Dogo Onsen and Matsuyama Castle: anime and film locations you can walk between
Ganbatte Ikimasshoi, This Monster Wants to Eat Me, Abunai Deka and 10 places in all, from 4 titles, inside 2.5 km.
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Many of these are shrines, schools and people’s streets. Read the conduct note before you go.
Titles · 4
Anime film · 2025
The national university in Matsuyama.
Getting there: Dogo Onsen Stn · 22 min walk
A Matsuyama prefectural high school, successor to the school Soseki wrote about in Botchan.
Getting there: Dogo Onsen Stn · 17 min walk
A prefectural high school in Matsuyama.
Getting there: Komachi Stn · 20 min walk
TV anime · 2025
An annexe of Dogo Onsen opened in 2017 in the style of Asuka-period architecture.
Getting there: Dogo Onsen Stn · 3 min walk
The mechanical clock by Dogo Onsen Station, whose Botchan figures appear on the hour.
Getting there: Dogo Onsen Stn · 1 min walk
The terminus of the Iyotetsu city tram. Appears in episode 13.
Getting there: Dogo Onsen Stn · At the station
TV drama · 1986
The tram terminus by the bath house, used for the series' Matsuyama episode.
Getting there: Dogo Onsen Stop (Iyotetsu) · At the station
The hilltop keep used when the series left Yokohama for Shikoku.
Getting there: Shimizumachi Stn · 6 min walk
Anime film · 2001
One of the bath houses Miyazaki has named as a source for the film's Aburaya — a working public bath, and the oldest in Japan.
Getting there: Dogo Onsen Stn · 4 min walk
The wooden terminus of the tram line, at the top of the arcade to the bath house.
Getting there: Dogo Onsen Stn · At the station
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