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Otaru: anime and film locations you can walk between

Saikano, Tokimeki Memorial Only Love, Golden Kamuy and 9 places in all, from 5 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 · 5

Saikano

TV anime · 2002

Asahi Observatory

A lookout over Otaru harbour.

Getting there: Otaru Stn · 12 min walk

Otaru Station

A Hakodate Line station with its 1934 building intact.

Getting there: Otaru Stn · At the station

Otaru Miyakodori Arcade

The covered arcade running inland from Otaru station.

Getting there: Otaru Stn · 3 min walk

Tokimeki Memorial Only Love

TV anime · 2006

Otaru Station

The Hakodate Main Line station of 1934, its hall hung with lamps.

Getting there: Otaru Stn · At the station

Sakaimachi Street

The Otaru street lined with stone warehouses.

Getting there: Minami-Otaru Stn · 12 min walk

Golden Kamuy

TV anime · 2018

Otaru Canal

The canal and the stone warehouses behind it, where the story begins and the Hijikata group goes to ground.

Getting there: Otaru Stn (JR Hakodate Line) · 10 min walk

Otaru City General Museum

The railway museum at Otaru, with the locomotives of the era.

Getting there: Otaru Stn · 26 min walk

Nogizaka Haruka's Secret

TV anime · 2008

Otaru Station

A 1934 station building; a lamp-lit stair runs down towards the harbour.

Getting there: Otaru Stn · At the station

Sagrada Reset

TV anime · 2017

Otaru Miyakodori Shopping Street

A covered shopping arcade in Otaru.

Getting there: Otaru Stn · 5 min walk

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