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In the footsteps of Sword Art Online
ソードアート・オンライン
34 real places in 4 prefectures: Tokyo, Saitama, Kyoto, Kanagawa.
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It opens ‘Ordinal Scale’: the television report introducing the Augma frames it from below, then moves down to the players at its foot fighting monsters overlaid in augmented reality.
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photo by Arne Müseler · CC BY-SA 3.0 deJapan National Stadium (Kokuritsu Kyogijo)
🚉 Kokuritsu-kyogijo · 5 min walk
This is where Yuna's concert is held, and with it the finale of ‘Ordinal Scale’. The stadium as drawn, however, is not the one you see today: in 2017 the film came out while the venue was still under construction, and…
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📺 the scene Sword Art Online — Reki Kawahara, illus. abec · KADOKAWA · anime A-1 Pictures (2012)Sakuragi Fureai Ryokuchi Park
🚉 Kamimachi · 6 min walk
Asuna lives in Miyasaka, and the neighbourhood, together with this park, appears in the real-world scenes: in particular in the first episode of ‘Alicization’, on the way back from the Dicey Café, when Johnny Black…
photo by 江戸前鰻 at Japanese Wikipedia This photo was taken with iPhone 11 · CC BY 3.0Busta Shinjuku (バスタ新宿)
🚉 Shinsen-Shinjuku · 4 min walk
Shinjuku's south exit is the second ingredient of the opening sequence of the second cour of the first season: the station drawn is Tokorozawa, but the pedestrian crossings and the guardrails around it come from here.…
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📺 the scene photo by 江戸村のとくぞう · CC BY-SA 4.0Sword Art Online — Reki Kawahara, illus. abec · KADOKAWA · anime A-1 Pictures (2012)Tokyo Dome (東京ドーム)
🚉 Korakuen · 4 min walk
The fourth battle event of ‘Ordinal Scale’, the one in which Kirito fights alongside Shinon. The scene opens on the view you get arriving from Suidōbashi Station along the footbridge; the pyramid obelisk is the point…
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📺 the scene photo by Niui na at Japanese Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Sword Art Online — Reki Kawahara, illus. abec · KADOKAWA · anime A-1 Pictures (2012)Akihabara UDX (秋葉原UDX) — UTX
🚉 Akihabara · 5 min walk
The first event battle of ‘Ordinal Scale’: Kirito and Asuna arrive by motorbike along Chūō-dōri and get off onto the pavement beside the main Sofmap, the 21:00 countdown appears on the UDX big screen and Klein arrives…
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📺 the scene photo by Guilhem Vellut from Annecy, France · CC BY 2.0Sword Art Online — Reki Kawahara, illus. abec · KADOKAWA · anime A-1 Pictures (2012)East Gardens of the Imperial Palace (皇居東御苑)
🚉 Takebashi · 12 min walk
Kirito and Asuna's date in the first episode of ‘Sword Art Online II’, the one that opens the Phantom Bullet arc: they meet in front of the Ōte-mon gate and walk in the park, and the three benches in a row on which they…
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📺 the scene Sword Art Online — Reki Kawahara, illus. abec · KADOKAWA · anime A-1 Pictures (2012)Ōtemachi Station — Exit C10 (大手町駅)
🚉 Otemachi · 6 min walk
Exit C10, from which Asuna emerges to meet Kirito, in the first episode of ‘Sword Art Online II’.
Shiseido Parlour Salon de Café (資生堂パーラー サロン・ド・カフェ)
🚉 Higashi-Ginza · 7 min walk
The café where the conversations in episodes 1 and 14 of ‘Sword Art Online II’ take place; in the second it is the scene in which Shinon comes to terms with her trauma.
