Tokorozawa: anime and film locations you can walk between
My Neighbor Totoro, Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, Sword Art Online and 10 places in all, from 8 titles, inside 2.7 km.
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Many of these are shrines, schools and people’s streets. Read the conduct note before you go.
Titles · 8
Anime film · 1988
A Tokorozawa shrine, near the woods the film draws its hills from.
Getting there: Koku-koen Stn · 5 min walk
The park on Japan's first airfield, in the town the film was made in.
Getting there: Koku-koen Stn · 8 min walk
Tokorozawa is where Miyazaki lived while making the film, and the woods it draws are a bus ride from here.
Getting there: Tokorozawa Stn · At the station
TV anime · 2011
The junction on the Seibu line the characters change at between Chichibu and Tokyo.
Getting there: Tokorozawa Stn (Seibu Ikebukuro Line) · At the station
TV anime · 2012
Named as the model for the hospital Kirito and Asuna lie in.
Getting there: Koku-koen Stn · 9 min walk
TV anime · 2012
Tokorozawa's civic gymnasium. Appears in episode 5.
Getting there: Shin-Tokorozawa Stn · 12 min walk
TV anime · 2013
The Seibu junction north of the city.
Getting there: Tokorozawa Stn · 6 min walk
TV anime · 2014
A Seibu Shinjuku Line station.
Getting there: Shin-Tokorozawa Stn · At the station
TV anime · 2024
Tokorozawa's civic gymnasium. Appears in episode 4.
Getting there: Shin-Tokorozawa Stn · 12 min walk
TV anime · 2025
A park on the site of Japan's first airfield.
Getting there: Koku-koen Stn · 13 min walk
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