Joey Bassist Dude wrote: (yokosuka is real but there isnt a yamanose there
Ultimate necro posting activated, but in my defense the subject of Bailu Village being real is new again since it seems to be the only place you can go in Shenmue 3 (laaaaammmmeeee).
I thought this was a new thread at first, but when I decided to reply to this comment I realized something funny. See I was actually living in Yokosuka Japan when you made this comment. I lived there 3 years while in the Navy. I had a house right about where Yamanose is in the game. Yamanose just means "mountain side" so I'm guessing he just made it a generic name for the area around Ryo's house, which is up against the hills.
Some parts of real Yokosuka looked like the game. Generic Japanese styles of course. But I actually found places outside of Yokosuka, like in the neighborhoods around Kamakura, their streets and houses are rather interesting and unique and seem to be replicated exactly in Shenmue whereas local Yokosuka houses don't seem to be there. And all houses I'm talking about predate the 80s so it's not like it's changed.