Tokyo R246 is a real track!!!

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Well, there's a thread about it, regarding the video of the Catherham driven in that exact road. But anyway, nice video, cool song...I like it
 
This never was a mystery, that Tokyo R246 is based on a real set of roads, not track.
 
Thought that it was a fictional track! Awesome... Do they actually use that route to any kind of motorsport? Or it was just a vipe that Kaz had and turned it into a track?
 
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What? Special Stage Route 7 is real, it's the Wangan Highway. This should look familiar:

I'll take another look into it. I remember ruling that it was rather based on the Wangan rather then modeled off of it.
 
Route 246 in GT5 traverses a semi-rectangular course beginning close to the Akasaka-Mitsuke crossing on Aoyama Dori (Aoyama Rd).

It then loops around the eastern parts of Shinjuku-ku (Shinjuku Ward) passing by the Jingu and the National Stadiums and finally wrapping around Moto-Akasaka 2-chome.
 
I actually just noticed that's modeled exactly in Tokyo Drift for the PS2. :dopey:

Yeah, it's not like PD are the only ones to model that highway, there were other games that had that highway as a track, but it's mostly old arcade street racing games. I think it's awesome when PD makes up race tracks on real everyday roads :D. Especially Rome circuit.
 
you guys didn't know all the city tracks use real streets , there not fictional whats so ever except for well the track .
 
They should've make more variations of this track. Especially with that cool looking highway (or whatever it is) above the last corner.
 
OP Cool vid 👍 Would love to give that a go IRL :)

Right, and the Nurburgring is a toll road.

j/k


Technically it is a toll road as its is a public road and you pay to drive on it.

Good job the London track isn't as accurate as it would be full of pot holes & empty buses pulling out on you, You'd also have to pay £10 for the privilege.

:)
 
What? Special Stage Route 7 is real, it's the Wangan Highway. This should look familiar:
No, it's only very loosely based on part of the Wangan Highway.
For a PS3 game which reproduces it (and surrounding express roads) quite well, though with dated graphics since it was made in 2007, try "Wangan Midnight". PD could take one lesson or two from that arcade racing game!
 
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