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Evangelion — Anime location

Hakone is the city the series is set in, and it is a real hot spring town.

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Locations

3 stops

  1. 4 hr

    Owakudani & Lake Ashi

    Hakone-Yumoto, then Tozan railway and ropeway

    Lake Ashi and the Owakudani valley appear in the series under their real shapes.

  2. 45 min

    Hakone-Yumoto Station & Evangelion-ya

    Hakone-Yumoto (Odakyu / Hakone Tozan)

    The station Shinji arrives at, with the official Evangelion shop inside.

  3. 1 hr 30 min

    Sengokuhara (the Tokyo-3 residential area)

    Bus from Hakone-Yumoto or Gora

    The plateau the residential blocks of Tokyo-3 are set on.