Exploring the town from Shenmue | Yokosuka, Japan | Dobuita Street, Sakuragaoka, Yamanose

We visited Yokosuka to see how similar it really is to how it was portrayed in Shenmue. The US naval base here has had a huge influence on the area, with Americanised food available everywhere and tattoo parlours openly advertising - something seldom in other parts of Japan.

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Shenmue is an action-adventure game series created, produced and directed by Yu Suzuki. Shenmue (1999) and Shenmue II (2001) were developed by Sega AM2 and published by Sega for Dreamcast. Shenmue III, developed by Suzuki's company Ys Net, was released for PlayStation 4 and Windows in 2019.

The Shenmue games consist of open-world 3D environments interspersed with brawler battles and quick time events. They include elements of role-playing, life simulation and social simulation games, such as a day-and-night system, variable weather effects, non-player characters with daily schedules, and interactive elements such as vending machines, arcades, and minigames. The story follows the teenage martial artist Ryo Hazuki as he travels through 1980s Japan and China in pursuit of his father's killer. The original Shenmue was the most expensive video game ever developed at the time, with an estimated production and marketing cost of US$47 to $70 million, though some of the development also covered Shenmue II. (Wikipedia)