Arashiyama Bamboo Forest
is really Arashiyama Bamboo Grove, Kyoto, Kyoto
Real place, reimagined
Real-world photo: Wikimedia Commons
How close does the game get to the real place?
In the game
A discovery location in the game's countryside: a path through tall bamboo with a small shrine among the stems.
The real place
The bamboo grove in Arashiyama, on the western edge of Kyoto, lines a short footpath between Tenryu-ji temple and the Okochi Sanso villa. The thick stems rise high over the path and creak and rustle in the wind.
Visiting
Go just after sunrise, before the tour groups arrive. The grove is free and always open, and Nonomiya Shrine, with its black torii, sits right next to the path.
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