Skip to main content
Mapped Chronicles

Movies

Bocchi the Rock!: Shimokitazawa and Beyond

Hitori Goto is a guitarist who loves music and can hardly talk to anyone. Her band, Kessoku Band, plays at a small live house in Shimokitazawa, and the story stays close to real music towns in Tokyo and Kanagawa.

Mapped by Mapped Chronicles editors6 locationsCountries: JapanGPX

#shimokitazawa#enoshima#pilgrimage#tokyo#bocchi-the-rock#music#anime

Timeline & locations

What do the location labels mean?
Exact
The pin marks the actual place where it happened or was filmed.
Fictional
The place exists only in the story; any pin marks a real-world stand-in or inspiration.

  1. STARRY is the live house in Shimokitazawa where Kessoku Band is based, and in episode 1 it is said to have opened only recently, in Hitori's first May of high school. The fictional venue borrows its exterior from a real one: Shimokitazawa SHELTER, a live house that opened in the district in October 1991. The pin marks SHELTER, not STARRY itself, so treat it as the real-world stand-in for the band's home stage.

    Real-world stand-in inGoogle MapsApple MapsOrganic MapsOpenStreetMapVisitability not confirmed

    Location precision: STARRY is invented; its exterior is modelled on the real live house SHELTER, which the pin marks.

    Sources

  2. The band needs an artist photo. In episode 4 (chapter 5 of the manga) Kessoku Band shoots it around Donguri Hiroba park, with a Times car park in Shimokitazawa as a second backdrop. The town itself gets a verdict: Hitori calls it a stylish place full of character.

    Open inGoogle MapsApple MapsOrganic MapsOpenStreetMapVisitability not confirmed

    Sources

  3. Hitori lives near Kanazawa-hakkei Station in Yokohama, far from Shimokitazawa's stages. In episode 6 the station forecourt becomes a stage of its own: Hitori and Hiroi play a live set in front of it. The station opened on 1 April 1930 as a Shonan Electric Railway stop and is served today by the Keikyu line and the Yokohama Seaside Line.

    Open inGoogle MapsApple MapsOrganic MapsOpenStreetMapVisitable

    Visitor guidance: Reached by the Keikyu line or the Yokohama Seaside Line.

    Sources

  4. FOLT is the Shinjuku live house where the bands SICK HACK and SIDEROS are based, under manager Ginjiro. Its exterior is modelled on Shinjuku LOFT, a venue that opened on 1 October 1976 in West Shinjuku. FOLT is invented, so this stop has no pin.

    Not pinned on the mapVisitability not confirmed

    Location precision: FOLT is invented and modelled on the real Shinjuku LOFT; no source gives a pin for the on-screen venue.

    Sources

  5. For summer memories the band travels to Enoshima in volume 2, chapter 1 of the manga, passing Katase-Enoshima Station, Enoshima Shrine and the Sea Candle. In volume 6 they return to the shrine for the first shrine visit of the New Year. Enoshima Shrine counts among Japan's three great Benzaiten shrines. In its Okutsumiya hall, the ceiling carries Sakai Hoitsu's painting of the eight-direction-glaring turtle.

    Open inGoogle MapsApple MapsOrganic MapsOpenStreetMapVisitable

    Visitor guidance: A working shrine on Enoshima; behave as at any shrine.

    Sources

  6. The Sea Candle, the lighthouse tower on Enoshima, is named alongside the shrine on the band's summer outing in volume 2, chapter 1. The present lighthouse was first lit on 31 December 2002, closing the projects for the Enoshima Electric Railway's 100th anniversary.

    Open inGoogle MapsApple MapsOrganic MapsOpenStreetMapVisitable

    Sources

Spotted a mistake?

Places close, sources disagree, and we get things wrong. If something on this route is off, tell us and we'll fix it.

Suggest a correction

More in Movies

Browse Movies
MoviesApproximate

Makoto Shinkai: The Garden of Words and 5 Centimeters per Second

Two Makoto Shinkai films, two love stories that never quite meet: a rainy-morning friendship in a Tokyo garden, and a boy and girl pulled apart across Japan, from a snowbound station in Tochigi to a rocket island in the south. The route starts with The Garden of Words in Shinjuku Gyoen, then follows 5 Centimeters per Second through its three episodes: Tokyo and Iwafune, Tanegashima, and Tokyo again. Each stop names its film.

6 locations2/6 visitable
MoviesFictional

Love Live! Sunshine!!: Numazu and Uchiura

Love Live! Sunshine!! is set in a real corner of Shizuoka: the port city of Numazu and the coastal town of Uchiura, where the heroines come from. The route follows the story from the cape-top school and the family inn to Awashima island, the station, the aquarium park and the city school of the film. Some places are real and appear as themselves; the school, the inn and the film's school are invented, and their pins mark the real buildings they are modelled on.

6 locations3/6 visitable
MoviesApproximate

Laid-Back Camp: Yamanashi Campsites Around Fuji

Yurucamp (ゆるキャン△) sends a handful of schoolgirls camping around Mount Fuji, and most of what they visit is real. This route follows eight places from the series, from Lake Motosu to the Mizugaki area. Campsite and shop names are often changed on screen, so each stop names the real place it is modelled on.

8 locations8/8 visitable
All routes