Where is The World Ends with You set?
2007 action role-playing video game
The World Ends with You — 1 real place Wikidata records as its setting in Japan. Where the game takes place, not where it was made: a game is filmed nowhere, so this is the only kind of location it has.
Part of the World Ends With You game series
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Where it is set
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🏙 Towns & cities
Shibuya
🇯🇵 Japan
special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan
“The game takes place in a fictional version of the Shibuya shopping district in Tokyo, Japan.” Wikipedia
Also per Wikipedia's article
The article names 2 more places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.
Filmed in the same places
- Love & Pop 1998
- Inception 2010
- Lost in Translation 2003
- Tokyo Vice 2022–2024
- Suicide Club 2001
- Love Exposure 2008
- Paper Planes 2015
- Asura 2025–
- Diary of a Shinjuku Thief 1968
- Noriko's Dinner Table 2005
- Adrift in Tokyo 2007
- Mezamashi TV 1994–
Set in the same places
- Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage!
- Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween
- Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing per its source work 2025
- NEO: The World Ends With You
- Tokyo Ghoul
- Weathering with You
- Akira
- 5 Centimeters Per Second
- Only Yesterday
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
- Need for Speed: ProStreet
- From Up on Poppy Hill
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Frequently asked questions
How many places is The World Ends with You set in?
1 place recorded on Wikidata, and 2 places from a Wikipedia setting category, labelled per Wikipedia, across Japan.
Which other productions are set in the same places?
Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage!, Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween, Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing (2025), NEO: The World Ends With You and 8 more, each listed on this page.
Was The World Ends with You filmed anywhere?
No. A game is filmed nowhere, so the places on this page are where its story is set, from Wikidata's narrative location and from Wikipedia's setting categories.
Where does this information come from?
Narrative location statements on Wikidata, and the setting categories Wikipedia editors file the work under, which are labelled per Wikipedia. Nothing is guessed from the plot.