I'll be honest me and my son's built a Tamiya grand hauler with the sound kit and a flat bed trailer. It's hands down my absolute favorite build we have ever done.
" I guess Tamiya are popular in Japan " lol understatement of the year! They are the biggest and most popular brand world wide since the 70's and come from Japan
In 1984 when I was a child my first ever RC was the Tamiya Grasshopper. I had a lot of friends who were into RC and the most available brand were Tamiya especially during the mid 1980s. In the US during the 80s If you saw any hobby grade rc it was most likely a Tamiya. Many rc enthusiasts started off with Tamiyas. You guessed it, internet wasn’t invented yet so young boys assembled Tamiya 1/10 buggies with knobby tires.
Hi everyone, I live in Tokyo. Just FYI this same shop is also in the Tokyo Akihabara district - in case you are heading to Japan but not getting to Osaka. I think the locations are listed on the website. Thanks for the great vid hope you are enjoying Japan!!
This has to be one of the coolest videos on TH-cam....completely brought me back to feeling like a kid again!!! The visuals are insane! My first car was a Tamiya Frog 🐸. Nothing like putting together your own rc car! Man this video really hit home and I want to say thank you. I could spend days in there. I appreciate this video so much. Very cool to be able to see it in person I'm sure.
Man, kinda surprised they didn't have more Kyosho stuff, or Yokomo cars...especially with that awesome Drift track... so cool how it was modeled with scenery and a backdrop like a model railroad layout... Would love to know what the name of that place was... but thanks for taking the time to film it when you checked it out...
What a wonderful store, i could spend the day just browsing and spending. Here in Michigan we have lost almost all our hobby shops to the internet and i truly miss the interaction and conversation between fellow hobbyists and myself
In japan Kyosho and Tamiya are not “old” brands, they are huge there. They have tracks that you can race at for free, but it has to be one on their cars.
My wife is Japanese, I have been there many times and I agree that a good part of the charm of Japan is in that you can't understand a word yet its not intimidating. Japanese TV is hilarious even if you don't speak Japanese. I suppose it was easier for me being that I am married to a translator.
Oh, the Tamiya days! My first ever RC kit (back in the very early '80s) was an electric 1/10 Tamiya Ford F-150 2WD with a hard-body shell. Also had a 2WD Grasshopper, 1/12 4WD Porsche 959 (still have it, and restored it with a brand new sump guard and new body, were hard to find, paid USD100 for tyhe clear lexan body alone) , 2WD Avante (still have it, with a new body). Tamiya RCs were more for casual bashing around. Then moved to the Associated B-3 and TC-3, which were really competitive.
Nice vid awesome store love the huge selection of Tamiya kits. The Avante Black Edition is an awesome kit i saw 3 on the shelf in your video I'm planning to get one hopefully later this year
Now that’s an RC store! I guess we never think about it, but it’s really cool to see a store in another country. Thanks for posting. Really enjoyed it.
7:13 The whole wall is dedicated to helicopter parts. Mostly Align and Hirobo apparently, which is interesting seeing as Hirobo is dying out. The "long bars" are tail booms and torque tubes.
Thanks for that video Razor, very good indeed my TH-cam friend. I do enjoy your videos mate and your Arrma Big Rock Crew Cab 3S information videos too pal. You should become a teacher, that's how good your videos are mate. ✌ 👍 👌
I ran the English side of two RC shops when I lived in Japan. Rainbow RC in Kanagawa and D-Drive Sports in Yokohama. Japan has a way different attitude when I come to RC. It’s a way better life style in general. Everyone think as a group and wants everyone to have fun. And Tamiya is the biggest RC manufacturer in the world.
Front room shelves more heavily stocked in everything than the back room inventory at a U.S. R/C hobby store. (And that's if you can find a store that does R/C stuff in reasonable driving range. Otherwise you have to mail-order and that's it.)
Many times, a product is tested for sale in Japan before it's sold to the rest of the world. This is your golden chance to get products you wouldn't be able to get any other way.
