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Kawagoe: anime and film locations you can walk between

Tsuki ga Kirei, Kamisama Kiss, Miyakawa-ke no Kuufuku and 33 places in all, from 9 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 · 9

Tsuki ga Kirei

TV anime · 2017

Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine

Where Akane and Kotaro spend the summer festival. The series is set in Kawagoe and draws the shrine closely.

Getting there: Hon-Kawagoe Stn (Seibu Shinjuku Line) + 7 min by bus · 5 min walk

Kawagoeshi Station

The Tobu station on the route the two take between school and home.

Getting there: Kawagoeshi Stn (Tobu Tojo Line) · At the station

Taisho Roman Dream Street

The brick-fronted street drawn again and again through the series, a block off the warehouse quarter.

Getting there: Honkawagoe Stn (Seibu Shinjuku Line) · 11 min walk

Kamisama Kiss

TV anime · 2012

Kita-in Temple

A Kawagoe temple holding rooms moved from Edo Castle, and known for its five hundred rakan statues.

Getting there: Hon-Kawagoe Stn · 13 min walk

Miyakawa-ke no Kuufuku

TV anime · 2013

Akamagawa Park

A park along the Shingashi river in Kawagoe.

Getting there: Kawagoeshi Stn · 18 min walk

Fuuka

TV anime · 2017

Our Rainy Protocol

TV anime · 2023

Sword Art Online

TV anime · 2012

Free!

TV anime · 2013

Asteroid in Love

TV anime · 2020

Kawagoe Boys Sing

TV anime · 2023

Kawagoe High School

A prefectural high school in Kawagoe.

Getting there: Hon-Kawagoe Stn · 22 min walk

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