School, Tanabata, and RX-7's

School like usual. Today is Tanabata which is basically a Japanese star festival based around two stars that meet from across the milky way, so it's supposed to be like two lovers crossing the river to meet. People mostly celebrate it by writing wishes on pieces of paper and a lot of the girls wear Kimonos.
07/07 also has a different meaning. For my friends and I it is all about Mazda RX-7's. Today there was a crazy RX-7 meet at Daikoku. Almost the entire parking lot was filled with tuned RX-7's. It was awesome. One of the biggest RX-7 tuners in Japan was there with a couple of his cars and one of the pro drifters was there as well.


The cops started shutting down everything around 9:30 and we left around 10:30 when their megaphones got too annoying. Although I had brought two batteries for my camera, only one was charged, so I only got footage in the parking lot and the driving footage is all from my friends crappy digital camera. I'll have the video up when I finish editing it.
Anyhow we took the Aqua line to a rest stop which is located in the middle of the ocean. It was amazing. You drive in this tunnel which is under the ocean and has giant fans along the top to circulate air so people don't suffocate when driving through it. When the tunnel ended we were at the rest stop which is a 6 story structure in the middle of the ocean. From there you take a bridge the rest of the way to the land, but on all other sides all you see is ocean and the cities in the distant horizon. Since it was in the middle of the ocean there was a lot of wind and salt water that was blown up making you feel humidly salty, but the wind kept it cool, so you just kinda feel weird. We hung out there for a bit and then headed back to Tokyo around 12.