How to Build a Japanese Styled City with Kaminogi | International Tutorial | Cities: Skylines

Here we go to Japan where Ryuichi Kaminogi shows us the main elements of what makes a city look Japanese, from the map you build on to the height of buildings, be sure to turn on subtitles so you don't miss it!
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[@MFachrizalR]

Came for the "how-to" but ended up with a lesson about maths and Japanese Laws and Rules instead. Didn't expect Kaminogi had put those real-life stuffs into consideration when playing the game. Thank you so much Cities Skylines and Kaminogi, very enlightening and give us new knowledge!

[@CitiesSkylines]

What do you mean you don't know Japanese? Fine, fine, we'll turn on subtitles 😂 Who's ready to build some Japanese cities?

[@Leonard_MT]

It seems like a great use for CSUR & CSUE roads but I don’t know how to use them😭😢 somebody should really make tutorial for them

[@baileyjames4647]

@@Leonard_MT I like Tokachi's expressway set because it's much easier to use and still looks great. Great for elevated urban highways!

[@05ajgarr]

Thank you for adding subtitles. I love the Japanese language but I don’t know a thing about it. This looks like a fun project.

[@carlosjavierbardalez6171]

También en español!

[@coaster6777]

私！Me! I would like to build a Japanese city. 私わ日本大好き！

[@TrueXyrael]

Couple years too late but I sat down with some maps and took notes on general trends in zoning and services in Japan. Highways use (reversed for left hand driving) trumpet intersections the vast majority of the time, and are rarely larger than 6 lanes, are all tollways, and go as low as 2 elevated lanes with non-tolled 4-lane w/ median feeders underneath even in urban areas. Outside of the top 5 densest populated cities, urban arterials tend to be 4 or 6 lane roads with medians along which commercial and offices are zoned. These arterials are often more significant in traffic capacity than highways. Urban collectors tend to be 4 lane roads, while local roads are 2 lane, often unsigned in neighborhoods. These lane widths help define zoning density. Roundabouts are nearly nonexistent or exist in more rural/newer development areas. Low density, single family residential often have small blocks - somewhere between 5 to 8 homes on the long side. Street parking is rare. Small towns of less than a hundred homes still receive bus services. Even the newest or the wealthiest neighborhoods are not geographically isolated from the rest of the area by a small number of access roads like American neighborhoods are. Roads never wind needlessly/for aesthetic reasons and instead conform to terrain features as much as possible. Industrial areas will always be located in land reclamation areas along the coasts since they can't be cleaned well enough to be zoned residential; in inland areas industry is often confined to being near a major railyard and usually extends along a river. I'm not sure why but I suspect it's due to flood risks. Airports are rarely a defining feature of Japanese cities and almost always located well outside city limits. Green belts are fairly common, especially along CBD arterials, but parks are rarer. Parks tend to be for community recreation and usually have playgrounds; otherwise Shinto shrines tend to manage their own parks if land availability permits. Were I a modder, I'd make Shinto shrines a park for recreation satisfaction purposes (hell, the verb used to describe visiting a shrine is about leisurely exercise not religion). Yards are next to non-existent, trees are rare outside of parks or near schools, Japanese cities truly feel like concrete jungles even in low density residential - you would mostly see flower gardens and manicured bushes here. Nearly all modern homes are prefabs, so asset reduplication is fine. Boundary zones between urban and mountainous natural areas are stark contrasts with no transition zones. Water treatment facilities tend to be located in residential areas at the boundary zone with mountainous natural areas. Transition zone from urban to rural agriculture is usually where trashy industry is located, car mechanics, used car dealerships, car parts, other stuff with a lot of detritus on aerials. New cemeteries are rare in modern Japan due to ban on burials and requirement for cremation, but where they do exist they're almost always associated with Buddhism (the colloquial term "ososhiki bukkyo" or "funeral Buddhism" exists to describe the association of Buddhism with funerals; secular Japanese celebrate Shintoism for major life milestone events and Buddhism for death). Many/most Buddhist temples will have lockbox style areas where ashes can be stored for the family, usually with photo albums or memory items. There exists a concept of idyllic agriculture called "satoyama" which, if you want to create picturesque farmland, is something to look into. Other idyllic farmland to look at that isn't satoyama would be something like Furano/Biei or Uji. Rivers are almost always protected by setback roads/levees, with parks along the riverfront. This is not true in areas where rivers flow between land reclamation areas. Hospitals are usually located on major roads, high schools central to neighborhoods and have no transit proximity pattern, and tend to be secure evacuation locations during disasters, and police headquarters are always near a train station in towns with local rail, rather than on a major road. Agricultural colleges in urban areas (grains in Sapporo U, riverside rice/tea in Kyoto U) will include farmland despite being surrounded by urban area. Shelterbelts between farm fields do not exist or are not significant except in Hokkaido. Interestingly/uniquely, medium security prisons are definitively urban, often located near or in low-density residential neighborhoods in the prefectural capital, almost always adjacent to a river. Newer medium-security prisons built to house excess prisoner populations have been built outside major urban areas in prison towns similar to the US (Tsukigata comes to mind, though I haven't found similar prison towns in the handful of other prefectures I searched)

