🇯🇵 Filming locations in Japan

164 places in Japan recorded as a filming location for a film or television series, from Inception (2010) down to the deep cuts.

🎬 2 studios & sets · 🏰 5 castles & palaces · 🏛 47 landmarks & buildings · 🛣 3 streets & squares · 🏞 30 landscapes & nature · 🏙 77 towns & cities

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Locations in Japan

The 120 most notable are above. Every place in Japan, A to Z, with how many productions each carries:

Set in Japan, not filmed there

500 more places in Japan appear on this atlas because a game, an anime or a manga is SET there. Nothing was filmed at them: a drawn or rendered work is filmed nowhere, and some of these places are invented and pinned on what Wikidata says they are based on.

Also shot in Japan, without a precise location

Wikidata records 111 more productions as shot in Japan while naming only the country or the state — true, and too coarse to pin, so they are named here rather than dropped or guessed at.

Frequently asked questions

How many filming locations are in Japan?

164 places in Japan are recorded on this atlas: 2 studios & sets, 5 castles & palaces and 47 landmarks & buildings, among others. Every one is listed on this page.

Which is the most filmed place in Japan?

Tokyo, with 11 recorded productions.

Which famous productions were filmed in Japan?

Inception (2010), Skyfall (2012), Lost in Translation (2003) and The Last Samurai (2003), by number of Wikipedia language editions.

Where does this information come from?

Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to each place's coordinates, photograph and Wikipedia article. A country that looks thin means sparse Wikidata coverage, never that nothing was filmed there.