都市計画 · Cities: Skylines I & II
Realistic Japanese cities, engineered.
Transit-oriented masterplans, traffic fixes and mod guides — built station by station in Cities: Skylines 1 & 2, and documented here in writing.
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The Arrival Board
到着案内Horizon Springs - EP 6 - Riverside Downtown with Japanese Style Elevated Highway
A realistic “One Tile at a Time” build, guided by a fictional Board of Decision Makers — ending on a riverside downtown with a Japanese-style elevated highway.
Route Map
路線図Every series is a line. New lines first, then the archive of earlier builds.
All masterplans →- COMING SOON
Project Shinano
信濃計画
A mountain-prefecture capital grown outward from a single Shinkansen stop. Transit first, no urban highways, every episode documented.
CS2 · NEW LINE · BOARD →
- COMING SOON
Traffic Surgery
交通外科
One viewer-submitted junction per episode: diagnosed, rebuilt and measured.
CS2 · NEW LINE · BOARD →
- PAUSED
Horizon Springs
ホライズン・スプリングス
A realistic “One Tile at a Time” build, guided by a fictional Board of Decision Makers — ending on a riverside downtown with a Japanese-style elevated highway.
CS2 · LEGACY · BOARD →
- COMPLETED
Takaoka
高岡
An island city in 22 episodes: farming, harbours, coal mining, a mixed-use district — and relocating the whole industrial zone to solve pollution.
CS2 · LEGACY · BOARD →
- COMPLETED
Shiroku
シロク
A Japan-inspired seaside town on a custom-made map, followed by the foundations of a big city and its highway interchange.
CS2 · LEGACY · BOARD →
- COMPLETED
Springvalley
スプリングバレー
The longest series on the channel: 58 episodes of Cities: Skylines 1 in 4K, from first roads to an international airport, oil district and forest industry.
CS1 · LEGACY · BOARD →
- COMPLETED
JAPAN map series
日本地図
Where it started: real-world heightmaps, street-map overlays and map-editor time-lapses for building Japanese cities in Cities: Skylines.
CS1 · LEGACY · BOARD →
乗り方 · How to ride
First time on this platform?
Three stops from “nice city” to your own transit-oriented district.
01
Pick a line
Start with the newest series or browse six years of builds in the archive.
Masterplans →02
Copy the mod stack
The mods, presets and load order behind every video.
Mod Stack →03
Learn the basics
Start with how Japanese cities work, then roads, zoning and real-world maps — step by step.
Japanese cities guide →
Engineering
工学A written guide for every tutorial on the channel — 24 so far. Most-watched first.
All tutorials →
CS1Legacy81 Tiles in Cities: Skylines — how to use the full map
Unlock all 81 tiles in Cities: Skylines with the 81 Tiles mod: what it does, how to install it, what to watch out for, and the CS2 equivalent.
CS1LegacyRealistic Population Revisited — realistic citizen numbers in Cities: Skylines
Why vanilla Cities: Skylines undercounts residents and jobs, how the Realistic Population Revisited mod fixes it, and how to add it without breaking your city.
CS1LegacyMap overlays in Cities: Skylines — use real street maps in the Map Editor
How to overlay your Cities: Skylines terrain with a real street map from Google, Bing, Apple or OpenStreetMap, stitched to scale and loaded with Overlayer 2.
- CS1 · GUIDECustom highway signs in Cities: SkylinesREAD →
- CS1 · GUIDERealistic maps in Cities: SkylinesREAD →
- CS1 · GUIDECommercial and office specialisation in Cities: SkylinesREAD →
- CS1 · GUIDERealistic heightmaps for Cities: SkylinesREAD →
- CS2 · GUIDEStacked roads and highways in Cities: Skylines IIREAD →
The Dispatch
通信
Every city on the channel, 2020 to 2026
Eleven series, 240 videos and two games: a look back at every city built on citybuilderben — and what the numbers taught about what to build next.
The relaunch: realistic Japanese cities, documented
What changes on citybuilderben from November 2026: Project Shinano, Traffic Surgery, written tutorials for every video and members' save files on Patreon.
地図 · The Atlas
The real places behind the builds.
Stations, expressways and shopping streets in Japan that shaped the cities on the channel — on a map, each linked to the series it inspired.
Open the Atlas →The archive
旧作Six years of cities, kept as two archives. Every series, every episode.
駅長 · Station master
Hi, I'm Ben.
Ben is a city builder from Munich who has been making realistic, transit-oriented cities in Cities: Skylines since 2020 — now with a focus on Japanese cities. Away from the game he has worked in digital marketing, SEO and GEO for more than twenty years.
More about me →支援 · Support
Keep the line running.
The videos and guides stay free. Members on Patreon get save files, 4K map exports and early access.