Yup. That takes me back to when my Tamiya (The Hornet) needed a few parts to be replaced after I ran it straight into a parked car’s tire... it was cool buying all the replacement parts and bringing it back to new-specs.... as a kid that was awesome, now as an adult I should have just brought a new kit. All the separate parts added up to the same price as a brand new Hornet!
I moved to a new house back in the late 90s and my mom left my Tamiya Avante 2001 and my Tamiya Falcon(1st rc car before Avante) in a storage locker never to be seen again. It was a shame because I loved that Avante 2001. My dad bought both for me as a kid and I loved bashing those things. So much fun. Tamiya for me holds such fond memories from the 80s as a kid. I really wanted a hotshot but the avante was probably the second best car....the egress was basically the same but slight more expensive. They sold a ton of grasshoppers but that thing was cheap junk.
Japan stores are just epic! i went in january, and the video game and toy stores are awesome.. diecast model selection, and even audio headphones selection blows everything we got in the US. Also since theft isnt much of an issue, all those items are within reach that you can actually look at (vs behind a counter) .
Very cool video. The Tamiya lunchbox. The Blackfoot. The super beetle. The hornet. The midnight pumpkin The Subaru brat. The Subaru Blackfoot super beetle we're all cousins interchangeable parts. Those are classics that will never die.
Those metal bars were Helicopter tail booms and tail boom supports. I saw rotors, and landing skids as well. Very nice, wish I could hit that store for its helicopter parts alone. I wish they’d open up a branch in Phoenix. Need a store that can import Align stuff.
Damn I wish hobby shops around here where set up like that !!! I don't know how many times I've driven to a shop just to find out they only have half the stuff I need for my projects.
Very cool to see I’d luv to visit and I believe those long rods you seen may just be drone extension arms or motor support replacement. I’ve seen some similar to those as they do do get damaged. Easily. Not cheap. Great video sir
I could be wrong but when you asked about the long bars ; it looked like you were in the helicopter section. I saw gear cogs and battery holders and the long bars may have been Booms
I first had Tamiya products wayyyy back in 1975, ( and Futaba too)! It was about the ONLY RC products available in the Iowa Mid-West at that time! Good Stuff!
I know that exact shop. You're at Osaka. Tamiya, Kyosho, and Yokomo are definitely super popular there. If you're still at Osaka, you should visit Joshin Super Kids Land at Nipponbashi. You won't regret it. It's like a mini Akihabara.
Bro thank u for sharing this. I keep dreaming of a hobby shop I visit. And this is as close to those dreams where it's filled with all the RC stuff ever made . It makes me so happy being there and actually about to buy something in that dream. Then I wake up😭. But now I know where to go someday.
Wow , thanks for sharing, that store is amazing , the inventory is sick. Hope you enjoyed your vacation in Japan , buddy of mine went last year in October for 3 weeks , best trip ever . I don't know if you visited the Tamiya office in Japan ? I don't even know if there's still open for the public.
This is how i wish rc stores was in Norway! all the stuff is in a room just the staff can go in to. so i need to know all i want there. i just wanna look around and pick things ass i see them!
Hey, nice video. The aluminum tubes you were referring to as bars are heli tail booms. They are pretty much guaranteed to bend in most crashes and will need to be replaced but are usually not very expensive. Great find and tour.
"...and then that was pretty much the first aisle..." lol.....i went to Seoul in S. Korea a couple of years ago and i did the same thing checking out the local hobby stores there and it was quite amusing since most of us here in the US are used to shopping most everything RC online...
Wow I'd sure like to be there those bar things are tail torque tubes for helicopters but yeah I'd be there from opening to closing checking everything out ..cool thanks for posting
Brings back good old memories of HobbyTown USA in the 90's. Lots of quality products to choose from, and a lot of the familiar Japanese brands like as shown in the video. U.S. hobby shops these days are flooded with Traxxas and Horizon Hobby junk, and prices are through the roof. I order everything online now.
