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Kyoto

city in the Kyōto Prefecture, Japan

🇯🇵 Japan · 35.0116, 135.7681

Kyoto is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Kyoto, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 6 more. 6 video games and 2 anime are also set here.

4 productions were filmed at 23 places inside Kyoto rather than at Kyoto itself — listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“Some scenes were shot in Kyoto and Himeji, Japan.”
The Last Samurai (2003) · Wikipedia

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Kyoto
Photo: Basile Morin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Movies filmed in Kyoto

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Kyoto 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.

Movies filmed elsewhere in Kyoto

4 productions shot at 23 places inside Kyoto, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Kyoto itself.

11 more places are inside Kyoto — see them on the map.

Set here

Video games and Anime 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 Kyoto, 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

Manga whose Japanese Wikipedia article names Kyoto 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 in Kyoto?

11 productions are recorded as filmed in Kyoto, 4 of them at places inside it, including Lost in Translation (2003), The Last Samurai (2003) and Rashomon (1950). 6 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Kyoto?

Lost in Translation (2003), covered by 69 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Kyoto?

Kyoto is in Japan, at 35.0116, 135.7681. The day trip guide for Kyoto lists 29 filming locations within 100 km.

What other filming locations are near Kyoto?

Japan, Nijō Castle, Heian Jingū, Nanzen-ji Temple and 2 more, 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 Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Planning a visit? Filming locations near Kyoto — 29 places within 100 km, with distances and directions.