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omiya
Posts: 1827 Location: Adelaide, South Australia |
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I'd like to see something like a web site where one could pick various anime and have locations displayed as an overlay on Google Maps, but with better listing of transport options than what Google Maps does.
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12skippy21
Posts: 785 Location: York, England |
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While I am sure some might be interesting (temples etc) I wonder if a lot of these locations are just going to be some boring building/place/crossroads that happened to be a backdrop for an anime segment.
Not my idea of a holiday I'm afraid. |
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H. Guderian
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I'm listening, Kadokawa.
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omiya
Posts: 1827 Location: Adelaide, South Australia |
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It depends - if you watched the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya you might like a side trip from Osaka to Nishinomiya to see some of the familiar locations and if exploring Nagano prefecture, it can be fun to ride on the train from Ueda to Bessho Onsen as seen in Summer Wars, walk the Usui Pass as used in Initial D, and coincidentally on the same day I visited the railway museum in Yokokawa used for the cover shots of the Rail Wars OP single. Another example would be the entire town of Ooarai, Ibaraki prefecture, made famous by Girls und Panzer. A lot of the more recognisable places in anime are that way because the people picking locations wanted to find somewhere relatively interesting. |
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grooven
Posts: 1424 Location: Canada |
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That wouldbe awesome. I'v ebeen to a few sites that were in animes. It's a surreal experience and would love this rather than taking the wrong shinkansen to a town with the same name *coughthatdidn'thappentome*
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omiya
Posts: 1827 Location: Adelaide, South Australia |
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There was an episode of You're Under Arrest, episode 3, "Love's Highway Stars" where there is confusion between spoiler[Katsuura, Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture], and spoiler[Katsuura, Chiba Prefecture]. Not exactly close together. |
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fencer_x
Posts: 278 |
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The Iwami Tourism Bureau has actual pamphlets to give visitors listing places to go in the very small town that "Free!"'s Iwatobi was modeled after. Given that the designers were extremely faithful in recreating even tiny elements of the town in the anime, you really feel like you're right there, so they are totally embracing their position as a Mecca for fans of the series. I'm sure others have similar ideas as well, and that's something I bet fans would love to see. Maybe this will encourage other series to use real-life settings as their backdrops to give the tourism industry a boost? |
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samuelp
Industry Insider
Posts: 2231 Location: San Antonio, USA |
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Well, much like the actual 88 temple/shrine pilgrimage this is referencing, it's not about the destination, but the journey! Pilgrimages are about proving one's devotion, after all. |
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Greboruri
Posts: 378 Location: QBN, NSW, Australia |
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I found this. Not sure how often the English version is updated though. I did Toyosato Elementary School on my last trip. It's not something I'd usualy do, but I was in Osaka and decided to go. I was a bit disappointed at the club room itself. Looks like they've moved all the musical instruments and most of the other stuff people have bought (figures, merchandise and other stuff) into the cafe in at left side of the school building. |
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omiya
Posts: 1827 Location: Adelaide, South Australia |
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Thanks, I'll have to look through the http://en.anime-tourism.com/ site when planning my next trip. |
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Touma
Posts: 2651 Location: Colorado, USA |
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For the pilgrims it is the fact that the location was used in the anime that makes it interesting. If it is also interesting for other reasons that is just a bonus.
A pilgrimage is definitely not for everybody. I would do it if I had the time and money, but I would look for those places that had some other attraction in addition to being an anime pilgrimage destination. ANN had a similar article last year. |
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SaitoHajime101
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I would love to go on a trip that has stops used for reference material in Makoto Shinkai films along with some of the more historical locations that were referenced in Rurouni Kenshin
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q87
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anime-tourism.com seems to be a good starting point. Seems like some of the maps are from rimatai, dotproducer or habusan. I've been using their maps for one of my "pilgrimages" too, so I can assure you they are pretty accurate. There are a lot more sites out there, like http://seichimap.jp/. Unfortunatelly (for non-japanese fans), most of these sites are japanese blogs. It's not like "anime pilgrimages", or "seichi junrei" (聖地巡礼), are common activities in Japan, but there seems to be a small and very active (net) community. Normally no anime studio/producer will tell you from where they got their "inspiration", so the fans have to track back the real world locations based on the anime footage. Some of the work of the community members is really impressive, like this Field Guide for a AnoHana pilgrimage in Chichibu, Saitama. btw: The easiest way to find anime location maps is actually a google search. Just type the name of your favorite anime (preferably in japanese) + "聖地巡礼マップ". |
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Tenchi
Posts: 4469 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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I'd love to visit Hyogo prefecture, not just for The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya locations in Nishinomiya but also, from what I've read, some places in Asahigaoka village in Non Non Biyori are based on locations in the much more rural areas in the northwest of the prefecture, near Tottori and Okayama prefectures (although the school itself is based on one in Ogawa, Saitama prefecture).
I'm not sure if my own personal anime pilgrimage would be to locations famous enough to organize tours to, though, like how I want to visit Hamamatsu City in Shizuoka prefecture because of Strawberry Marshmallow or Onomichi outside Hiroshima because of Kamichu!. |
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