Grass hoppers and lunchboxes where out when I was not even a teenager! I’m 43 now how do they have these items still , kept from back in the day or factories still produce?
Tamiya has an amazing history. Which is pretty awesome they are a big part of Japanese heritage. There is a documentary on them I suggest watching it for anyone who loves model cars.
What an amazing shop ! thanks for the insight into this shop and keep your eyes open for other similar shops especially those selling aircraft related items.
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I'll be honest me and my son's built a Tamiya grand hauler with the sound kit and a flat bed trailer. It's hands down my absolute favorite build we have ever done.
" I guess Tamiya are popular in Japan " lol understatement of the year! They are the biggest and most popular brand world wide since the 70's and come from Japan
It's a good thing I don't live there.. I would be eating mayonnaise sandwiches all year to support my addiction.
They are made in Philippines for several years or a decade now and surprisingly their quality has not changed. Awesome!
Tamiya is a National treasure in Japan.
You mean kyosho bro!
I know right!!! smh at this noob who stumbled into paradise that in the United states we can only dream of and he is clueless....
Love Tamiya box art too hasn’t changed in years.
In 1984 when I was a child my first ever RC was the Tamiya Grasshopper. I had a lot of friends who were into RC and the most available brand were Tamiya especially during the mid 1980s. In the US during the 80s If you saw any hobby grade rc it was most likely a Tamiya. Many rc enthusiasts started off with Tamiyas.
You guessed it, internet wasn’t invented yet so young boys assembled Tamiya 1/10 buggies with knobby tires.
So amazing. My local shops have 20 kits only and they’re on shelves that are 20 ft in the air so you can’t look at them anyway!
You are the king of motion blurrr!
That was like going back in time to US hobby store in the 80's
Yeah, when the country wasn't all welfare cases with their hands out. Now it's all Walmart crap.
@@sonicimperium Before the red dragon mounted your asses.
Im glad you thought that too!! This is exactly how hobby stores used to be back in the day, before internet!!
Yes I thought the same. American Hobby Center in Manhattan had a similar design.
Had stores like that in San Bernardino CA.....kids dream store in the 70's and 80's
Impressive how clean, organized and well stocked it is.
Would love to go to JAPAN. That store had almost every TAMIYA kit, you could ever want.. I don't think i couldn't take the anxiety!!
Thank you for posting this was awesome to see!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi everyone, I live in Tokyo. Just FYI this same shop is also in the Tokyo Akihabara district - in case you are heading to Japan but not getting to Osaka. I think the locations are listed on the website. Thanks for the great vid hope you are enjoying Japan!!
You still do RC? Me and a friend of mine run various buggies out in Yatabe and Kazo. Just curious if you are still in Tokyo.
@@spinrushrc hey bro, can help me the name forum in fb sell and buy rc used in japan, i need find futaba 4pxr. Thanks bro.
I’ll swing by
Grasshopper was my first rc car. This was over 20yrs ago bring back memories
It's like all those Tamiya catalogues I lusted after as a kid have finally come to life. Cannot wait to go to Japan this year.
Wow blast from the past black foot, grasshopper and lunchbox rc takes me back to my child hood.
Glad I'm not the only one always wanted a Grasshopper as a kid.
That was extremely cool. I wish more people would show hobby stores here and abroad.
Very cool video! It's neat to see an RC store in Japan. Have fun on vacation. Thanks for sharing.
I been in Super Rajicon in Tokyo. Amazing the quantity of stuff they have
This has to be one of the coolest videos on TH-cam....completely brought me back to feeling like a kid again!!! The visuals are insane! My first car was a Tamiya Frog 🐸. Nothing like putting together your own rc car! Man this video really hit home and I want to say thank you. I could spend days in there. I appreciate this video so much. Very cool to be able to see it in person I'm sure.
wow, thanks! to be honest I wasn't sure if I had time to visit the store, but I'm glad I did and this post makes it all worth it!
