After the longest break between titles in the history of the Forza series, Forza Horizon is now back with us for a sixth installment and heading to a new location: the overwhelmingly requested Japan.
A new Forza Horizon title means a whole new bunch of things to do, see, photograph, buy, collect, smash and discover — and that include the largest number of Barn Find cars in a Horizon title to date. Forza Horizon 6 sports 15 Barn Finds for you to locate, collect, and (passively) restore, ranging from one-off Le Mans homologation models to cutesy compact cars from Nissan’s famous Pike factory.
For those not familiar with how Barn Finds work, as you level up (in this case in the Discover Japan progression system) you’ll learn of “rumours” of a rare car stored somewhere and in dishevelled condition. You’ll get an indigo icon on your map with a search zone, and you’ll need to find the right building — the “Barn” in question, all of which are identical — in the zone.
As you approach, from whichever direction, you’ll trigger a cutscene in which you and your colleagues Mei and Jordan open the doors to discover the car which is then whisked away for restoration off-screen. This takes a bit of game-time to achieve (proportional to the game value of the car) and it’s then delivered to your garage. As there’s no other way to acquire these cars, they’re the rarest machines in any Forza Horizon game.
Here’s all you need to know in order to unlock all 15!
Forza Horizon 6 Barn Find Guide: Getting Started
First and foremost, Barn Finds are tied to your progression through the Discover Japan path. You’ll need to uncover as much of the map, drive as many of the roads, collect as many of the regional mascots, complete as many of the Stories, and take part in and win Street Races and Touge events to pick up relevant points. The final two cars are only accessible when you get your Gold Stamp, and we’re listing the cars below in order of when they’re available.
Most of the barns are pretty well-hidden, usually among trees, and while all of the barns have an access path that’s clearly the intended way to get to them you can in fact come at them from any angle. You can often spot them, and their access paths, on the map when fully zoomed-in, but not always. Still, with the destructible trees (except sakura) you should discover most pretty easily if you keep an eye out for unmarked roads or run an effective search pattern.
Now that’s dealt with, on with the finds!
Forza Horizon 6 Barn Finds: Honda NSX-R GT
- Region: Ohtani
- Stamp Required: Yellow
This one is the first Barn Find available and will probably the first one you discover, with the one-of-five NSX-R GTs made to homologate a new body for the NSX in order to improve its Super GT car.
The Barn itself is pretty remote, hidden in a forest south-east of the Kinkaku-Ji Temple point of interest. You’ll spot the access road, marked by a traffic cone, pretty easily and it’s a straight shot up to the location to collect this special example of Japan’s first supercar.
Forza Horizon 6 Barn Finds: Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500
- Region: Ito
- Stamp Required: Green
One of the easier finds, this particular Barn is located in the southern section of the Ito region. You’ll find the access road for it just south of the crossroads, opposite the starting marker for the Satta Sprint Road Racing event.
Drive up the winding path (or straightline it; the barn is due south-west of the crossroads) to find the Barn and uncover this 224hp Group A homologation special — which won the Japanese Touring Car Championship for three years in a row.
Forza Horizon 6 Barn Finds: Toyota 2000GT
- Region: Ito
- Stamp Required: Green
We’re still in Ito for the next car, but way up to the north and along the eastern shoreline. Although there’s a shortage of nearby map icons, this one’s not too far west-southwest of the Ito Day Trip Story marker and between two dirt roads down to the beach.
You can find the path about halfway down the southern of the two roads, but the barn isn’t so well hidden from the main road and more you’re likely to approach this one from the back. The suave Toyota 2000GT waits within.
Forza Horizon 6 Barn Finds: Nissan Pao
- Region: Minamino
- Stamp Required: Blue
Although not quite the sporting icons of the previous Barn Finds, the Nissan Pao is a cute little retro machine produced as a special project at Nissan’s Pike factory. One of the four Pike Cars, Nissan made over 30,000 examples in two years — so not exactly rare, but still a fun bit of Japanese car culture.
