- Shibuya, Tokyo
- The New York Bar, 52nd floor of Tokyo’s Park Hyatt Hotel – aka the ‘Lost in Translation’ bar
- Pet clothes store, Harajuku, Tokyo
- Pre-match ceremony at the Ryogoku Sumo Hall, Tokyo
- Studio Ghibli Museum at Mitaka, just outside Tokyo
- Courtyard of a Shinto shrine, Kyoto
- Kinkaku-ji – Temple of the Golden Pavilion – Kyoto
- Shinto shrine, Pontocho district, Kyoto
- Genbaku Dome, Hiroshima (now part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial) – the atom bomb exploded almost directly above it
- Hiroshima sunset (impossible is nothing)