Cerulean City / Tsuchiura | Real Life Pokemon Location of Kanto Region (Japan)

Hey guys, you are not going to believe the level of similarities that this place has with Cerulean City! Firstly, if you look at the Kanto town map on the Let’s Go Pikachu/Eevee series (since the original town map is not that clear), you will find that Cerulean City contains a bay that connects to a vertical directional river (which Nugget Bridge crosses over) towards Cerulean Cave. Now, the fan theory current posits that Cerulean City is Utsunomiya, simply for the fact that the geographic location of Pewter City is Maebashi and the next biggest city to the East of Maebashi is Utsunomiya, so it must be Cerulean City. To me, this idea does not hold. Utsunomiya, although it sits perfectly east of Maebashi (Pewter City), it has no other redeeming features that qualifies it as Cerulean City. In fact, it has no West to East traveling river. It does not even have a bay. It is not until we head much more south, in Southern Ibaraki, where we find Tsuchiura. Why Tsuchiura? Firstly it has a bay. And boy does it have a bay! The bay is called “Kasumi Bay”. Kasumi is the Japanese name for Kanto’s water type gym leader “Misty”. Kasumi also translates to “Misty” in Japanese. Not only this, the bridge that crosses the river that connects to Kasumi Bay is called “Water Town Bridge” (Suigo Bridge). If that is not enough to convince you, the local gymnasium is right next to the “Aqua Park”, called “Water Town Aqua Park”. The gymnasium design is also very similar to the anime version of Misty’s gym, as you will see in the video. It is enough to convince me that Tsuchiura is Cerulean City, not Utsunomiya. It was pretty mind-blowing when I got here and saw it for myself.

0:20 Nugget Bridge
0:30 Dark Cave and Cerulean Cave
2:13 Misty’s Gym
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