Tanashi Technical High School (東京都立田無工科高等学校)
🚉 Seibu-Yagisawa · 14 min walk
It is the model for the ‘school for returnees’ (帰還者学校), the institution that takes in the young survivors of SAO and that, in the fiction, reuses a disused school building in Nishi-Tokyo. Kirito and Asuna study there…
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📺 the scene photo by kcomiida · CC BY-SA 3.0Sword Art Online — Reki Kawahara, illus. abec · KADOKAWA · anime A-1 Pictures (2012)Yoyogi Park (代々木公園)
🚉 Yoyogi-Hachiman · 13 min walk
The second event battle of ‘Ordinal Scale’ and, the next morning, Kirito's first encounter with the hooded ‘ghost’. The identified spots are all inside the park: the viewpoint walkway, where the ghost appears; the grand…
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📺 the scene photo by Joe Jones (redjoe, Flickr) · CC BY 2.0Sword Art Online — Reki Kawahara, illus. abec · KADOKAWA · anime A-1 Pictures (2012)Yoyogi National Gymnasium — First Arena (国立代々木競技場第一体育館)
🚉 Meiji-jingumae 'Harajuku' · 12 min walk
In ‘Ordinal Scale’ the Harajuku gate is where Asuna catches up with Klein and his group, and the open area just inside, in front of the great flight of steps, is where Eiji summons the boss and steals the Fūrinkazan's…
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📺 the scene photo by Syced · CC0Sword Art Online — Reki Kawahara, illus. abec · KADOKAWA · anime A-1 Pictures (2012)Ebisu Garden Place (恵比寿ガーデンプレイス)
🚉 Ebisu · 10 min walk
The third event battle of ‘Ordinal Scale’, the most important one: here Asuna is hit and loses her memories of the SAO days. She, Lisbeth and Silica wait for it to start, sitting on the staircase furthest from the…
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📺 the scene photo by Christophe95 · CC BY-SA 4.0Sword Art Online — Reki Kawahara, illus. abec · KADOKAWA · anime A-1 Pictures (2012)Meiji Shrine (明治神宮)
🚉 Meiji-jingumae 'Harajuku' · 13 min walk
Where Kirito meets the ‘white Yuna’ in ‘Ordinal Scale’: he parks his motorbike at the entrance to the approach avenue, and on the bridge along the sandō she touches his Augma, opening the virtual space in which the two…
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📺 the scene photo by Syced · CC0Sword Art Online — Reki Kawahara, illus. abec · KADOKAWA · anime A-1 Pictures (2012)Takeshiba Passenger Terminal (竹芝客船ターミナル)
🚉 Takeshiba · 2 min walk
The last in the string of battles Kirito fights to level up in ‘Ordinal Scale’: here he risks losing his memories, beats the boss anyway and receives the invitation to Yuna's concert from Eiji. The recognisable square…
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📺 the scene photo by Kakidai · CC BY-SA 4.0Sword Art Online — Reki Kawahara, illus. abec · KADOKAWA · anime A-1 Pictures (2012)Ōokayama Campus, Institute of Science Tokyo (東京科学大学 大岡山キャンパス)
🚉 Ookayama · 6 min walk
The ‘Tōto Kōgyō Daigaku’ where Professor Shigemura teaches, and where Kirito bursts into his laboratory in ‘Ordinal Scale’: the campus is drawn exactly as it is, from the sign on the main gate to the motorbike parking…
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📺 the scene photo by Nesnad · CC BY 4.0Sword Art Online — Reki Kawahara, illus. abec · KADOKAWA · anime A-1 Pictures (2012)Kitanomaru Park (北の丸公園)
🚉 Kudanshita · 9 min walk
The last stop on Kirito's tour of Tokyo in search of the ‘ghost’, in ‘Ordinal Scale’: the sequence opens on the roof of the Budōkan, the encounter takes place at the vending machine in the rest area a little way into…
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📺 the scene photo by Wei-Te Wong from Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China · CC BY-SA 2.0Sword Art Online — Reki Kawahara, illus. abec · KADOKAWA · anime A-1 Pictures (2012)Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building (東京都庁)
🚉 Shinsen-Shinjuku · 8 min walk
One of the stops on the motorbike ride in which Kirito rechecks the places where the events happened in ‘Ordinal Scale’. The low-angle shot is the one you get from the citizens' plaza, between the main building and the…
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📺 the scene photo by kanesue · CC BY 3.0Sword Art Online — Reki Kawahara, illus. abec · KADOKAWA · anime A-1 Pictures (2012)Ginza 4-chōme Crossing (銀座四丁目交差点)
🚉 Higashi-Ginza · 3 min walk
The very first scene of ‘Ordinal Scale’ after the titles: the TV report presenting the Augma interviews a couple, looking along Chūō-dōri towards Ginza 5-chōme, and the augmented reality demonstration is superimposed on…
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📺 the scene Sword Art Online — Reki Kawahara, illus. abec · KADOKAWA · anime A-1 Pictures (2012)Karaoke-kan Shibuya Honten (カラオケ館 渋谷本店)
🚉 Shibuya · 6 min walk
The karaoke place where Silica, Lisbeth and the others take Asuna to cheer her up and to ‘rehearse’ the songs before Yuna's concert, in ‘Ordinal Scale’. In the shot the sign appears together with the street lamp bearing…
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📺 the scene photo by Kakidai · CC BY-SA 4.0Sword Art Online — Reki Kawahara, illus. abec · KADOKAWA · anime A-1 Pictures (2012)Godzilla Road and Shinjuku Tōhō Building (ゴジラロード・新宿東宝ビル)
🚉 Seibu-Shinjuku · 4 min walk
Kabukichō as seen on Kirito's motorbike ride in ‘Ordinal Scale’: the street that points straight at the Tōhō building, framed from Yasukuni-dōri, and the small square in front of the building, recognisable by the Krispy…
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📺 the scene photo by Shampoorobot at Japanese Wikipedia aka ja:User:A16504601 · CC BY-SA 3.0Sword Art Online — Reki Kawahara, illus. abec · KADOKAWA · anime A-1 Pictures (2012)Roppongi Hills (六本木ヒルズ)
🚉 Roppongi · 7 min walk
The night-time views of Tokyo from above that punctuate ‘Ordinal Scale’, epilogue included, are the panorama from the Tokyo City View observation deck at the top of the Mori Tower: the position of Tokyo Tower and of the…
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📺 the scene photo by 運転太郎 · CC BY 3.0Sword Art Online — Reki Kawahara, illus. abec · KADOKAWA · anime A-1 Pictures (2012)Sunshine-dōri, Ikebukuro (サンシャイン通り)
🚉 Ikebukuro · 7 min walk
The giant screen on which the ‘MMO Stream’ programme is broadcast in ‘Ordinal Scale’ is the one at Cinema Sunshine; a little further along the same street appears the front of the Adores Sunshine amusement arcade, on…
Saitama5 places
photo by icer1212 · CC BY-SA 3.0Dodaira Observatory (堂平天文台)
It is the ‘promised place’ where Kirito and Asuna watch the meteor shower, in ‘Ordinal Scale’.
