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To-ji and Umekoji: anime and film locations you can walk between

Detective Conan, Shinsengumi!, Always: Sunset on Third Street and 11 places in all, from 11 titles, inside 1.4 km.

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

Titles · 11

Detective Conan

TV anime · 1996

Umekoji Park

The park where Heiji fights the culprit.

Getting there: Kyoto Stn · 21 min walk

Shinsengumi!

TV drama · 2004

Nishi Honganji

The temple the Shinsengumi moved its barracks into in 1865, over the objections of the priests; the drama's Kyoto years turn on the move.

Getting there: Kyoto Stn (JR Tokaido Main Line) · 15 min walk

Always: Sunset on Third Street

Film · 2005

Umekoji roundhouse

The preserved roundhouse and steam locomotives used for the film's 1958 railway scenes; now part of the Kyoto Railway Museum.

Getting there: Umekoji-Kyotonishi Stn (JR Sanin Main Line) · 4 min walk

Hakuoki

TV anime · 2010

Nishi Hongan-ji

The temple shown in the story.

Getting there: Chinchin train Stn · 11 min walk

Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions

TV anime · 2012

Kyoto Aquarium

The aquarium shown in episode 2.

Getting there: Kyoto Stn · 17 min walk

Shinkalion

TV anime · 2018

Kyoto Railway Museum

The Kyoto branch of the series' base network, in the roundhouse and hall beside Umekoji.

Getting there: Umekoji-Kyotonishi Stn (JR Sanin Main Line) · 4 min walk

Hello World

Anime film · 2019

To-ji Temple

The morning-after scene once Naomi has spent the night restoring the burnt book-fair stock; the shot is framed at To-ji's south gate.

Getting there: Toji Stn · 7 min walk

Tonikawa

TV anime · 2020

Kyoto Station

The station shown in the story.

Getting there: Kyoto Stn · 1 min walk

Deaimon

TV anime · 2022

Kyoto Aquarium

The aquarium shown in episode 9.

Getting there: Kyoto Stn · 17 min walk

My Stepmom's Daughter Is My Ex

TV anime · 2022

Kyoto Aquarium

The aquarium shown in the story.

Getting there: Kyoto Stn · 17 min walk

Kokuho

Film · 2025

Toji

The Kyoto temple whose five-storey pagoda frames the film's kabuki world; the grounds carry its Kyoto scenes.

Getting there: Toji Stn (Kintetsu Kyoto Line) · 7 min walk

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