Haruhi Suzumiya - Kobe

There's 2 locations in Kobe that's shown in Haruhi Suzumiya, so I checked them both out.



Image from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Part 1 - 06m19s


This is at Kobe Harborland close to Kobe Station. The structure on the left is the old signal station.




Hare Hare Yukai / Welcome Unknown Vinyl Single Back Cover


The cranes at the harbor here was also shown as the back cover of the Hare Hare Yukai vinyl record.




Image from Endless Eight 1 - 19m52s


Image from Endless Eight 1 - 19m46s

This picture of Kobe is taken from Kita Park on Port Island in Kobe. The closest station to the park is Naka Kōen Station.




Image from Fate/Stay Night VN


Kita Park and the Kobe Ohashi Bridge that goes over the park are known for being shown in various Fate media as well.



Location map:



These locations were visited on 2019/11/09 and 2019/12/23.

Pop Culture Hiroshima 2019

Since I was visiting Hiroshima I checked out Pop Culture Hiroshima 2019.



This event took place in the Hiroshima Prefectural Citizen's Culture Center.




Cardboard cutouts inside the Culture Center.




They held various performances on this stage.




Including an anisong karaoke competition.




And performances from Actor’s School Hiroshima students.




In the nearby Sunmall shopping mall they also had a small doujin event called Aki-Comi 2019.




I also took some pictures of some cosplayers I saw, including this Nico from Love Live cosplayer.




Rem from Re:Zero.




Saber from Fate.




And Madoka and Homura from Puella Magi Madoka Magica.




Event flyers for both Pop Culture Hiroshima 2019 and Aki-Comi 2019.



No location map since it's no longer there.

This location was visited on 2019/04/14.

Links:
Pop Culture Hiroshima official website

Kaiyodo Figure Museum

Another place I visited this time was the Kaiyodo Figure Museum in Nagahama located a short walk from Nagahama Station.



This is the museum, but it's currently under renovations until 2020.




The museum has temporarily moved to the location of The Art Center Nagahama during the renovations.




Lots of figures inside of course, including some life size ones. These are of Kenshiro and Yulia from Fist of the North Star.




Rei Ayanami from Neon Genesis Evangelion.




And Oni-Musume sculptured by Bome.




Not life size, but still really big were these figures of Skuld, Belldandy and Urd from Ah! My Goddess!.




Most of the normal sized figures were in display cases. Lots of mecha here including LED Mirage from The Five Star Stories on the right here.




More mecha including some Virtual On, and also Professor Layton for some reason.




Ultraman figures.




Star Wars.




Charizard from Pokémon, Haruhi Suzumiya and Yotsuba among others.




Asuka Langley Soryu from Neon Genesis Evangelion.




Megurine Luka and Hatsune Miku.




Saber and Rin Tohsaka from Fate.




Not in a display case were these Godzilla figures.




They also had dioramas, including Metal Gear Solid, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Domo-kun.




Lupin the Third, Alien and Deadpool.




Lots of Neon Genesis Evangelion dioramas.








They had tons of these small gashapon sized figures.




Spider-Man and Dead or Alive.




KanColle and Haruhi Suzumiya.




Lots of different ones including Hajime no Ippo, Ah! My Goddess! and Nichijou - My Ordinary Life.




They also had figures not based on popular culture, like these food items.




British museum items.




Sea creatures.




Fighting gods.




Dinosaurs.




Here you could also buy a figure and paint it yourself, but I didn't try that.




The history of Kaiyodo. Only in Japanese though.




Various flyers you could take and a figure of the Tower of the Sun, which I've visited because of Hidamari Sketch in Osaka.




The museum ticket and a special gashapon coin they give out together with the ticket. There were a few gashapon machines in the museum, but I thought the coin itself was more interesting.




Close to Nagahama Station I also saw a beauty salon which was named Clannad for some reason.




There's dango family decorations and everything. I've marked a path from the Kaiyodo Figure Museum to this place in the map below.



Location map:



This location was visited on 2018/12/18.

Links:
Kaiyodo Figure Museum official website