Anime Pilgrimage
The Complete Guide to 200 Real-Life Anime Locations in Japan
- AuthorAki Wakamatsu
- PublisherTakikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC
- CategoryJapan Guides & Culture
- ISBN1990000143410
- FormatEPUB ebook
About this book
The best-known English guide to anime pilgrimage covers 10 locations. This one covers 200.
Anime Pilgrimage is the complete English guide to the real places behind Japan's anime and manga: every one of the 175 certified places on the Anime Tourism Association's official 2026 "Anime Spot 88" list — all 100 works — plus 25 classic locations the list no longer holds, from the Slam Dunk crossing to the schoolhouse that K-On! made immortal.
For each of the 200 numbered locations you get: the connection — the scenes, the story, or the hometown bond that made the place sacred to fans; background on the town, shrine, museum or landmark itself; the nearest station and how to get there from it; the manners point that matters on site — these are real neighbourhoods, working stations and active shrines, and this book tells you how to be welcomed in them.
The book is arranged as a journey, north to south in eight parts from Hokkaido to Okinawa, and closes with a full manners chapter and four ready-made sample routes — Tokyo in a day, the Shonan coast, a Saitama countryside loop, and Kyoto & Lake Biwa — assembled from the entries themselves.
Written and created in Japan by Japanese author Aki Wakamatsu. Published by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC, a Japanese publisher in Hokkaido, Japan. Authentic Japanese content, carefully made in Japan — not mass-produced.
