Thursday, December 1, 2016

Flying Witch - Hirosaki Castle

In a few episodes of Flying Witch one of Hirosaki's biggest tourist attractions, Hirosaki Castle, is shown.



Image from Episode 2 - 00m29s


The castle walls are under renovation so the castle keep has been moved away from the foundation, but this is the correct location.




Image from Episode 2 - 00m32s


The castle is located inside Hirosaki Park where there's also a botanical garden where this pond is.




Image from Episode 2 - 00m38s


Lots of koi fish in the pond.




Image from Episode 4 - 00m06s


This is outside the park near one of the entrances.




Image from Episode 4 - 00m07s


In the building to the left in the back there's a tourist information office where you can rent bicycles.




Image from Episode 4 - 00m11s


No sakura trees blooming since I visited in the fall.




Image from Episode 4 - 00m23s


Park entrance. I've marked a path from the tourist information office to this entrance in the map below.




Image from Episode 4 - 00m24s


Just inside the park from the entrance.




Image from Episode 4 - 00m31s


The bamboo fence in the background is the same as in the anime.




Image from Episode 4 - 00m48s


Chinatsu behaving energetic.




Image from Episode 4 - 01m00s


The picture I took is on the wrong side of this bridge, so I had to flip it. I checked out the other side too, but I couldn't get a good picture from there since there were some renovation work going on there as well.




Image from Episode 4 - 01m03s


A picture of the castle keep itself at the location where it's been moved to. I also saw a model of the keep at Hirosaki Station.




You can see the work they're doing on the foundation as well.




Image from Episode 4 - 01m06s


Everybody checks out Hirosaki Castle from the bridge.




Image from Episode 4 - 01m17s


Makoto tells Kei that they should get somebody else to take a picture so everybody can be in it.




Image from Episode 4 - 01m24s


An old woman walks by.




Image from Episode 4 - 01m32s


And Kei asks her to take the picture.




Image from Episode 4 - 01m35s


Chinatsu waves at the old woman's dog.




Image from Episode 4 - 01m40s


The old woman takes the picture.




Image from Episode 4 - 01m51s


And then she walks away.




Image from Episode 4 - 01m57s


Kei is supposed to have a Sony Xperia phone, so since I had one as well, I tried to match this shot.




Image from Episode 4 - 01m14s


You can see an Wperia logo on the phone in the anime shot. I also took a picture of me displaying the anime shot on my phone. Witchception ^_^




Image from Episode 4 - 21m05s


Later in the same episode Inukai flies over the castle.




Image from Episode 12 - 06m38s


Castle detail.




Image from Episode 12 - 06m33s


This is a shot from the stairs leading up to the building where the tourist information office is.




When I took a bus from Hirosaki Station to a bus stop near the park I also saw this Flying Witch decoration at the bus stop.



Location map:



This location was visited on 2016/10/02 and 2016/10/03.

Links:
Park official website

Special thanks to the ones who went here before:
http://ukatensei.blog50.fc2.com/blog-entry-859.html

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