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Main hall of Kanda Myojin Shrine, Chiyoda, TokyoPhoto: Hyppolyte de Saint-Rambert / CC BY-SA 4.0

Love Live!: real places in Japan

1 place, each backed by an official source

Plan a trip

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Tokyo area

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Love Live!, Steins;Gate, Pokémon

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Tokyo area

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The places

Main hall of Kanda Myojin Shrine, Chiyoda, Tokyo

Kanda Myojin Shrine

Chiyoda, Tokyo

A shrine near Akihabara that the Tokyo tourism board lists as a key setting in Love Live! and a location in Steins;Gate (both entries are on the Anime Tourism 88 list). The shrine has offered collaboration charms and ema with several anime, and its museum has held collaboration exhibitions. It is an active shrine, a short walk from Ochanomizu and Akihabara stations.

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