20040528-20040610 Japan : Location Hunt - Onegai Twins


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Nagano Prefectural Kizaki High School
The school building is actually the remains of Matsumoto Kyuusei Koutou Gakukou (Matsumoto Old Style High School) in Matsumoto-shi in Nagano Prefecture.
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Front entrance Inner entrance Main staircases
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Corridor Back staircases  
Camp Site : Mizuho Bridge & Ichigo Bridge
"Mizuho" Bridge, "Ichigo" Bridge, and the camp site are real, and are located in the south west shore of Kizaki Lake in Nagano Prefecture.
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Ichigo Bridge Looking at Ichigo Bridge from Camp Site Mizuho Bridge
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Mizuho Bridge & Ichigo Bridge Fishes swimming away from Mizuho Bridge Looking at Ichigo Bridge from Mizuho Bridge
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Fishes swimming away from Ichigo Bridge Looking at the north shore of the lake from Ichigo Bridge Looking at the "slope" in the OP from Ichigo Bridge
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Camp Site Camp Site  
Maiku House
The "Maiku" house is modelled after a house at the north west shore of the Kizaki Lake.
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"Maiku" house and the slope leading to the house This was where the famous "twins in small pool" picture taken "Maiku" house and the slope leading to the house
JR Inao Station
JR Inao Station is at the south east shore of the Kizaki Lake. In the rain, Miina & Karen seeked shelter here.
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Miina & Karen running up to the station JR Inao Station JR Inao Station
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Looking south Looking north Miina & Karen sat here
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Station Sign Board Looking at the lake Flowers around the station
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Flowers around the station Inao Crossing Inao Crossing
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Inao Crossing, looking south Inao Crossing, looking north Flowers around the crossing
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Looking back at the station from across the track    
Jinja
The jinja near the Maiku house at the north west shore of Kizaki Lake.
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Front entrance Looking back from the jinja to the north shore of the lake  
Lawson
The convenient store where Miina washed her legs in the first episode. 5 minutes walk from the south shore of Kizaki Lake.
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Miina washing her legs Flowers around the store The store
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The store    
North Shore of Kizaki Lake
They went to school walking past the north shore of the lake.
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The small river in the north shore The small river in the north shore The small river in the north shore
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The "log" in the north shore North shore. The "broken bridge" should be somewhere around here. Looking back at the south shore. The green building is Yupuru.
The Slope
The slope in the OP, at the south east shore of the Kizaki Lake.
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The slope in the OP    
JR Shino-Kizaki Station
Karen first met Marie here. The station is 10 minutes walk from the south shore of Kizaki Lake.
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Front entrance Looking south Looking north
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Station sign board Looking at the station from the track side  
Seikotei
Seikotei located at the south shore of Kizaki Lake. Many scenes from the OP comes from Seikotei. Onegai Teacher & Onegai Twins staff visited Seikotei a few times. Owner's wife said we are the second batch of foreigners visited. The first batch comes from Taiwan. Listed here is some of the seiyuu and staff mentioned below.
Inoue Kikuko, seiyuu (Mizuho-sensei)
Miura Hiroaki, seiyuu (Shido)
Sugita Tomokazu, seiyuu (Yamada-sensei)
Nakahara Mai, seiyuu (Miina)
Shintani Ryoko, seiyuu (Haruko)
Ide Yasunori, chief director
Gouda Hiroaki, character design
Haneon Taraku, original character design
Kuroda Yousuke, script writer
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Front entrance. Note the Onegai Teacher poster. Front entrance. Note the Onegai Teacher poster. Front entrance. Note the Onegai Teacher posters.
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Seikotei's park. Appeared in the OP. Seikotei's park. Appeared in the OP. Seikotei's park. Appeared in the OP & several times in the series.
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Side entrance. Note the Onegai Teacher posters. Seikotei's swan boats. Appeared in the OP The infamous "Marie Curry" named by fans. The egg york resemble Marie floating on the lake.
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The character goods put there by fans. Note the "correct" spelling of Pochy & Prech. The character goods put there by fans. Note the "correct" spelling of Pochy & Prech. The right photo is Inoue Kikuko cosplaying as Mizuho-sensei.
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Fan calender Fan poster Sign board by Onegai Teacher staff. Bottom right is Inoue Kikuko. Top right is Gouda Hiroaki. Top left is Ide Yasunori. Underneth is Kuroda Yousuke. Bottom left is Sugita Tomokazu. Bottom middle is Miura Hiroaki.
