Asia-Pacific
Japan from the air
Flyover drops you over 9 cities in Japan — 2 the game rates easy, 6 standard, 1 expert. Each one below carries the tell the game uses: the single feature that separates it from everywhere else.
The 9 cities
- Fukuoka Reads as: bayfront city.
- Hiroshima Reads as: river delta.
- Kobe Reads as: mountain harbor.
- Kyoto Reads as: temples and basin.
- Nagoya Reads as: broad urban plain.
- Osaka Reads as: bay and rivers.
- Sapporo Reads as: northern grid.
- Tokyo Reads as: vast urban plain.
- Yokohama Reads as: bay skyline.
Telling them apart
The hard part is rarely recognising that you are over Japan — it is working out which of its cities you are over. Start with water and terrain, because those do not move: a coastal city cannot be confused with an inland one, and a city in a basin reads differently from a city on a plain.
Then use relative size. The game rates Kyoto, Tokyo as easy, which usually means a landmark or a coastline you already know. The expert-rated ones — Sapporo — are hard precisely because they lack a single unmistakable feature, so you are reading grid texture and building height instead.
Easily confused with
Other Asia-Pacific cities in the game, which share enough climate and building era to cost you a round.