Start your journey as a tourist and explore a world full of hit music and Japanese culture. Build a Valley Estate, acquire awe-inspiring homes, and display your prized car collection in fully Customizable Garages. Cruise the roads with your friends and join Car Meets around Japan, unleash your imagination with EventLab and build together in Horizon CoLab.

Your journey to a Horizon Legend starts now – Japan Awaits!

As one of the most requested locations destinations for the open-world driving series, players will get to discover a scenic, breathtaking, and culturally authentic Japan as they aim to become a Legend at the Horizon Festival.

Welcome to Japan, a place where the stunning contrasts of rural and urban come together as you uncover the secrets hidden within Horizon's most dense map yet, full of verticality, diverse biomes and spectacular driving experiences. Cruise the suburbs and iconic downtown streets or challenge yourself in the docks and industrial districts of Tokyo City, the largest ever urban area in a Forza Horizon game, and the home for car enthusiasts.

The Horizon Festival makes Japan its new home in Forza Horizon 6, and we are looking forward to celebrating its car culture and breathtaking landscapes. When you visit Horizon Japan, you’ll be able to explore 6 biomes unique to this new location: 

• Plains: Nothing flat about exploring these plains! Take a look at the waterbodies, plants, and roads you’ll discover in your adventures through Japan. 
• Coast : There’s something so special about Japanese coastlines, we hope you are as excited as we are to visit them! 
• Alpine region: Snow is also making a comeback in Forza Horizon 6. The Alpine region will be covered in white during all four seasons! 
• Lowlands: You can see the topographic variety of Japan when the road starts to rise at the Lowlands.
• Highlands: Forza Horizon 6 has our most elevated map to date, enjoy climbing hills and mountains in the Highlands. 

New adventures await on every biome and region in Forza Horizon 6. Every biome features distinctive vegetation and elevation. Seasonal weather affects them all differently, too! 

Earn Your Gold Wristband and Become a Horizon Legend in Japan

We're taking a deep dive into how Forza Horizon 6 combines exploration and Festival racing in solo and cooperative gameplay, all with a renewed focus on progression.  

In Forza Horizon 4, you arrived in Britain as a Superstar of the Horizon Festival. In Forza Horizon 5, your success as a racing champion continued in Mexico. In Forza Horizon 6, however, you’ll start the game as a tourist in Japan, with a dream of joining the Horizon Festival. None of that past fame is carried with you. You'll need to build a name for yourself and prove you have everything that it takes to become a Horizon Legend.  

When you first land in Japan, you won't be by yourself. Two new Horizon characters, Mei and Jordy, also share your dream of joining the Horizon Festival, and they will be there to help you qualify and discover everything Japan has to offer. Jordy is a passionate motorsports enthusiast who understands the competitiveness of racing, while Mei is an experienced Japanese car builder, and will provide cultural insights and introductions on your journey throughout Japan. You can join her for authentic day trips to experience the unique brilliance of each region, and she will be there for you every step of the way to Legend Island. 

To make it into the Horizon Festival, you’ll have to complete the Horizon Qualifiers and then the Horizon Invitational, earning your first Wristband. In Forza Horizon 6, Festival races are a curated experience, requiring you to enter using a specific set of cars in Road, Dirt and Cross Country events. With each new Wristband that you earn, you’ll be invited to compete in more events around Japan, and as you rise through the ranks of the Horizon Festival, these races will feature car themes – challenging you to master faster, more thrilling cars. Completing Festival Events, as well as activities like PR Stunts and Skills, will help you progress towards your next Wristband. 

After a race has been completed for the first time, the Race Customizer will be unlocked for that specific event. In the event setup menu, you can adjust the number of Drivatars (up to 11), season, weather, time of day, time progression, number of laps, Rewind availability, camera lock, and traffic. By default, the Race Customizer will select a Car Theme that matches your current car, and there are also several other Car Themes to choose from, including pre-made classes and type-based restrictions. If you prefer, you can even pick each individual car that is permitted for the event.  

If you’re playing with friends and set up an event as the Convoy leader, the rest of the Convoy will join you and play that event the same way you shaped it. Convoys are the best way to play Forza Horizon 6 together. If you’re looking for more players, you can always casually drive to a Car Meet and join or start a Convoy, and from there, participate in open world activities alongside each other or set up fun and unique events using the Race Customizer. 

Once you’ve earned enough progress, you must complete a thrilling Wristband Event to earn your next Wristband. These include spectacular Showcase Events – you might have caught a glimpse of ‘Chaser Zero’, Horizon’s own racing mech at the end of the Developer_Direct video – as well as the brand-new Horizon Rush events featuring exciting locations at Tokyo City Docks, the Sotoyama Ski Resort and Irokawa Space Center. 

Horizon Rush is the ultimate test of a driver against the course. Complete exhilarating obstacle courses as quicky as possible to earn the maximum stars. Throughout the course, splits will track your time helping you improve, whether you’re aiming for three stars, or the top of the leaderboards. 

