Honda Collection Hall at Twin Ring Motegi

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The Twin Ring Motegi is a racetrack in Motegi, Japan built by Honda to bring the IndyCar Series to Japan. So naturally you’d find a number of Honda-centric features at the track, such as the Honda Collection Hall.

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Way before the Ridgeline, Honda already made trucks. Not a common thing in the present though.

The Honda Collection Hall features historic racing cars, production cars and motorcycles, mostly Hondas but not necessarily. There are a total of approximately 350 completely restored items in the hall.

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The main display of the ground floor lobby

It is divided into three floors including the ground floor. At the ground floor there is not much – a few special key exhibits, a cafe, shop and reading room.

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The Honda N360 is likely the design inspiration for the new EV-N

Go up one floor and you get to see the production stuff. There are bikes, cars and even power products, since Honda also makes generators and etc. Finally on the top floor, there are exhibits of racing cars and racing motorcycles.

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There are even “modern classics”, such as the Honda NSX

At the facility itself there is a restoration room where the restoration is done. You can even watch the restoration process through a window if there is one that happens to be going on during the time that you are visiting the hall.

Look after the jump for a total of over 100 photos I snapped of the displays.

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Paul Tan

After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history.

 

Comments

  • ahmad norman on Oct 26, 2009 at 11:21 am

    wow nice cars love the nsx and the bikes too

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  • Savvy88 on Oct 26, 2009 at 2:56 pm

    Erm… I wonder is any Honda EX5 there..

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  • mystvearn (Member) on Oct 26, 2009 at 3:28 pm

    Need replacement for prelude, NSX, S2000 now….Toyota has 2 cars released. That lexus and new AAE86 replacement.

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  • mohd hafizzul on Oct 26, 2009 at 3:36 pm

    Bagus….ada tak Model Honda Accord SA6Y? Kalau ada saya nak tengok Gallery…

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  • ermmm.. gurls?

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  • That is a museum lor… mana ada girls…

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  • MyCarMyLife on Oct 26, 2009 at 5:06 pm

    Wah nice one for Honda fans, I am glad my 1984 EH3 Hatchback 2.5R is on show, yes 25 years and can still give the new 1.5s a run for the money.

    Definitely will plan a visit to this gallery.

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  • Kevin Lee on Oct 26, 2009 at 5:09 pm

    All the Honda S cars are here, nice!

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  • mitlanevo on Oct 26, 2009 at 6:16 pm

    COOL :-)

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  • almostthere on Oct 26, 2009 at 6:37 pm

    Wish they reissued a modern version of the Honda Beat and be exported

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  • carcoon on Oct 26, 2009 at 6:58 pm

    What the hell is the Suzuki bike doing there?

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  • Gajen on Oct 26, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    the blue convertiveble looks like a porsche 356 cabrio…just love the nsx…i still think it looks very beautiful

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  • nabill on Oct 26, 2009 at 8:05 pm

    actually alot of those cars are still alive on our local roads !

    bt nice photos though!

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  • Georgie on Oct 26, 2009 at 10:04 pm

    Damn it paul..U're so lucky to be able to travel all over the world for these kind of shows! I envy u.. keep up the good work!

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  • Auto_crat on Oct 27, 2009 at 3:34 am

    It's nice to still see some of the cars in pristine condition. I wonder if P1 and P2 do it here eventhough there are plenty of their cars on the road.

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  • Tiadaid on Oct 27, 2009 at 4:09 am

    It's interesting to note that the Lotus F1 car (the Camel liveried car) displayed is the car driven by Satoru Nakajima, instead of the car driven by Nelson Piquet. Shouldn't Piquet's car be placed there, since his car carried the number 1?

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  • dont know why, i am attracted by that green truck

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  • zafedz on Oct 27, 2009 at 6:31 am

    I've been here once in 2001…the museum is not so big compare to Toyota one in Nagoya..but it's nice place to visit…the motegi circuit is located on the high land something like Genting over here…

    Best thing to watch in motegi circuit is the drag race…all the US muscle car + dragster you can find it her….

    All motorsport race including offroad could be found here…

    (wondering??I couldn't see any photo of asimo here??)

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  • Paul Tan on Oct 27, 2009 at 6:38 am

    Auto_crat: i think P1 does. if you visit the COE by the side of kesas, they have fully restored original saga, etc.

    As for the Piquet car… perhaps it is displayed somewhere else more prominent.

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  • 12345 on Oct 27, 2009 at 8:17 am

    carcoon said,

    October 26, 2009 @ 10:58 am

    What the hell is the Suzuki bike doing there?

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    u better go for eye check… seriously!

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  • chyan on Oct 27, 2009 at 11:56 pm

    NSX is still my dream car. :)

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  • zafedz on Oct 28, 2009 at 4:55 am

    I think I also see the suzuki RG250F walter wolf in the photo….Mmmmm….

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  • rookie on Oct 28, 2009 at 6:01 pm

    12345,

    http://paultan.org/photo/honda-collection/honda-c…

    it is a suzuki…

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  • waklu on Oct 28, 2009 at 8:45 pm

    "mostly Hondas but not necessarily."

    don't you guys read?

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