Łomianki - Tokyo
This year Luftgekühlt Tokyo 2026 took place on a closed section of the K&K elevated expressway in the Ginza district, turning a piece of city infrastructure into a spectacular open-air gallery of classic Porsche. It is one of the most unusual automotive events you can experience in Tokyo.
The first frames from the expressway were already incredible. It was a celebration of the so-called "fans", meaning air-cooled Porsche. The Japanese went completely crazy for this event and brought their amazing cars. Perfectly prepared machines, detailed down to the smallest element, filled the elevated road. For anyone who loves cars like the Porsche 911, the view was simply a dream.
Four hours on the expressway
The first group of cars entered the venue at 10:00, and at 12:00 the event opened to visitors with open tickets. It ran for four hours, until 16:00, and in that time you could see some of the best air-cooled Porsche in Japan.
Why Tokyo?
This story starts a little earlier and a little wider, though, because we simply love Japan. We love its night highways, its street car culture and the legends of Japanese motoring. We love the Kanjo scene around the Osaka Loop Line and the wild Honda Civics running through the city at night, Bosozoku style, sushi, the neon lights of the city and the films of Takeshi Kitano, whom Łukasz is completely obsessed with.
Do we really have to travel all the way to Tokyo to see cars from Stuttgart? Shouldn't we be chasing a police Nissan GT-R instead, or looking for a legendary rally icon like the Subaru Impreza?
And yet we come here to Tokyo to see Porsche.
The Łomianki connection
Jarek Sekuna, a Pole whose last name sounds surprisingly Japanese, also came to Tokyo to see Porsche in their most iconic form.
He is the same Sekuna whose small blue toy cars are sold across Japan with the proud inscription "Łomianki" on their blue paint. Łomianki is a small town near Warsaw in Poland. You could say it is a little like Chiba, just smaller and without Tokyo Disneyland.
Right there in Łomianki, Sekuna is currently building projects 13 and 14 of the legendary RAUH-Welt Begriff series. The brand's founder, Akira Nakai, known as Nakai-san, has created the largest concentration of RWB cars in one place there.
After dark
Events like Luftgekühlt Tokyo bring together people from different countries who are willing to travel to the other side of the world, as Sekuna did, just to spend a few hours looking at cars, listening to stories and feeling that they belong to the same global community of automotive enthusiasts.