I have Tamiya CC-01 great rc
My dad had an old buddy in 9th grade , his buddy was Japanese and he thought him how to build an rc car it was a formula car and it went really fast .
Man, kinda surprised they didn't have more Kyosho stuff, or Yokomo cars...especially with that awesome Drift track... so cool how it was modeled with scenery and a backdrop like a model railroad layout...
Would love to know what the name of that place was... but thanks for taking the time to film it when you checked it out...
Probably a Pepsi in a coke store thing going on cuz yeah kyosho is big there
What a wonderful store, i could spend the day just browsing and spending. Here in Michigan we have lost almost all our hobby shops to the internet and i truly miss the interaction and conversation between fellow hobbyists and myself
Pretty sure the long bars are tail boom for helis. Noticed alot of Heli parts around them.
They are indeed. You can see "Align" on the smaller bars - big name in helis.
Tamiya...great childhood memories. Flying into Japan in July and I’m more excited to see this than Mt. Fuji😂
ChedengMB I just went a week ago, this place is dope
@@yellowjacket1476 My son and I walked to this store and it was great. I also the Tamiya shop in Tokyo and it was the best.
That place is awesome thanks for the tour!
In japan Kyosho and Tamiya are not “old” brands, they are huge there. They have tracks that you can race at for free, but it has to be one on their cars.
Japanese stuffs r world famous for unique design ..quality n durability.
Love Japanese stuffs ❤️
My wife is Japanese, I have been there many times and I agree that a good part of the charm of Japan is in that you can't understand a word yet its not intimidating. Japanese TV is hilarious even if you don't speak Japanese. I suppose it was easier for me being that I am married to a translator.
Oh, the Tamiya days! My first ever RC kit (back in the very early '80s) was an electric 1/10 Tamiya Ford F-150 2WD with a hard-body shell. Also had a 2WD Grasshopper, 1/12 4WD Porsche 959 (still have it, and restored it with a brand new sump guard and new body, were hard to find, paid USD100 for tyhe clear lexan body alone) , 2WD Avante (still have it, with a new body). Tamiya RCs were more for casual bashing around. Then moved to the Associated B-3 and TC-3, which were really competitive.
DUDE! JAPAN?!?! THAT is cool!!! Awesome, very different content than I've seen from anyone else, keep it up brother!
Dr_Dingleberry_Brown thanks, I try to think of new types of videos that other people haven’t done before.
WOW!!! OMG!!! I'm in love!!! This place makes my local hobby store look like a hot dog stand!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was thinking more like a Mexican selling barretos out of a ice cream kart
Sweet video! Always wondered what Japanese hobby shops were like, especially since my first hobby grade RC was a Kyosho Ultima!
Nice vid awesome store love the huge selection of Tamiya kits. The Avante Black Edition is an awesome kit i saw 3 on the shelf in your video I'm planning to get one hopefully later this year
The section that you didn’t really know on the tool aisle was helicopter parts
80s Tamiya started the RC craz for me .
Now that’s an RC store! I guess we never think about it, but it’s really cool to see a store in another country. Thanks for posting. Really enjoyed it.
Badass video! Thanks a bunch for showing us this shop!
7:13 The whole wall is dedicated to helicopter parts. Mostly Align and Hirobo apparently, which is interesting seeing as Hirobo is dying out. The "long bars" are tail booms and torque tubes.
Thanks for that video Razor, very good indeed my TH-cam friend.
I do enjoy your videos mate and your Arrma Big Rock Crew Cab 3S information videos too pal.
You should become a teacher, that's how good your videos are mate. ✌ 👍 👌
I ran the English side of two RC shops when I lived in Japan. Rainbow RC in Kanagawa and D-Drive Sports in Yokohama. Japan has a way different attitude when I come to RC. It’s a way better life style in general. Everyone think as a group and wants everyone to have fun. And Tamiya is the biggest RC manufacturer in the world.
That is insane inventory. Lots of money sitting on those shelves. Most hobby shops in the US will only stock 1 or 2 of each model.
