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Front entrance of Hakone-Yumoto Station with a Hakone Tozan train, Hakone, KanagawaPhoto: Kansai-good / CC BY-SA 4.0

Evangelion: real places in Japan

1 place, each backed by an official source

Plan a trip

Snow-capped Mt. Fuji above lakes and mountains, Kanagawa & Yamanashi 2 days

Tokyo area · Mt. Fuji & Central

Evangelion Hakone & Laid-Back Camp Lake Motosu: 2 Days Around Mt. Fuji

Evangelion, Laid-Back Camp

The places

Front entrance of Hakone-Yumoto Station with a Hakone Tozan train, Hakone, Kanagawa

Hakone-Yumoto, Gateway to Tokyo-3

Hakone, Kanagawa

Hakone is the model for Tokyo-3, the fortified city of the series. Hakone Town runs an official Evangelion collaboration, with themed public facilities in the Sengokuhara area. Hakone-Yumoto Station is where most visitors enter the town.

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