photo by K.F. · CC BY-SA 4.0Senba Hikawa Shrine (仙波氷川神社)
🚉 Kawagoe · 13 min walk
It appears in the first episode, recognisable from the sign at the entrance.
Kawagoe Hatsukari Junior High School (川越市立初雁中学校)
🚉 Hon-Kawagoe · 20 min walk
It is the model for ‘Kawagoe Kita Junior High School’, which Suguha, Kirito's sister, attends; it appears in episode 18 of the first season.
photo by Nesnad · CC BY 4.0Tokorozawa Station — west exit (所沢駅西口)
🚉 Tokorozawa · in front of the station
The Seibu station in the opening sequence of the second cour of the first season: the building is the one at the west exit, but the pedestrian crossings and guardrails around it come from the south exit of JR Shinjuku…
Higashi-Tokorozawa LED Manhole (光るマンホール)
🚉 Higashi-Tokorozawa · 4 min walk
The series' manhole cover is number 15, with an illustration by abec, the illustrator of the light novels.
Kyoto4 places
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📺 the scene photo by josef knecht · CC BY 3.0Sword Art Online — Reki Kawahara, illus. abec · KADOKAWA · anime A-1 Pictures (2012)Kiyomizu-dera (清水寺)
🚉 Kiyomizu-gojo · 22 min walk
It appears in the opening sequence of the last episode of ‘Sword Art Online II’, when Asuna takes Yuuki, Lisbeth, Silica and Suguha to visit Kyoto, and it is Silica who gets most excited in front of the cantilevered…
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📺 the scene photo by Martin Falbisoner · CC BY-SA 4.0Sword Art Online — Reki Kawahara, illus. abec · KADOKAWA · anime A-1 Pictures (2012)Kyoto Station (京都駅)
🚉 Kyoto · 9 min walk
The arrival in Kyoto in the opening sequence of the last episode of ‘Sword Art Online II’: the shot is of the central exit on the Karasuma side. Asuna's family comes from the area.
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📺 the scene photo by Basile Morin · CC BY-SA 4.0Sword Art Online — Reki Kawahara, illus. abec · KADOKAWA · anime A-1 Pictures (2012)Arashiyama Bamboo Path (竹林の小径)
🚉 Torokko Arashiyama Station · in front of the station
One of the four places in Kyoto that appear in the opening sequence of the last episode of ‘Sword Art Online II’, when Asuna takes Yuuki to see her own family's city.
photo by ttshr1970 · CC BY 3.0Entoku-in (圓徳院)
🚉 Kyoto Kawaramachi · 15 min walk
The sub-temple where Asuna and Yuuki look at the illuminated garden, in the opening sequence of the last episode of ‘Sword Art Online II’. The tea pavilion matches what was drawn.
Kanagawa2 places
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📺 the scene photo by Abasaa · Public domainSword Art Online — Reki Kawahara, illus. abec · KADOKAWA · anime A-1 Pictures (2012)Hodogaya Catholic Church (保土ヶ谷カトリック教会)
🚉 Hodogaya · 13 min walk
It is the church where Yuuki's funeral takes place, in the ‘Mother's Rosario’ arc: the architecture is closely reproduced.
photo by Nesnad · CC BY 4.0Hoshikawa Station (星川駅)
🚉 Hoshikawa · 2 min walk
The station where Asuna gets off to reach Yuuki's neighbourhood, in the ‘Mother's Rosario’ arc of ‘Sword Art Online II’. Tsukimidai Park, in front of the house where Yuuki lived before her illness, is about 1.2 km…