Anime pilgrimage and film locations in Hokkaido

Golden Kamuy

Abashiri Prison Museum

The prison the story converges on. The preserved cell blocks and the chapel where Wilk was held are the buildings themselves, not models of them.

Getting there: Abashiri Stn (JR Senmo Line) + bus 10 min · 3 min walk

Upopoy National Ainu Museum

The national museum of Ainu culture — the background to everything the series draws, told by Ainu curators.

Getting there: Shiraoi Stn · 12 min walk

Hokuchin Memorial Museum

The museum of the 7th Division — the regiment the series' soldiers belong to — on the garrison ground in Asahikawa.

Getting there: Shin-Asahikawa Stn · 30 min walk

Goryokaku Fort

The star fort of the last stand of the shogunate's navy — the history the series' final act rests on.

Getting there: Suginamichō Stn · 15 min walk

• Historical Village of Hokkaido
• Otaru Canal
• Noboribetsu Onsen
• Hakodate Station
• Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples
• Asahikawa City Museum
• Kushiro City Museum
• Tsukigata Kabato Museum
• Karurusu Onsen
• Lake Shikotsu
• Hokkaido University Botanic Garden
• Sapporo Clock Tower
• Sapporo Church, United Church of Christ in Japan
• Sapporo Factory
• Sapporo Beer Museum
• Former Matsuhashi Residence
• Former Kondo Clinic
• Former Russian Consulate
• Former Urakawa Subprefectural Government Building
• Former Aoyama Family Fisherman's House
• Former Sanmasu Kawamoto Soba Shop
• Former Osamunai Farmer-Soldier's House
• Tomakomai City Museum
• Otaru City General Museum
• Shinkotoni Shrine
• Mount Hakodate
• Otaru Romankan
• Otaru City Museum Canal Hall

Love Live! Sunshine!!

• Hakodate Nishi High School
• Hakodate Arena
• Goryokaku Tower
• Former Hakodate Public Hall
• Sabo Kikuizumi
• Hakodate St John's Church
• Hachimanzaka Slope
• Kanemori Red Brick Warehouse
• Hakodate Kokusai Hotel
• Mount Hakodate Observatory
• Hakodate Station Plaza
• FM Iruka
• Funami Children's Playground

Hidamari Sketch

Hokkaido Hakone Farm

The restaurant of a visitor farm outside Chitose.

Getting there: Chitose Stn + 20min by car · 3 min walk

Otaru Music Box Museum

A 1912 brick shop with a steam clock at its door.

Getting there: Minami-Otaru Stn · 6 min walk

• Noboribetsu Grand Hotel
• Goryokaku Tower
• Yumoto Isaribikan
• Shikisai-no-oka
• Kappo Ryokan Wakamatsu
• Hakodate Airport
• Lake Tōya
• Hachiman-zaka
• Former Hakodate Public Hall

Silver Spoon

Obihiro Racecourse (Ban'ei)

The draught-horse racing the series takes an arc in, on the track it is drawn from.

Getting there: Obihiro Stn (JR Nemuro Line) + 10 min by bus · 3 min walk

• Tokachi-Shimizu Station
• Tokachi-Obihiro Airport
• Obihiro Shrine
• Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art
• Obihiro Agricultural High School
• Obihiro Station
• Midorigaoka Park (Green Park)
• Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine
• Obihiro Centennial City Museum
• Tokachimura

Detective Conan

• Kanemori Red Brick Warehouse
• Mount Hakodate Observatory
• Goryokaku Fort
• Hachimanzaka Slope
• Hakodate Airport
• Hakodate Station
• Goryokaku Tower
• Goryōkaku
• Hakodate Chuo Police Station
• Hokkaido Toshogu Shrine

Wagnaria!!

Hiraoka Park

The plum park in the Sapporo suburb the series is set in.

Getting there: Shin-Sapporo Stn + 15 min by bus · 5 min walk

• Jozankei Onsen
• Sapporo Station (South Exit)
• Shimonopporo Yamanote Park
• Tanukikoji Shopping Arcade
• JR Tower, Sapporo Station
• Yu no Taki Falls
• Kumanosawa Park
• Hiraoka-Minami Park
• Kappa Family Wishing Hand Bath

Erased

Tomakomai Station

The Hokkaido town the series is set in; the 1988 chapters are drawn from its winter streets.

