Japan's first national football training centre, straddling the municipalities of Naraha and Hirono. After the 2011 disaster the facility served as the operations base for the Fukushima Daiichi power plant; reopened between 2018 and 2019, it hosted the start of the 2021 Olympic torch relay.
ℹ️ It is open to the public: the hotel, restaurants and gym are accessible to non-athletes too. JR J-Village Station, on the Jōban Line.
🚉 J-village · 14 min walk
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Live-action filming location. The film's official website confirms that the football scenes of the 2026 live action were shot here, on real pitches, and the newspaper Fukushima Minpō adds that the covered all-weather pitch was also used: filming took place in autumn 2025, with the support of the Sōsō Film Commission, concentrated on Naraha.
Sources: minpo.jp · bluelock-movie.jp