Screen Pilgrimage Real places behind anime and film, across Japan

Kobe: Kitano and Nankinmachi: anime and film locations you can walk between

Grave of the Fireflies, Fate/Zero, Fate/stay night and 19 places in all, from 12 titles, inside 2.8 km.

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

Titles · 12

Grave of the Fireflies

Anime film · 1988

Sannomiya Station

The station where Seita dies; the film opens on the present-day Sannomiya and then slips back into the wartime concourse.

Getting there: Sannomiya Stn · At the station

Fate/Zero

TV anime · 2011

Fate/stay night

TV anime · 2006

Weathercock House

The place shown in the story.

Getting there: Shin-Kobe Stn · 13 min walk

Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!

TV anime · 2020

Suzume

Anime film · 2022

Mito Komon

TV drama · 1969

Minatogawa Shrine

Built over Kusunoki Masashige's grave — the stone Mitsukuni himself raised, which is where the series' hero starts.

Getting there: Kōsoku Kōbe Stn · 3 min walk

Imotako Nankin

TV drama · 2006

Ryomaden

TV drama · 2010

Beppin-san

TV drama · 2016

Sorakuen Garden

The Kobe garden and its Meiji western house used for the well-to-do family scenes the story opens on.

Getting there: Kencho-mae Stn (Kobe Subway Seishin-Yamate Line) · 4 min walk

Dive!!

TV anime · 2017

Nankinmachi

The place shown in the story.

Getting there: Motomachi Stn · 3 min walk

Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel

Anime film · 2017

Uruwashi no Yoi no Tsuki

TV anime · 2025

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