¥2,500 per ride including entry, one seat, no age limit, booked two days ahead. Closed Thursdays and Fridays
Getting there
In the Yatsuo hills south of Toyama City. The official site publishes no station, bus or shuttle route — access without a car is TBC
What to know before you go
The cheaper of the two Japan Sea drift venues and the one with a real competition calendar — D1 NEXT Middle West Rd.3 ran here on 20 Sep 2026, with an official practice day the Saturday before at which straight-through exhausts were barred. The step that catches visitors is the briefing: every running day carries the note 「初走行の方は講習がありますので必ず事前予約を行なってください」 and the 初走行講習予約フォーム closes at 16:00 the day before, so a first-timer cannot simply turn up. Noise ceiling is 110 dB near-exhaust by the JASMA method, and straight-through exhausts are refused entry to the site outright — neither an inner silencer nor a catalytic converter counts as a silencer. Rally tyres have been banned in free running since 19 Nov 2014. No cars are hired: the rental kart and go-kart operation ended in 2026 and nothing replaced it, so you bring your own dorisha. No English page anywhere on the site.
Coming up here
Confirmed dates from our drift calendar, each checked against the organiser’s own page.
- Sun 20 September 2026 D1 NEXT Middle West Rd.3 — Owara Circuit · Competition
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Official site · verified 2026-09-08 · back to every drift track in Japan · the event calendar