Cities: Skylines - Content Creator Pack: Modern Japan Review (Catratio)
This actually comes with a lot more than I was expecting. I'll list what the contents are since there is no detailed description on the store page. It'll be broken down by category, the asset's name and size, and then my thoughts.
Type 1: Small Commercial:
Drive-in Restaurant - (4 x 4)
Drive-in Oriental Restaurant - (7 x 5)
Oriental Market - (5 x 4)
Noodle Restaurant - (5 x 5)
Ramen Restaurant - (3 x 4)
Service Station and Restaurant - (12 x 13)
These are nice because they come included with large parking lots, so they fit in better with suburban areas where one would expect to have ample parking when visiting a store or restaurant. The last one, service station, is not actually a gas station but a large rectangular building. I guess it's some kind of highway rest stop, but I think of it as a large steak house.
Type 2: Office
Small Office Building - (11 x 4)
City Office Building - (8 x 4)
District Office Building - (10 x 4)
Local Register Office - (8 x 5)
Various types of brown buildings ranging about 4-8 stories tall. Quite nice, and integrate well into any urban center, office park, or as I like to use them for, headquarters for my service sectors, such as being the main building for my water treatment plant, etc.
Type 3: Leisure
Downtown Hotel - (6 x 5)
Resort Hotel - (15 x 9)
The Station Department Store - (15 x 5)
The Rail Yard Shopping Center - (15 x 5)
Temple - (2 x 3)
Specialized tourism buildings, pretty self explanatory. The department store is not actually a "station" nor is the shopping center an actual "rail yard". Both are just large rectangular malls, which again are versatile enough to fit anywhere from suburbs, downtown centers, to recreational districts. The temple is a small pagoda and would work best probably within a park.
Type 4: Skyscrapers
High Rise Office Building - (6 x 4)
Company Headquarters - (10 x 11)
Office Skyscraper - (12 x 9)
Self explanatory, but the latter two are really tall, eclipsing the vanilla skyscraper unique buildings and even the IT specialization from Green Cities. Great looking assets.
Type 5: Services
General Hospital - (9 x 8)
Waste Disposal Unit - (13 x 12)
Both are just Japanese versions of the normal hospital and incinerator, even down to upkeep cost and patient/trash processing rate. Quite nice for some extra visual variety and I'm happy to replace the vanilla incinerator with something much larger and realistic looking.
Overall this is a fantastic pack. A lot of people have noted that these buildings cannot be used as a district style to have them spawn randomly. While that is true, you probably really wouldn't want most of these to repeat a lot. The restaurants take up a lot more space than you expect with their parking lots, and the leisure buildings and skyscrapers are best placed once since they are so specialized. It wouldn't have been a bad idea to have the office types spawn, but their footprint is larger than the maximum 4x4 the game allows for spawns, so it really wouldn't have worked with how the rest of the game is designed. Between the choice of having them as they are now, or shrinking them to fit a 4x4 plot, I'd much prefer them to be large since they stand out a lot more than any generic square office. Having them as one time use unique buildings can be circumvented by getting the mod that lets you place unique assets multiple times.
As far as blending in with the surroundings, aside from some kanji on signs you wouldn't really notice unless you zoomed up close, all the buildings fit in perfectly with my American city theme. Architecturally they match well with all the vanilla buildings so even if you're not aiming for a Japanese style city I'm sure you can find a lot of uses for them that would look natural and aesthetically pleasing.