On March 1st, I attended the 2026 R34 Skyline Festival in Hong Kong, and again, it was amazing! Last year I attended the Festival (And wrote about it here), where Skylines and various other JDM were on display in a private storage lot in the Northwest New Territories. This year’s festival was considerably larger, with over 100 cars, of which 45 were Skylines, gathered in the former parking lot of the Asia Television headquarters in Tai Po.
Hosted by Bakusoupluto and Skyline Hong Kong, the annual festival is a gathering of Skyline owners, JDM enthusiasts, race car drivers, drifters, mechanics, and family to celebrate what is considered to be one of, if not the greatest car to come out of Japan, Nissan’s 10th generation Skyline, the R34.
[Ed Note: Hey, it’s my brother, Mike, who runs the Carsofhongkong Instagram page. I keep asking him to write more dispatches from JDM-Wonderland, and here’s a rare one from his visit to a Skyline show. -DT]
As an introductory recap, the festival was originally celebrated at the Fuji Speedway in Japan and was brought over to Hong Kong by Pluto Mok and his local R34-owning friends. Pluto is a Macau Grand Prix podium finisher, director of Hong Kong’s first simulation racing game, and an all-around car fanatic who regularly drives his R34 GT-R V-spec II to the Festival in Japan.
With permission from Japanese car clubs, Pluto started the R34 Festival six years ago as a way for all Skyline owners across Hong Kong to gather, celebrate, and share their passion.
I arrived at the festival gate around noon on my mint green Vespa GTS 300 to pick up a media pass. Feeling slightly out of place on my flashy two-wheeler, I quickly scooted through a corridor of neatly lined R34s and parked around the building amongst disused television props. I got off my bike, grabbed my camera, and walked back to the show floor.
The event was “fire,” as the youths may say. The atmosphere was filled with aggressive engine sounds from cars just arriving, staff megaphones instructing where each car is to be parked, an impressive DJ mixing trance-electronic dance music, and screams and laughter amongst friends. After exchanging a few “hellos” with familiar faces whom I met at previous car shows, I began photographing cars and meeting new enthusiasts.
There were also plenty of non-Skyline JDM cars in attendance, parked toward the back of the lot. The Honda NSX with BBS LM wheels below was quite the head-turner.
Josh, who’s Hong Kong born and raised with his Suzuki Cappuccino EA11 (below).
Josh’s Suzuki Cappuccino EA11 is fitted with Lotus Elise bucket seats.
After the lucky draw a handful of drivers put on a drifting display which I couldn’t stick around for. Above is some footage provided by Jason Lai.
P.S.: In case you happened to be wondering what happened to that abandoned 1965 Harley Davidson Electroglide I tried rescuing from an alley a while back, I’ve since passed it on to my good friend Andre who originally found the bike and may has better means of restoring it.
Top graphic image: Michael Tracy