With the age of the internet the concept of show seasons has kind of faded a little, whilst we may not be able to head out through the wind and rain to any big shows in our own country we can live vicariously through others via the internet.  We've covered the New Years Meet in Japan before, but this year it seems there is much more online for it and quicker than in previous years.

We don't usually find that much in the way of Japanese car shows covered on Flickr, unless it is someone visiting for a specific show, however the photostream of noritamaco has a great set of photos from this years New Years Meeting as well as other meets, mainly for bubble cars and other microcars.

Japan's own Photozou is a much more reliable source for Japanese car show pictures, if you know what you are looking for.  This is where we found this set of 242 pictures including a range of photos from the car park and outside the event.

Hobidas auto brings us a wide selection of images, with a lot of interesting non-Japanese cars being shown in attendance at the event.

Finally the old reliable Minkara has a load of photo galleries to go through, our favourite of which is this one, across the first three pages of the top level gallery are links to thirty sub galleries, lots to look through.

Every year we say we'll get back to Japan,.. maybe this will be that year, or perhaps we should wait until next January!