Screen Pilgrimage Real places behind anime and film, across Japan

Shin-Okubo and Nishi-Shinjuku: anime and film locations you can walk between

Tokyo Ghoul, The Devil Is a Part-Timer!, Sword Art Online and 27 places in all, from 19 titles, inside 1.6 km.

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

Titles · 19

Tokyo Ghoul

TV anime · 2014

Kuyakusho-dori Crossing, Shinjuku

A crossing on the street running through the east side of Kabukicho.

Getting there: Shinjuku-sanchome Stn · 8 min walk

The Devil Is a Part-Timer!

TV anime · 2013

Sword Art Online

TV anime · 2012

White Album 2

TV anime · 2013

Selector Spread Wixoss

TV anime · 2014

Patlabor

TV anime · 1989

Detective Conan

TV anime · 1996

Digimon Tamers

TV anime · 2001

Sgt. Frog

TV anime · 2004

Seibu-Shinjuku Station

The Seibu Line terminus standing apart, north of Kabukicho. In episode 302 Fuyuki walks through its ticket gates reading a book.

Getting there: Shinjuku-nishiguchi Stn · 5 min walk

5 Centimeters per Second

Anime film · 2007

Durarara!!

TV anime · 2010

Is This a Zombie?

TV anime · 2011

Chihayafuru

TV anime · 2011

Coppelion

TV anime · 2013

The Garden of Words

Anime film · 2013

Aldnoah.Zero

TV anime · 2014

Seraph of the End

TV anime · 2015

Kaguya-sama: Love Is War

TV anime · 2019

Weathering with You

Anime film · 2019

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