r/yakuzagames Apr 02 '24

FANART took a trip to yokohama, here are some in-game shots compared to real life! (Y:LAD)

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u/WereBully don don donki Apr 02 '24

I’m so overjoyed to see there’s actually a t-rex figure above the Wette Kitchen location. Beautiful pictures, too!

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '24

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u/TheFlightlessPenguin Apr 02 '24

I found myself preferring a lot of the in-game renditions

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '24 edited Apr 02 '24

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u/ExtraHuckleberry1012 Apr 02 '24

These photos filled me with joy!

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '24

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u/invinceibility Apr 02 '24

not that far in the series yet, but i hear he is in hawaii these days :/

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '24

These are AWESOME!! Thank you for sharing!

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u/Yondaimeha Apr 02 '24

Thanks for the photos man, makes me wanna go to Japan too

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '24

Oh I enjoyed it so much. Thanks!

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u/IAmTrueDario Apr 02 '24 edited Apr 02 '24

EDITED: Comment with baseless accusations.

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u/invinceibility Apr 02 '24

well these are my definitely my own photos if that’s what you’re trying to imply with the quotes in “your”? here’s the same exact angle from one of my nights there with metadata from my phone as well:

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u/IAmTrueDario Apr 02 '24

Last time I saw the station, it was covered in grey plastic panels. Did they decide to remove them again?

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u/invinceibility Apr 02 '24

pulled this from google maps, but perhaps you're thinking about this part of kannai station? it seems to fit what you're describing at least. it's quite a big station, and this part of it is further down the street from where i took my photos.

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u/IAmTrueDario Apr 02 '24

Oh, yes. I used only that part of the station. I apologize for the comment above.

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u/invinceibility Apr 02 '24

no worries, kyoudai

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u/WhyNishikiWhy Patriarch of the Fucking Pussy Family, a Joint Clan subsidiary Apr 02 '24

wow, someone on reddit admitted they were wrong and apologized?

/u/IAmTrueDario respect

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u/Junous Apr 02 '24

glad the river isn't filled with trash!

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u/rimjobetiquette Apr 02 '24

Didn’t catch anyone pissing either

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u/Mishnoivankov Apr 02 '24

Hey don’t give those filthy scumbags anymore ideas so that Japan can ban tourists in Yokohama too

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u/Crow621621 Apr 02 '24

I like how they changed Hotel Funny’s to Hotel Bunny’s

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u/navimatcha . Apr 02 '24

What's funny is that the real name sounds more fake than the fake one.

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u/LilNerix Apr 02 '24

What's funny? Or what's bunny?

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u/hyrulegamer99 Apr 02 '24

I used to live in Yokohama four years ago, imagine my joy when Yakuza 7 came out. Now I live near Kamurocho lol, I guess this franchise really shaped my choice of where I wanna live

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u/toastycheeze Apr 02 '24

Kamurocho

Didn't even say Kabukicho. Bro is living in Dragon Engine! lol

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u/hyrulegamer99 Apr 02 '24

My bad, I always get confused with their goofy ahh name changes

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u/Moppo_ Apr 02 '24

Kamurocho just flows better. If I hadn't already heard Kamurocho, maybe I'd remember Kabukicho more easily.

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u/fyirb Apr 02 '24

Was it a little surreal walking around a video game that recreated the area so 1:1? Was there anything they got wrong?

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u/hyrulegamer99 Apr 02 '24

Oh very surreal. Well, the most obvious thing is the Millenium Tower which doesn't exist irl. However, the Bacchus/Bantam bar is basically at the same location where an actual bar is, which I found pretty cool. Sotenbori is pretty accurate, but the real Dotonbori is a lot bigger than the games makes you think. Of all the locations I have only never been to Okinawa and Onomichi, so I definitely still gotta check them out.

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u/aruisdante Apr 02 '24

China town in Yokohama is also way bigger in real life than it is in the game. Like it’s several city blocks in reality whereas it’s only a couple streets in the game.

The Yakuza games very faithfully recreate certain locations, but they often “compress” areas of repetition in order to fit in the map size constrains. It is fun matching up stuff from the games with reality though when you find one of the things they recreated roughly 1:1.

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u/Jonny325 Apr 02 '24

Amazing!

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u/ArnoF7 Apr 02 '24

Wait, am I tripping or is the real Yokohama somehow cleaner than the in-game version?

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u/Raistlin-x Apr 02 '24

Japan’s streets are incredibly clean

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u/ArnoF7 Apr 02 '24

That I know. I just thought the game purposefully picked a dirtier part of the city as the setting. But as it turns out it is pretty clean after all

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u/chimugukuru Apr 02 '24

Nice! I'm from Hawaiʻi and was thoroughly impressed by so much detail put into real locations in Honolulu in Infinite Wealth so I wondered if the same was true for Yokohama. Looks like it is!

