Anime in Toyama

On the 2nd floor of the Takaoka Art Museum, it traces the author's life and work with original drawings; its entrance mimics the "Anywhere Door". Fujiko F. Fujio was born in Takaoka in 1933.

A Takaoka park with the statues of Doraemon, Nobita, Shizuka, Gian and Suneo together, as if they'd jumped out of the comic.

The Doraemon-themed tram running on the Manyō Line between Takaoka and Imizu, decorated inside and out with the series' world.

The small Jōhana terminus is an almost exact copy of Manoyama Station, the heart of the town and Yoshino's point of arrival.

Jōhana's shopping street, with its shuttered storefronts, embodies the declining town the protagonists try to revive.

The Inami district, with a wood-carving tradition since the 14th century, is the model for the artisans' district that appears in the series.

An 1887 traditional house in the Kamiichi mountains that served as the model for the home where Hana raises Yuki and Ame. Restored by volunteers and open to visitors since 2015; it's the heart of the pilgrimage.

The rural town of Kamiichi, director Mamoru Hosoda's homeland, with its terraced rice fields and Mt. Tateyama views that inspire the countryside where the wolf children grow up.

A volcanic pond on the Murodō plateau of the Tateyama Alpine Route, with the peaks behind. It's the setting where the grown Ame transforms for good into a wolf.