[Hyogo Prefecture Yabu City Prefecture] Enter the world of movies and dramas! 4 popular filming locations

• Table of Contents
• Akenobe area (Akenobe Mine and Hokusei company housing)
• Oshoya Memorial Hall
• Sugigasawa Plateau
• For photography requests and Yabu City location guides, please visit the Yabu City website!
• Yabu City has many other attractions!

Akenobe area (Akenobe Mine and Hokusei company housing)

Akenobe Mine

Akenobe Mine is one of the few mine tunnels remaining that still retains its appearance from back then. Puddles and rails that were used back then remain inside the tunnels, creating a unique atmosphere that has a strong presence in film works. It is a popular location for filming a wide range of genres, from thrilling scenes to human dramas.

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Appearing Works
・Sunday Theatre "The Diamond Sleeping Under the Sea"
Sunday Theatre "Diamonds in the Sea" | TBS Television
・Drama "Gannibal"
"Gannibal" | Disney Plus Official
"Gannibal" | Season 2 exclusively available on Wednesday, March 19th | Disney Plus Official
・Drama "My Beloved Monster Girlfriend"
・BSPeriod Drama"Kumokiri Nizaemon Final"
Kumokiri Nizaemon Final - NHK

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Click here for the Akenobe Mine website!

Akenobe Mine

667-0436 Hyogo Prefecture Yabu City Oyacho Akenobe

Akenobe Mine is an old mine where legend has it that copper was used to cast the Great Buddha of Todaiji Temple in Nara. In 1909, a tin vein was discovered and the mine flourished as "Japan's largest tin mine." It was the largest tin mine in Japan, accounting for 90% of the nation's total. Parts of the mine are now open to the public as exploration tunnels, where visitors can see the exposed rock surfaces, ground, jackhammers, mining vehicles, and more. (Reservation required) Every Sunday, there is also a Sunday Mine Tour, where visitors can tour the mine without making a reservation. You can also experience a ride on the 1 yen train that once carried people and ore.

Hokusei Company Housing

Hokusei Company Housing, where miners and their families once lived, is a former company housing site with a retro, nostalgic atmosphere.
The Akenobe Mine in Hyogo Prefecture, Yabu City, Hyogo Prefecture, once flourished as Japan's largest tin mine and supported Japan's mining industry until it closed in Showa. At its peak, approximately 4,000 people lived in the small mountain village, and several company housing complexes were built on the mountain slopes across the Akenobe River.
Among them, the Hokusei Nagaya Company Housing, with its striking blue roof, is a wooden row house built along the slope of the mountain to make effective use of the small amount of land, and five of them still remain today.
Additionally, eight company housing buildings made of precast concrete (precon construction), built using the latest technology at the time, remain and are preserved as valuable cultural heritage that conveys the way of life in a mining town to the present day.

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Appearance in the film "Women of the Lake"
Official website for the film "Women of the Lake"

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Oshoya Memorial Hall

The Yabu City Oshoya Memorial Hall is located on a hill behind the kojyo village in Yabu City .
This building is a preserved version of the mansion of Nagashima Zen'emon, the headman of the Izushi domain who ruled over 18 villages in the late Edo period.
The Oshoya Memorial Hall was the location where the TV drama "Gannibal" was filmed over two years as the Goto family home. Some of the props used during filming were donated and are on display in the museum.
In fact, by coincidence, the Goto family and the Shoya Memorial Hall use the same family crest.

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Appears in
・Drama "Gannibal"
"Gannibal" | Disney Plus Official
"Gannibal" | Season 2 exclusively available on Wednesday, March 19th | Disney Plus Official

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Click here for the Oshoya Memorial Hall's "Gannibal" filming location guide map!

Oshoya Memorial Hall

667-0114 36 kojyo , Yabu City Hyogo Prefecture

The Yabu City Oshoya Memorial Hall is located on a hill behind the kojyo village in Yabu City . This building is a preserved residence of Nagashima Zen'emon, a headman who ruled over 18 villages in the Izushi domain during the late Edo period. On the first floor of the annex, there is a sliding door painting of Taikobo by the artist Kobayashi Takusen. In addition, there is a plaque on display by Baron Kitagaki Kawara , who served as the governor of Kyoto , that reads, "The fresh colors and fragrance of spring." At the back of the detached building there is an Oribe lantern, which is said to have been designed by Furuta Oribe and is also known as a Christian lantern. The detached house, decorated with sliding door paintings and Chinese poetry by artists such as Kobayashi Takusen, Ikeda Kunimichi, Ikeda Soan, Ema Tenko, and Tani Tetsuomi, is a magnificent building that can be called a museum of rural culture. The house of a wealthy farmer, surrounded by high Ishigaki and built on a hill alongside a valley stream, represents the typical rural landscape of Tajima, and it was opened as the Yabu Town Folk Museum, the first museum in the Tajima region to be housed in a wealthy farmer's house (it was renamed Yabu City Oshoya Memorial Museum in 2004). It has been selected as one of the "100 Hyogo Cultural Sites" by the Hyogo Prefecture.

Sugigasawa Plateau

Located at an altitude of 720m to 850m, it covers an area of approximately 300ha. There is a wetland in the Chuo, where some marsh plants grow. There is a log rest area, and you can enjoy the refreshing breeze that will soothe your tiredness from the climb.
In autumn, the area is covered with silver grass.
In the movie "Legend & Butterfly," the scene in which Oda Nobunaga and Princess Nohime face off in a falconry match was filmed in the pampas grass plains of Sugigasawa Plateau.

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Appears in
・Movie "Legend & Butterfly"

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Sugigasawa Plateau

667-1117 Todoroki, Yabu City, Hyogo Prefecture

Located at an altitude of 720m to 850m, it covers an area of approximately 300ha. There is a wetland in the center. Some wetland plants grow here. There is a log rest area, and you can feel the refreshing breeze that will soothe your tired body after a long day of hiking. In autumn, a grassland of silver grass spreads all around.

For photography requests and Yabu City location guides, please visit the Yabu City website!

The Yabu City Commerce, Industry and Tourism Division provides distinctive locations, such as the city-designated cultural property "Oshoya Memorial Hall" and the historic "Akenobe Mine Exploration Tunnel," to help you produce a fascinating film that is unique to the region. We are happy to answer any questions you may have about filming, so please feel free to contact us.

*Please note that we cannot answer any inquiries about the content of the shoot or the works other than those introduced on the city's website or in this article.

For photo shoot requests and Yabu City location guides, click here! (Japanese only)

Yabu City has many other attractions!

In addition to the filming locations, Yabu City has many other attractions such as Tentaki Falls and Yabu Shrine.
Please see the article about Yabu City here.