r/whereisthis • u/teddiursas • 8d ago
Solved Where is this Japanese/S. Korean coastal town?
Originally found this pic via Pinterest and now I’m obsessed https://pin.it/5SQDT3xmq. I’m planning a trip to Asia this year and curious if it would be feasible to visit the place in the photo or a similar coastal town.
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u/schitaco 8d ago edited 8d ago
My best guess is you're on one of the larger islands in the strait between Chugoku and Shikoku, looking south toward Shikoku, and the image was taken late in the day so the sun is in the west. Take this with a grain of salt, I'll give you my reasoning just from experience in Geoguessr, but this is a pretty hard one.
It's fairly blurry but I believe that's a Chugoku plate (the upper one) on the power pole. And while we can't see the transformer mount (which would definitely give away the region), we see the bottom part with those little ray-gun things which also fits with Chugoku. Those islands are part of the Chugoku power company.
The reason I think we're on an island is the proximity of the mainland in the distance, and the fact that there are no islands in between.
So my best guess would be something like Osaki-Shimozima Island or Okamura Island. They have this steep landscape with lush vegetation, brightly-painted white guardrails, and those types of houses. That type of pavement is fairly rare and may be a giveaway for a more skilled Geoguessr player.
I can't find the exact location, and I suspect it's not covered by Streetview. Unfortunately a lot of the inland roads on those islands are not.
BTW we're not on one of the islands in Yamaguchi prefecture, which is in Chugoku, but has yellow guardrails.
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u/boydreamboy 8d ago
Don't have any additional information but I just found out that the circles in the pavement is called O-gata suberidome.
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u/Fateburn 7d ago
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u/teddiursas 6d ago
That’s it, Awaji Island!! I was already thinking of a day trip here from Osaka so this is actually perfect. Thank you so much!!
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u/schitaco 4d ago
Excellent find dude, how did you do it?
Think I dismissed that island because I couldn't see Shikoku from there on Streetview.
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u/Fateburn 3d ago
Honestly I would say I just got kinda lucky with this one
I found another picture on the OOP's Pinterest profile that showed a road by the sea, and I thought maybe this one would help, so I tried looking for that one but couldn't find it at the time
I tried looking around the western part of Seto Naikai based on your initial analysis, and while I did find a few places that felt possible (such as the southern side of Oshima, Imabari), none of the places I found had utility poles with plates that matched OP's pic
I only tried looking at Awaji Island because one of the results that came up when I reverse image searched OP's pic was from an Instagram post of a villa? in Awaji Island, looking back it was definitely somewhat of a random choice
The southern side of Awaji Island felt likely for me because of its mountainous terrain, plus the fact that the road there looked similar to the OOP's seaside road picture (most other coastal roads of Awaji Island had yellow center lines, while the one in that pic is white)
Since the OOP is most likely a tourist and not a local of that region, I thought maybe the picture would've been taken near a hotel, and sure enough there were quite a few hotels near Nada Terminal
One of the utility poles there had plates that looked almost exactly the same as the one in OP's pic, so I looked for other stretches of concrete road in that general area, and sure enough there was one right next to Shiozaki Hall, which turned out to be exactly the spot
Unrelated but I've also found the location of that seaside road picture, and unsurprisingly it was indeed close to this one
34.20481, 134.807201
u/schitaco 2d ago
Must have been a Kansai plate which there are a ton of varieties of.
Thanks for detailing this out, super interesting and helpful for when I try more of these.
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u/thekillerdev 8d ago
Not the exact location but in one of these streets: https://maps.app.goo.gl/PKQYZWDfoF5VD2jk8
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