[Love Live! Sunshine!!] Follow the Sunshine!! @ Numazu (Part 5) : Uchiuranagahama
Time for more Numazu tour! In the previous blog, we went to Mito beach and it was fantastic and peaceful, so now let’s move further away from the town to Uchiuranagama. Many LL:SS landmarks are locate here, so let’s get straight into it! Down below are links to all blogs in this series, in case you have a difficulties trying to find them.
Part 1 : Numazu Downtown
Part 2 : Numazu Fish Market + View-O
Part 3 : Awashima Island
Part 4 : Uchiura (Mito Beach)
Part 5 : Uchiuranagahama
Let’s start off with the map and video from dashcam as usual, so if you wanna go there, you know how and where to go!
Okay, so first thing you might noticed from the video is this…
Right, these are very first scene of LL:SS, which featured in “ Kimi no Kokoro wa Kagayaiteru kai?” PV. Here’s another perspective of the tunnel.
This scene even came before the logo of LL:SS, but anyway, let’s continue to tourist information center…
So here we go, noticed that there are LL:SS stuff everywhere. Interesting, let’s go look inside!
So basically, this is not a tourist information center anymore… It’s LL:SS museum!!! Many rare LL:SS goods are available for you to observe here (but not for sale). Anyway, let’s walk to the alley next to the tourist information center to go to Kurosawa’s House!
Walking in, and you will know instantly where is this… Entering the main room and this scene will comes to your mind…
As expected, there are fan art everywhere. Since I was in a little bit of rush, I forgot to take the photo of the garden and the other angle of the room. :( Anyway, there are Mikan (Orange) available for sale here for 200 JPY, so I ended up bought some, which is why I forgot to take picture…
Walked back to the main street and this scene can be seen.
Turning right and you will see this bus stop, which Kanan ran by in the episode 10
From the bus stop, this beautiful landscape can be observe!
Walk along the road and turn left then you will see this scene, which is where Mari fell off during the rainy season.
We continue to walk toward the school and saw this LL:SS bus…
Continue walking and on the right hand side, you can see stairway to go up to “Nagahama jōseki” where Aqours filmed their PV in the 6th episode and this place also featured on the latest April 2017 Dengeki G’s Magazine on the release of their latest single, “HAPPY PARTY TRAIN.” We didn’t go up there since we were tired already…
After 1.5 kilometer and about 20 minutes of walking, we finally getting close to the Nagaisaki Junior High School or Uranohoshi Girls’ High School in anime, and sun is now going to set sometime soon… We better hurry!!
You guys might think that it’s not getting dark, well, it’s magic of image post-processing, allow me to show you what it’s look like in the middle of the day :) Anyway, as this small town is near the sea, there are a lot of ship parked all over the place. After turning right at the junction above in the picture, and walk in by around 200m, there are orange tree everywhere!
This image is from Dengeki G’s Magazine July 2015, the character introduction! Since the school is surround by sea, there are “Beware of Tsunami” sign everywhere.
We’re finally close to the truth…
Sakura is blooming and sun is setting, what a wonderful match! We are not going to go up stair yet because there are many interesting things in front of us.
Very beautiful, sadly sakura didn’t bloom yet in the anime.
Here’s some more photo around that bus stop in front of the school.
Here’s the first scene from ending song, “Yume Kataru yori Yume Utaou.”
Backdrop of Ruby’s introduction page in September 2015 Dengeki G’s Magazine took place here. Ok, we’re done down here, Let’s race up the hill like Chika-chan did!
Sakura is very beautiful here. It’s seems like it was already full bloom when we arrived!
BTW, if you guys wonder about the height of the hill that school is locate, here’s the photo of the stairway. Well, every student here must be very strong as they need to walk up and down everyday because cars are not allow to go up the hill except teacher’s cars.
Walking up and you will see this Mikan sign, continues and the school is right in front of us!
Since sun is going to set soon, I decided to shoot this landscape photo as we’re already on a high hill!
Anyway, run for the school!!!
After several kilometers of walking, we were finally here!!! Here’s more photo of the school. Please note that the school is private building and you’re not allow to enter. We could go around the school as there is a road, but it’s getting dark and there were not much people left there, so we decided not to take a risk.
And here’s the swimming pool from Aqours 1st single PV, in case you guys wonder…
It’s now getting darker and darker after sun has set, so we decided to finish our Numazu trip here, but since I noticed that there are some scene in the anime took place at Akihabara or Akiba, Tokyo and we went there 2 days after too, so in the next blog, I gonna cover that too, so stay tuned!
Last but not least… The map
