Anime film · 1988

My Neighbor Totoro (Tonari no Totoro) — real-life locations

Hachikokuyama Ridge and more — 17 places you can visit, in Tokyo, Saitama, 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 · 17

Hachikokuyama Ridge

Tokyo Start here

The wooded ridge behind the sisters’ house. The hospital where their mother stays takes its name from it.

Getting there

Seibuen Stn (Seibu Seibuen Line) · 15 min walk

Before you go

A real trail — wear shoes you can climb in
Keep your voice down
Do not enter private property

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八国山緑地

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Satsuki and Mei's House, Expo Park

Aichi Start here

The film's house, built full-size and furnished as it appears on screen. Entry is by advance ticket only.

Getting there

Aichikyūhaku-kinen-kōen Stn · 15 min walk

Before you go

Date-and-time tickets, bought in advance — none sold at the door
Admission fee required
No photography indoors
Very crowded — expect queues

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愛・地球博記念公園 · となりのトトロ

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Satsuki and Mei's House

Aichi Start here

The family's house, built full-size and furnished as the film draws it.

Getting there

Aichikyūhaku-kinen-kōen Stn · 17 min walk

Before you go

Date-and-time tickets, bought in advance — none sold at the door
Admission fee required
Keep quiet indoors
No photography indoors

Sources

サツキとメイの家 · となりのトトロ · 旅する亜人ちゃん — となりのトトロ「サツキとメイの家」

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Tokorozawa Station

Saitama

Tokorozawa is where Miyazaki lived while making the film, and the woods it draws are a bus ride from here.

Getting there

Tokorozawa Stn · At the station

Before you go

Never step onto the tracks
Do not block the path or road
Very crowded — expect queues

Sources

所沢駅 · となりのトトロ

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Higashi-Tokorozawa Station

Saitama

The station nearest the woods Miyazaki campaigned to save, and the walk into them.

Getting there

Higashi-Tokorozawa Stn · At the station

Before you go

Never step onto the tracks
Residential area — people live here
Keep your voice down

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東所沢駅 · となりのトトロ

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Kurosuke's House

Saitama

Not a scene but the reason the scenery survives: the trust that buys up the hills the film is set in, run from a 1919 farmhouse open to visitors.

Getting there

Kotesashi Stn (Seibu Ikebukuro Line), then bus 10 min · 5 min walk

Before you go

Keep your voice down
Residential area — people live here
Follow staff instructions

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聖地巡礼マップ — クロスケの家

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Tsurumaki Onsen — Motoyu Jinya

Kanagawa Unofficial

The hot-spring town whose inn Motoyu Jinya, run by Miyazaki's relatives, is sometimes named as a source for the film's landscape; never officially confirmed.

Getting there

Tsurumaki-Onsen Stn · At the station

Before you go

Fan-identified — not officially confirmed
Paying guests have priority
Keep quiet indoors

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となりのトトロ

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Totoro Forest No. 1

Saitama Unofficial

The first plot of woodland bought by the Totoro Fund trust, presented as the setting of the film; Miyazaki is said to have lived nearby.

Getting there

Seibukyujo-mae Stn · 17 min walk

Before you go

Fan-identified — not officially confirmed
A real trail — wear shoes you can climb in
Keep your voice down

Sources

旅する亜人ちゃんとなりのトトロ聖地巡礼 — 物語の舞台とされる雑木林

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Horiguchi Tenman Tenjin Shrine

Saitama

A Tokorozawa shrine, near the woods the film draws its hills from.

Getting there

Koku-koen Stn · 5 min walk

Before you go

Worshippers come first
Keep your voice down
Residential area — people live here

Sources

聖地巡礼マップ — となりのトトロ

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Tokorozawa Aviation Memorial Park

Saitama

The park on Japan's first airfield, in the town the film was made in.

Getting there

Koku-koen Stn · 8 min walk

Before you go

Keep your voice down
Residential area — people live here
Do not photograph residents or students

Sources

聖地巡礼マップ — となりのトトロ

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Totoro Forest No. 3

Saitama

One of the Sayama Hills woodlands bought and kept by the Totoro Fund, which is named for the film.

Getting there

Seibu-kyujo-mae Stn · 17 min walk

Before you go

Keep your voice down
Do not enter private property
A real trail — wear shoes you can climb in

Sources

聖地巡礼マップとなりのトトロ「トトロの森3号地」

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Sayama Fudoson Temple

Saitama

A temple in the Sayama hills at Kamiyamaguchi, assembled from historic gates and halls moved here from around the country. It sits in the woodland that gives the area its Totoro name.

Getting there

Seibukyujo-mae Stn · 4 min walk

Before you go