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In the footsteps of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
鬼滅の刃
15 real places in 9 prefectures: Tokyo, Kyoto, Oita, Aichi, Fukuoka, Fukushima, Gifu, Nara, Tochigi.
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Readers point to it as the birthplace of Tanjirō and Nezuko, linking it to the opening scene in which Tanjirō carries his sister over a snow-covered mountain. It is an attribution repeated by several independent sources, but no official fanbook confirms it.
Tokyo4 places
photo by 迷惘的人生 · CC BY-SA 2.0Asakusa Rokku
🚉 Asakusa · 8 min walk
In episode 7 Tanjirō meets Muzan Kibutsuji for the first time here, in the entertainment district rebuilt as it was in the Taishō period: in the anime the Ryōunkaku tower, which collapsed in the 1923 earthquake, is…
photo by Kakidai · CC BY-SA 4.0Azuma Bridge (Azuma-bashi) — Asakusa
🚉 Asakusa · 3 min walk
Taishō-period Asakusa is the main setting of the demon slayers' headquarters in Tokyo. Azuma Bridge and the alleys with traditional shops faithfully reproduce Tanjirō's scenes in the city, before the district was…
photo by Higa4 · CC0Site of the Yoshiwara Gate (吉原大門跡)
🚉 Minowa · 11 min walk
Yoshiwara is the stated setting of the Entertainment District Arc. Ōtori Shrine, the neighbourhood's guardian shrine, which is linked to the character Gyūtarō, is about 500 m away.
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📺 the scene photo by Arashiyama · CC BY-SA 3.0Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — Koyoharu Gotōge · Shūeisha · anime ufotable (2019)Kaminarimon (雷門) — Asakusa
🚉 Asakusa · 3 min walk
In episode 7, when Tanjirō arrives in Asakusa, Nakamise-dōri is seen from above, at night, with the tram passing along the street in front. The Kaminarimon is not there: the gate, which burned down in 1866, was only…
Kyoto2 places
photo by Basile Morin · CC BY-SA 4.0Fushimi Inari Shrine
🚉 Inari · 2 min walk
The torii tunnels are linked to a scene in episode 19, on the way to the demon slayers' headquarters.
photo by Christophe95 · CC BY-SA 4.0Kyoto Railway Museum (京都鉄道博物館)
🚉 Umekoji-Kyotonishi · 5 min walk
For an official collaboration with the series, the museum fitted the ‘Mugen’ plate to the historic JGR Class 8620 steam locomotive, unit 8630, from the same Taishō period as the train in the film ‘Mugen Train’. No one…
Oita2 places
Hachiman Kamado Shrine (八幡竈門神社) — Beppu
🚉 Kamegawa · 19 min walk
The name contains the same 竈門 as Tanjirō's surname, but what makes it a pilgrimage site is the legend attached to it: a man-eating demon ravaged the village of Kamado every night, and the deity challenged him to build a…
photo by z tanuki · CC BY 3.0Kamado Jigoku (かまど地獄) — Beppu
🚉 鉄輪 · 4 min walk
The name comes from the nearby shrine 八幡竈門神社, where food cooked in the steam of these springs was once offered: it is that link, more than any visual resemblance, that turned it into a stop on the pilgrimage. On the…
Aichi1 place
Meiji-mura Museum (博物館明治村) — Red Cross pavilion
🚉 SL名古屋駅 · 4 min walk
The pavilion of the Japanese Red Cross Central Hospital, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property, is the most frequently cited model for Shinobu Kochō's Butterfly Mansion: the wards with their rows of beds, the white…
Fukuoka1 place
photo by Miya.m · CC BY-SA 3.0Kamado Shrine (Hōman-gū Kamado-jinja)
🚉 Dazaifu · 34 min walk
It is the main model for the Kamado family's shrine. The link rests on two points: the main deity is associated with kitchens (kamado means stove) and the author, Koyoharu Gotōge, is from Fukuoka. The wooded stairways…
Fukushima1 place
The place today 
📺 the scene photo by taro gen · CC BY 3.0Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — Koyoharu Gotōge · Shūeisha · anime ufotable (2019)Ryokan Ōkawasō (会津芦ノ牧温泉 大川荘)
🚉 小谷入口 · 31 min walk
It is the most frequently cited model for the Infinity Castle, Muzan's stronghold, and the reason is the lobby: a full-height space rising from the basement to the first floor, with a ‘floating stage’ at its centre that…
Gifu1 place
The place today 
📺 the scene photo by lienyuan lee · CC BY 3.0Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — Koyoharu Gotōge · Shūeisha · anime ufotable (2019)Shirakawa-go Village (白川郷)
🚉 Shirakawa-go (Ogimachi) · 7 min walk
It is the model for Tanjirō's home village, in the first episode.
Nara1 place
photo by shikabane taro · CC BY 3.0Yagyū Ittōseki and Amanoiwatate Shrine (柳生一刀石・天石立神社)
🚉 柳生東 · 16 min walk
Local legend attributes the split to Yagyū Muneyoshi, founder of the Yagyū Shinkage-ryū school of swordsmanship, who during his training is said to have cut down a tengu with a single stroke and then found the rock…
Tochigi1 place
The place today 
📺 the scene photo by SLIMHANNYA · CC BY-SA 4.0Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — Koyoharu Gotōge · Shūeisha · anime ufotable (2019)Ashikaga Flower Park (あしかがフラワーパーク)
🚉 Ashikaga Flower Park · 3 min walk
The trellis of the ‘great miracle wisteria’, a plant over 150 years old, is what readers recognise in Mount Fujikasane, where the Final Selection to join the Demon Slayer Corps takes place; wisteria is also the flower…