Anime pilgrimage and film locations in Kyoto
677 places from 134 titles, including Sound! Euphonium, K-On!, The Eccentric Family.
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Titles · 134
TV anime · 2015
The bridge Kumiko crosses daily; the river and its banks frame much of the series.
Getting there: Uji Stn (Keihan / JR Nara Line) · 5 min walk
The station the band members commute through; Uji is the town the whole series is set in.
Getting there: Uji Stn · At the station
Where Kumiko and Reina climb in the dark and play to the town below — the scene the series is known for.
Getting there: Uji Stn · 10 min walk
TV anime · 2009
TV anime · 2013
The tanuki family lives under the shrine’s forest, and the story opens and closes in these grounds.
Getting there: Demachiyanagi Stn (Keihan / Eizan Line) · 12 min walk
TV anime · 2010
The university the narrator wastes three years at, drawn with its clock tower and its noticeboards. The grounds are open; the buildings are not.
Getting there: Demachiyanagi Stn · 14 min walk
The shrine and the Tadasu no Mori woods the narrator's Kyoto student life keeps circling back to.
Getting there: Demachiyanagi Stn (Keihan Oto Line) · 12 min walk
TV anime · 2024
The shrine up the valley north of Kyoto, of the god of water.
Getting there: Tahōtō Stn · 18 min walk
TV anime · 2014
The shrine the series is named for and set in — Inari lives at its foot and the gods she deals with live on the mountain above.
Getting there: Inari Stn · 13 min walk
Anime film · 2019
The film's Kyoto is a digital copy of the real one; the station's steel canyon opens it.
Getting there: Kyoto Stn · At the station
The vermilion bridge to the Uji sandbank, the location the film returns to more than any other.
Getting there: Uji Stn (JR Nara Line) · 9 min walk
TV anime · 2022
The shrine of Sugawara no Michizane, where Kyoto takes its children to pray before examinations.
Getting there: Omuro-Ninnaji Stn · 32 min walk
TV anime · 2013
TV anime · 1996
TV anime · 2013
The model for Usagiyama Shopping District. The arcade displays series artwork and the mochi shop of the opening is a real shop here.
Getting there: Demachiyanagi Stn (Keihan / Eizan Line) · 5 min walk
TV anime · 2013
A World Heritage temple in the hills at Toganoo, keeper of the Choju-jinbutsu-giga scrolls.
Getting there: Kyoto Stn + bus 55min · 5 min walk
TV anime · 2018
The head temple of a Rinzai school, known for its huge Sanmon gate and the brick aqueduct crossing its grounds.
Getting there: Keage Stn · 8 min walk
TV anime · 2019
The wedge of land where the Kamo and Takano rivers meet, crossed by stepping stones.
Getting there: Demachiyanagi Stn · 1 min walk
TV anime · 2007
TV anime · 2019
Anime film · 2003
The Gojo-dori bridge over the Kamo River; statues of Ushiwakamaru and Benkei stand at its end.
Getting there: Gojō Stn · 9 min walk
Anime film · 2019
One of Kyoto's oldest shrines, a World Heritage site known for its conical sand mounds.
Getting there: Kitayama Stn · 25 min walk
TV anime · 2021
Film · 2009
The shrine on the hill behind the university, where the story's demon-summoning clubs hold their rites.
Getting there: Mototanaka Stn · 20 min walk
TV anime · 2010
TV anime · 2012
An inland aquarium in Umekoji Park. Appears in episode 2.
Getting there: Kyoto Stn · 17 min walk
Anime film · 2014
A Keihan Main Line station.
Getting there: Fujinomori Stn · At the station
TV anime · 2013
The shrine at the east end of Shijo-dori, known for the Gion Festival.
Getting there: Kyoto Kawaramachi Stn · 13 min walk
TV anime · 2015
TV anime · 2015
The main gate of Kyoto Station, where the school trip arrives.
Getting there: Kyoto Stn · 1 min walk
TV anime · 2016
Anime film · 2017
The lantern-lit alley the film's drinking night runs down.
