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Tokyo

capital and largest city of Japan

🇯🇵 Japan · 35.6894, 139.6917

Tokyo is recorded as a filming location for 11 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Tokyo, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 11 more. 25 video games, 29 anime and 2 manga are also set here.

23 productions were filmed at 167 places inside Tokyo rather than at Tokyo itself — listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“Principal photography began in Tokyo on June 19, 2009, with the scene in which Saito first hires Cobb during a helicopter flight over the city.”
Inception (2010) · Wikipedia

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Photo: Morio · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Movies and TV series filmed in Tokyo

The 4 most widely covered are above. The other 7 filmed in Tokyo:

  • Love Exposure 2008
  • Paper Planes 2015
  • Asura 2025–
  • Diary of a Shinjuku Thief 1968
  • Noriko's Dinner Table 2005
  • Adrift in Tokyo 2007
  • Mezamashi TV 1994–

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Tokyo 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.

And 6 more, per Wikipedia:

Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Tokyo

23 productions shot at 167 places inside Tokyo, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Tokyo itself.

155 more places are inside Tokyo — see them on the map.

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.

And 58 more set here:

Set here, per Wikipedia

Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Tokyo, 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.

And 144 more, per Wikipedia:

Drawn from this place

Productions whose Japanese Wikipedia article names Tokyo 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 Tokyo?

51 productions are recorded as filmed in Tokyo, 23 of them at places inside it, including Inception (2010), Lost in Translation (2003) and Tokyo Vice (2022–2024). 17 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Tokyo?

Inception (2010), covered by 97 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Tokyo?

Tokyo is in Japan, at 35.6894, 139.6917. The day trip guide for Tokyo lists 76 filming locations within 100 km.

What other filming locations are near Tokyo?

Nerima, Matsugō, Kabukichō, Shibuya scramble crossing 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 Morio, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Planning a visit? Filming locations near Tokyo — 76 places within 100 km, with distances and directions.