Getting there: Tomakomai Stn · At the station

• Tomakomai Science Center
• Midorigaoka Park Observatory
• Misono Elementary School
• Tomakomai Civic Center
• Misono Park
• Mount Hakodate Observatory
• Nepia Ice Arena
• New Chitose Airport
• Shimizu Footbridge

Saikano

Asahi Observatory

A lookout over Otaru harbour.

Getting there: Otaru Stn · 12 min walk

• Otaru Aquarium
• Otaru Commercial High School
• Otaru Station
• Hokkaido University
• JR Tower
• Otaru Miyakodori Arcade
• Shibetsu Station
• Jigoku-zaka

Beautiful Bones: Sakurako's Investigation

Nagayama Shrine

A shrine in Asahikawa.

Getting there: Nagayama Stn · 10 min walk

• Shokan Beach Campsite
• Asahiyama Zoo
• Asahikawa Tokiwa Rotary
• Western Powers
• Asahikawa Meisei High School
• Asahikawa Station North Exit
• Heiwa-dori Kaimono Koen

Wave, Listen to Me!

Hokkaido Jingu

Hokkaido's chief shrine, in the woods of Maruyama.

Getting there: Nishi nijuhatchome Stn · 14 min walk

• Maruyama-Koen Station
• Sapporo Clock Tower
• Sapporo TV Tower
• Mt. Moiwa
• Lawson United Cinemas
• Susukino Crossing
• Sapporo Factory

Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable!

Kitami Station

A Sekihoku Line station, the gateway to the main city of the Okhotsk region.

Getting there: Kitami Stn · At the station

• Kitami Art and Culture Hall
• Abashiri Station
• Itoshino Station
• Memanbetsu Airport
• Higashimokoto Shibazakura Park
• Northern Arc Resort
• Kitami Commercial High School

Celestial Method

Lake Toya

The caldera lake the series is set on; the town along its south shore is drawn street by street.

Getting there: Toya Stn + 20 min by bus · 3 min walk

• Toyako Onsen
• Mori to Ki no Sato Center
• Restaurant Boyotei
• Sapporo Station Bus Terminal
• Toya Onsen Hotel Hanabi

Poppoya

Ikutora Station (Horomai)

Dressed as Horomai Station for the film and kept that way ever since. The line closed in 2024; the station and its film set remain.

Getting there: Higashi-Shikagoe Stn + 20 min by bus · 3 min walk

Takikawa Station

The junction the film's branch line runs off, and where its trains are set out from.

Getting there: Takikawa Stn · At the station

• Mikasa Railway Memorial Museum
• Kobayashi Sake Brewery
• Yubari Coal Mine Museum

Kimi ni Todoke

• Sapporo Clock Tower Front
• Hokkaido Haboro High School
• Haboro Shrine
• Asahi Bridge
• Haborobashi Bridge

When Marnie Was There

Akkeshi Station

The film's seaside town was invented from location scouting in Kushiro, Nemuro and Akkeshi — the marsh at Mochirippu is one of the places the crew photographed.

Getting there: Akkeshi Stn · At the station

Kushiro Wetland

The marsh Anna and Marnie row across, the largest in the country and still tidal in places.

Getting there: Kushiro Stn + JR Senmo Line (Kushiro-shitsugen) · 10 min walk

• Shinryu Shrine
• Lake Mochirippu
• Former British Consulate

Junjo Romantica

Sapporo TV Tower

The 147-metre tower at the east end of Odori Park.

Getting there: Odori Stn · 2 min walk

• Sapporo Station South Exit
• Sapporo Clock Tower
• Former Hokkaido Government Office

Nogizaka Haruka's Secret

Otaru Station

A 1934 station building; a lamp-lit stair runs down towards the harbour.

Getting there: Otaru Stn · At the station

• Hitsujigaoka Observation Hill
• Asahiyama Zoo Main Gate
• Susukino

Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions

• Nakajima Park
• Hakodate Station
• Tanukikoji
• Sapporo Station South Plaza

Ushio and Tora

Tomakomai West Port Ferry Terminal

The Tomakomai terminal for ferries to Honshu.

