Where is Grave of the Fireflies set?

Name: Grave of the Fireflies
Released: 1988

1988 anime film directed by Isao Takahata

Grave of the Fireflies (1988): 3 real places its Wikipedia article names as the setting, in Japan. Wikidata records no setting for this anime at all, so this is prose rather than a statement, and it is labelled that way below. Where the anime takes place, not where it was made: an anime is drawn and filmed nowhere, so this is the only kind of location it has.

Part of the Studio Ghibli Feature Films film series

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Places per Wikipedia's article

The Wikipedia article names 3 places. Each links to the sentence that says so.

Towns & cities Kobe Japan Capital city of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
“Based on Akiyuki Nosaka's 1967 semi-autobiographical short story of the same name, the film is set in Kobe shortly after its bombing by the U.S. Army Air Forces, and follows two orphaned siblings who desperately struggle to survive during the final months of the Pacific War.” Wikipedia
Towns & cities Nishinomiya Japan City in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
“Much of Grave of the Fireflies is set in Nishinomiya.” Wikipedia
Towns & cities Chūō-ku Japan Ward of the City of Kobe, Japan

Drawn from these real places

Japanese Wikipedia says this anime’s setting was modelled on these real places. Nothing was filmed at them.

Set in the same places

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