Hanasaku Iroha is set in the fictional spa town of Yunosagi, modelled on Yuwaku Onsen in Kanazawa, with a station borrowed from Nishigishi. Follow Ohana from her grandmother's inn to the lantern festival. The five stops cover the spa town, the demolished hotel that inspired Kissuisō, the rival inn, the station and the real Bonbori Festival. Several models have since closed or changed, so this is as much a fan trail as a set of sites.
Wim Wenders' Perfect Days follows Hirayama, a Tokyo toilet cleaner who keeps his days exactly the same: the same overalls, the same cassette tapes, the same sandwich under the trees. The city changes around him; he notices the light through the leaves. This route follows the film's real Tokyo, from the old apartment east of the Sumida to four of the Tokyo Toilet project's designer facilities, the shrine bench where he eats lunch, the sento and Asakusa bar that fill his evenings, and the bridge where the story ends.
1180年から1185年にかけて、日本の二大武家である平氏と源氏が天下をめぐって争った。戦いは、幼い天皇と艦隊、そして壇ノ浦の潮の流れで幕を閉じる。この戦いが、最初の将軍の誕生につながった。 このルートでは、宇治の橋から関門海峡まで、7つの古戦場を年代順にたどる。記録に残る出来事は、『平家物語』の伝説と区別してあり、伝説は物語によるものとして示している。戦場の範囲は、多くがおおよその位置である。