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In the footsteps of Kotaro Lives Alone
コタローは1人暮らし
12 real places in 4 prefectures: Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa, Saitama.
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Tokyo9 places
photo by Suikotei · CC BY 4.0Joyfull Minowa Shopping Arcade (ジョイフル三の輪)
🚉 Minowa · 7 min walk
In the second season of the drama it is the street Karino and Kotaro walk along in episodes 7 and 8, with the scene on the bench at the coin laundry.
Tominoyu Public Bath (富の湯) — Komae
🚉 Kokuryo · 15 min walk
Live-action filming location. It is a recurring location: episodes 1–6 and 8 of the first season, episodes 1–3, 5 and 8 of the second, and the bathhouse has confirmed its cooperation with the filming on its official…
photo by jmho · CC0Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan (自由学園明日館) — Ikebukuro
🚉 Ikebukuro · 12 min walk
One of the recurring locations of the second season of the drama ‘Welcome Back! Kotaro Lives Alone’: episodes 1, 5, 8 and the final episode.
Lodge Akaishi Café (珈琲ロッジ赤石) — Asakusa
🚉 Asakusa · 11 min walk
It is the café that plays the ‘pure café Pure Water’ in the drama. The KiBuN-ya bakery also appears in the same scene.
photo by Suikotei · CC BY-SA 4.0Satake Shopping Arcade (佐竹商店街) — Taito
🚉 Shin-okachimachi · 5 min walk
In the second season of the drama it is the street where a fortune-teller reads Kotaro's face, in episodes 7 and 8.
photo by Kamemaru2000 · CC BY-SA 3.0Kawashima Shopping Arcade (川島商店街) — Nakano
🚉 Nakano-shimbashi · 7 min walk
In the drama it appears in episodes 3 and 4: the Yamagataya grocer's and the small Cosmo-kun municipal square, where the neighbourhood festival is held, are along this same street.
photo by Kamemaru2000 · CC BY-SA 3.0Higashi-Shinagawa Marine Park (東品川海上公園)
🚉 Tennozu Isle · 8 min walk
It is the park in episode 5 of the drama's second season.
Tachikawa Sozosha — former Tamagawa Elementary School (たちかわ創造舎・旧多摩川小学校)
🚉 Nishi-Tachikawa · 19 min walk
It is the ‘Shimizu Elementary School’ of the drama's second season.
Hohoemi Park (ほほえみ公園) — Hino
🚉 Minamidaira · 12 min walk
Used for the play scenes in episodes 1 and 6 of the drama's second season.
Chiba1 place
photo by The original uploader was Hykw-a4 at Japanese Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0Reitaku University (麗澤大学) — Kashiwa
🚉 Minami-Kashiwa · 21 min walk
The Hikarigaoka campus is where the cherry blossom scenes take place, in episodes 1, 5 and 6 of the second season.
Kanagawa1 place
photo by Quercus acuta · CC BY-SA 4.0Isshiki Beach (一色海岸) — Hayama
🚉 葉山 · 2 min walk
It is the sea from episode 8 of the second season. In the first season, by contrast, the sea scenes were shot at Southern Beach in Chigasaki.
Saitama1 place
photo by Souka Kinmei · CC BY 4.0Misato Park
🚉 Kanamachi · 35 min walk
A Saitama prefectural park stretching along the 小合溜井 (Koai-damei), a wetland created about 260 years ago between the Edo and Nakagawa rivers, originally a flood-control and irrigation reservoir for Edo. Today, together…