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Anime pilgrimage and film locations in Aichi

176 places from 53 titles, including Too Many Losing Heroines!, A Whisker Away, The Quintessential Quintuplets.

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Titles · 53

Too Many Losing Heroines!

TV anime · 2024

Shiratani Seaside Park

The seafront park on Toyohashi's Mikawa bay shore.

Getting there: Toyohashi Stn + bus (Shiratani) · 5 min walk

A Whisker Away

Anime film · 2020

Pottery Footpath, Tokoname

The kiln-town lanes of climbing chimneys and pot-lined walls the film is set in; Miyo runs these slopes as a cat.

Getting there: Tokoname Stn (Meitetsu Tokoname Line) · 5 min walk

The Quintessential Quintuplets

TV anime · 2019

Otagawa Station

The elevated Tokai junction the series' town is drawn from; the sisters' commute runs through here.

Getting there: Otagawa Stn (Meitetsu Tokoname Line) · At the station

Bunny Drop

TV anime · 2011

The Perfect Insider

TV anime · 2015

Nagoya University

The national university at Higashiyama.

Getting there: Nagoya Daigaku Stn · 3 min walk

Medalist

TV anime · 2025

Detective Conan

TV anime · 1996

Seraph of the End

TV anime · 2015

Nagoya City Hall

Nagoya's 1933 city hall, topped by a castle-like tower.

Getting there: Nagoyajo Stn · 1 min walk

Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki 3

TV anime · 2021

Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium

The aquarium on Nagoya port's garden pier, known for its orcas and dolphins.

Getting there: Nagoyakō Stn · 7 min walk

What Will You Do, Ieyasu?

TV drama · 2023

Okazaki Castle

Where Ieyasu was born, and where the drama begins.

Getting there: Okazakikōen-mae Stn · 9 min walk

Sengoku Basara

TV anime · 2009

Fate/Zero

TV anime · 2011

Locodol

TV anime · 2014

Sunshine Sakae

A Sakae shopping building with a Ferris wheel on its side.

Getting there: Sakae Stn · 3 min walk

Nobunaga Concerto

TV anime · 2014

Atsuta Jingu

The shrine of the sacred sword, where Nobunaga prayed before Okehazama.

Getting there: Jingū-mae Stn · 5 min walk

Love Live! Sunshine!!

TV anime · 2016

Castle Defense

TV anime · 2017

Laid-Back Camp

TV anime · 2018

Yaiba: Samurai Legend

TV anime · 2025

Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl

TV anime · 2011

My Neighbor Totoro

Anime film · 1988

Satsuki and Mei's House, Expo Park

The film's house, built full-size and furnished as it appears on screen. Entry is by advance ticket only.

Getting there: Aichikyūhaku-kinen-kōen Stn · 15 min walk

Satsuki and Mei's House

The family's house, built full-size and furnished as the film draws it.

Getting there: Aichikyūhaku-kinen-kōen Stn · 17 min walk

The Wind Rises

Anime film · 2013

Sound! Euphonium

TV anime · 2015

Your Name.

Anime film · 2016

Armed Girl's Machiavellism

TV anime · 2017

Aichi Junior and Senior High School

A private secondary school in Nagoya.

Getting there: Jiyugaoka Stn · 21 min walk

Golden Kamuy

TV anime · 2018

Meiji Mura Museum

An open-air museum of Meiji buildings moved here from across Japan, supplying interiors the series draws on as heavily as it does the Hokkaido village.

Getting there: Inuyama Stn (Meitetsu) + bus 20 min · 3 min walk

Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle

TV anime · 2023

Oasis 21

A Sakae park known for its glass roof, the Spaceship Aqua.

Getting there: Sakaemachi Stn · 1 min walk

Umamusume: Cinderella Gray

TV anime · 2025

Onna Taikoki

TV drama · 1981

Tokugawa Ieyasu

TV drama · 1983

Okazaki Castle

Ieyasu's birthplace and the drama's starting point; the park keeps the moats and the well he was washed in.

Getting there: Okazaki-koen-mae Stn (Meitetsu) · 9 min walk

Nobunaga: King of Zipangu

TV drama · 1992

Komakiyama Castle

The hill castle Nobunaga built in 1563 as the base for the Mino campaign; the earthworks are still there.

Getting there: Bus from Komaki Stn · 10 min walk

Pokémon

TV anime · 1997

Spirited Away

Anime film · 2001

Higurashi: When They Cry

TV anime · 2006

Bakemonogatari

TV anime · 2009

Shiki

TV anime · 2010

Meiji-mura

An open-air museum at Inuyama of relocated Meiji-era buildings.

Getting there: Inuyama Stn + bus 20min · 3 min walk

Haganai: I Don't Have Many Friends

TV anime · 2011

Little Busters!

TV anime · 2012

Owari-Asahi Station

A station in Aichi.

Getting there: Owari-Asahi Stn · At the station

Love Lab

TV anime · 2013

Meiji-mura Museum

An open-air museum at Inuyama of relocated Meiji-era buildings.

Getting there: Inuyama Stn + bus 20min · 2 min walk

No-Rin

TV anime · 2014

When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace

TV anime · 2014

Touken Ranbu

TV anime · 2016

Tiger Mask W

TV anime · 2016

Naotora: The Lady Warlord

TV drama · 2017

Tenshi no 3P!

TV anime · 2017

Kemono Friends

TV anime · 2017

Umamusume: Pretty Derby

TV anime · 2018

Demon Slayer

TV anime · 2019

Kirin ga Kuru

TV drama · 2020

Okehazama Battlefield

Where Nobunaga destroyed an army ten times his size in a rainstorm — the hinge of the whole period.

Getting there: Chukyo-keibajo-mae Stn · 18 min walk

Adachi and Shimamura

TV anime · 2020

Suzume

Anime film · 2022

My Happy Marriage

TV anime · 2023

Imperial Hotel Central Entrance

The entrance section of Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel, relocated to Meiji-mura.

Getting there: Inuyama Stn + bus 20min (Meiji-mura) · 10 min walk

Shoshimin: How to Become Ordinary

TV anime · 2024

Tokai Driving School

A driving school at Narumi in Nagoya. Appears in episode 3.

Getting there: Narumi Stn · 8 min walk

Sakamoto Days

TV anime · 2025

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