Screen Pilgrimage Real places behind anime and film, across Japan

Gion and Higashiyama: anime and film locations you can walk between

The Eccentric Family, Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister, Lucky Star and 130 places in all, from 61 titles, inside 2.7 km.

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

Titles · 61

The Eccentric Family

TV anime · 2013

Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister

TV anime · 2024

Lucky Star

TV anime · 2007

The Tatami Galaxy

TV anime · 2010

Detective Conan

TV anime · 1996

My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU

TV anime · 2013

Houkago Saikoro Club

TV anime · 2019

YuruYuri

TV anime · 2011

Assassination Classroom

TV anime · 2015

Handa-kun

TV anime · 2016

Jishu Shrine

The matchmaking shrine in the grounds of Kiyomizu-dera.

Getting there: Gion-shijo Stn · 24 min walk

Ojamajo Doremi Dokkan!

TV anime · 2002

Kiyomizu-dera Temple

Kyoto's landmark temple, known for the wooden stage of its main hall.

Getting there: Kiyomizu-gojo Stn · 24 min walk

K-On!

TV anime · 2009

Galilei Donna

TV anime · 2013

Yasaka Shrine

The shrine at the east end of Shijo-dori, known for the Gion Festival.

Getting there: Kyoto Kawaramachi Stn · 13 min walk

Holmes of Kyoto

TV anime · 2018

Kamogawa Horumo

Film · 2009

Kyousougiga

TV anime · 2013

Koimonogatari

TV anime · 2013

Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha

TV anime · 2014

Sound! Euphonium

TV anime · 2015

March Comes In Like a Lion

TV anime · 2016

Laid-Backers

Anime film · 2019

Horimiya

TV anime · 2021

Kiyo in Kyoto

TV anime · 2021

Hanamikoji Street

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

Inu-Oh

Anime film · 2022

Kiyomizu-dera Temple

Kyoto's landmark temple, known for the wooden stage of its main hall.

Getting there: Kiyomizu-gojo Stn · 24 min walk

Pseudo Harem

TV anime · 2024

Onna Taikoki

TV drama · 1981

Kodaiji Temple

The temple Nene founded for Hideyoshi after his death, and lived out her years in.

Getting there: Gion-shijo Stn · 14 min walk

Oishinbo

TV anime · 1988

Izuu

A Gion shop founded in 1781, famous for its mackerel sushi.

Getting there: Gion-shijo Stn · 5 min walk

Tobu ga Gotoku

TV drama · 1990

Kiyomizudera

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

Hana no Ran

TV drama · 1994

Hideyoshi

TV drama · 1996

Honnoji

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

Honmamon

TV drama · 2001

Nishiki Market

The Kyoto food market the drama's cook buys from.

Getting there: Kyoto Kawaramachi Stn · 6 min walk

Musashi Bushi

TV drama · 2003

Gojo Bridge

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

Detective Conan: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital

Anime film · 2003

Like a Dragon (Yakuza)

TV anime · 2005

Taira no Kiyomori

TV drama · 2012

The Ambition of Oda Nobuna

TV anime · 2012

Sword Art Online

TV anime · 2012

Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse

TV anime · 2012

Kiyomizu-dera

Kyoto's landmark temple, known for the wooden stage of its main hall.

Getting there: Kiyomizu-gojo Stn · 24 min walk

Persona 3 The Movie

Anime film · 2013

Kiyomizu-dera

Kyoto's landmark temple, known for the wooden stage of its main hall.

Getting there: Kiyomizu-gojo Stn · 24 min walk

Ro-Kyu-Bu! SS

TV anime · 2013

Kiyomizu-dera

Kyoto's landmark temple, known for the wooden stage of its main hall.

Getting there: Kiyomizu-gojo Stn · 24 min walk

Tamako Market

TV anime · 2013

The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls

TV anime · 2015

Tiger Mask W

TV anime · 2016

Kennin-ji Temple

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

Touken Ranbu

TV anime · 2016

Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga

TV anime · 2017

Kiyomizu-dera Temple

Kyoto's landmark temple, known for the wooden stage of its main hall.

Getting there: Kiyomizu-gojo Stn · 24 min walk

Katsugeki/Touken Ranbu

TV anime · 2017

Night Is Short, Walk On Girl

Anime film · 2017

Pontocho Alley

The lantern-lit alley the film's drinking night runs down.

Getting there: Gion-shijo Stn · 2 min walk

Tsuki ga Kirei

TV anime · 2017

Violet Evergarden

TV anime · 2018

The Museum of Kyoto

The annexe of the museum, in the 1906 former Bank of Japan Kyoto branch.

Getting there: Karasuma Stn · 10 min walk

The Quintessential Quintuplets

TV anime · 2019

Hello World

Anime film · 2019

Kaguya-sama: Love Is War

TV anime · 2019

Jujutsu Kaisen

TV anime · 2020

Violet Evergarden: The Movie

Anime film · 2020

The Museum of Kyoto

The prefectural museum of Kyoto's history and culture.

Getting there: Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae Stn · 10 min walk

Komi Can't Communicate

TV anime · 2021

Soukou Musume Senki

TV anime · 2021

Deaimon

TV anime · 2022

The Dangers in My Heart

TV anime · 2023

Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid

Anime film · 2025

Tougen Anki

TV anime · 2025

You and I Are Polar Opposites

TV anime · 2026

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