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In the footsteps of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
ジョジョの奇妙な冒険
10 real places in 2 prefectures: Miyagi, Tokyo.
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The series' first official, experiential shop, opened in the summer of 2025 on the sixth floor of Shibuya PARCO and run by Bandai Namco Amusement. It is a permanent attraction, not a pop-up: the distinction matters, because almost all the rest of JoJo…
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photo by Miyagi_Prefecture_office_18F_Sview2.jpg : Wkatsuhiro derivative work: Osxlib0422 ( talk ) · Public domainJozenji Avenue (定禅寺通り)
🚉 Kotodai-Koen · 5 min walk
This is where Higashikata Josuke's address comes from: in the fourth part he lives at ‘Jōzenji 1-6’. Along the avenue stand the bronze sculptures of the Sendai Mediatheque, which readers photograph because their poses…
photo by ChampagneFight · Public domainIchibancho Shotengai (一番町商店街)
🚉 Aoba-dori Ichibancho · 5 min walk
The historic footwear shop ‘Mukadeya’, founded in 1934 and located here, is the model for the ‘Mukade Footwear’ shop where Kira Yoshikage takes his clothes to be repaired in the manga.
photo by LERK · CC BY-SA 4.0Hirose-dori (広瀬通り)
🚉 Aoba-dōri · 7 min walk
The surnames of Hirose Kōichi, the Echoes user from Part Four, and of Hirose Yasuho from Part Eight come from here: sources trace them to the Hirose River, the watercourse that runs through Sendai, and to the street of…
photo by KENPEI · CC BY-SA 3.0Kotodai Park (勾当台公園)
🚉 Kotodai-Koen · 1 min walk
It appears as a reference in a scene of the series, and is part of the pilgrimage route through the city centre that serves as the model for Morioh.
photo by cora_cola 茶々丸 · CC BY-SA 3.0Sendai Port (仙台港)
🚉 Nakanosakae · 26 min walk
It is the model for ‘Morioh Port’, the setting of one of the story's farewell moments.
Mukadeya (むかでや)
🚉 Aoba-dori Ichibancho · 3 min walk
It is the model for the ‘Mukade shoe shop’ in the fourth part, the one where Kira Yoshikage takes the buttons of his jacket to be repaired. It is the most visited pilgrimage site in Sendai: readers arrive every day, the…
photo by Kernel · CC BY-SA 3.0Mount Dainenji Television Towers (大年寺山テレビ塔)
🚉 Atagobashi · 14 min walk
The three towers on the summit are identified as the model for ‘Super Fly’, Kōda Toyohiro's pylon Stand in the fourth part, and the one drawn is the Miyagi Television tower. The same mountain gives its name to…
Kakyoin-dōri Post Office (仙台花京院通郵便局)
🚉 Aoba-dōri · 9 min walk
Kakyōin is a real Sendai place name (it comes from a shugendō temple moved here in 1773) and it is the origin of the name of Kakyōin Noriaki, Jōtarō's companion in the third part. The daily Kahoku Shimpō states in a…
photo by 国土地理院 · AttributionKatsuoka Cemetery (葛岡墓園)
🚉 Kuzuoka · in front of the station
It is the model for the ‘Kunimi Pass cemetery’ in the fourth part, where Nijimura Keichō is buried. The invented name comes from the stations: the cemetery has Katsuoka station on the Senzan Line, and the next station…