Screen Pilgrimage Real places behind anime and film, across Japan

TV anime · 2012

Hyouka — real-life locations

Hie Shrine, Takayama, Kajibashi, Miyagawa riverside and more — 20 places you can visit, in Gifu, Niigata. 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 · 20

Hie Shrine, Takayama

Gifu Start here

The model for Arakusu Shrine, where the New Year episode is set.

Getting there
Takayama Stn (JR Takayama Line) · 20 min walk
Before you go
  • Worshippers come first
  • Extremely crowded over New Year
  • Keep your voice down
Sources
ZYAO22(岐阜新聞) — 氷菓 飛騨高山の聖地 · アニメ旅 — 氷菓

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Kajibashi

Gifu Start here

The stone bridge over the Miyagawa in the opening titles and the walks between them.

Getting there
Takayama Stn (JR Takayama Main Line) · 10 min walk
Before you go
  • Watch for traffic — do not step into the road
  • Very crowded — expect queues
  • Do not block the path or road
Sources
飛騨高山旅ガイド(公式) — アニメ「氷菓」聖地巡りモデルコース

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Miyagawa riverside

Gifu Start here

The river bank below the old town, where the morning market runs along the water the series keeps returning to.

Getting there
Takayama Stn (JR Takayama Main Line) · 12 min walk
Before you go
  • Buy something if you photograph a shop
  • Very crowded — expect queues
  • Keep your voice down
Sources
飛騨高山旅ガイド(公式) — アニメ「氷菓」聖地巡りモデルコース

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Takayama City Library (Kanshokan)

Gifu

The library Oreki and Chitanda use — a reconstruction of a Meiji-era Western-style school building.

Getting there
Takayama Stn (JR Takayama Line) · 12 min walk
Before you go
  • Keep quiet indoors
  • No tripods or selfie sticks
  • Follow staff instructions
Sources
高山市図書館

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Kami-Sannomachi (Old Town)

Gifu

The preserved merchant street of Takayama the club walks through; the town is drawn shopfront by shopfront.

Getting there
Takayama Stn (JR Takayama Main Line) · 12 min walk
Before you go
  • Buy something if you photograph a shop
  • Very crowded — expect queues
  • Narrow passage — do not stop to shoot
  • Residential area — people live here
Sources
高山市

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Takayama Station

Gifu

The station the series' Kamiyama town is entered through; almost every location is a walk from here.

Getting there
Takayama Stn (JR Takayama Main Line) · At the station
Before you go
  • Never step onto the tracks
  • Very crowded — expect queues
Sources
飛騨高山旅ガイド(公式) — アニメ「氷菓」聖地巡りモデルコース

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Takayama Jinya

Gifu

The surviving Edo-period government house in the old town the series moves through.

Getting there
Takayama Stn (JR Takayama Main Line) · 10 min walk
Before you go
  • Admission fee required
  • No photography indoors
  • Very crowded — expect queues
Sources
飛騨高山旅ガイド(公式) — アニメ「氷菓」聖地巡りモデルコース

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Hida Ichinomiya Minashi Shrine

Gifu

The shrine south of the town whose spring festival the series draws its living-doll procession from.

Getting there
Hida-Ichinomiya Stn (JR Takayama Main Line) · 8 min walk
Before you go
  • Worshippers come first
  • Keep your voice down
  • Extremely crowded over New Year
Sources
飛騨一宮水無神社 · 飛騨高山旅ガイド(公式) — アニメ「氷菓」聖地巡りモデルコース

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Gifu Prefectural Hida High School

Gifu

The Takayama high school that was the model for Kamiyama High, the school where the Classics Club story takes place.

Getting there
Takayama Stn · 29 min walk
Before you go
  • Working school — the grounds are off limits
  • Do not enter private property
  • Keep your voice down
Sources
岐阜県立斐太高等学校

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Garyu Park

Gifu

The park around the 1,100-year-old Garyu cherry tree, drawn in the final episode's Living Doll Festival scenes.

Getting there
Hida-Ichinomiya Stn (JR Takayama Line) · 2 min walk
Before you go
  • Keep your voice down
  • Do not block the path or road
  • Unstaffed station — buy tickets in advance
Sources
飛騨高山旅ガイド(公式) — 最終話の生きびな祭・臥龍桜

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Fudo Bridge

Gifu

The small wooden footbridge where Satoshi finally opens up to Hotaro in episode 21's handmade-chocolate affair.

Getting there
Takayama Stn (JR Takayama Line) · 16 min walk
Before you go
  • Keep your voice down
  • Residential area — people live here
  • Narrow passage — do not stop to shoot
Sources
飛騨高山旅ガイド(公式) — 21話で里志が想いを明かす木造橋

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Suwa Shrine

Niigata

A shrine in Tokamachi. Appears in episode 5.

Getting there
Tokamachi Stn · 14 min walk
Before you go
  • Worshippers come first
  • Keep your voice down
  • Residential area — people live here
Sources
Anime Pilgrimage — 氷菓 「諏訪神社」 EP5

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Alps Kaido Hirayu

Gifu

The bus terminal at Hirayu hot spring, the gateway to the northern Alps from Takayama.

Getting there
Takayama Bus Centre + bus 60min · 2 min walk
Before you go
  • Admission fee required
  • No photography indoors
  • Keep quiet indoors
Sources
Anime Pilgrimage — 氷菓 「アルプス街道平湯」 EP7 · Anime Pilgrimage『氷菓』聖地巡礼マップ — アルプス街道平湯

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Honmachi Street

Gifu

The old main street of Takayama, in the town the story is set in.

Getting there
Takayama Stn · 10 min walk
Before you go
  • Buy something if you photograph a shop
  • Very crowded — expect queues
  • Do not photograph residents or students
Sources
旅する亜人ちゃん — 氷菓 「本町通り」

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Tronchi

Gifu

A clothes shop in Gifu.

Getting there
Gifu Stn + bus 20min · 5 min walk
Before you go
  • Buy something if you photograph a shop
  • No photography indoors

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Hirayu Folk Museum

Gifu

The folk museum and bath at Hirayu.

Getting there
Takayama Stn + bus 60min · 3 min walk
Before you go
  • Admission fee required
  • No photography indoors
  • Keep quiet indoors

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Yumotokan

Gifu

A hot-spring inn in the Oku-Hida mountains.

Getting there
Takayama Stn + bus 60min · 5 min walk
Before you go
  • Paying guests have priority
  • Keep quiet indoors
  • No photography indoors

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Ipponsugi Hakusan Shrine

Gifu

A shrine at Hakkenmachi in Takayama.

Getting there
Takayama Stn · 7 min walk
Before you go
  • Worshippers come first
  • Keep your voice down
  • Residential area — people live here
Sources
アニメ旅 — 氷菓

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Hida High School

Gifu

A high school in Gifu.

Getting there
Takayama Stn · 31 min walk
Before you go
  • Working school — the grounds are off limits
  • Do not enter private property
  • Residential area — people live here
Sources
旅する亜人ちゃん — 氷菓 「県立斐太高等学校」

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Garyu Cherry Tree

Gifu

A cherry tree in Gifu.

Getting there
Hida-Ichinomiya Stn · 12 min walk
Before you go
  • Keep your voice down
  • Residential area — people live here
Sources
旅する亜人ちゃん — 氷菓 「臥龍桜」

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