Screen Pilgrimage Real places behind anime and film, across Japan

Demachiyanagi and Shokoku-ji: anime and film locations you can walk between

Deaimon, K-On!, The Tatami Galaxy and 16 places in all, from 8 titles, inside 2.9 km.

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Many of these are shrines, schools and people’s streets. Read the conduct note before you go.

Titles · 8

Deaimon

TV anime · 2022

K-On!

TV anime · 2009

The Tatami Galaxy

TV anime · 2010

Shimogamo Shrine

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

The Eccentric Family

TV anime · 2013

Shimogamo Shrine

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

Night Is Short, Walk On Girl

Anime film · 2017

A Sign of Affection

TV anime · 2024

Hana no Ran

TV drama · 1994

Shokokuji Temple

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

The Twilight Samurai

Film · 2002

Shokokuji

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

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