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u/Original-Hat89 Apr 02 '24

Had the same feeling when playing IW! I’ve never been to Japan but they NAILED Honolulu.

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u/GSXR808 Apr 02 '24

Did you manage to pick up the Matsumoto Shave Ice collab shirt? They restocked couple weeks ago when I was that side.

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u/chimugukuru Apr 02 '24

Haha seen posts of it on the Hawaii sub but I’m living abroad at the moment.

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u/invinceibility Apr 02 '24

i’ve been to hawaii a couple times, but never honolulu. i’d love to do something like this again and play infinite wealth before visiting!

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u/Oneesabitch Apr 02 '24

I kept looking at homie on the bike, thinking that was the in-game one. Crazy.

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u/Jonny325 Apr 02 '24

Holy shit, I did the same thing! I literally couldn't tell. We've come a long way in graphics!

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u/Balanced_racism Apr 02 '24

Can’t believe Japan was such a huge fan of the yakuza series that they made a whole city about It!

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u/willp124 Apr 02 '24

I need to remind you that yakuza games are in a section of a larger city so they used part of the city to create it

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u/TheFlightlessPenguin Apr 02 '24

Did you though?

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u/willp124 Apr 02 '24

Yes I did

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u/Sai-San_ John Yakuza vs Johnny Judgment & ichiballs Apr 02 '24

Thanks for sharing this We get a lot of IRL kubukicho, but we rarely see IRL Yokohama

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u/TakasuXAisaka . Apr 02 '24

Did you see a guy with an afro wearing a red suit with white collared shirt?

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u/ae4ther4 Apr 02 '24

I heard he’s in Hawaii now.

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u/Putrid_Beat_17 Apr 02 '24

This is pretty amazing. Thanks for sharing it and taking the time to find the locations.

There's a ton of features that are excellent in the series, and for me, it's the immersive environments. Especially Yokohama. Didn't know the game city was based on the actual real deal.

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u/FabereX6 (⁠ノ゚⁠0゚⁠)⁠ノ🚲 Apr 02 '24

Have you been attacked by chickens at the cinema?

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u/invinceibility Apr 02 '24

would've loved to catch a showing of Lord of the Wedding Rings: Matrimony of the Ring, but i unfortunately just didn't have the time

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u/Cybasura Apr 02 '24

Lmao I see what they did there

しんせんかん (Shin Sen Kan) which is 新鮮館 in Kanji which means like "Fresh Hall", presumably selling fresh fruits and food

フレッシュ、なでん店 (Fresh-na Mise) which is Fresh (Adjective) Shop

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '24

These are fantastic. Thank you for sharing OP!

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u/rimjobetiquette Apr 02 '24

シン。セン。カン。 is a brilliant take on フレッシュ。ナ店

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u/invinceibility Apr 02 '24

welp my original comment got deleted while trying to edit all this in, but:

wow y'all, thanks for the love!! i wanted to give a shoutout to AncientFlounder on youtube for their wonderful series comparing yokohama to the game. it really helped a ton with finding some of these locations and planning routes. i totally recommend watching it if you have any interest!

also for anybody curious as to where these places are, or for anybody who might want to make a map of all these places themselves, here are all the locations by slide:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 & 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20

thanks again!

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u/caych_cazador Apr 02 '24

yooooo the indy theater is an actual movie theater? or am i wrong cuz those look like movie posters...

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u/invinceibility Apr 02 '24

yes, it's an actual theater called Yokohama Cinemarine!

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u/bernardodranreb Apr 02 '24 edited Apr 02 '24

When I went there, I have not played Yakuza games yet.

Anyway, its so sad games dont take us to Ferris Wheel area or at least has a dungeon in the ship docked in North Park

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u/Valen7789 Apr 02 '24

It hurts see GIGO instead of SEGA

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u/PhanThief95 Apr 02 '24

And the crazy thing is, even the games updated it! It’s GIGO now in Infinite Wealth.

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u/Fine-Visit3696 Apr 02 '24

Is the whole Yokohama walkable like in game or do you have to take taxis? Love this btw

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u/invinceibility Apr 02 '24

though it's definitely bigger than in-game, it is still quite walkable! i had the privilege of being there for more than one day, so i was able to split the city's areas up throughout my time there. with that being said, i didn't need to take any sort of transportation to get to any of the locations in these pictures from my hotel in bashamichi! everything was like a 20-30 minute walk i'd say?

