Real scenarios used in the movie Kimi no na wa

Your Name was undoubtedly the best film/animation released in Japan in 2016. This animation grossed over 18 billion yen at the box office, ranked first on Myanimelist, and may compete for an Oscar. There’s no way to watch this film without getting emotional, and you probably agree or are very eager to watch it.

In this article, we have separated some photos of locations that were used in the film for you to compare with the real places. If you still don’t know the synopsis of this work written by Makoto Shinkai, we will leave it below:

Synopsis: The story takes place a month after a comet falls for the first time in a thousand years in Japan. Mitsuba, a high school girl living in the countryside, wants to live in the city because she is tired of life in the country. Then there’s Taki, a high school student living in Tokyo with his friends while working part-time at an Italian restaurant. He also has a strong interest in visual arts involving architecture. One day, Mitsuba dreamed of herself as a young man. On the other hand, Taki also has a dream in which he is a student attending high school in the countryside.

Video of the Scenarios from Your Name

Recently, the team from the Online Japanese Program had the opportunity to visit Tokyo and recorded a comparative video of the real scenarios from Your Name. I have good memories because on the previous trip with the course group, I had seen the film in theaters. Years later, the team had the opportunity to visit the tourist spots; it’s a shame I couldn’t go with them.

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Scenarios from Your Name

Unfortunately, there is no real city called Itomori in Japan. But the images in the film represented quite well the actual locations of the tourist spots that we will see now in Gifu and Nagano prefectures.

In the image above, you can find one of the most important points of the animation, the lake that is a major tourist attraction of the city of Itomori; in real life, this lake is called Suwa and is located in the city of Suwa in Nagano prefecture.

In the images below, we will see some highlights from Gifu prefecture. First, the Hida Furukawa station, and then the Hida Sannogu shrine, which served as a model for the Miyamizu shrine that appears in the film.

The next image shows one of the main points of the film; in real life, it is an island called Aogashima. To reach this island in real life, it is necessary to take a helicopter from the city of Hachijojima.

Besides the Gifu and Nagano prefectures, the film takes place in Tokyo and has several highlights. In the first image below, the NTT DOCOMO building in the Yoyogi neighborhood of Tokyo was used. The second image is located at the Shinanomachi station in Shinjuku – Tokyo. The third image is the Suga shrine, while the fourth is an intersection, and both are located in Shinjuku.

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