Lucky Star is set in Saitama, north of Tokyo, and its anime borrows real places: Washinomiya Shrine in Kuki, Kasukabe Station, the Gongendo embankment in Satte and Akihabara.
The route follows the four high-school girls from their neighbourhoods to the shrine where fans began their pilgrimages in 2007, then on to Akihabara and Tokyo Big Sight. The anime changes some names, so several pins mark a model, not an exact scene.
Mimino, Georgiy Daneliya's 1977 comedy about a Georgian helicopter pilot, was filmed in the Tusheti village of Omalo, at the Hotel Rossiya, the Bolshoi Theatre and Butyrka prison in Moscow, and at Tegel airport in West Berlin.
The route follows Valentin Mizandari from his mountain home to Moscow's hotels, courts and airports, and on to the Berlin phone call that connects him to Tel Aviv. Several sites are only stand-ins for the story's places, and the Hotel Rossiya is gone.
Kin-dza-dza! (1986) begins on New Arbat in Moscow and throws two Soviet men into a sandy desert that is really the Karakum near Balkanabat, Turkmenistan. Georgiy Daneliya's cult comedy then plays out on the planet Pluke, which was built from desert, a metro station and studio sets.
The route follows the plot through five real places: the Moscow avenue where the teleporter appears, the Karakum sands, Polyanka metro station, the Army Theatre and Mosfilm. The Pluke locations are approximate or studio stand-ins.
Itaewon Class is set in Seoul's Itaewon, where ex-convict Park Sae-ro-yi opens the DanBam bar, and its real filming spots include SEOUL BAM, the Noksapyeong Overpass and Namsan Park.
The route follows six places where scenes of the 2020 series were shot, from the guesthouse where the leads first meet to the graffiti wall where they take pictures at the end. Some pins mark only a street, as noted at each stop.
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge is set between London, the Swiss Alps and Punjab, and was filmed in Gstaad, Saanen, Zweisimmen and near Gurgaon. Raj and Simran meet on a backpacking trip across Europe and fall in love before her arranged marriage.
The route follows the story from Trafalgar Square and King's Cross to the Swiss stations and the Gstaad promenade, then to the mustard fields outside Gurgaon and the final platform at Apta. The Punjab scenes were filmed elsewhere in India, which the stops say plainly.
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara follows three friends on a Spanish road trip, from the Costa Brava and La Tomatina in Buñol to Seville, Alájar and the running of the bulls in Pamplona.
Each friend picks one adventure sport that all three must complete. The route follows the story's chapters, with notes on what was filmed where. Some pins mark a region or town rather than an exact set.
Good Bye, Lenin! is set in East Berlin and shot largely on Karl-Marx-Allee and around Alexanderplatz, where Alex hides the fall of East Germany from his coma-waking mother. Its famous flying Lenin statue was filmed on the avenue.
The route follows the plot through five places: the Kerners' flat on Berolinastraße, Alexanderplatz, the former Coca-Cola headquarters in Lichterfelde, Karl-Marx-Allee and the dacha in Finsterwalde. The flat's interiors were studio sets, so that pin is approximate.
Run Lola Run is set and filmed in Berlin: a U-Bahn station, the bank at Bebelplatz, the Oberbaum Bridge and a casino in Schöneberg's town hall.
Lola has 20 minutes to find 100,000 marks and save Manni, and the film replays them three times. This route follows the story through the real places where those scenes were shot, from the platform where the money is lost to the casino table where number 20 comes up twice. The film's own geography is loose, so the stops are filming sites rather than a running route.
Netflix's Lupin is set across Paris, from the Louvre and the Pont des Arts to Place Vendôme, with a Normandy detour to the cliffs of Étretat. Assane Diop, a modern gentleman thief inspired by Arsène Lupin, uses real landmarks as his stage.
The route follows six filming locations: the Louvre, the Musée Nissim de Camondo, the Pont des Arts, the Luxembourg Gardens, Étretat and Place Vendôme. Exact spots in Étretat are not named by the sources.
