Tokushima Motor World (TMW) on Japan’s island of Shikoku never got the recognition Tokushima Kart Land (TKL) and Setonaikai (Sea Side) Circuit received. Having driven all three, Motor World was my favorite, but I’m getting old and just couldn’t remember the track’s name. All I could remember was that it started with “Tokushima” and there were three words in the name. I ended up sending some of the pictures to my buddy Yohey and asked if he knew the track’s name. He did, but unfortunately he also told me it closed down a few years ago.

This was a D1 Street Legal West Divisional event held in 2006, which brought out local Shikoku drivers and competitors from all over Western Japan. I had actually entered the event as well, but a broken rocker arm during practice ended my day early. It did give me the opportunity to take plenty of pictures though.

Motor World was at the top of a small mountain that took forever to drive up. Like many popular drifting tracks, it was originally designed for karting, so it wasn’t very big, but it was very technical with a ton of elevation change. The other two popular tracks in Shikoku were Setonaikai, which is as flat as Kansas, and Tokushima Kart Land (TKL), which also has big elevation change. While TKL was definitely more picturesque, Motor World was more fun to drive.

The 180SX above was owned a by a female driver named Kaori Katou from Total Garage Dai. She competed in a ton of events outside of Shikoku as well. I’ve seen her at Bihoku, where she beat me in one of my first competitions, as well as Sekia Hills. Total Garage Dai is still around and running a pro-car in Formula D Japan now I believe.

This was long enough ago that you’d not only see AE86s competing, but with NA 4AGE setups still under the hood. Unfortunately, these days are long gone…

I’ve run into the FEEL’S S14 a few times at tracks in Shikoku and every time it looks like it just came from a car show. The paint and body was always perfect and the graphics were very cool. I forget the owners name, but he could drive his ass off.

I was always a big fan of Norihiro Nishikoka’s S14. I didn’t see it at many events outside of Tokushima, but he was always one of the top driver’s at TMW, TKL and Setonaikai. It was also making ~500PS, which was a serious amount of power at the time.

The Skid Line Silvia is one of my favorite S13s of all-time. The owner’s home course is Bihoku Highland Circuit, but it seemed like he drove every event I went too.

The two main judges of the round were D1 Grand Prix driver Tsutomu Fujio, and D1 Street Legal driver Hisashi Kamimoto.

I posted this picture of the JUNCTION FD RX-7 on Instagram and received a stack of messages asking for more pictures. Unfortunately, I only took a few pictures of it at this event, and never saw it much afterwards.

Apparently, it’s a bit of legend with US FD guys. I wish I would have got some pictures of it before it went off track and exploded the front bumper and fender. It’s hard to not love an FD with a BN Sports kit and TE37s.

There never has, or ever will be, a cooler looking S15 than this one built by Ryuuji Kusunoki D/L/K. The color, the graphics, the 326 aero and VS-KFs. It was the best.

The Close Call S13 was definitely no slouch when it came to cool either. I’ve only seen this Silvia a few times, and it was always in Shikoku.

This is the course entrance. You can’t really see it in this shot, but there is a big elevation drop as soon as you get on track.

I managed to almost get a really cool shot of Takeshi’s C35. He NEVER had his front bumper on. He’d get to the track and take it off immediately. So I could ever get a good shot of it fully kitted. This car is the reason I have an affinity for C35 Laurels..

How cool would this picture be if he would have left that bumper on. Takeshi was a member of Crazy Night (along with Fujio). Before moving onto the C35 he owned a couple of legendary cars including a red FC RX-7 with full Uras aero and yellow tribal livery, and a blue 180SX with full RYO livery.

The FEEL’S S14 in action coming out of the second judged corner. From the entry the elevation drops dramatically. Then, after the second corner, it goes right back up.

It’s a bit easier to see the elevation drop in this picture. The concrete wall on the top right is the entry point. It’s sort of like Tamada with a drop after the entry.

This is where everyone stages before their competition runs. You can barely see it, but in the very back the Skid Line S13 is sliding through the first judged corner.

Half way through the day it started raining, which resulted in some off-track adventures for some of the drivers. I took this shot right next to the judging stand behind turn one. You can see the elevation changes in the center section of the course as well.

You can really see the increase in elevation coming out of the second corner in this picture. When you’re actually driving it feels pretty dramatic. You enter, drop down through corner one and then rise back up quickly after corner two.

You can see the entry in this shot. You ride the wall coming in and throw it into the first corner. Looking at the short wall followed by a left hander with an elevation drop it sort of reminds me of USAIR.

Naoki Murao, another Garage Dai, coming into the second corner in his Onevia.

It started drying up later in the day, which resulted in mix track conditions. Unfortunately, that resulted in some dangerous entries, which took out a few cars including Murao’s Onevia.

Nishioka’s Shine Auto S14 entering. There is a wide section of gravel between the track and the wall so you rarely ever see anyone tap the wall like you do at Tamada or Setonaikai. Also, simple S14s are just the best.

You can see some more of the lead up to the wall in this shot. It’s a long sweeping left handed coming into the straight. You pick up a ton of speed coming in.

This S15 is just too good…

A little JZX81 action coming out of the second corner. These things are few and far between these days, but they look so damn cool going sideways.

A shot from the Top 8 battles. If I recall correctly the Close Call S14 actually won the competition after the 180SX it was running against wrecked in the finals. Unfortunately most of the pictures I took of the competition runs are completely blurry and unusable so I’m going to wrap this post up here.