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Makoto Shinkai's Tokyo: Shinjuku and Around
Your Name., The Garden of Words, 5 Centimeters per Second, Weathering with You: 14 stops, two days.
- Scenes from the films
- Walkable
- Stations on screen
It's Toraco 🐯 Makoto Shinkai's films keep returning to real Tokyo stations, stairways and parks. The scenery feels familiar, yet when you try to visit, it's hard to tell which place belongs to which film, or how far apart they are. So I decided to sort them out for you.
In this feature I've gathered 14 places from four films, all clustered around Yotsuya, Shinjuku and Sangubashi. Because they sit in a fairly small area around Shinjuku, two days on foot and by train is enough to see them at a relaxed pace.
Your Name.: From Yotsuya to the Suga Shrine Steps
A Your Name. walk usually starts at Yotsuya Station, shown as the station nearest Taki's home. From there, the Suga Shrine stairway, the footbridge outside Shinanomachi Station and the gallery at Jingu Gaien link up into one walking route through the film's Tokyo.
Yotsuya Station
Anime & Manga · Other areas in Tokyo
Shown as the station nearest Taki's home, and the usual starting point for the walk to the Suga Shrine steps.
Free entrySuga Shrine Stairway (setting of Your Name.)
Anime & Manga · Shinjuku
The shrine whose stone stairway, the Otokozaka, is where Taki and Mitsuha finally meet again at the end of the film. Visitors come here from all over the world.
Free entry
Shinanomachi Station Footbridge
Anime & Manga · Other areas in Tokyo
A footbridge that recurs through the film, at the end of Taki's date with Miss Okudera and where Mitsuha tries to phone him.
Free entry
Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery (Jingu Gaien)
Sights & experiences · Other areas in Tokyo
A Jingu Gaien landmark drawn into the film's Tokyo backgrounds. The view down the ginkgo avenue matches the film.
¥500
The Garden of Words: Shinjuku Gyoen and Sendagaya
The main setting of The Garden of Words is Shinjuku Gyoen. Near its southeast gate is Sendagaya Station, where Yukino stands on the platform. On the garden's north side is the model for the restaurant where Taki works in Your Name., a nice place to end day one.
Shinjuku Gyoen (setting of The Garden of Words)
Anime & Manga · Shinjuku
The arbour in the Japanese garden area is known as the model for the rainy-day scenes where Takao and Yukino meet.
¥500
Sendagaya Station
Anime & Manga · Shinjuku
The station where Yukino stands on the platform, unable to go to school. The Excelsior Caffe by the ticket gates also appears in the film.
Free entry
Cafe La Boheme Shinjuku Gyoen
Anime & Manga · Shinjuku
The model for Taki's part-time workplace in Your Name. The staircase from the second-floor kitchen is drawn just as it is, and you can eat here.
Free entry
Shinjuku South Exit and Kabukicho
Shinjuku Station's south exit is the first Tokyo cityscape Mitsuha sees in Your Name. The clock-towered skyscraper nearby is drawn as the emblem of the Shinjuku sky in both Your Name. and The Garden of Words. After dark, head up to Kabukicho for the streets Hodaka drifts through in Weathering with You ✨
Busta Shinjuku (Shinjuku Station South Exit)
Anime & Manga · Shinjuku
The first Tokyo street scene Mitsuha sees, and the south exit Taki runs out of near the end after glimpsing her from a passing train.
Free entry
Starbucks Coffee Shinjuku Southern Terrace
Anime & Manga · Shinjuku
Cited as the model for the cafe Taki visits as his search grows desperate. It is right outside the south exit, so it doubles as a coffee break.
Free entry
NTT Docomo Yoyogi Building
Sights & experiences · Shinjuku
The clock-towered building drawn as the emblem of the Shinjuku sky in two of the films. The interior is closed, so enjoy the view from outside.
Free entry
Kabukicho Ichibangai
Sights & experiences · Shinjuku
The streets where Hodaka first drifts through Tokyo in Weathering with You. The film's neon night scenes are set along this strip.
Free entry
5 Centimeters per Second: Sangubashi and Yoyogi Hachiman
The opening of chapter one of 5 Centimeters per Second is set around Sangubashi Station on the Odakyu Line. The station, the park and Yoyogi Hachimangu Shrine can be walked in about an hour, which makes a nice morning stroll before heading back into Shinjuku.
Yoyogi Hachimangu Shrine
Anime & Manga · Other areas in Tokyo
The shrine whose approach and grounds appear as the place the young Takaki and Akari used to play.
Free entry
Sangubashi Park
Anime & Manga · Other areas in Tokyo
The park identified as the walk home where Takaki tells Akari that cherry petals fall at five centimetres per second, the line the film takes its name from.
Free entry
Sangubashi Station (5 Centimeters per Second Setting)
Anime & Manga · Other areas in Tokyo
The small station where the film's opening scene is set. Fans walk the nearby level crossing and cherry-lined streets.
Free entry
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Two Days in Makoto Shinkai's Tokyo
This is how I'd go around them! Add them all to a trip and change anything you like later 🧳
Day 1
More spots for these titles
Day one runs from Yotsuya to Shinjuku Gyoen, and day two from Sangubashi into Shinjuku at night. Add this route to your trip and you can walk the Tokyo of four films in two days 🧳
