用語集 · Glossary
Words of the trade.
Short definitions of the terms used across the videos and guides.
- Transit-oriented development (TOD)公共交通指向型開発
- Planning dense, mixed-use neighbourhoods within walking distance of a rail or bus station, so most trips don't need a car. Japanese railway companies have built cities this way for a century.
- Shinkansen新幹線
- Japan's high-speed rail network, running on its own standard-gauge, grade-separated lines. In city builds it shapes where the main station and the densest district go.
- Shotengai商店街
- A shopping street, often covered and pedestrian-first, lined with small shops and usually leading from a station. A key ingredient of realistic Japanese mixed-use blocks.
- Danchi団地
- Large post-war public or company housing estates of repeated mid-rise blocks, typically grouped around green space and a local shopping centre.
- Ekimeihyō駅名標
- The station name sign on a Japanese platform: kanji, kana and romaji, plus the previous and next stations. This site's page headers borrow its layout.
- Station numbering駅ナンバリング
- A line code plus a number for every station (for example JY 01), used across Japanese railways for wayfinding. The series codes on this site (SH, TS, TK) follow the same idea.
- One Tile at a Time1タイルずつ
- A build challenge used in Cedarpoint County and Horizon Springs: unlock one map tile per episode and finish it before moving on.
- Weaving織り込み
- Traffic that must cross lanes within a short stretch, typically between an on-ramp and the next exit. A common cause of phantom queues in Cities: Skylines.
- Lane connector車線接続
- A tool (TM:PE in CS1, the Traffic mod in CS2) that sets which incoming lane may continue into which outgoing lane at a junction.
- Heightmap標高図
- A greyscale image where brightness equals terrain height. Imported in the map editor to recreate real-world terrain.
- Map overlay地図オーバーレイ
- A street map image laid over the terrain while building, so roads and rail can be traced to real-world positions.
- Zoning用途地域
- Assigning land uses (residential, commercial, industrial, office, mixed) to plots. Japan's system allows much finer mixing of uses than most Western codes.