Wow... amazing to see! Wish I had one of those nearby!
I'm not sure I would. I could see myself going into some serious debt! Ha. Amazing shop.
@@gmballistic506 Lol... good point!
ohhhhhhh thats awesome man loved the video , im going to japan lol :-)))
Front room shelves more heavily stocked in everything than the back room inventory at a U.S. R/C hobby store. (And that's if you can find a store that does R/C stuff in reasonable driving range. Otherwise you have to mail-order and that's it.)
Many times, a product is tested for sale in Japan before it's sold to the rest of the world. This is your golden chance to get products you wouldn't be able to get any other way.
Wow very cool n hope u had a great trip n safe travels back home
I would be screwed with those stairs being in a wheelchair lol
Yup. That takes me back to when my Tamiya (The Hornet) needed a few parts to be replaced after I ran it straight into a parked car’s tire... it was cool buying all the replacement parts and bringing it back to new-specs.... as a kid that was awesome, now as an adult I should have just brought a new kit. All the separate parts added up to the same price as a brand new Hornet!
I moved to a new house back in the late 90s and my mom left my Tamiya Avante 2001 and my Tamiya Falcon(1st rc car before Avante) in a storage locker never to be seen again. It was a shame because I loved that Avante 2001. My dad bought both for me as a kid and I loved bashing those things. So much fun. Tamiya for me holds such fond memories from the 80s as a kid. I really wanted a hotshot but the avante was probably the second best car....the egress was basically the same but slight more expensive. They sold a ton of grasshoppers but that thing was cheap junk.
Cool video! My first proper RC was The Grasshopper followed by the hilarious Wild Willy. Happy days indeed!!😃👍
Japan stores are just epic! i went in january, and the video game and toy stores are awesome.. diecast model selection, and even audio headphones selection blows everything we got in the US. Also since theft isnt much of an issue, all those items are within reach that you can actually look at (vs behind a counter) .
Very cool video.
The Tamiya
lunchbox.
The Blackfoot.
The super beetle.
The hornet.
The midnight pumpkin
The Subaru brat.
The Subaru Blackfoot super beetle we're all cousins interchangeable parts.
Those are classics that will never die.
Wow, huge inventory! Awesome!
I wish I could go there. it looks like it would have a lot of parts for the Kyosho cars, which would be very useful. Cool Video.
Those metal bars were Helicopter tail booms and tail boom supports. I saw rotors, and landing skids as well. Very nice, wish I could hit that store for its helicopter parts alone. I wish they’d open up a branch in Phoenix. Need a store that can import Align stuff.
Cool video. Lots of inventory! That’s crazy
That place is awesome!
Its cool how japanese are so trusting i mean they put the actual rtrs and kits at first ile and infront of door.
They have everything.What a great hobby store.
Damn I wish hobby shops around here where set up like that !!! I don't know how many times I've driven to a shop just to find out they only have half the stuff I need for my projects.
And yet they complain when people stop shopping at their store and buy online instead...
amazing shop !!!!!
Very cool to see I’d luv to visit and I believe those long rods you seen may just be drone extension arms or motor support replacement. I’ve seen some similar to those as they do do get damaged. Easily. Not cheap. Great video sir
Would have liked to see what they had besides car stuff
Wow, that was cool. Can’t imagine a US shop carrying that much in stock. Just in radios there was like $20-25k
I could be wrong but when you asked about the long bars ; it looked like you were in the helicopter section. I saw gear cogs and battery holders and the long bars may have been Booms
Wow bRo, that store is massive!!! I've never seen that many O.S goods hanging on the same wall and the race track was so cool the icing on the cake!!
Drooling over those Tamiyas!
😲 Man that shop was awesome!!
I first had Tamiya products wayyyy back in 1975, ( and Futaba too)! It was about the ONLY RC products available in the Iowa Mid-West at that time! Good Stuff!
