Long Beach, CA

experience

Cabrillo High School

Troubled Sean Boswell (Lucas Black) can’t seem to keep out of trouble around cars in Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift. His high school is supposedly ‘Oro Valley High School in Arizona’, but in reality is Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo High School, 2001 Santa Fe Avenue, in Long Beach, South LA, which also appeared in Steve Martin comedy Cheaper By The Dozen and Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, as well as appearing as ‘William McKinley High’ for the first season of TV series Glee.

Hawthorne, CA

shopping

Hawthorne Plaza

Sean makes his first attempt at drifting: Hawthorne Plaza Mall, Hawthorne, Los Angeles in the Tokyo Drift film.

Minato City, Tokyo

destination

Azabujuban

One of the real Japanese locations in Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift, is the exterior of Sean’s dad’s house, on a narrow sidestreet on the eastern fringe of the Azabu-Jūban district in the Minato area of Tokyo, which was scheduled for redevelopment.

Shibuya City, Tōkyō-to

destination • experience

adidas Futsal Park Shibuya

This was one of the real Japanese locations in Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift, include the rooftop soccer pitch, Futsal Court, overlooking Shibuya Square; as well as Takeshita Dori (Takeshita Street) and its side streets lined by trendy shops and boutiques which make up the heart of Harajuku's teen culture; and Kabukichō, the red-light district in Shinjuku, home to host and hostess clubs and, um, coyly-named love hotels.

Azusa, CA

State Route 39 & San Gabriel Canyon Road

For the final race in the film Fast and Furious : Tokyo Drift, the roads used are off San Gabriel Canyon Road, Route 39, at the southern tip of the San Gabriel Reservoir a few miles northeast of Azusa, east of Los Angeles. In fact, that’s the San Gabriel Dam you can see in the background of the race starting point.