Anime film · 1991
Only Yesterday — real-life locations
Takase, Yamagata, Hiroo Elementary School, Shibuya and more — 11 places you can visit, in Yamagata, Tokyo, Miyagi. 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 · 11
Yamagata
Start here
The safflower-growing district Taeko travels to. The fields around the station are the ones the film picks out.
- Getting there
- Takase Stn (JR Senzan Line) · 5 min walk
- Before you go
- Residential area — people live here
- Unstaffed station — buy tickets in advance
- Do not enter private property
- Sources
- おもひでぽろぽろ
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The 1932 schoolhouse with its lookout tower, known as the model for the elementary school that 10-year-old Taeko attends in the flashbacks.
- Getting there
- Ebisu Stn · 10 min walk
- Before you go
- Working school — the grounds are off limits
- Do not enter private property
- Keep your voice down
- Sources
- 渋谷区立広尾小学校
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Tokyo
The grand Tokyo terminal where the heroine Taeko departs for rural Yamagata in the film; its old-style ticket gates have since been modernized.
- Getting there
- Ueno Stn · At the station
- Before you go
- Never step onto the tracks
- Very crowded — expect queues
- Sources
- 旅する亜人ちゃん — タエ子が利用した駅
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Yamagata
The station where farmer Toshio comes to pick up Taeko in the film; the station building has been rebuilt since the movie's era.
- Getting there
- Yamagata Stn · At the station
- Before you go
- Never step onto the tracks
- Do not block the path or road
- Sources
- 旅する亜人ちゃん — トシオがタエ子を迎えに来た駅
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Yamagata
A temple-styled station on the Senzan Line where Taeko changes trains in the film, at the gateway to the famous Yamadera mountain temple.
- Getting there
- Yamadera Stn · At the station
- Before you go
- Never step onto the tracks
- Do not block the path or road
- Sources
- 旅する亜人ちゃん — タエ子が電車を乗り換えた駅
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Miyagi
A vividly colored volcanic crater lake in the Zao mountains that Taeko and Toshio visit in the film.
- Getting there
- Shiroishi-Zao Stn (JR Tohoku Shinkansen) + bus 100 min · 10 min walk
- Before you go
- Remote — a car or long bus ride is needed
- A real trail — wear shoes you can climb in
- Sources
- 旅する亜人ちゃん — タエ子とトシオが訪れた火口湖
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Tokyo
Beneath the viaduct between Ueno and Okachimachi.
- Getting there
- Ueno-okachimachi Stn · 6 min walk
- Before you go
- Keep your voice down
- Residential area — people live here
- Sources
- アニメ旅 — おもひでぽろぽろ
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Tokyo
A municipal school at Higashi-Toyoda in Hino.
- Getting there
- Toyoda Stn · 9 min walk
- Before you go
- Working school — the grounds are off limits
- Do not enter private property
- Residential area — people live here
- Sources
- アニメ旅 — おもひでぽろぽろ
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Yamagata
A bridge over the Mamigasaki River in Yamagata.
- Getting there
- Kita-Yamagata Stn · 24 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
- アニメ旅 — おもひでぽろぽろ
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Shizuoka
A seafront hotel in Atami, said to be where Taeko stayed with her grandmother as a child.
- Getting there
- Kinomiya Stn · 13 min walk
- Before you go
- Paying guests have priority
- Keep quiet indoors
- Sources
- 聖地巡礼マップ おもひでぽろぽろ 「小学生のタエ子が祖母と泊まったホテル」
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Shizuoka
A pre-war hot-spring hotel on the Atami seafront, known for its colonnaded Roman bath. It went bankrupt in 2010 and has been run by the Itoen Hotels group since.
- Getting there
- Kinomiya Stn · 16 min walk
- Before you go
- Keep quiet indoors
- No photography indoors
- Do not enter private property
- Sources
- 聖地巡礼マップ — おもひでぽろぽろ · ホテル大野屋
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