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photo by nesnad · CC BY-SA 3.0Shibuya Crossing
🚉 Shibuya · 4 min walk
In the first minutes of the first episode Light Yagami walks across the crossing on his way home from school. In the same sequence you can recognise the 109 giant screen and Shibuya Station.
photo by Intforce · CC BY-SA 4.0Takeshita-dori (竹下通り) — Harajuku
🚉 Meiji-jingumae 'Harajuku' · 6 min walk
In the eleventh episode Misa Amane and Rem walk along Takeshita-dōri, from the entrance arch on the Harajuku Station side. Halfway along you can recognise the Marion Crepes stand.
photo by Daniel L. Lu (user:dllu) · CC BY-SA 4.0University of Tokyo, Hongō Campus
🚉 Nezu · 11 min walk
In the ninth episode Light Yagami sits the entrance exam here. The university in the story is called Tō-Ō (東応大学), but the campus you can recognise is this one, Hongō.
photo by Wiiii · CC BY-SA 3.0Central Government Building No. 2, Kasumigaseki
🚉 Sakuradamon · 7 min walk
In the sixth episode this is where the investigation headquarters for the Kira case, the one led by Sōichirō Yagami, is set up. The building really does house the National Police Agency, from the seventeenth to the…
photo by kanesue · CC BY 3.0Hibiya Park
🚉 Ginza · 9 min walk
In the seventh episode Light Yagami and Naomi Misora walk here from the investigation headquarters and talk as they go, with one of the shots beside a fountain. This is the walk in which Light reveals to her that he is…
photo by ペン太 · CC BY 2.5Aoyama Gakuin University, Aoyama Campus
🚉 Omote-sando · 9 min walk
In the fifteenth episode L meets Light in front of the university, and shortly afterwards Misa Amane, who is arrested. Behind them runs the ginkgo avenue inside the campus, beyond the main gate.
Shinjuku Station
🚉 Shinjuku · in front of the station
In the fifth episode the FBI agent Raye Penber follows Light into the station and boards the Yamanote with him. The platform is the inner-loop Yamanote one, towards Shibuya: at the time it was numbered 12.
photo by Kakidai · CC BY-SA 3.0Imperial Hotel Tokyo
🚉 Ginza · 6 min walk
In the fifth episode the task force led by Sōichirō Yagami meets L face to face for the first time, in a room of this hotel turned into the investigation's base. In the story the hotel is called Teito (帝都ホテル): a real…
photo by 663highland · CC BY 2.5Blue Note Tokyo
🚉 Omote-sando · 9 min walk
In the thirteenth episode the second Kira sends Sakura TV a message with a clue inside: a meeting in Aoyama, on the 22nd. Light works out the place from it, a venue that in the story is called ‘Note Blue’, the real name…