Getting there: Tomakomai Stn + bus 25min · 3 min walk

• Asahikawa Airport
• Cape Erimo Lighthouse
• Ryokan Misakiso, Cape Erimo

Umamusume: Pretty Derby

• Obihiro Racecourse (Ban'ei)
• Ginzan Station
• Hidaka-Monbetsu Station
• Sapporo Racecourse

Seven Days War

Former Sumitomo Akabira Colliery Pithead

The abandoned works the runaways barricade themselves into — the tallest surviving pithead frame in the country.

Getting there: Akabira Stn · 14 min walk

• Yubari Coal Mine Museum
• Hokkaido Yubari High School
• Former Minami-Shimizu Station

Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus

• New Chitose Airport Station
• New Chitose Airport Onsen
• Sansen Railway Bridge
• Glass Pyramid HIDAMARI

Dusk Beyond the End of the World

Mount Hakodate Observatory

The lookout famous for Hakodate's night view, reached by ropeway. Appears in episode 1.

Getting there: Hakodate Stn · 40 min walk

• Goryokaku Fort
• Showa Bridge
• Goryokaku Tower

From the Northern Country

Furano Station

The drama that made Furano famous starts and ends at this platform; the Kuroki family's cabins are a bus ride east.

Getting there: Furano Stn · At the station

• Cape Erimo
• Rokugo Forest

Someday's Dreamers

• Biei Station
• The Level Crossing North of Biei Station
• Asahikawa Airport

We Were There

Hokkaido Kushiro Koryo High School

A prefectural high school in Kushiro.

Getting there: Higashi-Kushiro Stn · 23 min walk

• Kushiro Station
• Kushiro Fisherman's Wharf MOO

Tokimeki Memorial Only Love

Sapporo Station South Exit

The south exit of Sapporo station, towards Odori and Tanukikoji.

Getting there: Sapporo Stn · 4 min walk

• Otaru Station
• Sakaimachi Street

Student Council's Discretion

Sapporo Sosei High School

A private high school in Sapporo.

Getting there: Kita sanjuyo jo Stn · 8 min walk

• Sapporo Station
• Sapporo Dome

Hina Logi: From Luck & Logic

Kita no Yatai

An alley of food stalls in Obihiro.

Getting there: Obihiro Stn · 6 min walk

• Makubetsu Station
• Pira-Ri (Akenogaoka Park)

Sagrada Reset

• Otaru Miyakodori Shopping Street
• Nagahashi Tunnel
• Funami-zaka

A Sister's All You Need

• Sapporo Station South Exit
• New Chitose Airport
• Donbee

A Star Brighter Than the Sun

Sapporo Stellar Place

The station building at Sapporo.

Getting there: Sapporo Stn · 1 min walk

• Sapporo TV Tower
• Miyanosawa Station

The Yellow Handkerchief

Lake Akan Onsen

The hot-spring town on the drive north the film follows across Hokkaido.

Getting there: Kushiro Stn + 120 min by bus · 5 min walk

• Yagishiri Island

Suzuran

Rumoi Station

The end of the Rumoi line the drama's railway town belongs to. The line closed in 2023; the station stands.

Getting there: Fukagawa Stn + 60 min by bus · 3 min walk

Mikasa Railway Memorial Museum

The coal-railway museum whose rolling stock stood in for the drama's 1920s trains.

Getting there: Iwamizawa Stn + 30 min by bus · 3 min walk

RahXephon

Trappistine Monastery

A women's Trappist monastery in Hakodate, founded in 1898.

Getting there: Hakodate Stn + bus 40min · 5 min walk

• Goryokaku Fort

Shuffle!

Sapporo Station

Hokkaido's largest rail terminal.

Getting there: Sapporo Stn · At the station

• Mizuho Ohashi Bridge

Kanon

• Nakamura Memorial Hospital
• Kotoni Station Plaza

Haiyore! Nyaruko-san

Sapporo Clock Tower

Sapporo's clock tower, built in 1878 as a drill hall.

