TV drama · 2023
What Will You Do, Ieyasu? — filming locations
10 places you can visit, in Aichi, Shizuoka, Kyoto. Every entry gives the nearest station, how long the walk is, and what to mind when you get there.
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Many of these are shrines, schools and people’s streets. Read the conduct note before you go.
Locations · 10
Aichi
Start here
Where Ieyasu was born, and where the drama begins.
- Getting there
- Okazakikōen-mae Stn · 9 min walk
- Before you go
- Admission fee required
- Very crowded — expect queues
- Keep your voice down
- Sources
- 岡崎城 · どうする家康
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Shizuoka
The castle Ieyasu held through his hardest years, including the rout at Mikatagahara.
- Getting there
- Enshubyoin Stn · 13 min walk
- Before you go
- Admission fee required
- Keep your voice down
- A real trail — wear shoes you can climb in
- Sources
- どうする家康
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Aichi
The siege and the battle that broke the Takeda cavalry, with the ruins and the museum on the site.
- Getting there
- Nagashinojo Stn · At the station
- Before you go
- Keep your voice down
- Remote — a car or long bus ride is needed
- Unstaffed station — buy tickets in advance
- Sources
- どうする家康
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The Matsudaira family temple where the young Ieyasu was talked out of killing himself. The sight line from its gate to the castle is protected by city ordinance.
- Getting there
- Daimon Stn · 16 min walk
- Before you go
- Worshippers come first
- Keep your voice down
- Residential area — people live here
- Sources
- 大樹寺 · どうする家康
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Kyoto
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
- Before you go
- Admission fee required
- Very crowded — expect queues
- No photography indoors
- Sources
- どうする家康
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Aichi
One of the twelve original keeps, above the Kiso river the drama's campaigns cross.
- Getting there
- Inuyama-Yūen Stn · 12 min walk
- Before you go
- Admission fee required
- Narrow passage — do not stop to shoot
- Very crowded — expect queues
- Sources
- 犬山城
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Tochigi
Nikko, where Ieyasu was enshrined as a god after his death — the endpoint of the drama's story.
- Getting there
- Tobu-Nikko Stn + 10 min by bus · 5 min walk
- Before you go
- Admission fee required
- Worshippers come first
- Very crowded — expect queues
- Sources
- 輪王寺
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The 1560 field where Imagawa Yoshimoto fell and the drama's Ieyasu is set loose.
- Getting there
- Chukyo-keibajo-mae Stn (Meitetsu) · 18 min walk
- Before you go
- Keep your voice down
- Residential area — people live here
- Sources
- 桶狭間の戦い · どうする家康
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Kyoto
Hideyoshi's last castle, and the one Ieyasu holds through the year before Sekigahara.
- Getting there
- Momoyama Stn (JR Nara Line) · 13 min walk
- Before you go
- Keep your voice down
- Do not enter private property
- Sources
- どうする家康
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The moated Mikawa temple at the centre of the 1563 Ikko revolt that nearly breaks the young Ieyasu.
- Getting there
- Minami-Sakurai Stn (Meitetsu Nishio Line) · 16 min walk
- Before you go
- Worshippers come first
- Keep your voice down
- Residential area — people live here
- Sources
- どうする家康
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