JR West and Tottori Prefecture Outline Ryugu-koku Tottori RPG at TGS 2026
The project treats a prefecture as the intellectual property rather than a setting, so the pitch rests on real myths, places, and food in Tottori being folded into the game and on real-world activity feeding back into it.
Reporting from 1 source: 4Gamer.net.
At Tokyo Game Show 2026 on September 17, JR West, Tottori Prefecture, and JP UNIVERSE held a stage event called TOTTORI GAME SHOW to detail the FANTASY TOTTORI PROJECT, which develops Tottori Prefecture itself as a game IP, and its core RPG Ryugu-koku Tottori. Producer Hitoshi Tabata introduced footage of the fantasy RPG, in which 47 countries compete, Tottori appears as Tottori-koku ruled by Yakami-hime, and players act as its citizens against a neighboring invasion.
The event opened with an anime short in which Yoshida-kun from Himitsu Kessha Taka no Tsume wanders into a Tottori that is not quite the usual Tottori. Takuma Yaegashi, station master and general producer of Tottori-koku Station at JR West, told the stage that the plan is to turn Tottori into a game, but he framed it as more than using the prefecture as a setting.
Governor Shinji Hirai appeared in a video shot at the Tottori Sand Dunes, naming the Hare of Inaba, the myth of Okuninushi and Yakami-hime, Tottori Castle, and pears before declaring the founding of Tottori-koku. Yaegashi said many of the governor's remarks were ad-libbed and that the governor supports the initiative.
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