追走 REPORT

Three Hours at Okuibuki Motorpark in a 180SX: A Supported Free-Run Day (Sept 2026)

By TSUISO operator (name withheld) · Japan · Okuibuki Motorpark (Shiga) · visited September 2026 · published 2026-09-25

In short

A weekday free run at Okuibuki Motorpark (Shiga) in September 2026: ¥15,000 track fee for the day, three hours of driving in a 180SX, almost nobody else on the lot, pylon practice on open asphalt. Booking and getting there were the parts a visitor could not do alone.

Who wrote this: the person who runs TSUISO. I booked this day through our own trip support, the same way a visitor would, to see what the day feels like from the customer’s side. I am not a reader and this is not an independent review. The disclosure at the bottom of the page says the same thing.

The short version

I drove a free-run day at Okuibuki Motorpark (Maibara, Shiga) in September 2026. The track fee was ¥15,000 for the day. I had about three hours of driving, and the only people there were me and TSUISO staff, so it felt close to having the place to ourselves. The venue is a ski resort’s car parks, not a circuit, and that turned out to be the best part.

The car

My own Nissan 180SX with an S13 turbo. Nothing exotic. It was taken up to the venue for me, so I did not drive it on the expressway.

What it cost

Item	Paid
Track fee (weekday, one day)	¥15,000
Licence or briefing fee	None needed
Tyres used	4
Car transport, fuel, tyres	Not included in the ¥15,000 above

The ¥15,000 is the track fee only. Moving the car, fuel and tyres are separate costs, and I have not put numbers on them here because they depend on your car and where it comes from. Okuibuki’s own published price for a weekday individual run is also ¥15,000 per person (see our Okuibuki guide).

How the day ran

Booking: TSUISO handled it. I did not contact the venue myself.
Getting there: I went to a meeting point I was given and was picked up and dropped off.
At reception: I did not have to hand anything over myself. No circuit licence is needed here.
Driving time: about three hours.
Traffic: no other cars. Just me and the staff, so I could set up and rerun whatever I wanted.
Coaching: a TSUISO staff member gave me pointers between runs.

What I liked

Okuibuki is open asphalt with pylons, not a fixed track. That means you can lay out whatever you need: a figure-eight, a single corner to repeat, a transition. I practised things I cannot practise on a circuit layout. With no other cars on the lot, I could concentrate and it felt safe. Nobody was waiting behind me.

What I’d do differently

Next time I want to try a real circuit. Okuibuki is great for drills, but a circuit has walls, elevation and a line you have to hold, and that is the next step.

Where a visitor would get stuck

This is the honest part. I could not have done this day on my own as a foreign visitor:

Booking. I would not know how to book Okuibuki. The venue’s reservations run through a Japanese-only portal and there is no English site.
Getting there. You cannot reach it by public transport in any practical way. The nearest station is a long way off, and the venue sits up at a ski resort. Without a car you simply cannot go.

This place was only possible because someone handled both of those. If you want a day like this, see drifting in Kansai with us. For every venue and its rules, start with the track directory.

Disclosure: this is not a reader’s report. It was written by the person who runs TSUISO, about a day they booked through TSUISO’s own trip support to test it from the customer’s side. We publish it so you can see how a supported day actually runs; read it as our account, not an independent review. Prices are what was paid on that day; check the official pages linked in our guides before you go.

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