Where Does Jujutsu Kaisen Take Place? Real Locations
Location Guide · 4 min read
Published August 27, 2026
Jujutsu Kaisen takes place in modern-day Tokyo — and no anime has mapped its battles onto the real city more precisely. Gege Akutami invents Tokyo Jujutsu High, hiding it in the forested hills on the capital's western edge, but everything at street level is drawn from real Japan: Harajuku's back streets, Kichijoji's shopping arcade, and, most famously, the entire Shibuya station complex. Across the first season, the Shibuya Incident, the Culling Game, and the Jujutsu Kaisen 0 movie, we have verified 160 real locations you can stand in today.
The real neighborhoods behind Jujutsu Kaisen
The first season plays out in Tokyo's everyday wards rather than its postcard views. Harajuku appears down to the Takeshita Street entrance arch by the station; Kichijoji's Sun Road arcade backdrops ordinary shopping trips, chain cafés and doughnut shop included; Asagaya Station and its Pearl Center shopping street stand in for the quieter west side; and Roppongi Hills and Keyakizaka-dori supply the skyline. Even Ueno Zoo gets a scene. Outside Tokyo, the Kyoto sister-school storyline brings the cast to Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto, and Makuhari Messe in Chiba hosts one of season one's set pieces. Every spot, with the scene it appears in, is on the Jujutsu Kaisen locations page.
Where does the Shibuya Incident take place?
The Shibuya Incident takes place in the real Shibuya, on Halloween night, and the anime reproduces the district with unusual fidelity. The fighting moves through the actual station: the Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line platforms at the heart of the arc, the Hachiko gate, the Dogenzaka underground gate, and the B-level corridors connecting them are all drawn from the real complex, corridor by corridor. Above ground you can stand at Shibuya Scramble Crossing, walk Dogenzaka past the convenience stores the characters pass, and find Shibuya MODI, Hikarie, Shibuya Stream, the Miyashita Park pedestrian bridge, and Taro Okamoto's Myth of Tomorrow mural inside the station walkway — 64 verified season-two locations in all, on the Shibuya Incident locations page.
Season two's Hidden Inventory arc also leaves the capital entirely: the beach-episode interlude is set in Okinawa, with verified scenes at Churaumi Aquarium and Naha Airport.
Where does the Culling Game take place?
The Culling Game's colonies are mapped onto real Japanese cities. The Tokyo No. 1 colony is drawn from Ikebukuro — the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Nishi-guchi Park, and the Rikkyo University campus all appear — while the Tokyo No. 2 colony moves through Ginza, Kabuki-za theater included. The Sendai colony is rendered from the Izumi-Chuo district on the city's north side, from Yurtec Stadium to Nanakita Park, and further verified scenes reach Morioka, Utsunomiya, and Omiya. All 53 mapped locations are on the Culling Game locations page.
Where is Yuji Itadori from?
Yuji Itadori is from Sendai, in Miyagi Prefecture, where the story opens at his high school and the local hospital. The season-one scenes around the Yagiyama Bridge over the Tatsunoguchi valley are drawn from the real bridge on the city's west side — and the story later returns to Sendai when the Culling Game turns his hometown into a colony.
Can you visit Jujutsu Kaisen locations in real life?
Yes — almost every Jujutsu Kaisen location is public and reachable by train: a station, a crossing, a shopping street, a park. Shibuya alone fills a half-day on foot, and Harajuku, Kichijoji, and Ikebukuro each pair with it in a single Yamanote-line loop. The usual pilgrimage etiquette applies in the quieter spots — many verified scenes are working shops and residential streets, so photograph the place, not the people. Start from the anime map of Japan or drop the locations into the trip planner to build a route.
Which studio animates Jujutsu Kaisen?
Jujutsu Kaisen is animated by MAPPA, the Tokyo studio behind every season as well as the Jujutsu Kaisen 0 film. MAPPA's location work is a large part of why the pilgrimage is so satisfying — the Shibuya Incident's station interiors are accurate enough that fans frame-match shots on the actual platforms. The manga, by Gege Akutami, runs in Weekly Shonen Jump.
Keep exploring
- Where Does Tokyo Revengers Take Place? — the other great Shibuya anime pilgrimage: 26 verified locations that share train lines, and a crossing, with the Shibuya Incident.
- Which Prefecture Has the Most Anime Locations? — where Jujutsu Kaisen's Tokyo, Miyagi, and Kyoto scenes fit in Japan's wider pilgrimage map.