Thank you so much for uploading this. I might sound crazy, but seeing this in real-life had me in tears. That's years of my childhood right there, and seeing it like this was a profound experience.
It's funny how important someone thinking "hey, I drive this route to work everyday, maybe we can put it in our game" can be so important to our childhoods. 2001 was a different time, so I'm glad it still looks somewhat the same.
I walked this route a few days ago on my last day in Tokyo and took a TON of pictures. I stood on the front straight bridges for quite a while just taking it in. They did a great job of capturing it in video game form
Random fun fact: the Sony office building where Polyphony is stationed is the building on the left hand side of the main start/finish straight of the course. They didnt make any random japanese road into a street circuit they made a street circuit out of the road they see every day outside their office windows
Funny to see the area where I live in a video game. I was a huge fan of GT3, but when I was playing it, I never thought I would one day be living in Tokyo. I did a demo race on this track at the Sony PS4 Expo in Shinjuku, and actually won the race (not a bad feat, considering it had been 5 or so years since I had last raced it on GT3). For those who are interested, the long, uphill straightaway is Aoyama street. It passes the place where I get my hair cut, the Canadian embassy, the McLaren and Bentley dealers, and the Aoyama twin buildings. It then turns into Yoyogi Gyoen, the straightaway with the tall, straight trees on both sides. Then it turns onto a big oval, around this oval are the Swallow's baseball stadium, the new site of Tokyo's Olympus stadium, the ice skating rink, and Nico Nico part, a play area for kids. The race then leaves the oval, and follows behind an Imperial palace (where the orange-painted road shifts), then turns in front of the National Guesthouse. Then it follows along the old outer moat of the former Edo castle, you can see the New Otani hotel on the left. The track then turns right, under the overpass, if you continue straight, there is a Hooters on the left, and a Bic Camera department store on the right. If you don't turn into the park, Aoyama street will take you to Shibuya Station.
Yeah, I have to use Akasaka-Metsuke pretty often. I like that area alot. You gave a good description, but missed a few more pertinent to gamers. On Aoyama Dori you can see Honda world HQ, and a little later before the right hander towards Jingu Stadium is Sony's offices. For more touristy things, there is the Prince Hotel at the final right back to the start line. And next to that is Ninja Restaurant.
The closest has to be the GTA knockoff game called "True Crime: Streets of LA." The game has a recreation of a 240-square-mile (622 km2) area of Los Angeles. Although majority of the map was just generic, certain area of LA were accurate like the Downtown LA and Santa Monica areas.
@@novemberdelta1282thats f3, there is only a single f1 calender which does visit japan, curiously super formula is pretty good tho with ralf schumacher participating in it before graduating to f1
Sent shivers down my spine, to realize I've actually walked here in Tokyo before - and been playing it in Gran Turismo since my childhood. It's finally taken this video to realize where this actually was in Tokyo. Thanks for the vid.
Thank you so much. I've been wondering if this was actually from a real road and how much so for like almost 2 decades! It was and still is one of my favorite tracks in the series and i love it even more now!
A bit late to this, but its a great video. Also, I realised that at 35 seconds, you will see (besides the R35), the Honda Aoyama Plaza showroom on the left side. Awesome stuff.
Anyone giving you a thumbs down needs slapped. Seriously, this is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen someone do on UA-cam and it shows the attention to detail the devs put into recreating the roads they did. Nice job!
I walked the entire R-246 course when I lived in Japan. It was actually really fun to notice all the details. The Honda headquarters is just a little bit ahead of the start/finish line.
I always used to think that city circuits in GT were just another type of original circuit, just a made up track based in a real city. But after watching the footage of the end credits for GT Sport and realizing that the Tokyo Expressway was a real place in Japan featured in GT Sport and after watching this video, it’s safe to say that all the city circuits featured in any GT game were real life streets that Polyphony Digital based those city tracks around.
Seattle Circuit is another example. The reason it's not in Gran Turismo anymore is because the bus stop chicane near the end of the track is taken up by a parking garage IRL now.
I still remember this as my time playing GT5 on this track, driving my MR2 vs my father’s GTR, which I won. Now he is gone and I have no one to play with me on PS3
This is so cool. This was and still is my favourite of the City Street circuits. Really wish it came to GTS. But we got Tokyo Express and that’s still really fun with all the alternate routes it’s got. Going the other direction was my favourite version of Tokyo Route 246.
We gotta find special stage route 5 and 11 since it was confirmed they based those tracks on an area in Japan And the fact they consistently keep putting SSR in City Courses does tell us there’s definitely some real life aspects to these tracks we have yet to find
I have this love hate relationship with this track in GT4 endurance race its an amazing track with fast sweeping corner only that the AI back then had fast cars with superhard tires that my soft can barely keep up
Since Sony Interactive Entertainment/Playstation Studios moved its main HQ from Tokyo to Silicon Valley, it's likely this course won't come back. We may instead get a Silicon Valley Circuit.