The village of Giancaldo in Cinema Paradiso was filmed mostly in Palazzo Adriano, Sicily: the square, the church that became the cinema and the houses of Totò and Alfredo are all real. The farewell scene was shot at Lascari-Gratteri station.
The route follows Salvatore from his boyhood home to the piazza, the church-cinema and the station where he leaves, then back to Alfredo's house thirty years later. The cinema facade was temporary, and the church interior stands in for the cinema.
Fellini's film La Dolce Vita follows the journalist Marcello from Saint Peter's Square to the Baths of Caracalla, the Trevi Fountain and the Via Veneto, ending on a beach at Passo Oscuro.
The route follows Marcello's episodes in film order, from the helicopter prologue to the dawn on the beach. Much of the film was shot in studio sets, so the route notes where a real place stood in for a set, or the reverse.
Inspector Montalbano is set in the fictional town of Vigàta, based on Camilleri's native Porto Empedocle, but the series is largely filmed in the province of Ragusa: Scicli's town hall, the beach at Punta Secca, the ruined Fornace Penna and Ragusa Ibla.
This route follows six filming locations, from Montalbano's offices and home to Donnafugata Castle and the Guerrieri Viaduct in Modica. Camilleri set his books in a fictionalised province of Agrigento, so these are screen stand-ins, not the novels' own places.
Sally Rooney's Normal People is set in County Sligo and at Trinity College Dublin, but the television series was shot in a school in Clonsilla, the pubs of Tubbercurry, Trinity itself, a villa in Lazio and a frozen coast at Luleå.
The route follows Marianne and Connell from their last school days to university and abroad. Several stops are stand-ins for places the story names, and each says so.
The Crown rarely filmed where its story is set: Lancaster House played Buckingham Palace, Ely and Winchester cathedrals played Westminster Abbey and St Paul's, Cobham Hall played Eton, and Downing Street was built at Elstree Studios.
This route visits five of those stand-ins, from season one to season five, and says what each one played.
The Italian Job (1969) is set in Turin, with the Great St Bernard Pass, Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin and the Nivolet Pass among its real filming places.
The story is a gold heist in traffic-jammed Turin. This route follows it from the Alps through London and Dublin to the Museo Egizio, Lingotto and the final bus on a mountain road. Some scenes were filmed far from where the story puts them.
«Trainspotting» está ambientada en Leith, Edimburgo, pero se rodó casi por completo en Glasgow: solo la persecución inicial por Princes Street y Calton Road se filmó en la capital. Rouken Glen Park, el Jordanhill School y un pub de Queen Margaret Drive hacen las veces de Edimburgo, y la estación de Corrour aporta la escena del «aire libre» de la película.
La ruta sigue a Renton y a sus amigos desde Leith, pasando por la persecución, el parque, el bar y el colegio, hasta un andén remoto de las Tierras Altas. Donde el pub de una guía de localizaciones o el nombre de un puente son inciertos, la parada lo indica.
«El diario de Bridget Jones» está ambientada y rodada en torno a Borough Market, en el sur de Londres, con Shad Thames, los Tribunales Reales de Justicia y Cornhill por el camino. La película traslada a Bridget de Holland Park a un piso encima del pub Globe, donde empieza la historia.
Esta ruta sigue la historia de la película a través de ocho localizaciones de Londres y del campo: la presentación del libro en el ICA, la primera cita en Shad Thames, la escapada de fin de semana en Stoke Park, la fiesta de aniversario en Syon House y el final nevado. La película se rodó a lo largo de seis semanas en Londres y sus alrededores en 2000.
«Love Actually» está ambientada y rodada en su mayor parte en Londres, desde la pista de hielo de Somerset House y la boda en Grosvenor Chapel hasta el mostrador de regalos de Selfridges y la puerta de llegadas de Heathrow. Una parada lleva la historia a Marsella.
