Everyone's got that one anime that they just can't get enough of
And by now, you've rewatched it a dozen times and tried to show to everyone, you know with varying success
So really there's only one logical thing to do next
Take a trip to japan and visit the real life locations that your favorite anime are based on
Well, you've come to the right place in this video i'm going to teach you how to find the exact spots
That iconic scenes are based and share with you everything. I learned on my anime expedition
as well as take you through a real live example using kaguya sama season 2
The three P's of a successful expedition are planning planning and partying
The last P optional but highly recommended if there's one thing I learned from my expedition no matter how prepared you think you are
It's probably not enough step one is to create a custom google map with every anime location. You plan to visit
The reason I like to do this over just add stars onto your current google map is because you can add custom pictures which is
vital because when you're in japan
There's so many things to see hear and smell that it can be very overwhelming
So much so that I feel like I would have missed the your name staircase if I walk down it so having the actual pictures
From the anime on your map is really important and then when you're attempting to navigate tokyo
Make sure you're switched to your custom map so that even if you're just walking around doing other things
Like there was one day I went to visit the skytree
but since I was using my map, I noticed that there was a couple locations nearby from Sarazanmai
And we just walked over there because it really wasn't too far out of our way
Make sure when you're adding locations to your map that you're naming them really precisely
Because once you have a couple hundred like I do it gets really confusing
If you'd like to download my google map with hundreds of anime locations already on it
It's available on my patreon link in the description step. Two is to google it.
Don't waste the efforts of your forefathers the weeb pioneers who went out of their way to find these locations in the first place
There are plenty of good articles reddit posts blogs twitter accounts
And of course kinda neet videos that are already out there for you to use as guides step 3
Exploring unknown territory if there's not already a guide to find the locations
The first thing you need to do is figure out where the show is set
Now sometimes just while you're watching the show somebody will mention if they're in chiba or kyoto or whatever
But other times it's a little less obvious, but thankfully wikipedia is here for you
Generally, you can figure out where the show's set just by doing a little bit of research
So obviously the first step is to pick a scene that you want to find the location of i'm going with the scene
Where kaguya and the president are crossing the overpass and there's all these cool lights sparkling in the background. I think it's really cool
So what you want to do is look for obvious landmarks in the background. There's a couple buildings back here
You can see but there's really nothing that sets them apart from any building. So we'll keep watching through this scene
Yeah, still nothing really obvious going on in the background that we could use to look up on google maps
And now they're at Kaguya's house, okay
so what we'll have to do is
Back it up and look for another scene that happened just before this one to see where they're at
So we've got the scene where they're inside the family restaurant at the drink bar
but
I do know the name of a couple popular
Japanese family restaurants so we could start looking them up on google maps and see if they have interior pictures we could use to compare
Like as you can see back here, I don't know if this actually says something Royal Host
k, let's look that up on Google Maps.
and yeah there's a ton of them
so we'll definitely have to narrow this down a little bit
This will be our backup plan
We can try to find this restaurant, but it's usually a lot easier to find exterior locations
So where do they go from here?
Wide shot generic building. Oh, okay. So this is more like it
These buildings have a little bit more personality to them and there's some signs over here on the right that we can use
Let me open up my google translate app and see if I can translate what those signs say
We can maybe look up what businesses those are google translate has a really great feature
You point your camera at text and it will translate it automatically for you
See if we can get this to work
If we won't do it live then there's the scan option as well, which is just a bit slower Wampren Co., Ltd.
Okay, so we'll open up google maps and we'll see if we can find that somewhere
No, it looks like that's a made-up business so i'm guessing the other one is also made-up business and that'll be the case
most of the time
So where do they go from here? If I remember correctly they head to a train station
So we'll see if there's any signs we can read in the background. Okay, here we are at the train station
Chica's head is blocking this. Oh, there we go. That's what we're looking for Tamachi Station
So generally they have no reason to make up fake names for train stations
So if you're lucky and there's a scene that shows one. That'll definitely be your best bet for finding the spot
So we're in Tokyo where this show takes place
I come up here
Tamachi Station
And yep, it's a real place
Okay
So most of the time anime producers choose to keep scenes that are close together
To be in close proximity in real life because people are familiar with locations and they like recognizing spots
so if they suddenly jumped the other side of the city people would notice so
Our best bet is to drop our little dude right outside Tamachi Station and see if we can match up to this scene
Looks like we got super lucky. I think that this is the pole that this guy's leaning on
So, let's see if we can get a different angle of this
We can go deeper in the station, but I am almost certain if we look at this green sign here
No, you can't see the machines on the left Tamachi Station and this pole
So the machine yep machines on the left
This sign would say Tamachi Station, and this is the pole so i'm almost certain
This is the exact spot so you could use this as a location
You could come right here and stand exactly where best girl Chika stands. But in this case i'm looking for that overpass
So the best thing to do is to go for a little walk in google street view. Okay, we can't get out
We're trapped here. But let's get out on the road in front of where this was. So we'll come
That was just up there. Okay
This is looking promising. So we're looking for an overpass
I'm not seeing anything that way
Oh! *laughs in weeb*
Okay. Well, there you go. That's easy enough
can we get on the overpass because
Oftentimes you can go onto pedestrian walks, but does not look like we'll be able to in this case
Nope, now i'm underground. We just dropped into the subway
Okay, let's go back out onto the street for a second and compare just to double check that this is the right overpass
Okay, so let's go to the show and is there a shot? Oh, perfect
So three bars on the railing and then there's the cement blocks
which it's not exactly like that, but
I think it's pretty safe to say that this is the walkway that they're going on
but let's
confirm even more
So in this shot, you can see some trees down here beneath her and yep. We got some trees here trees here trees here
So I think it's pretty safe to say that that is the overpass
out of curiosity I want to check if there's
Royal Host restaurants near Tamachi Station
No I can kinda already tell this doesn't look like it's actually based off the spot
So it looks like they did base it after a real Royal Host restaurant
but they used one in Akihabara so they could set up a little pop up shop cafe
and that's how it's done folks they don't always work out as easily as this one did but
You'd be surprised how many obvious landmarks there are in the background if you just pay close attention?
Thank you so much for watching this video
If you have any questions i'd love to answer them in the comments
And if you want to do an anime expedition to real life Kinda Neet locations, my address is 643-