@@STRIDER_503 If Liberty Media wants a destination race in Japan (2nd race), then Tokyo R246 street circuit is the perfect place to host a race there in the form of the Pacific Grand Prix.
bruh this is like smack in the center of tokyo, think about how much it would cost to close down all those roads in the middle of a weekend to host races
It is my circuit to adjust a car because if you make an error it is the wall. No way to cut a little a curve or to bite slightly the grass. This circuit transformed my Corvette.
5 років тому
That's my go-to track to perfect the setup on my R31 Skyline GTS-R !
I actually walked this route when I was back in Tokyo a few years ago. I think I still have the lap record for a pedestrian.... 20 min 32 sec 😁
XD
hold my beer!
@@hugonubario Watch out for traffic as it can impede your lap time. Good luck 👍
@@1999zeus The strat is to ignore the traffic and hope that rng is on your side /s
@@1999zeus you ran ?
This track never gets old, would love to see this in GT7 asap 💯
I would love to see this on GT Sport
Chris C. Same me too
Still waiting lol
Me too, but it would be too similar to Tokyo expressway
Imagine if they added some traffic and a free roam 🥰
@@wildannandawicaksana7639 X Mb
0:32 at the right, there's a GTR R35
tk7806 yes
Lol, makes you doubt which one is the game xD
They might be there for reasons
Gtr was ready 4 start to race after the warm up lap 😆
Even there is GTR in real life than the game hahaha
Thank you so much for uploading this. I might sound crazy, but seeing this in real-life had me in tears. That's years of my childhood right there, and seeing it like this was a profound experience.
It's funny how important someone thinking "hey, I drive this route to work everyday, maybe we can put it in our game" can be so important to our childhoods. 2001 was a different time, so I'm glad it still looks somewhat the same.
So true, such a simple but amazing video 😁
Dualshock GT3 i was also born in 2001:)
I wish I lived in japan lol I sadly live in the uk :(
I walked this route a few days ago on my last day in Tokyo and took a TON of pictures. I stood on the front straight bridges for quite a while just taking it in. They did a great job of capturing it in video game form
I imagine Polyphony Digital guys found a good loop of road to street race and were like "hmm this would be a good track in our game"
Random fun fact: the Sony office building where Polyphony is stationed is the building on the left hand side of the main start/finish straight of the course. They didnt make any random japanese road into a street circuit they made a street circuit out of the road they see every day outside their office windows
Thomas John Solidum woah that is an awesome fact
That R35 showing up in the real life clip at 0:30 was just perfect.
Funny to see the area where I live in a video game. I was a huge fan of GT3, but when I was playing it, I never thought I would one day be living in Tokyo. I did a demo race on this track at the Sony PS4 Expo in Shinjuku, and actually won the race (not a bad feat, considering it had been 5 or so years since I had last raced it on GT3). For those who are interested, the long, uphill straightaway is Aoyama street. It passes the place where I get my hair cut, the Canadian embassy, the McLaren and Bentley dealers, and the Aoyama twin buildings. It then turns into Yoyogi Gyoen, the straightaway with the tall, straight trees on both sides. Then it turns onto a big oval, around this oval are the Swallow's baseball stadium, the new site of Tokyo's Olympus stadium, the ice skating rink, and Nico Nico part, a play area for kids. The race then leaves the oval, and follows behind an Imperial palace (where the orange-painted road shifts), then turns in front of the National Guesthouse. Then it follows along the old outer moat of the former Edo castle, you can see the New Otani hotel on the left. The track then turns right, under the overpass, if you continue straight, there is a Hooters on the left, and a Bic Camera department store on the right. If you don't turn into the park, Aoyama street will take you to Shibuya Station.
Yeah, I have to use Akasaka-Metsuke pretty often. I like that area alot. You gave a good description, but missed a few more pertinent to gamers. On Aoyama Dori you can see Honda world HQ, and a little later before the right hander towards Jingu Stadium is Sony's offices.
For more touristy things, there is the Prince Hotel at the final right back to the start line. And next to that is Ninja Restaurant.
The closest has to be the GTA knockoff game called "True Crime: Streets of LA."
The game has a recreation of a 240-square-mile (622 km2) area of Los Angeles. Although majority of the map was just generic, certain area of LA were accurate like the Downtown LA and Santa Monica areas.
Very huge comment 😅
Is the Yakuza HQ also in that area?
And you will transfer yourself from GT Series to JSR
Of all my time of playing all the Gran Turismo games I always thought that Tokyo R246 was Fictional
Same
Me too
same here
It’s actually based on a bus route. :)
Same
Honestly, I've always thought this was a fictional track until now
Wow is tokyo dangerous.