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Sign boards by Onegai Twins seiyuu. Left is Nakahara Mai. Middle is Shintani Ryoko. Right is also Nakahara Mai. Sign boards by Onegai Twins seiyuu and Onegai Teacher staff. Left is Nakahara Mai. Middle is Shintani Ryoko. Right is Onegai Teacher staff. Inoue Kikuko cosplaying as Mizuho-sensei.
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Fan poster Onegai Teacher staff. The right most female in orange is Seikotei's owner's wife. Shintani Ryoko
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Nakahara Mai Onegai Teacher staff. Note the owner's wife's "performance". Nakahara Mai & Shintani Ryoko
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Inoue Kikuko Fan illustration Fan illustration
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Onegai Teacher staff. Seiyuu : Inoue Kikuko (front row 3rd right), Miura Hiroaki (middle row, white shirt), Sugita Tomokazu (middle row, grey t-shirt) Name of the staff in previous photo. Some of the staff : Ide Yasunori (front row 3rd left), Gouda Hiroaki (bottom row 2nd right), Haneon Taraku (bottom row 1st right), Kuroda Yousuke (top row 2nd left) Fan name card
JR Uminoguchi Station
Located at the north east shore of Kizaki Lake. Haruko & gang tricked Miina & Maiku to kiss here.
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Ichitsu Crossing, appeared in the OP Ichitsu Crossing Uminoguchi Station
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Station sign board Station, track side Station, track side
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Station, track side Looking south Looking north
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Inside the station. Those plastic boxes contains fan note books. Inside the fan note books Inside the fan note books
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Inside the fan note books Inside the fan note books Inside the fan note books
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Looking at the lake. Ichigo & gang hided behind the trees Looking back at the station from the lake side Ichigo & gang hided here, watching the actions on the station platform.
Yamamasa Ryokan
Small accommodation located at the south shore next to Seikotei favoured by Onegai Teacher/Twins fans. If you told them you are coming for the Onegai Sites Tour, you got a special discount (4000 yen per head per night including breakfast). Owner's wife was very surprised at foreigners coming. Many posters, character goods, and note books placed there by fans.
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Fan flag Figures Poster
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Fan note books Fan note books Fan note books
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Fan poster Fan note books Fan note books
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Fan note books Fan note books Fan note books
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Fan note books Fan note books Fan note books
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Fan note books Poster Fan note books
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Fan note books Fan note books Fan note books
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Fan note books Fan note books Fan note books
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Fan note books Fan note books Fan note books
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Fan note books Fan note books Fan note books
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Fan note books Fan note books Fan note books
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Fan note books Fan note books Fan note books
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Fan note books Fan note books Yamamasa Ryokan
Yupuru
Located at the south shore of Kizaki Lake. A pool and bath complex. Yu = bath, Puru = pool. Whenever you see the cast bathing together in the series (except in Maiku house), they are bathing here.
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Yupuru, also known as Kizaki Onsen Pool complex Pool entrance
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Yu complex and entrance    
H Shop
In real life, it is the Y Shop, located at the east shore of Kizaki Lake, between JR Inao Station & JR Uminogushi Station. This is Koishi's family shop. Miina & Karen worked part-time here. Owner's wife was very surprised at foreigner coming. She has a map for fans to mark where they are coming from. I said I was from Hong Kong and is way out of bound of the map.
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Y Shop Note the poster near the door The poster inside
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Fan note books Fan note books Fan illustration
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Figures, fan poster, fan calendar, fan photos, etc.    
Dating sites
All those dating sites in Onegai Twins located in Karuizawa in Nagano Prefecture.
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JR Karuizawa Station Telephone Box. Maiku used the phone here and finally met Miina & Karen here One of the shop they visit
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One of the shop they visit One of the shop they visit The "cinema". In real life it is a shopping mall "Church Street" with no cinema.
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Church Street Church Street Church Street
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Church Street. The "Cat Dept" shop is "Dog Dept" in real life. Karen looked at clothings here. Church Street. Karen's final "date" ended here. Church Street. Karen's final "date" ended here.
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Church Street Church Street Church Street
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San Paulo Church San Paulo Church San Paulo Church
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Tsubaki & Kousei drank here This shop was in the Snow Angel music video.