Where is Akira set?

1988 film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo

Akira (1988) — 1 real place Wikidata records as its setting in Japan. Where the anime takes place, not where it was made: an anime is drawn and filmed nowhere, so this is the only kind of location it has.

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Where it is set

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  🏙 Towns & cities

  Tokyo

  🇯🇵 Japan

  capital and largest city of Japan

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