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Slam Dunk: The Shōnan Coast

Slam Dunk follows Hanamichi Sakuragi, who joins the Shohoku High School basketball team to impress a girl and turns out to be a natural. Its Shōnan coast is real: a railway crossing from the anime opening, a seaside station renamed for a rival school, and the beach where the film ends.

Contains major story spoilers.

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  1. The anime aired from October 1993 to March 1996, and its opening credits show a railway crossing by the sea. It is the Kamakurakōkōmae No. 1 crossing, where the road up to Hisaka meets the Enoshima Electric Railway and Sagami Bay fills the view beyond. The shot made it a pilgrimage spot for fans, with visitors from China and South Korea and a replica built in Taimali, Taiwan. Many try to recreate the scene of protagonist Hanamichi Sakuragi waiting at the crossing, so the local government has posted security guards.

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    Visitor guidance: Security guards are posted here to stop people stepping into the roadway for photos, so stay on the pavement.

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  2. The manga ran in Weekly Shōnen Jump from October 1990 to June 1996 and is set mainly in the Shōnan area of Kanagawa. The real Kamakurakōkōmae Station appears in it under another name: Ryonan High School-mae Station, after Shohoku's rival school. The station is a small stop by the sea. South of it spreads Shichirigahama beach, and on a clear day Mount Fuji can be seen. The crossing just east of the station is the one from the anime opening.

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    Visitor guidance: A working Enoshima Electric Railway station; Shichirigahama beach lies on its south side.

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  3. Hanamichi Sakuragi joins the Shohoku basketball team to impress Haruko Akagi, and proves to be a natural athlete. Shohoku's rival in the story is Ryonan High School, an invented school with a real-life model: Kanagawa Prefectural Kamakura High School. Fans of the series treat the school as part of the Kamakura pilgrimage alongside the station and crossing.

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    Location precision: Ryonan High School is invented; the pin marks Kanagawa Prefectural Kamakura High School, named as its model.

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  4. Shohoku's Kanagawa Inter-High qualifier against Ryonan is played in Hiratsuka General Gymnasium, a real gymnasium that also appears in the manga. Behind every game stands the dream of captain Takenori Akagi: winning the national championship. The four players work together to fulfil it, and this qualifier is where the dream is put to the test against Ryonan.

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  5. The film's last scene is placed at Kugenuma Beach in Fujisawa, in The First Slam Dunk, released in December 2022. The film follows point guard Ryota Miyagi, who had an older brother, Sota. In its epilogue, after the Inter-High, Ryota meets Kaoru again on a Shōnan beach and hands over a red wristband taken from Sota's belongings.

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    Location precision: The film shows a Shōnan beach without naming it; the pin marks Kugenuma Beach, the beach depicted in its last scene.

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