Anime pilgrimage and film locations in Hiroshima
174 places from 41 titles, including Tamayura, In This Corner of the World, Kamichu!.
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Titles · 41
TV anime · 2010
Fu's home town starts here — the old merchant quarter is a ten-minute walk from the platform.
Getting there: Takehara Stn · At the station
The wooden viewing hall on stilts above the preserved quarter that Fu photographs the town from.
Getting there: Takehara Stn (JR Kure Line) · 13 min walk
Anime film · 2016
The gateway to the film's Kure. The naval town Suzu marries into is built from the streets around here.
Getting there: Kure Stn (JR Kure Line) · At the station
Suzu's journeys between Eba and Kure pass through here; the film draws the pre-war station and its trams.
Getting there: Hiroshima Stn · At the station
TV anime · 2005
The model for Raifuku Shrine, where Yurie serves as a god. The long stone stairway is the one from the opening.
Getting there: Onomichi Stn · 21 min walk
TV anime · 2018
An old Onomichi shrine with great camphor trees.
Getting there: Onomichi Stn · 15 min walk
TV anime · 2002
The shrine the heroine serves at, in the Miyoshi of the ghost stories the series draws on.
Getting there: Miyoshi Stn · 34 min walk
Film · 1982
The temple on the cliff above Onomichi, and the stone steps the body-swap film runs down.
Getting there: Onomichi Stn · 13 min walk
The 55-step stone stair the two fall down and swap bodies on — the film's founding scene.
Getting there: Onomichi Stn (JR Sanyo Main Line) · 21 min walk
Anime film · 2008
Miyazaki stayed above this harbour while planning the film, and the seaside town Sosuke lives in is drawn from it.
Getting there: Fukuyama Stn (JR Sanyo Line) + 30 min by bus · 3 min walk
TV anime · 2016
The park near the hypocentre, laid out by Kenzo Tange around the cenotaph for the bomb's victims.
Getting there: Genbaku Dome-mae Stn · 6 min walk
TV anime · 2024
A Sanyo Line station facing the Onomichi channel.
Getting there: Onomichi Stn · At the station
TV anime · 2013
TV anime · 2015
Film · 1953
The station the old couple leave from and return to; the film opens and closes on this town.
Getting there: Onomichi Stn (JR Sanyo Main Line) · At the station
TV anime · 2001
TV drama · 2010
The station the heroine passes through between Onomichi and Osaka; the okonomiyaki thread of the story runs from here.
Getting there: Hiroshima Stn (JR Sanyo Main Line) · At the station
TV anime · 2017
Film · 2021
The glass corridor through the waste plant that Kafuku and Misaki walk — designed by Yoshio Taniguchi and open to the public.
Getting there: Hiroshima Port tram stop · 22 min walk
Film · 1983
The old Onomichi shrine below the ropeway, with camphor trees over the path Kazuko runs.
Getting there: Onomichi Stn (JR Sanyo Main Line) · 15 min walk
TV drama · 1997
The mountain the Mori ruled the Chugoku region from; the earthworks run over the whole hill.
Getting there: Yoshidaguchi Stn + bus · 25 min walk
TV anime · 2003
A temple on the hillside above Onomichi, looking down over the channel.
Getting there: Onomichi Stn · 13 min walk
TV anime · 2004
An Inland Sea cove that prospered as a port where ships waited for the tide, its stone lantern still standing.
Getting there: Fukuyama Stn + bus 30min · 5 min walk
Anime film · 2011
The island the film is set on; Mitarai's Edo-period port streets are preserved whole.
Getting there: Hiro Stn + 90 min by bus · 5 min walk
TV anime · 2016
TV anime · 2021
A station in Hiroshima. It appears in episode 6.
Getting there: Fukuyama Stn · At the station
Anime film · 2022
TV anime · 2023
TV drama · 2000
The Mori castle the drama's politics run through, rebuilt after the bomb flattened it.
Getting there: Jōhoku Stn · 6 min walk
TV anime · 2004
TV drama · 2010
TV drama · 2012
The over-water shrine Kiyomori rebuilt in its present form and made the Taira's own.
Getting there: Ferry from Miyajimaguchi · 12 min walk
TV anime · 2012
TV anime · 2013
TV drama · 2014
TV anime · 2014
Anime film · 2016
TV anime · 2016
Hiroshima's World Heritage ruin, kept as a witness to the atomic bombing. Appears in episode 5.
Getting there: Hondōri Stn · 7 min walk
Anime film · 2017
TV anime · 2019
TV anime · 2022
TV anime · 2022
Anime film · 2022
TV anime · 2024
Walkable areas