Where Does The Dangers in My Heart Take Place?
Location Guide · 4 min read
Published November 5, 2026
The Dangers in My Heart takes place in Senzoku and Meguro, Tokyo, the quiet residential streets around Senzoku Station that both seasons keep returning to. Season 1 stays almost entirely inside Meguro, Shinagawa and Shibuya wards. Season 2 keeps that same neighborhood as its anchor and adds a class trip through Kyoto, Nara and Hiroshima. Between the two seasons we have verified 62 real locations, and the manga is known in Japan as Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu (僕の心のヤバイやつ), shortened to Boku Yaba.
Where does The Dangers in My Heart take place?
Senzoku sits on the Meguro-Shinagawa ward line in southwest Tokyo, served by Senzoku Station on the Tokyu Meguro Line since the station opened in 1923. Our own catalog places nine of Season 1's confirmed sites in Shinagawa and eight in Meguro, most of them a short walk from that station: Senzoku Police Box, the Meguro Shinkin Bank branch, and Meguro Fudoson among them. Meguro Fudoson, formally Ryusen-ji, is a Buddhist temple traditionally founded in 808 and one of the 36 stops on the Kanto Fudo pilgrimage route, and it appears in both seasons. Shibuya carries the next largest cluster, five sites in Season 1 alone, including Hachiko Square outside Shibuya Station, one of the busiest railway and metro stations in Tokyo.
A publisher makes a cameo
One Season 1 site outside the usual cluster is worth calling out on its own: Akita Shoten's Chiyoda headquarters appears in episode 5. Akita Shoten is a real Tokyo publisher founded in 1948, and its Champion Cross platform is where The Dangers in My Heart is serialized as a web manga. The show puts its own publisher's building on screen, which is a rarer kind of location cameo than a station or a convenience store. Two more outliers round out Season 1: a bus stop and a bookstore near Ookayama Station in Ota ward, and a shop near Hamura, out toward the western edge of Tokyo.
Is Twelfth Junior High School in The Dangers in My Heart a real place?
The Japanese Wikipedia article for the series lists Twelfth Junior High School among its character sections, but our catalog has no matched real campus under that name in either season, so there is nothing to visit at the school itself. What is real is the neighborhood around it: the station, the police box, the bank branch and the temple the characters pass on their way there. Visit those the way any resident would, from the outside, without photographing anyone else's daily routine.
Season 2 keeps Senzoku and adds a class trip
Season 2 grows the Meguro cluster to 15 confirmed sites and Shibuya to 11, still the same streets as Season 1 with Harajuku's Takeshita Street and Ebisu Station added to the walk. The new ground comes from a school trip: episode 13 places Fushimi Inari Taisha and its Senbon Torii, the thousand-gate approach at the Shinto shrine founded in 711 in Fushimi ward, Kyoto. Episode 12 adds a souvenir shop and Ukigumo-en, a garden area inside Nara Park. Episode 9 goes further west to Onomichi, a hillside port city in Hiroshima Prefecture, and to a hotel in Hiroshima city itself. None of it replaces Senzoku; the trip is a detour the story takes and then leaves.
Which studio animates The Dangers in My Heart?
Shin-Ei Animation animates both seasons. Season 1 ran for 12 episodes from 2 April to 18 June 2023, and Season 2 followed with 13 episodes from 7 January to 31 March 2024. Norio Sakurai writes and draws the source web manga, serialized on Akita Shoten's Champion Cross site.
Is a Season 3 of The Dangers in My Heart confirmed?
AniList lists a third season under its own entry, separate from the first two, with the same official site and hashtag as the earlier seasons. It carries only a 2027 target year so far, with no confirmed episode count, air dates or studio credit yet attached. Treat it as announced but not yet dated, and we will map its locations once episodes air and get reviewed into the catalog.
Getting to Senzoku and Meguro
Senzoku Station is the easiest anchor for a walk through both seasons, one stop from Meguro Station on the Tokyu Meguro Line, itself a transfer point to the JR Yamanote Line. From there, Shibuya Station is a short ride away on the same line network, putting Hachiko Square and the Harajuku stretch from Season 2 within reach on the same afternoon. Kyoto, Nara and Hiroshima from Season 2's class trip are a separate multi-city day trip in the Kansai and Chugoku regions, not something to fold into a Tokyo afternoon.
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