Danica Davidson
February 3, 2025 
One of the results of anime’s popularity is the whole anime tourism industry, most of which takes place in Japan itself. Each year the Anime Tourism Association puts out a list of “Anime Pilgrimage Sites People Should Visit,” and 2025’s list was recently revealed. Let’s take a look at the new locations being spotlighted!
- Are you a fan of Girls Band Cry? Then you want Kawasaki City in Kanagawa Prefecture.
- More into A Few Moments of Cheers? Then check out Kanazawa and Hakui in Ichikawa Prefecture.
- Blue Orchestra your thing? Try Chiba City in Chiba Prefecture.
- For Fureru, you want Takadanobaba in the Tokyo Metropolis.
- Ghost Cat Anzu will send you to Izu in Shizuoka Prefecture.
- Give It All tourists want Matsuyama City in Ehime Prefecture.
- Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night is in the iconic Shibuya in the Tokyo Metropolis.
- Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! fans ought to go to Toyohashi in Aichi Prefecture.
- My Deer Friend Nokotan is in a part of the Tokyo Metropolis known as Hino.
- My Oni Girl has tourism in Yonezawa in Yamagata Prefecture.
- Narenare -Cheer for you!- can send fans cheering to Takasaki and Numata in Gunma Prefecture.
- Natsume’s Book of Friends can bring friends and fans to Hitoyoshi’s Kuma District in Kumamoto Prefecture.
- SHOSHIMIN: How to become Ordinary is nothing but ordinary in Gifu Prefecture.
- The Colors Within lists several cities found within the Nagasaki Prefecture: Nagasaki City, Goto, Shin-Kamigoto, and Sasebo.
- Last but not least for the new titles is trapezium, and tourists are welcome in Tateyama in Chiba Prefecture.
These are just the latest editions, as there are more than 120 different locations recommended, based on more than 100 series.
You can see the whole list here in Japanese. An English translation should be updated on the website at some point.
Are you interested in anime tourism?
Source: ANN
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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel, Manga Art for Everyone, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book Chalk Art Manga, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.
