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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.”
Departures (2008) · Wikipedia

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Hokkaidō
Photo: 663highland · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons

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
  • 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.

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.

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.