Getting there: Gion-shijo Stn · 2 min walk
TV anime · 2024
TV anime · 2002
Kyoto's landmark temple, known for the wooden stage of its main hall.
Getting there: Kiyomizu-gojo Stn · 24 min walk
TV anime · 2011
TV anime · 2016
TV anime · 2016
The matchmaking shrine in the grounds of Kiyomizu-dera.
Getting there: Gion-shijo Stn · 24 min walk
TV anime · 2017
Kyoto's landmark temple, known for the wooden stage of its main hall.
Getting there: Kiyomizu-gojo Stn · 24 min walk
TV anime · 2017
TV drama · 1994
The Ashikaga temple at the centre of the Onin War the drama covers; the city burned around it.
Getting there: Imadegawa Stn · 7 min walk
TV anime · 2010
The castle built in 1603 as the Tokugawa shoguns' Kyoto residence.
Getting there: Nijojo-mae Stn · 5 min walk
TV drama · 2012
The imperial temple of the retired emperors the drama's politics turn on. A World Heritage site.
Getting there: Omuro-Ninnaji Stn · 6 min walk
TV anime · 2013
At 55 metres, the tallest wooden pagoda in Japan.
Getting there: Jujo Stn · 14 min walk
TV anime · 2016
A head Rinzai temple at Arashiyama, its Sogenchi garden a World Heritage site.
Getting there: Torokko Arashiyama Stn · 4 min walk
TV anime · 2017
The head shrine of all Tenmangu shrines to Sugawara no Michizane, known for its plum trees and antiques market.
Getting there: Omuro-Ninnaji Stn · 32 min walk
Anime film · 2017
Anime film · 2018
The tower on the skyline of the film's Kyoto, seen from the station the two walk out of.
Getting there: Kyōto Stn · 3 min walk
TV anime · 2018
A temple above Togetsukyo bridge at Arashiyama.
Getting there: Arashiyama Stn · 7 min walk
TV anime · 2021
TV anime · 2022
The 131-metre tower in front of Kyoto Station.
Getting there: Kyōto Stn · 3 min walk
TV anime · 2023
TV drama · 2024
TV drama · 1981
The temple Nene founded for Hideyoshi after his death, and lived out her years in.
Getting there: Gion-shijo Stn · 14 min walk
TV anime · 2012
The palace that was the emperors' residence until the Meiji era, inside the Kyoto Gyoen grounds.
Getting there: Imadegawa Stn · 9 min walk
TV anime · 2012
Kyoto's landmark temple, known for the wooden stage of its main hall.
Getting there: Kiyomizu-gojo Stn · 24 min walk
Anime film · 2013
Kyoto's landmark temple, known for the wooden stage of its main hall.
Getting there: Kiyomizu-gojo Stn · 24 min walk
TV anime · 2013
The head shrine of all Inari shrines; the tunnel of torii climbs Mount Inari.
Getting there: Inari Stn · 1 min walk
TV anime · 2016
Kyoto's oldest Zen temple, founded in 1202 and known for Sotatsu's Wind and Thunder Gods screen.
Getting there: Gion-shijo Stn · 6 min walk
TV drama · 2022
Anime film · 2022
Kyoto's landmark temple, known for the wooden stage of its main hall.
Getting there: Kiyomizu-gojo Stn · 24 min walk
TV anime · 2025
An ice rink in Uji. Appears in episode 8.
Getting there: Uji Stn · 29 min walk
TV anime · 2025
TV drama · 1978
TV drama · 1983
Film · 2002
The Kyoto Zen complex used for the castle-town scenes of the film's samurai bureaucracy.
Getting there: Imadegawa Stn (Kyoto Subway Karasuma Line) · 7 min walk
TV anime · 2009
Film · 2012
TV anime · 2012
TV anime · 2013
TV anime · 2013
TV anime · 2013
Kyoto's landmark temple, known for the wooden stage of its main hall.
