My trip to the Honda Collection Hall

Just got back from my trip to Tokyo and Taipei and while in Tokyo, I finally made the trek to Twin Ring Motegi and the Honda Collection Hall. I left at 6am from Shinjuku and had to train hop with the bullet train finally landing me in Utsunomiya, where I then got on a bus to a stop near Twin Ring and took a taxi into Honda heaven and arrived at around 10:30:

















Definitely a very memorable experience! The visit made me even more proud to be a Honda fan. The history contained within the building was incredible! It was a pain to get there, but well worth the long trip. I ended up taking a taxi out of Honda Collection Hall to the train station to save time although it cost about $100.

Rest of the pictures are here:
http://s75.photobucket.com/albums/i309/HondaCollectionHall/

cool pics. Thanks

awesome pics!

Great Post .. thankyou nice Pics !!

My favorite is the 1967 Chevrolet Camaro in the main entry way! Any closeups of that car?

TommyN said:

My favorite is the 1967 Chevrolet Camaro in the main entry way! Any closeups of that car?

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If your favorite is the '67 chebrolet, what do roll in?

TommyN said:

My favorite is the 1967 Chevrolet Camaro in the main entry way! Any closeups of that car?

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The "theme" at Honda Collection Hall currently is "Indy" so the main floor space was dedicated to Indy history, that's why they had a 1967 Camaro pace car from Indy on display. Honestly, it kind of stood out, since it was Honda Collection Hall, but given all the awesome Honda machinery I was surrounded by, I hardly noticed it. :biggrin:

nsx6 said:

If your favorite is the '67 chebrolet, what do roll in?

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I like to roll with the rag top down to cool my dew.



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Honda F1 Racing said:

The "theme" at Honda Collection Hall currently is "Indy" so the main floor space was dedicated to Indy history, that's why they had a 1967 Camaro pace car from Indy on display. Honestly, it kind of stood out, since it was Honda Collection Hall, but given all the awesome Honda machinery I was surrounded by, I hardly noticed it. :biggrin:

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Nice, I just find it funny they have a Chevrolet in the front window @ the Honda museum. I don't think you will ever see that @ the National Corvette Museum. T

TommyN said:

Nice, I just find it funny they have a Chevrolet in the front window @ the Honda museum. I don't think you will ever see that @ the National Corvette Museum. T

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The difference is, at Honda you can do that, because the Chevrolet is an inferior car. Now at the Corvette Museum, if they did just the opposite, they'd only be upstaging themselves. :biggrin:

Am I going crazy or were there some more posts to this thread?

TommyN said:

Nice, I just find it funny they have a Chevrolet in the front window @ the Honda museum. I don't think you will ever see that @ the National Corvette Museum. T

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Well, like I explained earlier, the Camaro is displayed for a reason. Otherwise, Honda wouldn't have bothered showcasing a Chevrolet in their museum just for kicks!

Awesome! Thanks for posting the pics. My wife and I were in Japan a couple years ago for the Tokyo Auto Salon. I really wanted to make it out to the Collection Hall, but the only time we had free was wrapped within a tight schedule. So, we put the trip to Twin Ring off. In retrospect, I'm kicking myself for not going.

Awesome pics .. thx for the post.

Btw, was there any mention that the white NSX is the one Senna personally drove around Suzuka w/ the infamous onboard cam?

splitz said:

Am I going crazy or were there some more posts to this thread?

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You're not going crazy.

There are a bunch of posts in another Honda Collection Hall thread in the Off Topic forum.

hydrazine said:

Awesome pics .. thx for the post.

Btw, was there any mention that the white NSX is the one Senna personally drove around Suzuka w/ the infamous onboard cam?

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Nope, that was not the NSX-R that Senna drove around Suzuka. Senna drove a 1992 NSX-R with the 5 spoke Enkei wheels when it was first introduced. This was a 1994 version that was supposedly owned by boxer Terry Norris.

Tom239 said:

You're not going crazy.

There are a bunch of posts in another Honda Collection Hall thread in the Off Topic forum.

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phew.

Have to put that on my list of must go places before I die.

92NSX said:

Have to put that on my list of must go places before I die.

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Would be even better if you went in October and then stopped by Honda's other track, Suzuka for Formula 1!