Getting there: Odori Stn · 4 min walk

• Animate Sapporo

My Wife Is the Student Council President

Nusamai Bridge

A bridge over the Kushiro river, known for its Four Seasons statues and its sunsets.

Getting there: Kushiro Stn · 16 min walk

• Nipponzan Myohoji Temple

Bakuon!!

• Mizunashi Kaihin Onsen
• Abashiri Prison Museum

Dropkick on My Devil!

• Lake Akan Onsen
• Chitose Salmon Aquarium

Higehiro

Asahikawa Station

A Hakodate Line and Soya Line station.

Getting there: Asahikawa Stn · At the station

• New Chitose Airport

Takopi's Original Sin

• Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station
• Tsugaru Kaikyō Ferry Hakodate Terminal

Captain Tsubasa

• Kamifurano Junior High School (exterior only)

Fist of the North Star

• Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station

My Neighbor Totoro

• Togari Pass

Marmalade Boy

Hakodate Kokusai Hotel

A hotel on the Hakodate waterfront.

Getting there: Hakodate Stn · 12 min walk

Pokémon

• Pokémon Center Sapporo

Princess Mononoke

• Otaru Herring Mansion

Ojamajo Doremi #

• Otaru Canal

Musashi Bushi

• Benkei Cape

Air

• Soba Saisai Kuruba

Noein: To Your Other Self

Hakodate Orthodox Church

The white Russian Orthodox church of 1916 on the Motomachi slope; its bells ring on Sunday.

Getting there: Jujigai tram stop · 6 min walk

Elusiveness of the Fog

Cape Tobutsu Lighthouse

The lighthouse on Cape Kiritappu.

Getting there: Chanai Stn + 25min by car · 5 min walk

Hayate the Combat Butler

• Hiragishi Kodai Park

Durarara!!

• Goryokaku Tower

A Detective in the Bar

Susukino

The Sapporo night quarter the detective works out of, from the bar of the title.

Getting there: Susukino Stn · At the station

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara

A concert hall in Nakajima Park.

Getting there: Nakajima-Koen Stn · 8 min walk

Fate/Zero

• Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara

Softenni

Farm Tomita

A visitor farm in Nakafurano famous for its lavender fields.

Getting there: Lavender Farm Stn · 7 min walk

Working'!!

Hiraoka-Minami Park

A park in Kiyota, Sapporo.

Getting there: Kami-Nopporo Stn · 61 min walk

High School DxD

Sapporo Clock Tower

Sapporo's clock tower, built in 1878 as a drill hall.

Getting there: Odori Stn · 4 min walk

The "Hentai" Prince and the Stony Cat

New Chitose Airport

The station beneath New Chitose Airport.

Getting there: New Chitose Airport Stn · At the station

Servant x Service

Sapporo Station

Hokkaido's largest rail terminal.

Getting there: Sapporo Stn · At the station

Massan

• Maeda Forest Park

Hanako to Anne

• Canadian World Park

Saekano

• Asahiyama Zoo

Yatterman Night

Seikan Tunnel

The Seikan Tunnel memorial museum in Fukushima, Hokkaido.

Getting there: Seikan Tunnel Museum + cable car · 5 min walk

KanColle

• Yubari Shrine

Castle Defense

• Matsumae Castle

Schoolgirl Strikers

• Goryokaku Fort

Shinkalion

• Hakodate Station

A Place Further Than the Universe

• New Chitose Airport Station

Natsuzora

Tokachi-Obihiro Airport

The Tokachi gateway for the dairy-farm half of the story; Natsu's Hokkaido and her Tokyo animation career meet here.

Getting there: Bus from Obihiro Stn · 3 min walk

Dropkick on My Devil! Dash

Chitose Salmon Aquarium

A freshwater aquarium at Chitose with windows into the riverbed itself.

Getting there: Chitose Stn · 13 min walk

Akebi's Sailor Uniform

Iai Women's Academy

A private girls' school in Hakodate, founded in 1882, with its old wooden mission house still standing.

Getting there: Goryōkaku Stn · 43 min walk

Yaiba: Samurai Legend

• Sosei Bridge

MONO

• Cape Soya

Umamusume: Cinderella Gray

• Hakodate Racecourse

Nippon Sangoku

• Sapporo Clock Tower