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| That Waterfront Parkway |
Some, like the Urban Building and the Koi Ga Heta Apartment are almost certainly (but not positively) studio sets which can't be accessed by the public, but other like my beloved Yokohama Business Park are real places that can be seen and visited, and such is that curious Waterfront Parkway that showed up in so many dramas!
I was looking through a folder of screen-captures I took with Chiba Yudai and the devastatingly beautiful Satomi Ishihara from an episode of Takane No Hana.
It was clear that they were at that waterfront parkway, posing in front of a gazebo-lookout structure and I screencapped a few images, but for some reason, I never got around to posting it.
Taking them out and looking at them again, I noticed there was that freaking huge ferris wheel behind them. It's repeated appearances in J-dramas is a whole 'nother post, but seeing it, it occurred to me: I bet I could locate that waterfront by FIRST identifying that Ferris Wheel!
Simply typing "Giant Ferris Wheel in Japan" into Google, I IMMEDIATELY learned that it was called DAIKANRANSHA and was in Pallette Town in Odaiba, Tokyo!!! I had a definite location at last!!!
RUNNING to Googlemaps, I typed in the ferris wheel location, and then, using the aerial view, INSTANTLY saw the Waterfront Parkway!!! ZOOMING down on it and checking it out, I discovered that my mystery waterpark was called "Mizu No Hiroba Park Azumaya" and was indeed a public access park!!!
Here was the waterfront in all it's glory, and I immediately found that gazebo lookout that Satomi Ishihara and Chiba Yudai was in front of:
But that wasn't ALL!
Normally Googlemaps only adheres to roads, but here they also documented the walkways, and using google's cams, I walked the entire pathways from one end all the way up to the adjacent bridge, and was able to positively pinpoint where MANY of my earlier posts were shot! I did my best to match the places to the screencaps:
Mirei Kiritani and Satoshi Ohno in Shingami Kun:
Googlemaps capture:
Opposite direction towards Yume no Ohashi Bridge
Googlemaps:
In Front of Stairs
Googlemaps:
Mirei with Ferris Wheel behind her
Googlemaps:
Mirei and Satoshi Ohno
Googlemaps:
Nao Matsushita in Dear Sister
Googlemaps capture:
Yukie Nakama
Googlemaps capture:
Megumi in Facemaker:
Googlemaps capture:
Using the stairs at the end of the path, I was even able to get onto the Yume No Ohashi bridge where the guys were...
Googlemaps capture:
Normally Googlemaps only adheres to roads, but here they also documented the walkways, and using google's cams, I walked the entire pathways from one end all the way up to the adjacent bridge, and was able to positively pinpoint where MANY of my earlier posts were shot! I did my best to match the places to the screencaps:
Mirei Kiritani and Satoshi Ohno in Shingami Kun:
Nao Matsushita in Dear Sister
...as well as a MUCH earlier Satomi Ishihara visit in Hanayome no Papa:
...Misako Renbutsu in 37.5°C no Namida
and can't forget Shiro Demo Kuro Demo Nai Sekai de, Panda wa Warau!
Ain't GoogleMaps GREAT???!
Ain't GoogleMaps GREAT???!
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