[@FaKiChannel]

とうとう公式に…!!!!!! すごい!!!!!!!!!

[@eastpavilion-er6081]

Let's do a series of tutorial on "how to build a (insert country name) city"! (Except American. The base game is already pretty American.)

[@Meesmoth]

How about "How to build a Philippine city" video? Or "How to build a French city"?

[@achuuuooooosuu]

@@Meesmoth You should check Gilbert Plays for Philippine cities.

[@Meesmoth]

@@achuuuooooosuu I know, plus I also build some by myself. So basically us both.

[@SiisKolkytEuroo]

Nope, the base game looks nothing like the good looking american style cities out there, also there is a huge difference between different areas (e.g. east and west coast)

[@meetalleeka]

I have a lot of Ryuichi's assets, and those they recommend, so this is excellent, thank you.

[@JAQREL]

these tutorials are gold! and Kaminogi is one of my favourite builder-creators

[@Leeijo]

This was fantastic, might be one of the best! Thanks for taking me back to Japan!

[@ulysseslee9541]

JP city: 1. Left hand traffic 2. Japan rolling stock, railway station 3. map 4. less roundabout & massive tolled interchange 5. free-form straight road "village" development Japan's 1st "Planned modern design Capital" I believe is Sapporo, during the Meiji era.

[@koverpy426]

>less roundabout Some localities are experimenting with a few single-lane roundabouts. Narrow roads and Toll roads make roundabouts and roundabout interchange unviable anyway. Japanese marking, and auxiliary turning lanes (from narrow road cross-section and rational use of this scare land resoruce) are more important. >massive tolled interchange Some national motorway interchanges are surprisingly small. There are both smaller urban expressways, and untolled national expressways/motorway sections. Alongside, ETC-only SIc is becoming more common in rest areas. On C:S map scale, fewer motorway and interchanges, connecting to regional motor vehicle only limited access "expressway" national/prefecture route roads would be appropriate. More bypasses and ring roads, less motorways. >free-form straight road "village" development Deosn't really capture the Japanese style of rural sprawl. As the video put it, terrain is more underpinning here. The other side is the human-scaled origin of narrow roads, similar to Europe. The less recent "motorization", roadside shops, and car-centric suburban developments overall are harder to characterize concisely. >Japan's 1st "Planned modern design Capital" I believe is Sapporo, during the Meiji era. The video refers to urban planning in general more than an entire, entirely new centrally planned city (or new towns, for that matter). Again for C:S scale, incoporating new towns on the map would be easier. Following the video's suggestion of mixing organic and planned areas, having block redevelopments, new city centers and subcenters could be more approachable.

[@Meesmoth]

Now this is what I'm talking about, more international cities for this channel. From American to Asian cities, this series isn't going to end here, there's a lot more to explore. Looking forward to see more of this featuring other cities from around the world.

[@namenamename390]

Why is the title in English if the video is in Japanese?

[@impy1980]

Does it really matter! Subtitles available!

[@namenamename390]

@@impy1980 they weren't when I clicked on it... Ok, gonna watch the video now.

[@CitiesSkylines]

Subtitles fixed!

[@towwong2822]

Wait, there's still one thing missing *[Downloading Godzilla Mod]* >:)

[@soogymoogi]

It's pretty neat to think about how a culture's values can inform things like zoning regulations and thus the look of their cities... makes me think about how things like covered bridges here in the northeast us could reflect the values of the people who built them. Great video, can't wait for more!

[@idcaf]

Gentle curves? I'm sure my cims know how to *dorifto* the sharp turns.

[@WanganTunedKeiCar]

MULTI-TRACK DORIFUTO?!

[@honza-0178]

You need a 2000 series train for that

[@ZCJKF13GDG4]

is there a mod to let me make an insane labyrinth of unconnected competing metro systems w. different ticketing to get the full tokyo experience

[@oceancaster]

Have you ever been in Tokyo? It's not that bad when you have a PASMO/SUICA and Google Maps. :)

[@miaria]

This video is exactly what I was looking for - informative, interesting and to the point. Thank you!

