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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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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