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Stories Set in Tokyo
Shibuya crossings, Shinjuku alleys, kaiju footprints and Murakami jazz bars — Tokyo is the most storied city of the anime and game age. These ten famous works span 1954 to today; on StoryTerra you can open Tokyo on the map and filter its stories by district-era, from Edo to Neo-Tokyo.
Open Tokyo on the StoryTerra map10 famous stories set in Tokyo
Live snapshot of the top 10 most popular catalogue items (2026-09-04). Click any card to open this entry on the live map.
Browse 124 books, 513 movies, 50 TV shows and 264 games set in Tokyo.
Inception
Cobb a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception" the…
Your Name.
High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen…
Persona 5 Royal
An enhanced version of Persona 5 with some new characters and a third semester added to the game. Released Internationally in 2020.
Yakuza 0
The glitz, glamour, and unbridled decadence of the 80s are back! Yakuza 0 is a prequel set in 1988 to the Yakuza series, taking place before the first game. Fight like hell through Tokyo and Osaka with protagonist…
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
Yuta Okkotsu is a nervous high school student who is suffering from a serious problem—his childhood friend Rika has turned into a curse and won't leave him alone. Since Rika is no ordinary curse his plight is noticed by…
Perfect Blue
Pop singer Mima Kirigow looks forward to a bright new career when she quits her chart-topping trio to become an actress. When she lands a role in a sexually charged murder mystery Mima’s life begins to fall apart.
NieR: Automata
NieR: Automata tells the story of androids 2B, 9S and A2 and their battle to reclaim the machine-driven dystopia overrun by powerful machines.
Weathering with You
The summer of his high school freshman year Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every…
Whisper of the Heart
Shizuku lives a simple life dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same person: 'Seiji Amasawa'.
Death Note
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written…
The 10 stories above are just a sample of the 951 in the catalogue for this entry. For the full live catalogue with trailers and time filters, open Tokyo in the StoryTerra app. On the live map you can also filter by the exact time the stories take place — any year, decade or century, from BCE to the future.
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