Tokyo R246 is one of the best tracks from GT3 too.
That song is too nostalgic for me. Oh this GT5 times...
I hated this and the baby song
@@AdamSticksNTricks you suck
@@AdamSticksNTricks you really suck
@ThEDarKWoLF ua-cam.com/video/pbELFuSF72g/v-deo.html
If indycar comes back to japan, they should create this track in real life!
oh fuck yeah
Or formula 1
@@xCKx_MightyRay japan has it's own formula 1, Super formula championship.
@@novemberdelta1282thats f3, there is only a single f1 calender which does visit japan, curiously super formula is pretty good tho with ralf schumacher participating in it before graduating to f1
@@piggy_potat ah
As a video editor and fan of GT6, bravo and hats off to whoever put this together and those who mapped the circuit. Amazing.
Here’s to missing your breaking point and plowing into the tires at turn 1.
Sent shivers down my spine, to realize I've actually walked here in Tokyo before - and been playing it in Gran Turismo since my childhood.
It's finally taken this video to realize where this actually was in Tokyo. Thanks for the vid.
It hits different when you find out that it's actually based in real life, such an iconic track
Wow, I can't believe how well they recreated it.
We need this track in GT Sport !
At least the Aoyama ~ Shibuya Station layout! :(
they should do a DLC for all these classic tracks
Gt sport has tokyo expressway unfortunately
Thank you so much. I've been wondering if this was actually from a real road and how much so for like almost 2 decades! It was and still is one of my favorite tracks in the series and i love it even more now!
Wow, this is so amazing, love that track!!! Also 0:31 here comes the GT-R!!!!
that's literally the most uncanny feeling... seeing it in real life.. that it's exactly the same. thats so trippy
They need to do one with seattle circuit but what's changed
One of the best videos I've seen in a long time. I thought this track was fictional since gt3. Thanks.
Nothing has changed in real life, so I hope they bring this track back in GT7. All the roads exist
Yes it did, old stadium doesn't exist anymore.
A bit late to this, but its a great video.
Also, I realised that at 35 seconds, you will see (besides the R35), the Honda Aoyama Plaza showroom on the left side.
Awesome stuff.
Absolutely beautiful hopefully this comes back at gt7
Anyone giving you a thumbs down needs slapped. Seriously, this is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen someone do on UA-cam and it shows the attention to detail the devs put into recreating the roads they did. Nice job!
That's awesome!
Now when i visit Japan, i can say
"I used to drift that corner, you know!"
I used to ram other people cars here, you know!
Wait, you put the perfect music into the background, well played.
I walked the entire R-246 course when I lived in Japan. It was actually really fun to notice all the details. The Honda headquarters is just a little bit ahead of the start/finish line.
This is amazing, I had a big grin on my face the whole time
It's almost spot on. If only they could get rid of the shimmering artifacts, then it could've been perfect.
I always used to think that city circuits in GT were just another type of original circuit, just a made up track based in a real city. But after watching the footage of the end credits for GT Sport and realizing that the Tokyo Expressway was a real place in Japan featured in GT Sport and after watching this video, it’s safe to say that all the city circuits featured in any GT game were real life streets that Polyphony Digital based those city tracks around.
Seattle Circuit is another example. The reason it's not in Gran Turismo anymore is because the bus stop chicane near the end of the track is taken up by a parking garage IRL now.
Gran Turismo 6 looks more real than the reality
Simulacra
Checkmate reality!
Thanks for taking the time to make this!
Real nice sim driving to match the real driving turn for turn.
はじめ、下が現実で上がグランツーリスモだと思って見てた笑笑
This is amazing. I never thought I’d see this place as a kid.
また走りたいなぁ。山内さんも過去コースの再収録に前向きな発言をするようになってきたし希望はあるかな？
I still remember this as my time playing GT5 on this track, driving my MR2 vs my father’s GTR, which I won. Now he is gone and I have no one to play with me on PS3
nice. I bet the city looks more beautiful at night.
This is so cool. This was and still is my favourite of the City Street circuits. Really wish it came to GTS. But we got Tokyo Express and that’s still really fun with all the alternate routes it’s got. Going the other direction was my favourite version of Tokyo Route 246.
Hopefully this gets a new version down the line in GT7 with the new National Stadium included.
Wow nice !
GranTurismo really got every detail down to the exact point 👍
Love GT games.
its crazy how good the map was made after the original
An F1 GP on this track would be nice.
We gotta find special stage route 5 and 11 since it was confirmed they based those tracks on an area in Japan
And the fact they consistently keep putting SSR in City Courses does tell us there’s definitely some real life aspects to these tracks we have yet to find
dont forget special stage route 7
It's inspired by shuto expressway but the track itself is definitely fictional.