[@9airpods917]

The Nani meme is not enough to learn Japanese, but this is!

[@gort1319]

and what if someone not speaking japanese wants to make a japanese city? do i have to learn japanese to find out how to do it?

[@impy1980]

Or do what many have done, turn on subtitles!

[@gort1319]

@@impy1980 i cant read tho

[@skiiwine9973]

@@gort1319 it's not our problem anymore if you are illiterate.

[@impy1980]

@@gort1319 yet you've managed to read and reply to my message! 🤣

[@gort1319]

@@impy1980 yeah you are right. i should have made a joke about that

[@klarastimelapses]

Next how to build Polish city with Avalkiz!

[@CitiesSkylines]

Haven't talked with him before! I'll reach out

[@KriegerT]

Great video! Thanks for the subtitles too!

[@timcotrell9753]

First time I had to use CC. That was pretty cool and the guy is very smart. I may have to make my next Campus city a Japanese one using a Japanese map on the Workshop.

[@DerAua]

Wow, this was so interesting. As a westerner I had no idea.

[@경택오-x4b]

expectation : POUR THIS TREE FROM WORKSHOP IN YOUR CITY THIS TREE IS VERY COMMON IN JAPAN video : the standard curves for JR main lines is a radius of 600 metres. By Restriction of the Oblique line heights of buildings are restricted to....

[@Dumb-Comment]

This is the first time in many years have i ever watched a video in japanese voice(yes i dont watch anime or anything like that)

[@Same_old_rory]

I just got the game and can finally build

[@LWJCarroll]

Yes an excellent video as I am i terested in Japan and in Cities Skylines...looking forward to your next one and will check out your workshop! Arigato Laurie New Zealand

[@unknowntotally2320]

1:00 the railing lod asset is rough there on the left

[@CUADRADITOSS]

Previous episode: how to understand japanese to see the next video :)

[@yamfunc9941]

OH MY GOD THIS GUIDE IS GREAT

[@supertrinigamer]

I panic looking at this. Everything looks so beautiful. If I try this, what will happen is I will either create something that is functional but ugly and untidy, or something that looks (still) quite bad and functions terrible. I don't think I'll ever get the hang of good architecture, and I can't find what tool he is using here to force the buildings closer to eachother.

[@impy1980]

This got me scrambling for subtitles. Awesome to see builds and approaches from all over the world, love it. For those struggling, turn on CC, then click the settings cog, then select Auto Generate - English, or whatever language, then use your brain to read between the odd "weird" meanings, as sometimes Japanese gets a bit lost in translation, but you'll understand what the intention is.

[@CitiesSkylines]

It's been switched to the custom-made forced subtitles now, our bad for forgetting!

[@SierraAlpha224]

can't wait for a tutorial on korean themed

[@bobsemple5848]

Looks like a City where Romance Anime can Take Place

[@AceMonkeyIlium]

I didn’t expect a Japanese speaker to make this video. I speak Japanese so I didn’t have to look at subtitles.

[@cmonster67]

Very impressive!

[@AvatarMaster9x]

Can anyone tell me the name of the road and railway mod he uses? I know it is SOMEWHERE in the Japan 1 collection but I cannot find them for the life of me!

[@tobiyokageyama6449]

Need the 2nd vid now!! xD

[@sengin1534]

cities skylines LEVEL ASIAN

[@najwanzahran4357]

how can i upgrade the road when the road is outside the city limits?

[@vash9497]

Ya me imagino a los viciados del arte creando ciudades como Shibuya, Madrid, Londres, Lisboa, etc...

[@-shimari30]

日本人にとっても勉強になります。自分の住んでる町の特徴って案外気付かないこと多いんですね…

[@wdywga]

arrigattou, i love it! ploppsss

[@Mori-chandesu]

What is that mod he's using to plop growables?

[@Celstials]

神野木さん、街をよりリアルに見せるためにどのマップテーマを使っていますか？

[@penguinxenixfritzvoldislav2782]

Really helpful

[@unseen2880]

I’m waiting for “how to build a realistic airport”

[@impy1980]

Watch the FBS series on youtube by Fluxtrance, Bsquiklehausen and Strictoaster, it don't get any more realistic than that!

[@Cynnabuns]

Wait you can straight up place buildings? Or is that a mod... I just got this game and have 0 clue how to style 😂

[@sasufreqchann]

thats crazy .

