Anime film · 2020
A Whisker Away — real-life locations
Pottery Footpath, Tokoname, INAX Live Museum and more — 12 places you can visit, in Aichi. 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 · 12
Aichi
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The kiln-town lanes of climbing chimneys and pot-lined walls the film is set in; Miyo runs these slopes as a cat.
- Getting there
- Tokoname Stn (Meitetsu Tokoname Line) · 5 min walk
- Before you go
- Residential area — people live here
- Narrow passage — do not stop to shoot
- Do not photograph residents or students
- Sources
- やきもの散歩道
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The kiln museum that keeps the pipe-and-pottery trade on show — the chimney side of the town Miyo runs through.
- Getting there
- Tokoname Stn (Meitetsu Tokoname Line) · 23 min walk
- Before you go
- Admission fee required
- Keep quiet indoors
- No photography indoors
- Sources
- やきもの散歩道の記事 — 本作の舞台と明記され、INAXライブミュージアムは散歩道Bコースの施設
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The old-kiln plaza drawn as the setting of the film's opening scene between Miyo and Hinode, and of Taro's meeting with the cat shopkeeper.
- Getting there
- Tokoname Stn (Meitetsu Tokoname Line) · 12 min walk
- Before you go
- Keep your voice down
- Do not photograph residents or students
- Do not block the path or road
- Sources
- 登窯広場・展示工房館
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The station where Hinode searches for Muge; it is also the starting point for the pottery walking path.
- Getting there
- Tokoname Stn · At the station
- Before you go
- Never step onto the tracks
- Keep your voice down
- Do not block the path or road
- Sources
- note 泣き猫_聖地巡礼 — 日之出がムゲを探すシーン
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The slope walled with old clay pipes where the Mask Seller talks with Muge.
- Getting there
- Tokoname Stn · 8 min walk
- Before you go
- Narrow passage — do not stop to shoot
- Keep your voice down
- Do not block the path or road
- Sources
- note 泣き猫_聖地巡礼 — お面屋とムゲが話す場面
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The shrine whose approach path opens the film.
- Getting there
- Tokoname Stn · 11 min walk
- Before you go
- Worshippers come first
- Keep your voice down
- Residential area — people live here
- Sources
- note 泣き猫_聖地巡礼 — 映画冒頭の参道
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A bridge on Tokoname's pottery footpath.
- Getting there
- Tokoname Stn · 8 min walk
- Before you go
- Watch for traffic — do not step into the road
- Do not block the path or road
- Keep your voice down
- Sources
- Anime Pilgrimage — 泣きたい私は猫をかぶる 「一木橋」 —
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A park in Tokoname.
- Getting there
- Tokoname Stn · 21 min walk
- Before you go
- Keep your voice down
- Residential area — people live here
- Do not photograph residents or students
- Sources
- Anime Pilgrimage — 泣きたい私は猫をかぶる 「北条公園」 — · Anime Pilgrimage『泣きたい私は猫をかぶる』聖地巡礼マップ — 北条公園
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An Edo-period shipping merchant's house preserved in Tokoname.
- Getting there
- Tokoname Stn · 7 min walk
- Before you go
- Keep your voice down
- Residential area — people live here
- Sources
- Anime Pilgrimage『泣きたい私は猫をかぶる』聖地巡礼マップ — 廻船問屋 瀧田家
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A coffee house on Tokoname's pottery footpath.
- Getting there
- Tokoname Stn · 7 min walk
- Before you go
- Buy something if you photograph a shop
- Keep quiet indoors
- No photography indoors
- Sources
- Anime Pilgrimage『泣きたい私は猫をかぶる』聖地巡礼マップ — 茶房 たんぽぽ
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The yard in front of a Tokoname pottery kiln.
- Getting there
- Tokoname Stn · 10 min walk
- Before you go
- Very crowded — expect queues
- Do not block the path or road
- Do not photograph residents or students
- Sources
- Anime Pilgrimage『泣きたい私は猫をかぶる』聖地巡礼マップ — 石水窯前の広場
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A small plaza on the Tokoname pottery walk, named for the moon-shaped seat in it.
- Getting there
- Tokoname Stn · 15 min walk
- Before you go
- Keep your voice down
- Residential area — people live here
- Do not photograph residents or students
- Sources
- Anime Pilgrimage — 泣きたい私は猫をかぶる
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