In the footsteps of Uncle from Another World

Fukuoka7 places

• Sakuragaoka Hiroba Park (桜ヶ丘広場公園)

  🚉 Sasabaru · 16 min walk

  The park in Kasuga where Uncle talks with the spirits. The author is from Fukuoka and the series portrays the area with unusual precision, street signs included: around this park, all within a kilometre, surveys…

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  photo by そらみみ · CC BY-SA 4.0

  Fukuoka University — Nanakuma campus (福岡大学)

  🚉 Fukudaimae · 5 min walk

  The university Fujimiya attends, in the seventh episode of the anime and the third volume of the manga.

• Tenten Ramen (、、ラーメン)

  🚉 Sasabaru · 6 min walk

  The ramen shop where Uncle pays for the meal, in the sixth episode of the anime and the third volume of the manga.

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  Fukuoka Tokushukai Hospital (福岡徳洲会病院)

  🚉 Sasabaru · 18 min walk

  The model for the hospital where Uncle lies in a coma for seventeen years: the point where the whole story begins.

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  photo by そらみみ · CC BY-SA 3.0

  Canal City Hakata

  🚉 Nakasu-Kawabata · 10 min walk

  Seventh volume, pages 57–76: Takafumi and Uncle come here by bus to see, at the cinema, the sequel to the film rented on DVD. You can recognise the pedestrian crossing at the Hakata-keisatsusho-iriguchi junction, the…

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  photo by そらみみ · CC BY-SA 4.0

  Ijiri Station (井尻駅)

  🚉 Ijiri · in front of the station

  Seventh volume, page 49: it is the station closest to home, the one Takafumi and Uncle set off from to go to the cinema one summer's day. The ticket machines drawn in the manga are still the ones installed there. From…

• Tenjin-Daimaru-mae Bus Stop (天神大丸前バス停)

  🚉 Fukuoka (Tenjin) · 4 min walk

  Seventh volume, page 54: off the train at the Fukuoka Tenjin terminus, the two cross at the pedestrian crossing below the Mitsukoshi and take the bus from stand 4A in front of the Daimaru. The shot at the bottom left of…