City
Kyoto
Beyond the temples: the Kyoto International Manga Museum holds 300,000 volumes you can read on the spot, and Toei Kyoto Studio Park is a working film lot you can walk into.
Districts
In this area
Shijo Kawaramachi
Kyoto's main shopping district, and where the city's official character stores are.
Karasuma Oike
Home of the Kyoto International Manga Museum, a former elementary school holding about 300,000 volumes.
Uzumasa
Toei Kyoto Studio Park — a working film lot for period dramas that visitors can walk through.
Uji
The tea town 20 minutes south of Kyoto Station. Byodoin and Uji-gami Shrine are both here, and so is nearly every location from Sound! Euphonium.
Demachi & the Kamo delta
The area where the Kamo and Takano rivers meet, with the Demachi Masugata arcade a few minutes away.
Routes
Routes
Uji Half Day: Sound! Euphonium
The station, the bridge and the hill viewpoint, then tea. Twenty minutes from Kyoto.
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Kyoto in One Day: Manga, Film Sets and Shijo
Three hundred thousand volumes you can actually read, a working period-drama film lot, and the shops on Shijo.
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Places
Places
Kyoto International Manga Museum 京都国際マンガミュージアム
A former elementary school holding roughly 300,000 volumes — and you can sit down and read them.
- Nearest station
- Karasuma Oike Station · 2 min walk
- Time needed
- 2 hr
Pokémon Center Kyoto ポケモンセンターキョウト
The Kyoto branch, with Kyoto-limited designs drawing on the city's traditional motifs.
- Nearest station
- Kyoto-Kawaramachi Station · 3 min walk
- Time needed
- 45 min
Toei Kyoto Studio Park 東映太秦映画村
A working film lot for period dramas that visitors can walk through, with anime attractions on site.
- Nearest station
- Uzumasa Station · 5 min walk
- Time needed
- 3 hr
Uji Bridge 宇治橋
The bridge on the key visual, over the Uji River. One of the oldest bridge sites in Japan.
- Nearest station
- Keihan Uji / JR Uji · 3 min walk
- Time needed
- 30 min
Animate Kyoto アニメイト京都
The main anime goods store in Kyoto, in the Shijo Kawaramachi shopping district.
- Nearest station
- Kyoto-Kawaramachi Station · 4 min walk
- Time needed
- 45 min
Daikichiyama Observation Deck 大吉山展望台
The hilltop where the two leads climb with their instruments. A 20-minute walk up, free, with the whole town below.
- Nearest station
- Keihan Uji · 20 min walk
- Time needed
- 1 hr
Keihan Uji Station 京阪宇治駅
The station that opens the series, two minutes from Uji Bridge.
- Nearest station
- Keihan Uji (Keihan Uji line)
- Time needed
- 20 min
Demachi Masugata Shopping Street 出町桝形商店街
The real Usagiyama arcade. A working market that cooperated with the production and kept the relationship.
- Nearest station
- Demachiyanagi (Keihan / Eizan) · 5 min walk
- Time needed
- 45 min
Kamo River Delta 鴨川デルタ
The point where two rivers meet, with stepping stones across it. Five minutes from the arcade.
- Nearest station
- Demachiyanagi (Keihan / Eizan) · 3 min walk
- Time needed
- 30 min
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