Series 1: Welcome to Japan

Series 1, Welcome to Japan, was the first Forza Horizon 6 Festival Playlist, from May 21 to Jun 18, 2026. Its overall rewards were the 2008 Mazda Furai and the 2010 Nissan 370Z, and every one of its ten reward cars was Japanese.

0:00 Series 1, Welcome to Japan, was the first Festival Playlist of Forza Horizon 6, running from May 21 to Jun 18, 2026, with the 2008 Mazda Furai and the 2010 Nissan 370Z as its two overall rewards. Every one of its ten reward cars came from a Japanese maker (Mazda, Nissan, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Honda and Subaru). It was the launch series, so it had no title update of its own: the game shipped on May 19, 2026, and two hotfixes followed on May 18 and May 27. It has ended; the current series is Series 7: City Life.

Quick facts

Playlist	May 21 to Jun 18, 2026
Weeks	Summer May 21, Autumn May 28, Winter Jun 4, Spring Jun 11
Overall rewards	2008 Mazda Furai, 2010 Nissan 370Z
Hotfixes	May 18 (version 360.259), May 27 (version 364.933)
Badge	Cherry Blossom Badge
Car Pass cars	4
Followed by	Series 2: Horizon Decades

Sources: Series 1, Welcome to Japan, Playground Games, May 14, 2026; Series 1 Hotfix 1, May 18, 2026; Series 1 Hotfix 2, May 27, 2026.

Reward cars

The Furai, Mazda's 2008 concept racer, led the series. Playground's launch-week post of May 15 priced it at 80 Playlist Points and the seasonal cars at 20 and 40. Playground's Series 1 page on forza.net, read on Nov 3, 2026, now shows 60 and 120, and 15 and 30, which are the lower costs Series 7 brought in; the Steam post gives the costs as they were at launch.

Week	Dates	Seasonal rewards
Summer	May 21 to 28	1999 Toyota Altezza RS200 Z EDITION, 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX MR
Autumn	May 28 to Jun 4	1997 Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec, 1991 Honda CR-X SiR
Winter	Jun 4 to 11	2019 Subaru STI S209, 2016 Toyota Land Cruiser Arctic Trucks AT37
Spring	Jun 11 to 18	1996 Toyota Starlet Glanza V, 1974 Toyota Corolla SR5

Source for the table: Series 1, Welcome to Japan, Playground Games, May 14, 2026.

Several of these came back later as seasonal rewards for players who missed them: the 370Z, the CR-X SiR and the Corolla SR5 in Series 6: Horizon Meets, the Starlet Glanza V and the Corolla again in Series 7.

Players who completed each type of Series 1 Playlist activity earned the Cherry Blossom Badge. The Trial, the 6v6 event for Gold Wristband holders, was left out of Series 1 on purpose, Playground said, "to avoid placing any pressure on players to rush"; it returned in Series 2.

The Nissan Be-1 gift

A bug let players finish the Autumn week's "Delivery Job" during Summer without unlocking its reward, the 1987 Nissan Be-1. Playground's fix was to give the Be-1 to everyone who played from May 28 through Jun 18, through the in-game Message Center.

Car Pass cars

Date	Car
May 19	1990 Nissan #12 Skyline GT-R (BNR32 Gr. A) JTC
May 28	2024 Koenigsegg Gemera
Jun 4	1972 Datsun #269 Attacking the Clock Racing 240Z 'All Carbon Hill Climb Beast'
Jun 11	2008 Honda Civic Type R (FD2)

Source: Series 1, Welcome to Japan, May 14, 2026. Steam's add-on page dates the Skyline May 18, the store's release day. See Car Pass.

Hotfixes and fixes

Series 1 Hotfix 1, version 360.259, a 1.8 GB download on May 18, 2026, improved Profile Loading errors at start-up, stopped invites from the Xbox app closing the game, and fixed Steam Controller crashes.

5:01 On May 22 Playground listed its first priorities: Drivatar AI that was "sometimes" too fast at high difficulty, PC frame rates on AMD graphics cards, PC audio crackling, and PC crashes and Invalid Loading errors. The AI change came in Series 2 (see Drivatars and Difficulty). The clip is Hardware Unboxed's May 15, 2026 benchmark, which found AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT behind on average frame rate and suspected AMD's driver.

Series 1 Hotfix 2, version 364.933 on May 27, 2026, made the Photography section of Discover Japan completable again (it had blocked the Master Explorer stamp; see Collection Journal and Discover Japan) and changed the "Low" and "Very Low" PC audio settings to cut crackling. Other launch problems are on Known Issues and Fixes.

Frequently asked questions

When was Forza Horizon 6 Series 1? Forza Horizon 6 Series 1, Welcome to Japan, ran from May 21 to Jun 18, 2026, the four weeks after the game's May 19 launch.

How do you get the Mazda Furai in Forza Horizon 6? The 2008 Mazda Furai was the top Series 1 reward in Forza Horizon 6, earned with Playlist Points between May 21 and Jun 18, 2026. Playground has not announced its return as of Nov 3, 2026; check each new series' rewards on Updates and Series.

What were the Forza Horizon 6 Series 1 reward cars? The overall rewards were the 2008 Mazda Furai and the 2010 Nissan 370Z, plus eight seasonal cars, all Japanese, from the 1997 Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec to the 2019 Subaru STI S209.

Can you still get Series 1 cars in Forza Horizon 6? Some Series 1 cars have come back as seasonal rewards in later Forza Horizon 6 series, such as the 370Z, CR-X SiR and Corolla SR5 in Series 6. The Furai has also appeared at the Series 6 7-Eleven meet's Aftermarket spawn.