🏙 Towns & cities
Nara
city in Nara prefecture, Japan
🇯🇵 Japan · 34.6850, 135.8048
Nara is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Nara, rather than at one identified spot.
1 production was filmed at 3 places inside Nara rather than at Nara itself — listed below, each with the place it was shot.
Movies filmed in Nara
Movies filmed elsewhere in Nara
1 production shot at 3 places inside Nara, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Nara itself.
- Spring Snow Enshō-ji 2005
Set here, per Wikipedia
Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Nara, 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.
Filming locations nearby
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🌍 Countries & regions
Japan
🇯🇵 Japan
island country in East Asia
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🏰 Castles & palaces
Nijō Castle
🇯🇵 Japan
castle in Kyoto, Japan
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🏙 Towns & cities
Kyoto
🇯🇵 Japan
city in the Kyōto Prefecture, Japan
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Heian Jingū
🇯🇵 Japan
Shinto shrine in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Nanzen-ji Temple
🇯🇵 Japan
building in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
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🏙 Towns & cities
Osaka
🇯🇵 Japan
designated city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Nara?
2 productions are recorded as filmed in Nara, 1 of them at places inside it, including Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning (2021).
Which is the best known production filmed in Nara?
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning (2021), covered by 11 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Nara?
Nara is in Japan, at 34.6850, 135.8048.
What other filming locations are near Nara?
Japan, Nijō Castle, Kyoto, Heian Jingū 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 Saigen Jiro, CC0.