This one’s located at the top of the Minamino region (the one with the pea mascots), a little way northwest of the golf course. What you’re really looking for is the southern entry/exit to the Minamino Curve Speed Zone (although this unlocks a little later into the Wristband questline), with the access path dropping down to the east right by it.
Forza Horizon 6 Barn Finds: Nissan Skyline 2000 GT-R
- Region: Nangan
- Stamp Required: Blue
Yes, there’s a lot of Nissans in the Barn Finds, but as the start of the famous GT-R line the “Hakosuka” Skyline is one of the more significant models both to Japanese car culture on the global stage and in the game.
It’s in quite a remote location, and although the barn and access path are easy to spot on the map they’re not so obvious on the road. You’re basically looking for a gap in the safety barrier on the west side of the road, almost opposite (but just a bit north from) the road that leads to the Hakone Nanamagari Drift Zone. It’s another straight drive down the path to collect your rare car.
Forza Horizon 6 Barn Finds: Lincoln Continental
- Region: Hokubu
- Stamp Required: Pink
Jumping up to the Pink Stamp brings a bumper crop of four new Barn Finds around the map, starting with the classic Lincoln Continental. If you think that’s not a car that would be big in Japan you’d be wrong in every possible way, with these huge land yachts proving popular precisely because they don’t fit in.
This particular Barn is the easiest to find of them all, to the point you might drive in entirely by accident. Located just southwest of the colourful flower fields inspired by the Shikisai no Oka farm in Hokkaido, the incredibly short access path is on the dashed dirt road that loops around a little copse and is easiest to access from the north.
Forza Horizon 6 Barn Finds: Nissan Skyline GT-R Pennzoil NISMO #23
- Region: Takashiro
- Stamp Required: Pink
This one shouldn’t need any introduction, as it’s an iconic livery for a championship-winning car in the famous All Japan Grand Touring Championship — the predecessor to the modern Super GT series.
Though we’d probably question how you’d get away with driving this on the public roads at all, finding it is a bit of a trickier proposition. The access path is hidden behind another building, next to the start point for the Waterfall Trail Road Racing event and one of the Aftermarket Car locations. It’s a winding climb, or you can just head east from that Aftermarket Car.
Forza Horizon 6 Barn Finds: Peugeot 205 Turbo 16
- Region: Shimanoyama
- Stamp Required: Pink
The westernmost region of the ten, Shimanoyama has three Barn Finds, and two within a few hundred yards of one another. Of those, the first you’ll have access to is the Peugeot 205 Turbo 16, almost at the very northwestern extreme of the map. This one’s right in the middle of the Mountain Pass Speed Zone, and is again marked by traffic cones.
It’s a short climb up the access path to the Barn, where you’ll claim one of the 200 examples of the roadgoing, mid-engined T16 built to homologate the body for the infamous Group B category of the World Rally Championship. Why the 205 and not a Japanese Group B though…
Forza Horizon 6 Barn Finds: Porsche 911 Turbo 3.3
- Region: Ohtani
- Stamp Required: Pink
We’re past halfway now, and for the final Pink Stamp car you’re heading to the very bottom of the Ohtani region, right on the edge of Tokyo City, for the first and only Porsche on this list. This one is the classic 930 Turbo, which was popular pretty much everywhere though not necessarily of particular significant in Japan.
It’s not a tricky one to find, with the access road clearly marked by traffic cones and the wooden stakes we see frequently (but not always) at Barn Find locations. The path runs parallel to the road, just south of the first player house you’ll encounter in the game: Mei’s House.
Forza Horizon 6 Barn Finds: Lamborghini Diablo SV
- Region: Ito
- Stamp Required: Orange
Lamborghini is a remarkably popular brand in Japan, and the Diablo SV represents pretty much the peak era of that popularity. It’s a car which raced in all nine seasons of the GT500 class in JGTC, in its GT-1 guise, courtesy of the Japan Lamborghini Owners’ Club which also tried to take on Le Mans several times in the successor vehicle.