[@ZenT8055]

land plotting and zoning in japan is the best. it's very well-organized. unlike malaysia, the land plotting and zoning is so horrible and shit. there are so many redundant land

[@리주민]

2本の白い縞模様、それに対する住宅地のフェンスがある典型的な日本の通りをどのように作りますか？ これらのアメリカの道路は広すぎます。 少なくともSim CityやCities XLほど悪くはありません。 How do you make a typical Japanese street with two white stripes and a residential fence against it? These American roads are too wide. At least not as bad as Sim City or Cities XL. ⛩🗽

[@thepum1343]

O thats nice

[@BISONTEVTON]

Tell me, please,how did you turn on "search" button for the buildings in the game? I can't find it

[@x5factory]

What is this song ? i Like it

[@summers232]

I installed the packs in the description, but my game keeps crashing as a result. :(

[@mythogaming4227]

what mod is dat

[@Clamsvegas]

We should need more mods that let us customize the city more freely and unhindered on consoles :'c

[@stapler3063]

Oh yeah!!! Japanese city 😍😍

[@TheLikeys]

I have a question, someone could help me: Why are the roads in this video or many else so dark black, mine are always very light in colour which is uncommon for the style I want to build..

[@TheFingerman77]

Many people use Workshop mods and assets to give their roads a different color, or add new roads entirely. The one I remember the most being mentioned by other youtubers I've watched in the past is the US Road Project roads which can be found here; steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=1694518117

[@jonande]

What Map Theme do you recommend for a Japanese City?

[@JUVENILE0210]

神乃木さん公式でこんなことしてたのか

[@Azure_Peony]

Красиво, но большое количество модов слегка портит общую картину:(

[@neriaksoul]

don't understand a word, but i was in japan - good job. But i saw no turtles on your rivers

[@Freezorgium]

I was there a month ago and I saw a couple.

[@skyscraper5287]

Sugoi!

[@hardiancandra7368]

Does anyone ever make Asean-y city in C:S?

[@aithemed]

Japan = Yuttho Cities skylines Channel.

[@harrygraves6870]

I agree

[@aloysiuswilliam5826]

Is anyone having trouble with plop the growable?

[@mohamadrizal6165]

More mods can explode my potato pc

[@kikker7978]

shin chan

[@joanz1255]

Domo arigato.

[@xX_Yaman_Xx]

Can we have more titles in Xbox and PS4, I whant to increase the size of the city!!!!!

[@ДмитроОніщук-э2и]

Nani?

[@galanu]

Excellent video...learned something new about Japanese architecture. Please keep the international videos coming!

[@nntflow7058]

One of the thing that I hate is the lack of trees in majority of neighborhoods, even in less crowded cities like Osaka and Nagoya doesn't have much trees.

[@akioi8851]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXnVaXp_n7yaqLc 日本の秘境

[@stevesmith1810]

please please please keep these (almost?) daily tutorials hosted by community members going. These are fantastic and a GREAT way to keep the game in the spotlight. Looking forward to many more! (consider ConflictNerd maybe?)

[@CitiesSkylines]

Haha, I think my team would kill me if I tried doing daily, but right now we're getting an average of 3.4 videos out a week. Not bad right? @conflictnerd did you hear that?

[@rochelimit55555]

Steve Smith I love this

[@AISPs]

*turns on CC and uses my anime skills to understand it*

[@CitiesSkylines]

How far did you get? haha

[@AISPs]

@@CitiesSkylines pretty much! Also there's some mistakes in auto-gen Japanese cc (but who cares)

[@nanfredman1991]

Excellent idea. Had no problem after turning on CC.

[@YuiSenpai]

lel

[@komet5420]

when you've watched enough anime raw, you don't even need that anymore ;)

[@jaegerrsf]

He is speaking language of anime gods

[@enzou]

Hello Hunter

[@SylkaChan]

What mods? Does the game come with these?

[@blagoevski336]

Lol

[@ciphwit2058]

"japanese is anime!!!!!!1111" please shut the up

[@KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva]

I bet an East Asia-themed DLC adding assets, monuments, aesthetics for roads and whatnot, etc. would sell well.

[@GregSmith007]

It probably wood. The CS team is only looking at their community very late and East Asian themed items quickly flooded the mod section at one point in time. It's been pretty consistent since and the stuff those players have built has been insane. Still hoping for CS to either fix or implement some basic things, with no mods/DLC needed either in CS or the next CS game.

[@abandonedchannel281]

I want a Chinese city to make Mr.Ping proud

[@tekartsu2051]

@@GregSmith007 _wood_

[@리주민]

They have, but road is too wide. They tried to get narrower, but the system wont allow without freezing and bugging.

