Both "Whisper of the Heart" and "Heijo Tanuki War" took place in the Tama area. When the first song "Take Me Home カントリー・ロードs" is played, the background on the screen is the night view of the downtown area from the Tama area. In fact, this night scene is the final scene when the cast and crew of "Heicheng Tanuki War" is broadcast at the end. Tama where the civet cat's place of residence is deprived, and Wen and Shengsi live in this new district of Tama.
The stage in the animation is centered on the "Sacred Site Sakuragaoka Station" station in Tama-shi outside Tokyo (the station is called "Suginomiya" in the animation), and faces south from Tama-shi Sakuragaoka 1-chome to 4-chome. Mainly actual scenes in the area. In the story, Wen's walks to and from the earth house, school, and library are mostly based on the landscape of Sakurayama Hill 4chome in Moshi. The "Kyōdama Line" that Wen usually takes is actually the "Keio Line" of the Keio Electric Railway, and the library where she usually borrows books is the "Tama-shili Library"
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