Getting there: Kiyomizu-gojo Stn · 24 min walk
TV drama · 2016
TV anime · 2018
TV anime · 2020
TV anime · 2021
The street through Gion the maiko walk to work; the series is set in an okiya on one of these lanes.
Getting there: Gion-shijo Stn · 1 min walk
TV drama · 2023
TV anime · 2024
TV anime · 2025
TV anime · 2026
TV anime · 1975
The temple famous for its gold-leaf pavilion, a World Heritage site.
Getting there: Kitano-Hakubaichō Stn · 22 min walk
TV anime · 1988
A Gion shop founded in 1781, famous for its mackerel sushi.
Getting there: Gion-shijo Stn · 5 min walk
TV drama · 1990
The Kyoto temple the Satsuma men move through in the drama's bakumatsu politics.
Getting there: Kiyomizu-Gojo Stn (Keihan Main Line) · 24 min walk
TV drama · 1991
TV drama · 1996
The temple of the 1582 coup that kills Nobunaga and hands Hideyoshi the succession. The present temple stands where it was moved to in 1592.
Getting there: Kyoto-shiyakusho-mae Stn (Kyoto Subway Tozai Line) · 2 min walk
TV anime · 1996
TV anime · 1999
TV anime · 1999
TV drama · 2000
TV anime · 2000
A theme park built around a working period-drama film set.
Getting there: Uzumasa-Koryuji Stn · 5 min walk
TV drama · 2001
The Kyoto food market the drama's cook buys from.
Getting there: Kyoto Kawaramachi Stn · 6 min walk
Anime film · 2001
Film · 2003
TV drama · 2003
The Kamo crossing where Benkei's duel with Ushiwakamaru is set — the scene the whole legend opens on.
Getting there: Kiyomizu-Gojo Stn (Keihan Main Line) · 1 min walk
TV drama · 2004
The temple the Shinsengumi moved its barracks into in 1865, over the objections of the priests; the drama's Kyoto years turn on the move.
Getting there: Kyoto Stn (JR Tokaido Main Line) · 15 min walk
Film · 2004
The singing-sand beach on the Tango coast used for the film's seaside scenes.
Getting there: Bus from Amino Stn · 10 min walk
Film · 2005
TV drama · 2005
TV anime · 2005
TV anime · 2005
The tunnel of torii beyond the Okumiya.
Getting there: Fushimi-Inari Stn · 6 min walk
TV anime · 2005
A grand shrine in Kyoto. It appears in episode 5.
Getting there: Inari Stn · 3 min walk
TV anime · 2006
TV anime · 2008
TV anime · 2008
TV anime · 2008
TV anime · 2009
TV anime · 2011
The 131-metre tower in front of Kyoto Station.
Getting there: Kyoto Stn · 4 min walk
TV anime · 2011
TV anime · 2012
TV anime · 2012
TV anime · 2012
TV anime · 2013
TV anime · 2014
The castle built in 1603 as the Tokugawa shoguns' Kyoto residence. Its Ninomaru Palace is a National Treasure and the site is World Heritage.
Getting there: Nijo Stn · 11 min walk
TV anime · 2014
TV anime · 2015
TV anime · 2015
TV anime · 2016
Anime film · 2017
A guesthouse in one of the boathouses lining Ine Bay.
Getting there: Amanohashidate Stn + bus 55min · 5 min walk
TV anime · 2017
TV anime · 2017
TV anime · 2018
TV anime · 2018
TV drama · 2018
TV anime · 2018
Anime film · 2018
TV anime · 2018
The annexe of the museum, in the 1906 former Bank of Japan Kyoto branch.
Getting there: Karasuma Stn · 10 min walk
TV anime · 2019
TV anime · 2019
TV anime · 2019
TV anime · 2020
Anime film · 2020
The prefectural museum of Kyoto's history and culture.
Getting there: Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae Stn · 10 min walk
Anime film · 2021
TV anime · 2021
TV anime · 2022
Film · 2025
TV anime · 2025
TV anime · 2025
TV anime · 2025
Anime film · 2025
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