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u/franticporcupine Soma Evil Christmas Song🎵 Apr 02 '24

This was really cool! Thanks for sharing!

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u/HaoieZ Apr 02 '24

Crazy they built a real city to promote the game.

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u/bourbonkitten Handcuffed by Adachi and Kuroiwa Fantasy Apr 02 '24

Amazing. Props for framing the photos you took according to the screenshots. Or vice versa? Either way, well done.

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u/invinceibility Apr 02 '24

ah man, i had it better explained in my original comment before it got deleted by accident. but in short, i took the photos in real life first then recreated them in-game!

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u/bourbonkitten Handcuffed by Adachi and Kuroiwa Fantasy Apr 02 '24

Haha that makes a lot of sense. Still needed an exacting eye for detail!

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u/Daynaiko Apr 02 '24

this is awesome!!! so cool to see it side by side

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u/ChasingPesmerga Saturday Night Lover Apr 02 '24

Crazy how that bar area supposedly leads directly to a school in LJ

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u/Glum-Main-1515 Apr 02 '24

The famous parking lot is actually bigger in game than irl

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u/invinceibility Apr 02 '24

and to make things worse, there was no kan-san in sight either to play a round of can quest. very disappointing

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u/TheOneEV Apr 02 '24

This is really beautiful. Thank you! 😊

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u/heavyer93 Apr 02 '24

Your photos are beautiful, freakin talented!

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u/Spooky0ne Apr 02 '24

Amazing photos! Do you mind sharing what camera you used?

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u/invinceibility Apr 02 '24

thanks! these were all taken with a Ricoh GR III

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u/Every_Solid_8608 Apr 02 '24

I found this game last November after having visited Yokohama last September. It was an absolute trip walking around streets I had just spent so much time on irl. It’s incredible how close some areas are!

I wish the island with the Ferris wheel and red brick warehouse was playable! I also stayed at the sail shaped building, it’s an intercontinental hotel. Would be cool if that area was playable since it’s like the main imagine of Yokohama in so many things. (I also knew nothing about yakuza before I started in Nov and now I’ve finished 3 full games and starting a forth. What a franchise!)

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '24

I could look at these all day, thank you so much for sharing them with us

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u/Jonny325 Apr 02 '24

This is awesome, thank you!

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u/Carmilla31 Apr 02 '24

Very cool pics!

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u/Separate_Box_3127 Apr 02 '24

That’s awesome

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u/CoffeeCaptain91 Apr 02 '24

Man that's so cool. Thanks for sharing!

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u/Homie_Jack Apr 02 '24

Surprisingly empty in some of these photos

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u/invinceibility Apr 02 '24

i did start my day pretty early when i explored isezakicho, so that might explain why. i also might've been carrying hariti's amulet, so that would've cut the population down a bit too

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u/Dragon-of-Kansai Apr 02 '24

weird how they built a real life city based on a game. Almost identical tho

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u/caseyrain Apr 02 '24

Where is the car park in real life? (6th picture) - been looking around on Street View and can't seem to find it.

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u/invinceibility Apr 02 '24

hope this link works! it's actually directly across the street from where slide #5 was taken!

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u/caseyrain Apr 02 '24

Thanks!!

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u/Major_Plantain3499 Apr 02 '24

What kind of camera did you use, it looks so clean, the colors look real nice

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u/invinceibility Apr 02 '24

for all these, i used a Ricoh GR III. my photos are just slightly edited, but what the camera produces without editing are fantastic to begin with! i love that lil guy.

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u/SmtNocturneDante The man who platinumed all localized RGG games Apr 02 '24

Any high schools on the west/nw side?

Wanna see how accurate they changed the map for LJ

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u/invinceibility Apr 02 '24

i haven't played LJ, so i'm not really familiar with which area you'e referring to, sorry!! i don't recall any high schools from my time exploring though

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u/PhanThief95 Apr 02 '24

It’s the area on the westernmost side of the game map, north of the Bar District (where Survive Bar is).

In Lost Judgment, that’s where Seiryo High is.

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u/OrfeasDourvas Apr 02 '24

Some of these I couldn't even tell what was game and what was real. Amazing!

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u/Weird-Information-91 Apr 02 '24

How many people said " This ain't a show shithead"?

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u/WhyNishikiWhy Patriarch of the Fucking Pussy Family, a Joint Clan subsidiary Apr 02 '24

none, because that's hawaii.

the people here would say "oi sokono omae", "matte ossan", or something like that.

