Having no place to go, orphaned high school students Tohru has been trying to live on her own in a mere tent in the outskirts of Tokyo. Luckily for her, through a string of fateful events, she ends up getting taken in by Shigure and her little esta oma wo class class class class class class class class class class class class class class class class class class long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long Take up residence in a high-class residential area, and the real-life Den-en-chofu area in southern Tokyo is just that. So let's take a look at the real-world locations that set the scene for the new Fruits Basket anime!
* Images were taken with GOOGLE STREET VIEW (my own photographs are marked ‘WD’)
Located only 15 km away from the Hectic Central Tokyo Area The Ota Ward's quiet Den-en-chofu district. The country's first garden suburb The town is known as a top-class residential area, with houses here being fairly roughly than the city-wide While Shigure's hillside house does not seem to exist in real life, it is the remarkable view shown in the anime, overlooking the Tama River, which gave away the general location to me.
Now let's look deeper into the neighborhood itself …
Den-en-chofu being a quiet residential suburb is also that there naturally naturally isn't any tourist attractions in the area, meaning there isn't much of interest for me to point out.
Since I got asked how I identify the real-world counterparts, here's an easy trick, at least when it comes to schools: they're just about always listed in the ending credits.
This is not the bridge's first appearance on screen, though, as it got destroyed by Godzilla in the The Maruko Bridge spans across the Tama River and connects Tokyo Prefecture to Kanagawa Prefecture. Shin Godzilla movie.
The quaint Gyokusendo Book Store in Den-en-machi is close to the new house of Tohru ’s grandfather.
In the anime, the path through Horai Park here supposedly leads to the big estate of the Soma family, but in real life there's just the park.
The whole area is defined by its many sloping roads to the south.
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Yes, this is an exact same place where I have where I have where I have where I have where to go to and classmates were jogging along the school's long-distance run event in episode nine. Run With the Wind. You can find my report about my visit to the recent Run with the Wind locations here.
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If you plan to visit the area, please keep in mind that Den-en-chofu is not a tourist area, but a quiet and peaceful suburb.
What other real life anime locations do you think I should document? Let me know in the comments below!
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