More J-Drama Deja-Vu:The “Office Tinkerbell” Entrance

 The entrance to the Office Tinkerbell headquarters where Mei Nagano went to work  in “Hanbun Aoi” as a struggling mangaka really made an impression with me, with its gated driveway and pass-coded door (as well as those ivory steps up to the house)…

It helped that this was the episode where Nagano's character Suzume invited her country bumpkin Mom (Yasuko Matsuyuki) to visit and she spent the whole time marvelling at the architecture and decor!

I began to see this entrance in other dramas whenever they needed to show the exterior of an affluent person's house, and of course I immediately recognized it as the same place in Hanbun Aoi!  Every time I’d see it, I’d think, “HEY! It’s Office Tinkerbell!”

It finally got to the point where I was seeing it in enough dramas that I thought it should begin documenting its’ appearances and give it a proper entry into my “J-drama Deja-Vu” Gallery, and just then it appeared in the psychological drama “Nanji No Na” where the main character sisters lived. Here we see Toko (Hirona Yamazaki) arriving home and getting caught by an old lover....

And, just this past week,the entrance appeared as the abode of a murder suspect in the Issei Takahashi thriller “Invisible”. Though they usually make a big presentation of showing the people going through the door, Takahashi was illegally breaking in and had to jump the wall!

PS: this swimming pool has also appeared in many dramas, had no idea it was the same property as the gated entrance! Maybe I'll have to keep track of it as well!

EDIT:

As Hamanosilence has pointed out, both the entrance and the swimming pool made an appearance in last week's episode of "Waru: Hataraku no ga Kakko Warui Nante Dare ga Itta?" with Mio Imada and Nobuyuki Suzuki checkin' it out!!!

With all these appearances recently, I've gotta keep on my toes keeping track of it!

This place is really becoming the place to hang out!