The distinctive Drum Gate outside of Kanazawa Station on the other hand, is one of the city’s most recent landmarks, and has already appeared in other anime such as Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai. Much like Kyoto, Kanazawa still has most of its original cultural and historical attractions to boasts. In the show’s fifth episode, the girls head on a quick trip to Kanazawa, the capital of Ishikawa Prefecture, during their summer holidays. However, it does look quite a bit smaller in real life.īut Kyoto is not all that After School Dice Club has to offer. The broad Shijo Street runs through the center of Kyoto’s commercial district and has been featured in more anime than I can count.Īnd after seeing all of these faithfully recreated tourist spots, you have got to wonder whether or not the show’s Saikoro Club, where Midori works part time, also exists? The answer is yes, it does! The place is also a board game café in real life, fittingly called Café Meeple. Aya seems to be living close by after all. In episode three, the girls meet up for a gaming session in front of the Nakagyo Post Office. This is also the shrine where Miki meets Aya’s older sister for the first time. Another one being the Kyoto Ebisu Shrine, which was built in 1202, and is one of Japan’s three major shrines dedicated to Ebisu, one of the Seven Gods of Fortune. Kyoto is chock-full of shrines and temples, so it shouldn’t be too big of a surprise that there are plenty of them in the anime as well.
The Awata Shrine seems to be student council vice-chair Ren’s go-to shrine.
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The lovely Gion Tatsumi Bridge is one of the most charming places in Kyoto’s famous historic geisha district of Gion, and has become even more popular after being featured in the movie Memoirs of a Geisha. You guessed it, the zoo was also featured in The Eccentric Family 2. Unfortunately, Miki and Aya didn’t have time to head inside and stop by the tanuki enclosure to pay Yasaburo a visit. This little bus stop is right next to the entrance of the Kyoto City Zoo. You might recognize the aqueduct from a little show called K-On! The former Gosho Water Pumping Facility is located at the end of the Keage Incline.Įven though Miki has been living in Kyoto for some time now, it was also her first time to visit the large brick aqueduct that passes through the Nanzenji Temple grounds, which was built during the Meiji Period, and was used to transport water and goods from the nearby Lake Biwa to Kyoto. Not too far off is the Spiral Brick Tunnel (Keage Tunnel) with it’s twisted brick pattern, behind which you’ll find a couple of quaint temples and shrines, as well as the famous Nanzenji Temple.
This hasn’t been the first time the scenic photo spot has appeared in an anime, as it’s already been in Sound! Euphonium as well. Located in the east of Kyoto, the 582 meter long slope with disused cargo railroad tracks is perfect for a leisurely stroll, and has become a very popular cherry blossom viewing spot in the spring, where they usually bloom from late March to early April. In the first episode, Aya and Miki get sidetracked and end up exploring some of Kyoto’s lesser known tourist attractions, one of them being the Keage Incline in the picture above. Kyoto is After School Dice Club’s main setting, and the show has been putting Japan’s picturesque old capital to good use. *Images were taken with GOOGLE STREET VIEW (photos I shot myself are marked ‘WD’) So without any further ado, let’s get to it! Real-life location-heavy shows have been few and far between this fall, so it’s great that at least After School Dice Club has been dishing out plenty of Kyoto and Kanazawa locations for me to track down. However, we won’t be looking at all the real board games featured in the show here (that could be an entirely different article in itself after all), but as always, we’ll be taking a look at the show’s surprisingly good-looking real-world locations instead. Real Life! Seeing so many German board games getting highlighted in the anime has been quite entertaining for me as a German native speaker, since I grew up with a couple of these. It’s all about the laid-back tabletop gaming anime After School Dice Club in this edition of Anime vs.
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