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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

Ganbatte Ikimasshoi

Anime film · 2025

Ehime University

The national university in Matsuyama.

Getting there: Dogo Onsen Stn · 22 min walk

Matsuyama Higashi High School

A Matsuyama prefectural high school, successor to the school Soseki wrote about in Botchan.

Getting there: Dogo Onsen Stn · 17 min walk

Matsuyama Kita High School

A prefectural high school in Matsuyama.

Getting there: Komachi Stn · 20 min walk

This Monster Wants to Eat Me

TV anime · 2025

Asuka-no-yu

An annexe of Dogo Onsen opened in 2017 in the style of Asuka-period architecture.

Getting there: Dogo Onsen Stn · 3 min walk

Botchan Karakuri Clock

The mechanical clock by Dogo Onsen Station, whose Botchan figures appear on the hour.

Getting there: Dogo Onsen Stn · 1 min walk

Dogo-Onsen Station

The terminus of the Iyotetsu city tram. Appears in episode 13.

Getting there: Dogo Onsen Stn · At the station

Abunai Deka

TV drama · 1986

Dogo Onsen Station

The tram terminus by the bath house, used for the series' Matsuyama episode.

Getting there: Dogo Onsen Stop (Iyotetsu) · At the station

Matsuyama Castle

The hilltop keep used when the series left Yokohama for Shikoku.

Getting there: Shimizumachi Stn · 6 min walk

Spirited Away

Anime film · 2001

Dogo Onsen Honkan

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

Dogo Onsen Station

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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