Whilst we purchased our Land Cruiser FJ62 about a month ago, part of the deal was that it would receive a full overhaul to a) fix a few broken parts and b) get it ready for the journey. So, since buying the car, it’s spent the whole time at the garage. We’ve been keen (desperately […]
Monthly Archives: November 2015
The 60 Meeting
Whilst we were at the Utilitas (http://www.utilitas.co.jp) purchasing our Land Cruiser FJ62 the boss, Ikegaya-san, invited us to join him in attending this year’s annual meetup of 60-series Land Cruiser owners. We, of course, took him up on his offer and agreed to go. We did feel a bit weird that whilst we do technically own a […]
Finding a parking space
In Japan you can’t buy a car unless you have somewhere to park it – the garage literally won’t sell you a car until you complete a form that officially proves you have somewhere to park a car within 2km of your registered home! Whilst that sounded kind of curious to our British ears it […]
We bought a car!
After various visits to various garages in and around Tokyo looking at various cars, we eventually found ‘the one’. In our case this was a ’89 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ62G. What with Japan being the home of the Land Cruiser you’re pretty much spoilt for choice for quality specimens. That said, it did take us […]