Weathering with You: Rainy Tokyo, Yoyogi to Shinjuku

In June 2021 high schooler Hodaka Morishima runs away from home and takes the ferry to Tokyo. A torrential rainstorm hits the boat and he is almost washed away before Keisuke Suga saves him. Hodaka comes from Kōzu-shima, a volcanic island 6 km long and at most 4 km wide, and it is where the story sends him back: after the climax he is sentenced to three years of probation and returned to his home on the island.

Location precision: The film names the island but no village or port; the pin marks the island itself.

Out of money and work, Hodaka finds an abandoned Makarov pistol and keeps it. He meets Hina Amano, who works at a Kabukichō McDonald's after lying about her age; she takes pity on him and buys him a Big Mac. Later he sees Hina being intimidated into working at a club and, in panic, fires the gun at the club owner, barely missing him. The film is among Kabukichō's appearances in popular culture, and the red Ichibangai gate is the district's best-known entrance.

Location precision: The film names the district, not the McDonald's or the club; the pin marks the centre of Kabukichō.

Visitor guidance: Walk in through the red Kabuki-chō Ichiban-gai gate on Yasukuni-Dōri, the district's often-photographed main entrance.

Hina leads Hodaka to Yoyogi Kaikan, an abandoned building with a shrine on its roof. He throws the gun away, and she amazes him by praying the sky clear. At the climax Hodaka jumps through the rooftop torii and is carried into the sky to find her. The real block, squeezed between a road and Yoyogi Station, was nicknamed a Kowloon Walled City of Tokyo. It was demolished between August 2019 and January 2020, and a nine-storey office building, Prange Yoyogi, was completed on the site in 2022.

Hodaka learns that Hina is an orphan living with her younger brother Nagi, in a flat on the heights near JR Tabata Station. The slope that begins outside Tabata's south exit is the setting of an important scene. Later, police arrive at the door and question Hina; she realises that with no legal guardian, social services will separate her from Nagi.

Location precision: The film does not name the flat; the pin marks Tabata Station, below the heights where Hina lives.

Visitor guidance: From Tabata Station's south exit, climb the slope that starts there.

With rain falling for weeks, Hodaka proposes a business: Hina clears the weather for social gatherings. Their first job takes place at a flea market on Odaiba. A passenger riding the Ferris wheel with Sayaka sees Hina's prayer clear the sky and cries out in amazement. The business becomes a success.

Location precision: The film places the job at a flea market on Odaiba without naming the spot; the pin marks Odaiba.

Hina clears the sky over the Jingu Gaien fireworks festival, in a yukata. Her prayer is caught on camera and shown on television, and requests flood their site, so the pair suspend the business to let Hina rest. Meiji Jingu Gaien is the garden around the Meiji Jingu Stadium and the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery.

Location precision: The film names the fireworks festival but not a viewing spot; the pin marks Meiji Jingu Gaien.

Visitor guidance: Gaiemmae Station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line is a five-minute walk.

Taki suggests that Hodaka give Hina a birthday present, and Hodaka heads to a jewellery shop in Lumine Shinjuku 2. The sales clerk is Mitsuha, the heroine of Shinkai's earlier film, who sells him a ring and cheers him on. Lumine 2 opened on 22 October 1987 at the south-east exit of Shinjuku Station. The JR south exit also appears in the film and was specially decorated from 19 July to 1 September 2019 for a JR East tie-in.

Location precision: The pin marks the Lumine Shinjuku complex at the station, not Lumine 2 itself.

Visitor guidance: Lumine 2 is at Shinjuku Station's south-east exit.