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TV drama · 2010

Ryomaden — filming locations

11 places you can visit, in Kochi, Nagasaki, Fukuoka. 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

Kochi Castle

Kochi Start here

The castle Ryoma grew up under, and one of only twelve keeps in Japan still standing from the Edo period.

Getting there
Kenchō-mae Stn · 5 min walk
Before you go
  • Admission fee required
  • Narrow passage — do not stop to shoot
  • Very crowded — expect queues
Sources
龍馬伝

Sakamoto Ryoma Memorial Museum

Kochi Start here

The museum on the headland above Katsurahama, holding his letters.

Getting there
Kochi Stn + 30 min by bus · 3 min walk
Before you go
  • Admission fee required
  • Keep quiet indoors
  • Few buses — check your return time before you go
Sources
龍馬伝

Cape Ashizuri

Kochi

The cape at the southern end of Shikoku, on the drama's Tosa coast.

Getting there
Nakamura Stn + 100 min by bus · 5 min walk
Before you go
  • Remote — a car or long bus ride is needed
  • Few buses — check your return time before you go
  • Keep your voice down
  • Watch for traffic — do not step into the road
Sources
足摺岬 · 龍馬伝

Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture

Nagasaki

The Nagasaki the drama's later acts run through, on the site of the shogunate's magistrate's office.

Getting there
Sakuramachi Stn · 6 min walk
Before you go
  • Admission fee required
  • Keep quiet indoors
  • Closed on Mondays
Sources
龍馬伝

Kokura Castle

Fukuoka

The castle burned in the Choshu war the drama covers, rebuilt in 1959.

Getting there
Nishi-Kokura Stn · 8 min walk
Before you go
  • Admission fee required
  • Very crowded — expect queues
  • Keep your voice down
Sources
龍馬伝

Miroku no Sato (Showa Village)

Hiroshima

The Fukuyama park whose reconstructed old streets stand in for Bakumatsu towns.

Getting there
Fukuyama Stn + 30 min by bus · 5 min walk
Before you go
  • Admission fee required
  • Remote — a car or long bus ride is needed
  • Few buses — check your return time before you go
Sources
みろくの里

Huis Ten Bosch

Nagasaki

The Nagasaki park whose canals and brick fronts stood in for the drama's Dejima and Nagasaki.

Getting there
Huis Ten Bosch Stn (JR Omura Line) · 16 min walk
Before you go
  • Admission fee required
  • Very crowded — expect queues
  • Few buses — check your return time before you go
Sources
ハウステンボス · 龍馬伝

Kobe City Museum

Hyogo

The former bank in the old foreign settlement, near where Ryoma's naval training school stood.

Getting there
Kyukyoryuchi-Daimarumae Stn (Kobe Subway) · 5 min walk
Before you go
  • Admission fee required
  • Keep quiet indoors
  • No photography indoors
Sources
龍馬伝

Sofukuji

Nagasaki

The Chinese temple in Nagasaki, the port the drama's later chapters run their trading through.

Getting there
Sofukuji Stop (Nagasaki Tram) · 3 min walk
Before you go
  • Admission fee required
  • Worshippers come first
  • Keep your voice down
Sources
崇福寺 (長崎市)

Kuonji

Yamanashi

The Nichiren head temple in Kai, on the road the drama's characters take between Edo and Kyoto.

Getting there
Bus from Minobu Stn · 10 min walk
Before you go
  • Worshippers come first
  • A real trail — wear shoes you can climb in
  • Few buses — check your return time before you go
Sources
龍馬伝

Yokohama Archives of History

Kanagawa

The archive on the 1854 treaty site — the opening that sets the drama's trade in motion.

Getting there
Nihon-odori Stn (Minatomirai Line) · 2 min walk
Before you go
  • Admission fee required
  • Keep quiet indoors
  • No photography indoors
Sources
龍馬伝

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