Are you a fan of anime and seeking to plan the excellent day trip in Tokyo? We have you lined with 11 real-life anime places.

In the event you’ve been a fan of anime for some time and have been planning a visit to Japan, then you definitely’d absolutely be accustomed to the idea of anime pilgrimages, the place followers discover routes matching the settings from their favourite reveals and films to real-life places.

Now, the factor about anime pilgrimages is that they’re typically centered on one single title, so in the event you like a couple of with a ardour, you are going to want a number of days to make sure you are able to do all of them. If you’re trying for a route that may cowl a number of titles whereas hitting all the landmarks — in Tokyo, particularly — you have come to the proper place.

Final month, Teen Vogue traveled to Tokyo for the Crunchyroll 2025 Anime Awards, and we crafted the excellent one-day itinerary primarily based on real-life anime places. (If you wish to spend extra time at every location, you possibly can simply cut up it into two days.)

“Anime is at the forefront of lots of traits in leisure. It is the blurring of traces between movie, TV, music, and style,” Gita Rebbapragada, Crunchyroll’s Chief Working Officer, tells Teen Vogue. With anime tourism booming, now journey has additionally been added to that record.

“[Anime] is a portal into a unique tradition,” Rebbapragada provides. “It will get folks actually in Japanese tradition or [simply] uncovered to it, particularly younger folks. It is so unimaginable the means that [anime] simply opens hearts and minds to different cultures and different methods of residing, consuming, and looking out, and all of that.”

Earlier than making the trek to Japan, Rebbapragada emphasised it is necessary to transient and educate your self on traditions in relation to desk manners, gift-giving, and past, particularly if you’re planning to stick with a Japanese household at any level throughout your keep. With that as a preface, let’s get into this anime-inspired Tokyo itinerary.

1. Azabu-Juban station and environment (Sailor Moon)