{"id":3388,"date":"2026-03-18T12:38:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/?p=3388"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:09:13","slug":"rented-a-fl5-civic-type-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/2026\/03\/rented-a-fl5-civic-type-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Rented a FL5 Civic Type R"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wanted to experience the most recent Honda Civic FL5 Type R for myself after hearing rave reviews. Honda in Tokyo has a rental program which was 25000 yen for 7.5 hours which seems reasonable to me. Drove to Hakone and spent the day up there.<br><br>In short, the car is amazing. <br><br>By far the best manual transmission I have ever experienced. More than enough power. Amazing handling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9986-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"3391\" src=\"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9986-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9986-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9986-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9986-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9986-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9986-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9986-1980x2640.jpg 1980w, https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9986-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9978-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"3390\" src=\"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9978-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9978-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9978-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9978-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9978-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9978-1-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9978-1-1980x2640.jpg 1980w, https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9978-1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9990-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9990-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9990-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9990-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9990-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9990-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9990-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9990-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9990-1980x1485.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wanted to experience the most recent Honda Civic FL5 Type R for myself after hearing rave reviews. Honda in Tokyo has a rental program which was 25000 yen for 7.5 hours which seems reasonable to me. Drove to Hakone and spent the day up there. In short, the car is amazing. By far the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanai.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}