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Hokkaidō
island of Japan
🇯🇵 Japan · 43.4606, 142.7922
Hokkaidō is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikipedia names it for 2 more. 2 video games, 1 anime and 1 manga are also set here.
“Toyama was both the setting of Coffinman and Takita's home prefecture, but filming was done in Yamagata; this was largely because the national Nōkan Association, headquartered in Hokkaido, had a branch office in Sakata.”
Movies filmed at Hokkaidō
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Hokkaidō as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.
- Departures 2008
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Dreams
1990
“About 100 crows captured by locals in Hokkaido were kept in cages hidden in the field on either side of the frame and were released on a cue from Scorsese.” Wikipedia
Set here
Video games, Anime and Manga that take place here. None of them is filmed anywhere, so this is where the story is set rather than where a camera stood — a different claim from everything above, and kept under its own heading for that reason.
- When Marnie Was There
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Ghost of Yōtei
“The story is set in the environs of Mount Yōtei in Ezo (modern-day Hokkaido, Japan) in 1603, 329 years after the events of Tsushima.” Wikipedia
- Hitman
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Golden Kamuy
“Golden Kamuy takes place in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War, primarily in Hokkaido and the surrounding regions.” Wikipedia
Set here, per Wikipedia
Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Hokkaidō, where Wikidata’s narrative-location statement stops at the country. Still a setting and not a shoot, and still a sentence rather than a statement — two steps from the strongest evidence on this atlas, and labelled at both.
- Pokémon Legends: Arceus
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
- The Place Promised in Our Early Days
- Erased 2012
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Silver Spoon
2011
“The story is set in the fictional Ooezo Agricultural High School in Hokkaido, and depicts the daily life of Yuugo Hachiken, a high school student from Sapporo who enrolled at the agricultural high school to escape the demands of his strict father.” Wikipedia
- Takopi's Original Sin 2021
- Saikano 1999
- Working!!
- We Were There 2002
- Yakuza 5
- Persona 5 Strikers
- Cyborg Kuro-chan 1997
- Noein 2005
- Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable!
- Wave, Listen to Me! 2014
- Tomorrow Never Dies
- Sin and Punishment
- Delta Force: Land Warrior
- Rainbow Days
Drawn from this place
Productions whose Japanese Wikipedia article names Hokkaidō as a real place their setting was modelled on. Nothing was filmed here and no story happens here: somebody drew it from here. That is the weakest claim this atlas makes about a place, which is why it sits under its own heading, and each production’s page links the article the claim came from.
Filming locations nearby
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed at Hokkaidō?
3 productions are recorded as filmed at Hokkaidō, including One Day (2016), Departures (2008) and Dreams (1990). 2 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed at Hokkaidō?
One Day (2016), covered by 8 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Hokkaidō?
Hokkaidō is in Japan, at 43.4606, 142.7922.
What other filming locations are near Hokkaidō?
Sinnoh and Hisui, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by 663highland, CC BY 2.5.