Talk:Morioh/@comment-4566447-20190125223801

Morioh is beautiful. When I read it was based on Sendai, I spent much time on Google Earth trying to find if Araki had perhaps based the landscapes on photos of Sendai, so I looked for areas.

I was unable to find anything like it. Morioh is full of 2 story Western style homes encased in Japanese style walls, with huge front & back yards putting much distance between neighbors, bike rack rails on tile pattern sidewalks, in the suburbs between the city & rural coast land.

There is nothing like this in Sendai. It's all narrow two-lane or one-way streets, normal sidewalks, wppartment complexes, & tiny unwalled Japanese homes with dinky yards set in close proximity to each other.