Screen Pilgrimage Real places behind anime and film, across Japan

Anime film · 2006

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time — real-life locations

Tokyo National Museum, Tetsugakudo Park and more — 12 places you can visit, in Tokyo. 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

Tokyo National Museum

Tokyo Start here

Where Kazuko's aunt restores paintings, and where the film returns at the end.

Getting there
Uguisudani Stn · 6 min walk
Before you go
  • Admission fee required
  • Keep quiet indoors
  • No photography indoors
  • Very crowded — expect queues
Sources
時をかける少女 (2006年の映画)

Tetsugakudo Park

Tokyo Start here

The park with the ballfield where Makoto and the boys play catch, and where a summer keeps restarting.

Getting there
Ochiai-minami-nagasaki Stn · 14 min walk
Before you go
  • Keep your voice down
  • Do not photograph residents or students
Sources
旅する亜人ちゃん — 時をかける少女 「哲学堂公園・野球場」

Hayashi Fumiko Memorial Hall

Tokyo

The preserved former home of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, whose corridors and living room were drawn as Makoto's family house in the film; closed on Mondays.

Getting there
Nakai Stn · 3 min walk
Before you go
  • Admission fee required
  • Closed on Mondays
  • Keep quiet indoors
Sources
時をかける少女聖地巡礼・ロケ地(旅する亜人ちゃん) — 真琴の実家のモデル

Railway crossing near Nakai Station

Tokyo

The area around Nakai Station modeled as the railway crossing Makoto rides her bicycle through in the film; the crossing lies just north of the station.

Getting there
Nakai Stn · 3 min walk
Before you go
  • Never step onto the tracks
  • Residential area — people live here
  • Watch for traffic — do not step into the road
Sources
時をかける少女聖地巡礼・ロケ地(旅する亜人ちゃん) — 真琴が自転車で通る踏切

Tokyo Woman's Christian University

Tokyo

A private university campus in Suginami whose buildings were the model for the high school Makoto attends in the film.

Getting there
Nishi-Ogikubo Stn · 19 min walk
Before you go
  • Working school — the grounds are off limits
  • Do not enter private property
Sources
時をかける少女聖地巡礼・ロケ地(旅する亜人ちゃん) — 真琴が通う高校のモデル

Omokagebashi Station

Tokyo

The tram stop by the Y-junction the film draws, on the Toden Arakawa Line.

Getting there
Omokagebashi Stn · At the station
Before you go
  • Never step onto the tracks
  • Watch for traffic — do not step into the road
  • Do not block the path or road
Sources
旅する亜人ちゃん — 時をかける少女 Y字路「面影橋駅付近」

Gonosaka-dori Street

Tokyo

A slope in Nakai.

Getting there
Nakai Stn · 5 min walk
Before you go
  • Buy something if you photograph a shop
  • Very crowded — expect queues
  • Do not photograph residents or students
Sources
Anime Pilgrimage — 時をかける少女 (2006年の映画) 「五の坂通り」 — · Anime Pilgrimage『時をかける少女 (2006年の映画)』聖地巡礼マップ — 五の坂通り

Tetsugakudo Park Baseball Ground

Tokyo

The ballground in Tetsugakudo Park, Nakano.

Getting there
Araiyakushi-mae Stn · 12 min walk
Before you go
  • Keep quiet indoors
  • Follow staff instructions
Sources
アニメ旅 — 時をかける少女 (2006年の映画)

Fujimizaka Slope

Tokyo

A slope in Tokyo. It appears in the film.

Getting there
Waseda Stn · 20 min walk
Before you go
  • Keep your voice down
  • Do not photograph residents or students
Sources
Anime Pilgrimage — 時をかける少女

Kokubunji High School

Tokyo

A metropolitan high school in Kunitachi. The film's location scouting was done here: the uniforms are the school's, and its stairs, corridors and chemistry room appear. It is a working school; look from the road.

Getting there
Kunitachi Stn · 23 min walk
Before you go
  • Working school — the grounds are off limits
  • Do not enter private property
  • Do not photograph residents or students
Sources
東京都立国分寺高等学校

Nakai Station

Tokyo

A station in Tokyo.

Getting there
Nakai Stn · At the station
Before you go
  • Never step onto the tracks
  • Very crowded — expect queues
  • Do not block the path or road
Sources
旅する亜人ちゃん — 時をかける少女 「中井駅」

Arakawa Riverbank

Tokyo

A riverbank in Tokyo. It appears in the film.

Getting there
Kosuge Stn · 25 min walk
Before you go
  • Keep your voice down
  • Do not enter private property
  • Do not block the path or road
Sources
旅する亜人ちゃん — 時をかける少女 「荒川河川敷」

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