Nijo Castle: anime and film locations you can walk between
Hello World, Ogon no Hibi, Tokugawa Ieyasu and 11 places in all, from 10 titles, inside 1.2 km.
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Many of these are shrines, schools and people’s streets. Read the conduct note before you go.
Titles · 10
Anime film · 2019
The model for the film's Nishiki High School; its gate features in the scene where the books are hauled in by handcart.
Getting there: Omiya Stn · 7 min walk
The bus stop shown in the film.
Getting there: Shijō Stn · 13 min walk
TV drama · 1978
The marker for the Jesuit church of 1576, the Kyoto the drama's Christian merchants move through.
Getting there: Karasuma Stn (Hankyu Kyoto Line) · 6 min walk
TV drama · 1983
The Kyoto castle Ieyasu built as the shogunate's seat in the capital; the Ninomaru rooms are the originals.
Getting there: Nijojo-mae Stn (Kyoto Subway Tozai Line) · 5 min walk
Anime film · 2001
Its painted ceilings were among the references used for the interior of the bathhouse Aburaya.
Getting there: Jingu-marutamachi Stn · 36 min walk
TV anime · 2010
The castle shown in the story.
Getting there: Nijojo-mae Stn · 5 min walk
TV anime · 2012
The monument shown in the story.
Getting there: Karasuma Stn · 6 min walk
TV drama · 2016
The Kyoto castle the Tokugawa rule from while the drama's Sanada hold out at Osaka.
Getting there: Nijojo-mae Stn (Kyoto Subway Tozai Line) · 5 min walk
TV anime · 2021
The castle shown in the story.
Getting there: Nijo Stn · 11 min walk
TV anime · 2022
The school shown in the story.
Getting there: Karasuma Stn · 12 min walk
TV drama · 2023
Ieyasu's Kyoto seat, built when he took the shogunate — and where it was handed back 264 years later.
Getting there: Nijojo-mae Stn · 5 min walk
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