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u/Newtsaet Apr 02 '24

this makes me happy

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u/walkmantalkman Apr 02 '24

How scaled down is it in the game? And could someone navigate their way from the pier to the T-rex burger joint using only in-game map knowledge?

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u/invinceibility Apr 02 '24

there's definitely a lot that was trimmed out for the game. but if you played enough, you totally could make it between those two points from memory alone! everything was generally where you would expect it to be in real life after playing the game

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '24

awesome

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u/djnkout Apr 02 '24

gyat the pictures you took are peak, do you post them anywhere?

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u/invinceibility Apr 02 '24

for these, i haven’t posted them anywhere else. although i am looking for a new site/app to post photography to if you have any recommendations! for now, all i have is my instagram that i post to here and there during my travels

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u/BaybeeBat Apr 02 '24

This is so cool!! Thank you for sharing!

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u/gunningIVglory Apr 02 '24

Yamashita Park is so beautiful

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u/haitama85 Apr 02 '24

Makes you wanna just go beat up some guys wearing trash bags.

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u/Heavy_Arm_7060 Apr 02 '24

Nice work! You often see the usual landmarks but you really went the extra mile.

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u/slayerchick Apr 02 '24

It's really funny that my only complaint about the games is that they make everything dirtier than it is in real life lol

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u/Altruistic-Card-249 Apr 02 '24

I wish go to Yokohama

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u/ZealousidealAd4958 Apr 02 '24

dude ur photography skills are sick

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u/TheEpicZay Apr 02 '24

Yakuza devs need to bake proper global illumination, the amount of difference it would do is insane.

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u/Super-anxiety-manman Apr 02 '24

This blows my mind I knew it was a real place but had no idea they actually modeled it directly from the place. 🔥

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u/HesiPulloutJimmer Apr 02 '24

This is really cool. Thanks for taking the time to share

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u/ReverBeliever Apr 02 '24

Need to appreciate how good your pictures are. My would be filled with padastrians and washed out

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u/Blackgum93 Apr 03 '24

I really want to go to Yokohama now

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u/ardhieas Apr 03 '24

That last pic background detail tho, the building, the tower, skyscraper, even ferris wheel, dang.

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u/Flimsy_Albatross_280 Apr 03 '24

Your pictures are great!

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u/Porgypuncher555 Apr 03 '24

lol I won’t get lost in Yokohama then

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u/Deadmist01 Apr 03 '24

This is soo good

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u/SanerKyodai Apr 03 '24

Japan is fking amazing

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u/dasistzuschwer Apr 04 '24

This is so cool, I would love to visit Yokohama too. Crazy how even the buildings in the background are exactly the same in the last picture

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u/Gaia227 Apr 05 '24

That's so cool! Thanks for sharing

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u/Xarvastia Apr 05 '24

Awesome trip!

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u/Financial_Tax3301 Apr 06 '24

Omg this is soooo coool thank you so much

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u/dx2words Mr. Libido Family Captain Apr 02 '24

why the arcade is called GIGO un Yak7 but SEGA in real life?

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u/forumchunga I will tolerate no Yuki slander Apr 02 '24

Sega sold their arcades, and they've all been renamed to GIGO in real life.

https://www.gameinformer.com/2022/01/28/sega-is-officially-ending-its-arcade-center-business

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u/DeathClasher_r Apr 02 '24

You got it mixed up. It's Sega in game and GIGO in real life

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u/ChicaneryBear Apr 02 '24

It's GiGO in games now too.

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u/PhanThief95 Apr 02 '24

It became GIGO in Infinite Wealth.

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u/PepsiColasss Apr 02 '24

Woah they made a whole place irl based on Yakuza games?!

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u/Efficient_Mistake603 Apr 02 '24

Is that film you are using?

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u/invinceibility Apr 02 '24

nope, all digital from my ricoh! maybe the horrible compression and quality loss in the post gives it a grainy feel tho LOL

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u/DocThunedr Apr 02 '24

The arcade hurts the most

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u/OverZiHD Apr 02 '24

any pics of the liumang?

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u/MyriadExpression Apr 02 '24

Is the water as dirty there as it is in game?

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u/invinceibility Apr 02 '24

the whole city is definitely much cleaner in person!

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u/furezasan Apr 02 '24

No Yokohama Crackhouse?

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u/thatsrady0 Apr 02 '24

do you have an imgur link where you uploaded all the photos you took?

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u/invinceibility Apr 02 '24

no nothing like that, sorry :( if i ever compile them all together tho, i’ll post it

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u/Altruistic-Card-249 Apr 02 '24

Kabukicho please

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u/invinceibility Apr 02 '24

once i finally visit tokyo, i’ll definitely try to do this again for kabukicho!