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Kakegawa: anime and film locations you can walk between

I Couldn't Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job, Shigurui, Castle Defense and 6 places in all, from 4 titles, inside 0.7 km.

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

Titles · 4

I Couldn't Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job

TV anime · 2013

Kakegawa Station

A Tokaido Shinkansen station.

Getting there: Kakegawa Stn · 1 min walk

Kakegawa Castle Keep

The first castle keep in Japan to be rebuilt in wood, in 1994.

Getting there: Kakegawa Stn · 10 min walk

Suinoya

A shop in Kakegawa.

Getting there: Kakegawa Stn · 9 min walk

Shigurui

TV anime · 2007

Kakegawa Castle

The castle Yamauchi Kazutoyo rebuilt; the keep was reconstructed in wood in 1994.

Getting there: Kakegawa Stn · 11 min walk

Castle Defense

TV anime · 2017

Kakegawa Castle

Yamauchi Kazutoyo’s castle; the keep was rebuilt in wood in 1994.

Getting there: Kakegawa Stn · 10 min walk

Shoot! Goal to the Future

TV anime · 2022

Kakegawa Nishi High School

A prefectural high school in Kakegawa.

Getting there: Kakegawa Stn · 11 min walk

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