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Shinjuku

special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis, Japan

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Shinjuku is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Shinjuku, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 2 more. 1 anime is also set here.

5 productions were filmed at 17 places inside Shinjuku rather than at Shinjuku itself — listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“I think the energy has to come on the set at the very last minute." Locations were used in Kabukichō and other parts of Shinjuku.”

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TV series filmed in Shinjuku

• Waratte Iitomo! 1982–2014

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Shinjuku as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Shinjuku

5 productions shot at 17 places inside Shinjuku, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Shinjuku itself.

• Lost in Translation Kabukichō per Wikipedia 2003
• You Only Live Twice Japan National Stadium per Wikipedia 1967
• Cobra Kai Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building per Wikipedia 2018–
• One Wonderful Sunday Shinjuku Station per Wikipedia 1947
• Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack Nippon Seinenkan per Wikipedia 2001

5 more places are inside Shinjuku — see them on the map.

Set here

Anime that take place here. Nothing drawn was ever filmed here, so this is where the story is set rather than where a camera stood — a different claim from everything above, and kept under its own heading for that reason.

Set here, per Wikipedia

Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Shinjuku, where Wikidata’s narrative-location statement stops at the country. Still a setting and not a shoot, and still a sentence rather than a statement — two steps from the strongest evidence on this atlas, and labelled at both.

Drawn from this place

Productions whose Japanese Wikipedia article names Shinjuku as a real place their setting was modelled on. Nothing was filmed here and no story happens here: somebody drew it from here. That is the weakest claim this atlas makes about a place, which is why it sits under its own heading, and each production’s page links the article the claim came from.

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