Kimigahama beach in real life |
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The next anime travel I would like to share is one of another childhood favorite, Amagami SS. For your info, the anime itself is based of a dating sim game released in PS2, PSP, and PS Vita. With the source material from dating sim, that should imply multiple heroine. But unlike your typical cliché harem anime, they chose to write an omnibus format where each heroine were given each 4 episodes. (I haven’t seen anything like that back then so I think it was very cool).
Anyway, the location of Amagami SS was based of a beautiful town at the tip of Chiba facing directly towards Pacific Ocean called Chōshi (JP: 銚子).
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| Seems that Amagami is an icon for Chōshi that they make an event to celebrate the 10th Anniversary |
(NGL I want to visit this town again once I have a chance to go back to Japan! It was that beautiful).
Also, this should be the setting of another anime movie Uchiage Hanabi which I will mention a little in this post. I plan to have another pilgrimage for that movie alone next time (If I can return to Japan one day).
I hopped on the first JR Sōbu-Honsen line train (JP: 総武本線) from Chiba St. heading to Chōshi Station. After arriving at Chōshi St., I directly took the local Chōshi railway (JP: 銚子電鉄) to Tokawa St. (JP: 外川駅) as I was heading to Fureai Hiroba Park.
Train of Chōshi line reminds me of the train from Uchiage Hanabi The train was so unique that they put lots of pink decorations.
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The train from Uchiage Hanabi
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801 series Choshi railway that is shown in the movie Uchiage Hanabi parked at Tokawa St.
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| The pink decoration is so unique and very popular with kids |
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| Choshi railpass costed 700 Yen with ride-as-you-please for the whole day! |
1. Fureai Hiroba Park
The first spot that I went into is the Fureai Hiroba park. I needed 15 minutes by walking from Tokawa St to this park. This place is well-known point where we are able to see the roundness of the globe. In anime, I remembered Junichi often came to this park.
(If you watched the anime, you should know that every arc started with Junichi got broken-hearted as his crush did not come to the promised place in this very park).
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The famous park from the anime during dusk time
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Furuai Hiroba Park in Real Life
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Scene where Junichi with Haruka at the observation deck
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| Too bad that in real life there was a tree blocking the view, but view to Pacific ocean was so beautiful |
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The view of the town with fields from above within the anime
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| The view of the field from above from the park in real life |
Across the park, there was the iconic observatory deck by the name ”Hill where Roundess of Earth is Visible” (JP: 地球の丸く見える丘展望台). Also I found a huge sundial and Filipino-Japanese friendship monument.
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| Sundial with the Japan-Filipino friendship monument |
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| A closer look of the Filipino-Japanese Friendship monument |
2. Chōshi Marina Beach
The second spot I visited was the Marina beach. I need to walk around 30 minutes from Fureai Hiroba park (but if you don’t feel like walking, bicycle rentals is highly recommended!).
In the anime, this beach mainly shown during Nanasaki Ai’s arc.
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One of the scene where Junichi lying on Ai's lap during dusk
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| The bench with roof in real life |
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"May I have your garbage, senpai?"
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| Close look of the bench in real life |
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Junichi and Ai is walking together at the beach
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| Stairways heading to the beach in real life |
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The view at the beach at dusk
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| Angle of the beach in real life |
Not far from marina beach, we can find Chōshi geopark where there is some cool rock formation at the sea. One of them called the Inuiwa/Dog Rock (JP: 犬岩). According to the local guide, this rock is named as such due to its shape somehow resambles dogs ears.
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| Inuiwa rock, looks more like a rabbit than a dog lol |
3. Kimigahama Beach
After strolling around Marina beach, I got back to Tokawa St. and heading to Kimigahama St. by the same local train. In the anime, scenes for Kimigahama Beach mostly appeared in Tanamachi Kaoru’s arc.
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If you get off at Kimigahama St., you should find this small cenotaph. Seems like there used to be a cat always waiting for the tourist in front of the Kimigahama Station
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After strolling around Kimigahama beach, I walked to Inubō St. and went back to Chōshi Station. Here we can find yet another landmark shown in the anime.
If you want to explore Chōshi Station, I highly recommend to rent an electric bicycle from the stand in front of the station. It costed 500 Yen for 2 hours, but I suggest you rent at least 4 hours to explore the whole town!
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Town's station during night time with Christmas theme from the anime
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| Choshi station during the day |
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Family restauran where Kaoru has a part-time job
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| Gasto in real life |
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Junichi waiting for Kaoru's shift in the cold
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| The back of the Gasto |
5. Kiyokawachō Daiichi Park
Next spot that I stopped by was the local playground park in Kiyokawachō (JP: 清川町). This place was mostly shown in Rihoko and Ai’s arc.
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First encounter of Junichi and Umehara with Ai near the park swing
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| The side of the swing in real-life |
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Scene of a log shaped water tap and a swing
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| The tap and swing in real life |
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Grown-up Rihoko wants to try the slide just like what she used
to do during her childhood
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| The real life slide |
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Scene of a convinience store near the park
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| Real life 7-11 near the park |
6. Chōshi City Highschool
The journey shouldn’t be complete if we don’t stop by the school where Kibitō High school where Junichi rolled into. By the time I visited the school, there seemed to be a graduation ceremony.
I really weren’t able to enter the school building unless it is opened for public (for example: school festivals). So I only able to take photograph of the surrounding roads in front of the school.
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Next episode sneek-peak cut
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I am not sure this is the same house but it looked
so similar with the nice touch from the windmills afar |
7. Kawaguchi Shrine
The next spot that I visited was the Kawaguchi Shrine (JP: 川口神社). It took around 20 minutes by bicycle to get there. This spot is mostly shown during Tsukasa’s arc and once during Rihoko’s arc.
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| Chōshi Big Bridge connecting Chiba and Ibaraki on Tone river |
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| The view of Tone Rivier with windmills which we can also find in the anime |
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The stairs heading to the shrine in the anime
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| Stairs heading to Kawaguchi Shrine |
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| Purification though in the anime |
8. Chōshi Port Tower
The final spot that I visited was the iconic Port Tower, which appeared when Junichi and Kaoru had their Christmas date. They particularly set this place as a good spot for date so I highly recommend this place for your romantic pursuit!
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Junichi trying to overcome his fear of height
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| I think the glass floor was a nice improv, still a beautiful view nonetheless |
They held a 10th Anniversary of Amagami in Port Tower where they had an exhibitions and sold Amagami merchandises.
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| Character design of Amagami |
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| Oh yes best girl Ayatsuji-san! |
That wraps-up my trip in Choushi! If I have an opportunity to go back to Japan, surely this will be the first place I will revisit!
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To close the post, here’s the Farewell sign found near the
Filipino-Japanese friendship monument |
Big thanks to Ayamiya-san (JP: 絢宮さん) for the very helpful guide! You can check the link to the post here :
Disclaimer: I don’t own any of the intellectual property of this page and used for research purposes only. "Amagami SS" is fully owned by ©2010 ENTERBRAIN, INC., AIC, & アマガミ製作委員会. |
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