Datsun Sunny B310 at Ueno Park, Tokyo | Photo Print

I was walking from Yushima, where the restaurants and bars are, toward Shinobazu Pond, waiting at the crossing outside Ueno Park. Then this rolled up: a late-1970s Nissan Sunny B310 sedan, silver, lowered, sitting on deep-dish Watanabe-style wheels, fender mirrors still on, and a Tokyo taxi sliding past behind it. You can see the pond through the trees.

I was born in the mid-70s and grew up around cars like this one. Seeing one still on the road, this well kept, in my own neighborhood after seven years of walking these streets, made the day. Sold abroad as the Datsun 210 and 120Y, the B310 is the everyday JDM classic of its era, and this one is loved in the kyusha, shakotan way: low, clean, and driven.

Ueno Park comes right down to this crossing, and through the trees is Shinobazu Pond, which fills with lotus in summer while people paddle swan boats on the boating pond beside it. Farther into the park are a cluster of museums and Japan's oldest zoo, and across the road the restaurants and bars of Yushima keep the area going after the museums close.

Photographed in Ueno, Tokyo, in 2025.

AI-assisted photographic artwork based on an original photograph.