[@Kuyuup]

man im from the future and they still didn't do it

[@velorum92]

I expecting something like 'kono bangumi wa, goran no suponsaa no teikyou de okurishimasu' in the beggining...

[@MidoriOtoko]

i'd love to see that too lol

[@Beksultan001]

Hahah

[@dawnnuson1923]

Me too lmao

[@anonymousthanks4718]

What does that mean?

[@phamhuynhquanghuy9537]

@@anonymousthanks4718 "this program is sponsored (suponsaa) by ...." this line is very common in TV broadcasting in Japan

[@realhawaii5o]

I wish that we also got Japanese style in the game (not workshops) Like we have for European and North American.

[@DanPandrea]

Good tutorial. I wouldn't mind seeing extra tips.

[@yanbe1350]

この、都市部だけど妙に田舎っぽいのがまた日本らしいな ホントによく出来てる。最初ゲーム部分を写真だと思ってたわ

[@KillerJeffytoku]

そうかそうか分かったよね

[@thtn]

路地に出た瞬間昭和の香りが漂う感じがほんと日本の地方都市

[@domit8997]

Nani..... I brought this up in the stream yesterday.🤣

[@leitheoleu5451]

It will be nice to have a Japan DLC!

[@Elijah-pf9gi]

Lei Theo Leu Lol, maybe a good idea after sunset harbor. Some regions of the world have their own DLCs

[@2GDV]

It has now and the DLC sucks, do not worth buying

[@nikousenpai]

Given that there is a high demand / interest for Japanese themed assets in game, perhaps Paradox would be interested in developing a Japanese themed DLC of their own, so players can use it to supplement the mods that are already available in game.

[@somedankboi6093]

No DLC, just a free expansion pack I had enough of the dlc spam of the existing CS

[@Gummy_Pop.]

would like this along with suburban and country side assets too for the other prefectures like aichi, and ehime.

[@screamingclockplays]

9 months later and we’re getting a dlc out of it.

[@anindrapratama]

Very detailed up to the building code!

[@CitiesSkylines]

So cool right? I've been to Japan twice and never knew that's why buildings had those "shaved" roofs

[@koverpy426]

You can refer to the Urban Kchoze blog and MLIT documents (very readable): urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html, www.mlit.go.jp/common/001050453.pdf. JICA has more detailed English resources for example: jica-net-library.jica.go.jp/library/jn325/UrbanLandUsePlanningSystem_all.pdf, jica-net-library.jica.go.jp/library/jn334/UrbanPlanningSystem_all.pdf.

[@shunyxx]

Maybe the next dlc will add more eastern style assets right? Just like the European variation but in Japan/Southeast Asia! Right Cities:Skylines? :D

[@angelaquinnzel2069]

I would like to have that

[@tekartsu2051]

You know it's gonna be accurate when the presenter speaks only Japanese.

[@superluismigueL100]

Ok, years of anime watching has prepared me for this moment

[@月曜先輩-x4q]

ファッ!!? 公式アカウントやんけ！

[@sergioioriotagliari3490]

I love how Paradox is embracing modders and the cs community, keep it up!

[@dxelson]

There are no subtitles?

[@dxelson]

@Ashley White English subtitles.

[@impy1980]

Use brain! English subtitles are available!

[@dxelson]

@Ashley White no option.

[@dxelson]

@@impy1980 they are available only now

[@impy1980]

@@dxelson well how come I used auto generate English subtitles 4 minutes after the video was public! Those were available immediately!

[@VerumPositor]

Wow! I‘ve been to Japane last year and was waiting for some CSL stuff dedicated to this amazing country.

[@TakayukiGames]

かみのぎさーん！！！ シティスカに公式で登場するってやっぱり最高ですよ！！

[@kevinweppner]

Maybe, a how to make a Dutch city with Silvarret.

[@desto13c]

Cities Skylines shows this and that but the vanilla game is just.... The community is awesome!!! Great Japanese city build.

[@CK-wv7gf]

We should do international types of cities from all over the world!

[@fabianmarciniak6211]

What soundtrack is that? ❤️

[@amanohashidate1977]

このゲームやりませんが、動画を見てやってみたくなりました！ ご説明ありがとうございます

[@eldo5023]

What is the name of the background song?

[@integragemi7234]

You forgot to add, anime citizen pack mod , and godzilla mod. There is also some pokemons, and Japan assets really good in workshop. Best map for japan theme is tokio bay 81 tiles map mod.