It’s a bit of a pig to find though, as it’s the only one whose access path is not itself directly accessible from a marked road. Instead you’ll need to head down a deforested strip of land that forms the entire Ropeway Run Trailblazer, and it’s about halfway down that on the east side just after you cross the main road near the Yahikoyama Cross Country race. Beware that this car takes quite a while to become available after discovery too.
Forza Horizon 6 Barn Finds: Mitsubishi Montero Evolution
- Region: Shimanoyama
- Stamp Required: Orange
We’re back to Shimanoyama for the second of the three Barn Finds in this region, but heading to the southern portion of it. This one is almost due west of the marker for the very first Showcase event, Mech My Day, which sees you racing the Chaser Zero gundam (sort of). In fact you’ll land just south of the barn if you manage a leap of about 450m from the nearby Mt. Fuji View Danger Sign.
Otherwise, look to your right for a gap in the wire rope safety barrier as you exit the left-hander at the top of the hill above the Bandai Azuma Skyline Drift Zone, and amble down the winding path to the Barn. As for the car, well that is Japanese rallying royalty. Although correctly called the Pajero Evolution — presumably falling foul of Microsoft’s sensitivity filters for its meaning in Spanish — this is the roadgoing model built to homologate the car for the production class of the Paris-Dakar rally, which it then won. Twice, back-to-back.
Forza Horizon 6 Barn Finds: Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Sierra Sierra Enterprises #1
- Region: Shimanoyama
- Stamp Required: Purple
We’re staying in Shimanoyama for the first Purple Stamp car, returning almost to where you found the Peugeot but a little way east to the historic Narai-juku post town. This particular Barn is in one of the prettier locations, and that actually makes it relatively easy to find. Just head up the dirt road the passes to the north of the village and you’ll spot the building nestled in a sakura grove.
Despite being a Japanese car underneath, this Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution is a time attack car built by North American team Sierra Sierra Enterprises (SSE, if Microsoft’s filters would allow it…). While it set lap records in World Time Attack, the Evo was fragile in the real world. Thankfully there’s no such concerns in Forza Horizon!
Forza Horizon 6 Barn Finds: Nissan R390 (GT1)
- Region: Ohtani
- Stamp Required: Purple
Somehow a one-off car that’s very definitely still in Nissan’s possession has found its way into a Barn in a rural spot of the Ohtani region, just northwest of Tokyo. Weird, but that’s how you’ll come across the only Nissan R390 road car ever made, built to satisfy a very narrow homologation requirement for racing at Le Mans.
The access path for this one is actually right behind the start gates for the Bridge Underpasses Trailblazer, though you can see the Barn quite readily from the orange-dashed dirt road that passes just south of it.
Forza Horizon 6 Barn Finds: Mazda 787B #55
- Region: Takashiro
- Stamp Required: Gold
The first of the two cars you can collect with a Gold stamp is a bona fide legend that, despite a slightly different (and more commercially friendly) colour scheme, shouldn’t need much of an introduction to… well, anyone. Famous for its victory at the 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans which ultimately resulted in rotary engines being regulated into irrelevance, it’s the Mazda 787B.
It’s pretty much in the middle of the Takashiro region, close to the tea fields. In fact, if you head to the northern entry point of the Tea Farm Speed Zone, you’ll find the access road just north of that. The path is a bit of a wiggle, but the 787B awaits you at the top of it and after several hours of restoration.
Forza Horizon 6 Barn Finds: Nissan Skyline Turbo Super Silhouette Tomica #11
- Region: Ito
- Stamp Required: Gold
We round out our chase for Barn Finds with another Japanese racing legend, although perhaps not one so well known on the global stage. Built to regulations similar to the FIA Group 5, this madcap Skyline raced mostly in its home nation in the Super Silhouette series where it proved to be a reliable race-winner even if it only secured one victory in the eight championship races across 1982 and 1983.
It’s not too far from the Barn Find Lamborghini Diable above, and if you follow the dirt road that runs to the south of the Kitayama Big Daisugi point of interest you should find it pretty quickly. Although the access road isn’t obviously marked, it’s overtly a different colour and it’s just a short drive down to the Barn.
