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Lake Kizaki: anime and film locations you can walk between

Please Teacher!, Please Twins!, Hakusen Nagashi and 8 places in all, from 4 titles, inside 2.0 km.

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

Titles · 4

Please Teacher!

TV anime · 2002

Lake Kizaki

The lake the series is set on — one of the first anime pilgrimages, and the local trains still run beside it.

Getting there: Inao Stn · 9 min walk

Lake Kizaki Campground

The lakeside campground whose wooden pier appears with teacher Mizuho in the opening of Please Teacher! and in many later scenes.

Getting there: Inao Stn · 14 min walk

Uminokuchi Station

The unstaffed halt by Lake Kizaki that the series' station is drawn from, one of the earliest pilgrimage sites in Japan.

Getting there: Uminokuchi Stn (JR Oito Line) · At the station

Please Twins!

TV anime · 2003

Lake Kizaki Campsite

A campground on the shore of Lake Kizaki.

Getting there: Inao Stn · 14 min walk

Lake Kizakiko

The southernmost of the three Nishina lakes.

Getting there: Inao Stn · 9 min walk

Uminokuchi Station

An Oito Line station on the shore of Lake Kizaki.

Getting there: Uminokuchi Stn · At the station

Hakusen Nagashi

TV drama · 1996

Lake Kizaki

The Omachi lake the series' summer scenes are set on, at the foot of the Northern Alps.

Getting there: Inao Stn (JR Oito Line) · 9 min walk

Waiting in the Summer

TV anime · 2012

Uminokuchi Station

A single-platform stop on the Koumi line the characters ride.

Getting there: Uminokuchi Stn · At the station

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