*Sees Gran Turismo 6 in the title*
Gran Turismo 4: *I'm a joke to you?*
GT3: Am *I* a joke to you, *Son*
I don't think that meme applies here
Screw GT4. GT6 clearly is the winner here, graphics-wise. Hell, even I thought the in-game footage was the real deal at first.
*Gran Turismo Concept Tokio Geneva....
@@sh0ryualfa393 because obviously the graphics are the most important thing in a game
曲懐かし過ぎる
So cool. Very nice video
That BGM😌
Imagine formula E here
Pure shit
*Super GT
Super GT here OMG :O
NO
Tokyo R246 would be too long of a track to host a Formula E race right now.
I have this love hate relationship with this track in GT4 endurance race its an amazing track with fast sweeping corner only that the AI back then had fast cars with superhard tires that my soft can barely keep up
My favorite track ever
GT Sport is amazing, but I miss a lot of tracks and cars from GT6!
*Gran Turismo 6 forever in our hearts*
So cool!!! Remember this when I last played GT4!!!
0:50 shake shack on the left.
1:08 where the Olympics will be.
Nice one!
凄い 最初実写の方をゲーム画面と勘違いしていました
実写とゲームこんなに再現出来ているんですね
Just look at Japanese road surfaces, they a damn near perfect.
thanks alot for that,,,awesome
0:06
mirror window glass building is Sony Computer Entertainment main office building.
So that must be why this track on the game!
Great Job!!! This video is absolutely amazing!!! Thank you my friend. Greetings form Madrid, Spain!!!!!
The nostalgia is killing me 😂
It's always my dream to hold a race like this in real Tokyo!
man i wish they would do an actual motorsport event
Niiice. I always wondered if this was real or not.
I drifted every single corner of this map when my wheel sim was still in good condition.
0:32 GT-R
国会議事堂あるの今の今まで気づかなかったわ、、、1からやってるのに、ありがとさん
It's amazing that the other city tracks are real, like Seattle and others
I know people hate the way the environments look in GT but Polyphony nailed the details for Tokyo R246
100%. Hopefully this track will be back for GT7.
how dare does one hate environments in gt, simply not possible
I would really like one like that from the Seattle circuit.
This is an amazing street circuit to race on
I wish this track returns to Gran Turismo 7 with updated buildings in the area as of 2022.
I hope so
It would be nice to drive the entire Tokyo Route 246 track this early in the morning irl
Nostalgic seeing the SCEI logo on that building. Sadly, it seems they've moved out (though a McLaren dealership now sits there).
懐かしいBGMだなぁ
グランツーリスモの再現度が凄いとわかりました！
というか、急にオススメにいたんですが……？
Wonderful ! Did you also figure out special stage route 5 , 7 and 11 in real life ?
Would be cool to film the real life track in the same season you play in the game.
Nice vid- watched with pleasure
We are so used to see the GT6 version that looks weird to see the first part without the pit stop
I didn't know this was an actual road you can drive in Japan! Where is tokyo expressway located in the city?
What a shame that they removed this iconic track from gt
最初リアルライフっていう名前のゲームかと思った…
Wow! I never knew how accurate this was.
I figured it was real, but I was curious what it would look like in real life.
1:46 the best part...
I own all gt games and I’m proud to know all these places
Did you intentionally record the footage on a potato to make the game look better?
I just want this track to be in GT7
Since Sony Interactive Entertainment/Playstation Studios moved its main HQ from Tokyo to Silicon Valley, it's likely this course won't come back. We may instead get a Silicon Valley Circuit.
@@X2011racer but polyphony stills there no?
Fav track of all times
Good track and good music!
FIA please make this a Formula 1 venue..!
F1 track in one the most crowded capital city in Asia? Tell that to Tokyo civilians.
@@STRIDER_503 If Liberty Media wants a destination race in Japan (2nd race), then Tokyo R246 street circuit is the perfect place to host a race there in the form of the Pacific Grand Prix.
Why would they? Japan already has world class circuits like Suzuka and Fuji Speedway.
bruh this is like smack in the center of tokyo, think about how much it would cost to close down all those roads in the middle of a weekend to host races
Even the heights of the trees matches in several places.
It is my circuit to adjust a car because if you make an error it is the wall. No way to cut a little a curve or to bite slightly the grass. This circuit transformed my Corvette.
That's my go-to track to perfect the setup on my R31 Skyline GTS-R !
Real life GT-R at 0:31 on top right
仮にここでレースする話があがったら、エスケープゾーン皆無だから安全面で開催不可だよね
せめて1コーナーはストレートエンドでかなり速度乗ってるからエスケープ設けないと
Nice comparo!! They probably won't bring back R246 will they?
Anyone notice the real GTR 35 on the right when he stopped at the lights.... He must of thought he was playing GT lol