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Horikiri: anime and film locations you can walk between

SSSS.Dynazenon, Tokyo Story, 3-nen B-gumi Kinpachi-sensei and 6 places in all, from 5 titles, inside 1.3 km.

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

Titles · 5

SSSS.Dynazenon

TV anime · 2021

Horikiri Bridge

A bridge over the Arakawa.

Getting there: Horikiri Stn · 5 min walk

Horikiri Station

A Tobu Skytree Line station beside the Arakawa embankment.

Getting there: Horikiri Station · At the station

Tokyo Story

Film · 1953

Horikiri Station

The Arakawa embankment station of the film's Tokyo, small and unchanged since 1953.

Getting there: Horikiri Stn (Tobu Isesaki Line) · At the station

3-nen B-gumi Kinpachi-sensei

TV drama · 1979

Horikiri Station

The wooden platform by the Arakawa embankment where the teacher of the series talks his pupils round — for forty years.

Getting there: Horikiri Stn · At the station

Non Non Biyori

TV anime · 2013

Takahashi Sweet Shop

The old sweet shop named as the model for the one in the story.

Getting there: Kosuge Stn · 10 min walk

SSSS.Gridman

TV anime · 2018

Horikiri Station

A Tobu Skytree Line station beside the Arakawa embankment.

Getting there: Horikiri Station · At the station

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