🏰 Castles & palaces

Himeji Castle

Japanese castle complex

🇯🇵 Japan · 34.8394, 134.6936

Himeji Castle is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia articles of 2 productions — in the section each entry below links back to. No Wikidata filming statement points here yet, so this page says plainly which kind of evidence it rests on.

“The castle has been featured extensively in foreign and Japanese films, including the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice (1967), and Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha (1980) and Ran (1985).”

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Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Himeji Castle as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, and labelled as what it is — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

Named here by Himeji Castle’s own Wikipedia article

Productions this page’s own Wikipedia article says were shot at Himeji Castle, where neither Wikidata nor the production’s own article records it. That is the weakest evidence on this atlas, so these get no pin on the map and stay out of the downloads — the sentence is quoted in full below each one so you can judge it.

• Shōgun 1980–

  “In the television miniseries Shōgun (1980) it served as a stand-in for feudal-era Osaka Castle.” Wikipedia

Filming locations nearby

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  🏛 Landmarks & buildings

  Engyō-ji Temple

  🇯🇵 Japan

  Buddhist temple in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan

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  🏙 Towns & cities

  Himeji

  🇯🇵 Japan

  city in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan

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  🏞 Landscapes & nature

  Shōdo Island

  🇯🇵 Japan

  island in Seto Inland Sea, Japan

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  🏛 Landmarks & buildings

  Akashi Municipal Planetarium

  🇯🇵 Japan

  museum with a planetarium in Akashi, Hyogo, Japan

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