Silent Hill f Actors Appointed Tourism Ambassadors for Japanese City That Inspired the Game

Two actors from Silent Hill f revealed contiguous that they person been appointed ambassadors of the existent beingness determination successful Japan that inspired the endurance fearfulness game’s eerie setting.

Takeshi Masago, who plays Kanta Shimizu, the begetter of main quality Hinako, and Tamami Hiraoka, who plays her mother, posted a YouTube abbreviated cryptically entitled ‘Important Announcement’ connected February 2, 2026. The video begins similar a solemn apology oregon superior announcement, with the 2 actors abruptly jumping for joyousness astatine the extremity of the video, portion holding their tourism ambassador certificates.

The actors person some been made tourism ambassadors for Gero City successful Japan's Gifu Prefecture. Gero City, specifically the Kanayama-cho country with its quiet, constrictive alleyways and aged houses, served arsenic inspiration for Silent Hill f's fictional Ebisugaoka, a agrarian Japanese colony successful the 1960s.

Although Hinako's begetter successful the crippled is abusive, the actors who play her parents started uploading wholesome videos connected YouTube past period of themselves going connected "husband and woman dates." The actors are not joined successful existent life, but these videos person got immoderate fans wishing they were. The solemn code of the ‘important announcement’ video caught galore viewers disconnected guard, arsenic did the ‘jump scare’ with the certificates. "I thought you were going to accidental 'we're getting joined for real’ lol," said 1 commenter astir the tourism ambassador announcement video, with others echoing the aforesaid sentiment: “When they revealed the documents, I earnestly thought for a infinitesimal that they were matrimony certificates.”

As portion of efforts to beforehand what Gero City has to offer, Masago precocious visited the 300-year-old Okuhida Shuzo atom vino brewery successful the area, arsenic posted connected X. Last month, the brewery released Silent Hill f themed involvement and chocolates, the archetypal batch of which rapidly sold out.

Since Silent Hill f was released, galore of the Japanese actors progressive successful the accumulation person livestreamed each oregon parts of the game, portion sharing behind-the-scenes stories astir what filming was like. This kicked disconnected erstwhile Hinako’s histrion Konatsu Kato began livestreaming her playthrough of Silent Hill f backmost successful October 2025, amassing implicit 5 cardinal views. Shortly after, Yuuka Iijima (who plays Rinko Nishida) and Natsuki Osaki (who plays Shu Iwai) besides acceptable up YouTube Channels and did their ain livestreams of the game.

Although Takeshi Masago and Tamami Hiraoka are the archetypal game-related tourism ambassadors for Gero City, this is not the archetypal clip that video games person been utilized to pull visitors to lesser-known parts of Japan. Back successful 2020, the Tsushima Tourist Board partnered with Sucker Punch’s deed PlayStation crippled Ghost of Tsushima to beforehand the existent beingness Japanese island. Not agelong after, fans banded unneurotic to rise funds to repair 1 of the island’s shrine gates, which was destroyed by a typhoon. The pursuing year, Ghost of Tsushima pb developers Nate Fox and Jason Connell were made imperishable tourism ambassadors to the island, for spreading its past to the satellite successful "such a fantastic way," according to Tsushima politician Hiroki Hitakatsu.

Verity Townsend is simply a Japan-based freelance writer who antecedently served arsenic editor, contributor and translator for the crippled quality tract Automaton West. She has besides written astir Japanese civilization and movies for assorted publications.