This is a quick short trip I did this past week on March 20th for TrySail’s 「azure」 real life locations in their music video. The short version on the music video can be found here. If you want to see the full version, you will have to buy the dvd or sail the high seas.

As always, I want to talk a little bit about the song. 「azure」(pronounced “ah-jew-ah) is the ending song for the movie 「Zoku Owarimonogatari」from the famous monogatari series. I didn’t watch the movie myself but rather found out about the song because I’m a fan of theirs. Even though this song is not your high tension concert songs, something about the song just clicks with me. The coupling (the other song from the CD) is another amazing Christmas-like song!! You can listen to it here. (Shhhhh…)

Anyways, without further ado let’s dive into the journey!

And before we start, here is the link to the google maps for all the locations in 「azure」’s music video.

Tamagawa Park(?)

Our first location is in a park like area (with many activities like baseball, soccer, golf, cycling happening around) near Numabe Station on the Tokyu Tamagawa Line. It’s really close to the station so there should be no problem finding it if you are using Google Maps.

All three of the shots are close by each other. It’s just about finding the right camera angle (which I failed haha). Really simple and straightforward location.

Also please note that there are likely going to be children teams playing/ having a competition in that area so please respect their space if you plan to visit this area.

Yoyogi Park

The second location is in Yoyogi park and is broken down into 2 photo spots. If you follow these map locations, it’s pretty much spot on where the photo spot is on Google Maps.

“The Bridge”

Surprisingly wide for a pedestrian bridge. There are not that many people at this location.

“The Park”

This location can be found near the bridge area, about a 1 minute walk from the bridge.

This is the most well known scene from their music video likely because Yoyogi park is also a very famous park that is right in the center of the Tokyo area. Many people who watched the MV probably recognized this location.

This location is also very crowded. Even though we are in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, it is packed with people (mostly young adults) doing picnic with their friends. Honestly was quite disappointed as the younger people just doesn’t seem to take this pandemic seriously. (A lot of young people don’t have mask on either).

And that is actually all for the locations I am covering this time around.

Note that there are 4 locations pins but I only covered 3 of them. This is because the last location is a photography studio. You will need to pay big money to rent it if you want to go. (Around 23k yen/ 230 USD per hour with minimum of 3 hour usage; meaning 70k yen or 700 USD minimum.) It’s really not worth it.

Final thoughts

This trip was not difficult to do. Overall the trip took about 2 hours in total. There are very few locations to see and most of the time is just traveling. If you have some time and want a breathe of fresh air, I think these 2 park locations are pretty good spots to hit.

I want to give a special thanks to “Kimamana noraneko” for their insightful pilgrimage location website. You can check out their site here.

Remember if you plan to visit these locations, please respect the area!

That’s all for this time! Thank you for reading!

Until next time~

Salo