Anime pilgrimage and film locations in Yamagata

Only Yesterday

Takase, Yamagata

The safflower-growing district Taeko travels to. The fields around the station are the ones the film picks out.

Getting there: Takase Stn (JR Senzan Line) · 5 min walk

• Yamagata Station
• Yamadera Station
• Mamigasaki Bridge

Girlish Number

Kozankaku

A Ginzan hot-spring inn known for the plaster reliefs on its walls.

Getting there: Oishida Stn + bus 40min · 3 min walk

• Izu no Hana
• Onyado Yanadaya
• Ginzan Onsen

Onimai: I'm Now Your Sister!

• Shirogane Falls
• Izu no Hana
• Nogawa Tofuya
• Takimikan

Love Hina

Izu no Hana

A restaurant at Ginzan hot springs.

Getting there: Oishida Stn + bus 40min · 3 min walk

• Ginzan Onsen
• Takimikan

Departures

Sankyo Rice Warehouses

The zelkova-lined warehouses of Sakata, the film's home town and its most photographed corner.

Getting there: Sakata Stn · 23 min walk

• Amarume Station
• Mt. Chokai

KanColle

• Omonoimi Shrine, Fukura
• Dewa Shrine
• Gassan Shrine

Oshin

Ginzan Onsen

The gas-lit wooden inns along the river that stood in for the drama's Taisho-era town — and the reason coaches still come.

Getting there: Oishida Stn + 40 min by bus · 3 min walk

Mogami River

The river the seven-year-old Oshin is floated down on a raft to be sent into service — the drama's most-remembered image.

Getting there: Aterazawa Stn (JR Aterazawa Line) · 9 min walk

Sengoku Basara

• Yonezawa Castle
• Tosen-in Temple

Level E

Risshaku-ji Temple

The temple known as Yamadera, reached by 1,015 stone steps to its inner sanctuary.

Getting there: Yamadera Stn · 7 min walk

• Yamagata Station

Gakuen Handsome

Lina World

An amusement park in Yamagata.

Getting there: Kaminoyama-Onsen Stn + 10min by car · 3 min walk

• Tohoku University of Art and Design

Look Back

Tohoku University of Art and Design

The art school in Yamagata that the story's later chapters turn on. The grounds are open; the studios are not.

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

• Forum Yamagata

Spirited Away

• Ginzan Onsen

Swing Girls

Takahata High School

The Yamagata school the big band is formed at; the film's corridors and music room are its own. A working school — from the road.

Getting there: Takahata Stn (Yamagata Railway Flower Nagai Line) · 7 min walk

Tenchijin

• Yonezawa Castle Ruins

White Album

Tendo Station

A station in Yamagata. It appears in episode 20.

Getting there: Tendo Stn · At the station

Tono to Issho

Yonezawa Castle

The Uesugi castle site; the shrine inside the moat enshrines Kenshin.

Getting there: Minami-Yonezawa Stn · 24 min walk

White Album 2

• Tendo Station

March Comes In Like a Lion

• Tendo Station

Castle Defense

• Yamagata Castle

Demon Slayer

• Ginzan Onsen

Jujutsu Kaisen

• Kamo Aquarium

My Oni Girl

Yamadera Hie Shrine

A shrine in Yamagata.

Getting there: Yamadera Stn · 6 min walk

Nippon Sangoku

• Ginzan Onsen