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Matsumoto: anime and film locations you can walk between

Orange, Hakusen Nagashi, Please Teacher! and 16 places in all, from 10 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 · 10

Orange

TV anime · 2016

Miharu Bridge

A bridge in Matsumoto.

Getting there: Matsumoto Stn + bus 10min · 5 min walk

Hakusen Nagashi

TV drama · 1996

Matsumoto Station

The station the seven friends meet and part at across the series and its specials; Matsumoto is the whole drama's ground.

Getting there: Matsumoto Stn (JR Shinonoi Line) · At the station

Please Teacher!

TV anime · 2002

Agatanomori Culture Center

The old high school building Kizaki High is drawn from, timber halls kept as they were.

Getting there: Matsumoto Stn · 25 min walk

Brynhildr in the Darkness

TV anime · 2014

Matsumoto Castle Park

The park around the National Treasure keep of Matsumoto Castle.

Getting there: Kita-Matsumoto Stn · 13 min walk

Please Twins!

TV anime · 2003

Kamisama no Karute

Film · 2011

Matsumoto Castle

The black keep the film's Matsumoto is built around — a National Treasure, and the town's fixed point.

Getting there: Kita-Matsumoto Stn · 12 min walk

Ohisama

TV drama · 2011

Matsumoto Station

The way into the Azumino country the drama is set in, under the Northern Alps.

Getting there: Matsumoto Stn · At the station

Castle Defense

TV anime · 2017

Kaiju No. 8

TV anime · 2024

MONO

TV anime · 2025

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