I know that exact shop. You're at Osaka. Tamiya, Kyosho, and Yokomo are definitely super popular there. If you're still at Osaka, you should visit Joshin Super Kids Land at Nipponbashi. You won't regret it. It's like a mini Akihabara.
Z3N Bluster I just checked out some pics, that place looks amazing. Definitely next time!
Great video, I started drooling looking at all the stuff, never seen anything like that here
Wow super cool! Really enjoyed this tour of a Japan Hobby shop. Thanks for sharing.
OMG... RC heaven :) and saw some rare Tamiya kits there. Their collection is fast. Way more than we have here in the Netherlands. Thx for sharing!
great video, cool to see. The bars were Align 3D helicopter parts, tail booms etc.
Thanks brother, just love seeing lhs around the world. Safe journies to you
Dang I'm jealous, i bet that was stellar!!
Cool Video and awesome inventories of cars! I would love to visit.
I don't even have a R/C car but this was awesome. Coukd spend half the day in that store.
Bro thank u for sharing this. I keep dreaming of a hobby shop I visit. And this is as close to those dreams where it's filled with all the RC stuff ever made . It makes me so happy being there and actually about to buy something in that dream. Then I wake up😭. But now I know where to go someday.
Cool track. Great selection and utilization of space. Thanks for the video.
Wow , thanks for sharing, that store is amazing , the inventory is sick. Hope you enjoyed your vacation in Japan , buddy of mine went last year in October for 3 weeks , best trip ever . I don't know if you visited the Tamiya office in Japan ? I don't even know if there's still open for the public.
wow, some cool stuff. Cool to see a rc store in Japan.
Yes just seen the GRASSHOPPER it was my 1st RC in 85
This is how i wish rc stores was in Norway! all the stuff is in a room just the staff can go in to. so i need to know all i want there. i just wanna look around and pick things ass i see them!
thats a huge store :) better go in there with a million dollar
Maybe a billion dollars! Lol. 😆 🤣 😂 I'd want one of each rc's. Hehe
Dream shop!
The aluminum bars they use to make the sway arms on the Tamiya clod busters.
Now that IS a hobby shop!!!! Would love to go to japan and do some rc shopping!!! This is what we need here in the U.S..
this hobby store looked like it had only cars and car parts, but the long aluminum tubes could have been helicopter tail booms.
yes that was mostly align helicopter parts...... completely amazing!!!!!
Hey, nice video. The aluminum tubes you were referring to as bars are heli tail booms. They are pretty much guaranteed to bend in most crashes and will need to be replaced but are usually not very expensive. Great find and tour.
ah thanks for the explanation!
"...and then that was pretty much the first aisle..." lol.....i went to Seoul in S. Korea a couple of years ago and i did the same thing checking out the local hobby stores there and it was quite amusing since most of us here in the US are used to shopping most everything RC online...
Wow I'd sure like to be there those bar things are tail torque tubes for helicopters but yeah I'd be there from opening to closing checking everything out ..cool thanks for posting
I love Tamiya kits from the 1980’s. It’s cool to see those rereleased.
Brings back good old memories of HobbyTown USA in the 90's. Lots of quality products to choose from, and a lot of the familiar Japanese brands like as shown in the video.
U.S. hobby shops these days are flooded with Traxxas and Horizon Hobby junk, and prices are through the roof. I order everything online now.
Would like to check it out as well, interesting
Grass hoppers and lunchboxes where out when I was not even a teenager! I’m 43 now how do they have these items still , kept from back in the day or factories still produce?
they've been re-releasing them over the last 10 years or so, 99% same as the originals.
Razor RC sweet
That was cool. Thx for the tour.
Tamiya has an amazing history. Which is pretty awesome they are a big part of Japanese heritage. There is a documentary on them I suggest watching it for anyone who loves model cars.
Wow that’s amazing!
What an amazing shop ! thanks for the insight into this shop and keep your eyes open for other similar shops especially those selling aircraft related items.
Hobby DISTRIBUTORS in the USA don't have that much stock. Awestruck..
Lol nope no where near it.