>>56531813Yeah but listen, just hear me out.
They could just, you know, make shit up! The stuff that happens in Pokemon doesn't happen in real Japan either. The point is, they don't Japan because they actually understand it on a deeper level and know, just naturally, how to present it and make it feel special and tastefully flavored.
Look at it not from the Japan irl but the potential of the fictional pokemon world, where literally anything can happen, and tell me there's nothing they could do with these prefectures. Like, dont think about why you'd go here irl, think about it like "what is between Sinnoh and Kanto? that's a whole region of space"
Yes we know whats between Hokkaido and Kanto in real life, but we literally do not know what it is between Sinnoh and Kanto. They can make it interesting.