Esta ruta sigue por orden las historias navideñas entrelazadas de la película: una boda, un viudo en un banco de South Bank, un collar secreto, una función escolar en Nochebuena y una petición de mano en el Puerto Viejo. Algunas escenas se rodaron en lugares que aún se pueden visitar; un punto de South Bank es aproximado.
«Las aventuras de Priscilla, reina del desierto» arranca en el Imperial Hotel de Erskineville, en Sídney, cruza el Outback por el Palace Hotel de Broken Hill y por Coober Pedy, y termina en un casino de Alice Springs y en los acantilados de Kings Canyon.
Tres artistas viajan en un autobús llamado Priscilla para un contrato de cuatro semanas, y la película se rodó en muchos de los lugares del camino. Esta ruta sigue su viaje en el orden de la historia. El punto exacto de la avería es aproximado, y los marcadores de Coober Pedy y Kings Canyon señalan el pueblo y el parque.
«Cocodrilo Dundee» sigue a un hombre del monte del Territorio del Norte desde las lagunas de Kakadu hasta el hotel Plaza y el metro de Manhattan. Su Walkabout Creek es en realidad el pub de McKinlay, en Queensland; su Outback es Anbangbang Billabong y las cataratas de Gunlom; su Nueva York va del aeropuerto de Newark a Columbus Circle.
La ruta acompaña a la periodista Sue Charlton y a Mick Dundee desde el Outback hasta Nueva York, con una localización de rodaje por escena. Algunos lugares hacen las veces de otros, y los pies de foto lo indican.
«La playa» (2000), de Danny Boyle, sigue a un joven mochilero desde la calle Khao San de Bangkok hasta una playa secreta en una isla, rodada en Maya Bay, en Ko Phi Phi Le, a partir de la novela de Alex Garland de 1996.
La ruta va de la calle Khao San, pasando por Ko Samui, una cascada de Khao Yai y Maya Bay, hasta Ko Pha Ngan. Varias paradas son escenarios sustitutos: los interiores del hotel se rodaron en Phuket, el salto de la cascada en Khao Yai, y la isla en sí es inventada.
«Un mundo de fantasía» (1971) se rodó en Alemania: las puertas de la fábrica de Wonka son una fábrica de gas de Múnich, la sala de chocolate se construyó en los Estudios de Baviera y el vuelo final sobre la ciudad son imágenes de Nördlingen.
La ruta sigue la película en el orden de la historia, desde la tienda de golosinas de Bill y la calle de Charlie Bucket hasta las puertas de la fábrica, el decorado del río de chocolate y el Wonkavator de cristal. Algunas marcas señalan solo una calle, y la sala de chocolate fue un decorado de estudio.
«Yellowstone» transcurre en Montana, pero la casa del rancho Dutton es el Chief Joseph Ranch, cerca de Darby, Montana, y gran parte del resto se rodó en Utah, en Park City y Ogden, antes de que la producción se trasladara a Missoula.
La ruta sigue la producción desde agosto de 2017 cerca de Darby y en los Utah Film Studios, pasando por los sustitutos de Montana en Utah, hasta el traslado a Missoula en 2020. Los lugares aparecen en orden de rodaje, no en el orden de la historia.
«Los juegos del hambre» se filmó casi por completo en Carolina del Norte: el Distrito 12 es el abandonado Henry River Mill Village, la arena es el bosque estatal de DuPont con Triple Falls, y el desfile del Capitolio recorre Charlotte. Las secuelas se trasladaron a Atlanta, donde Swan House, el Goat Farm Arts Center y el Marriott Marquis hacen las veces de la mansión de Snow, el Edificio de Justicia del Distrito 12 y el Centro de Tributos del Capitolio.
Esta ruta sigue la historia desde la cosecha hasta el árbol del ahorcado, con ocho lugares reales y el papel que cada uno desempeña en las películas. Algunos sitios, como Henry River Mill Village, son privados, así que consulten las indicaciones antes de ir.