Obtain all 7 Festival Wristbands, and you’ll become a Horizon Legend. That title grants you access to Legend Island, an exclusive space reserved for the greatest drivers, featuring the challenging Legend Island Circuit and unique events including our longest Goliath event ever – the Colossus, which loops the entire map on the freeway. It’s the perfect place for R-class cars. Making it to Legend Island will be a true accomplishment and a reflection of your skills and determination. 

While the Horizon Festival provides a progression-driven structure, Japan is also an incredible place to be explored at your own pace. That’s where Discover Japan comes in. While the Horizon Festival focuses on earning Wristbands, Discover Japan is all about obtaining Stamps – a system inspired by Japan’s rich stamp collecting history. 

Whether you’re taking photos while cruising the roads of Japan, delivering food as a side hustle, collecting new cars, or playing through Horizon Stories, you will always be earning progress towards your next Stamp. As part of Discover Japan, you can also compete in Touge Battles and thrilling night-time Street Races, which are the perfect place to race the cars you might not be able to use in Festival Events just yet.  

With the structured restrictions of the Horizon Festival, Hypercars can’t be used in Festival races until you’ve obtained at least the Purple Wristband, which is quite late into the game. This means players who want to stay engaged in the stricter progression system can do that in the official Horizon Festival events, while others who want to immediately jump into the fastest cars will have unofficial events as part of Discover Japan open to them. 

Collecting Stamps for your Collection Journal will unlock new Player Houses around Japan with Customizable Garages for you to buy, as well as Barn Find Rumors and The Estate – a mountain valley where you can build and decorate directly in the open world. 

You’ll track your campaign progression across both Horizon Festival and Discover Japan in the Collection Journal. Each of these paths can be progressed at your leisure. If you’re the type of player who wants to embark on your own road trips, there’s great news for you too – everything that you discover in Japan is tracked in your Collection Journal. It’s also where you can redeem unique rewards for completing specific activities and challenges, and these will include cars, credits, and cosmetic items. 

Additionally, anything that you photograph for your Collection Journal will be saved there, so you always have a wonderful keepsake of your adventures to look back on. And if you capture a better photo later, you can even swap them out! 

What’s more, for the first time in a Forza Horizon game, cross-save between Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, PlayStation 5, and Steam is supported. That means your Forza Horizon 6 campaign progress follows you no matter which device you’re discovering Japan on. 

Whether you prefer to race or explore, Forza Horizon 6 delivers an expansive campaign full of depth, freedom and progression, and we can’t wait for you to experience it.

Drive over 550 real-world cars, including some much loved and fan favorite JDM classics, featuring cutting-edge engine audio and updated steering animations with up to 540 degrees of wheel rotation. As you explore Japan, collect special Forza Edition cars fitted with extreme modifications and find rare Aftermarket Cars to test drive and buy. Your path to making a name for yourself will see you meet the Legends of the Horizon Festival, participate in Touge Battles, and experience authentic stories rooted in Japan’s legendary car culture.

In Forza Horizon 6, you will explore a vast campaign of discovery and Festival racing, playable solo and in co-op with your friends.* You’ll start as a tourist and must prove you’ve got what it takes to join the Horizon Festival as a rookie driver, all while you Discover Japan and complete your Collection Journal. Qualify for the Festival in the Horizon Invitational, then rise through the ranks in progressively faster cars and earn new Wristbands to become a Horizon Legend. Your newfound status will grant you access to Legend Island, an exclusive space reserved for the greatest drivers.

Your journey will see you purchase gorgeous homes in Japan, each with customizable garages – allowing you to create the ideal spaces to showcase your car collection, or you can download layouts shared online by the community. Unlock the Estate, a mountain valley where you can build freely in the open world, creating nearly anything you can imagine. And for your favorite cars, those can be upgraded with body kits and new Forza Aero options, as well as the ability to paint custom liveries on windows.

This Festival is always better with your friends.* Seamlessly participate in Time Attack Circuits and Drag Meets or show off your customized cars at Car Meets. Earn new co-op LINK skills with other players, compete in Spec Racing Championships, or jump into the Horizon Multiplayer modes you know and love including The Eliminator and nail biting Hide & Seek.

Create with unprecedented freedom anywhere in Japan as you build custom events with your friends in CoLab, the upgraded EventLab toolset – now featuring multiplayer support and the ability to build literally anywhere in the world. Share your masterpieces for everyone to play and discover an always evolving catalog of exciting new content created by the community.

Hit the open road in our most approachable Horizon game yet. Our customization options include Granular High Contrast Mode, Car Proximity Radar, American and British Sign Language, and AutoDrive, allowing players to experience the beautiful cars, hit music and spectacular locations of the Horizon Festival.

Forza Horizon 6 will launch first on Xbox Series X|S and PC (Steam) on May 19, 2026 and be included with Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass at launch. Additionally, Playground Games and Turn 10 Studios are working together to bring Forza Horizon 6 to PS5 post-launch.