Bandai Gate of Niigata Station | Buildings in front of the station |
Godai and Kyoko has been to Niigata together to meet Godai's family before their marriage in the episode of "Herilooms". They was waiting for Godai's grandmother who would come to meet them in front of the Station.
This station is "Niigata Station". And Niigata Station has two gates, Bandai Gate and South Gate. The gate Godai and Kyoko stainding at is "Bandai Gate". I took this phote from the terminal bus station.
And Godai's grandmother shaked hands with Kyoko. We can see two buildings in the background of them in comics. They are "Marutake building" and "Toyo building".I took this photo at taxi station. So the location of the station and these bulidings are perfetly same as comics.
The scenery on the way to the Godai's home |
But I could not find any eating houses like "Diner Godai" around here.
We can find many eating houses along "The School Town Street", so I guess Rumiko Takahashi took a eating houses as model of "Diner Godai", perhaps she often watched it in her school days.
And one of Japanese fan gave me a information. He taught me "There was a eating house named "Gosaku" at the school town street. It's near the Niigata Central High School (Rumiko Takahashi's old school). And it was just like Dinner Godai".
This time, I found this eating house "Gosaku", and I was perplexed.
I cannot declare this is the model of Dinner Godai, but some parts of this house is very like Godai's house.
Dinner Gosaku | The front door |
Niigata Central High School | Niigata High School |
Rumiko Takahashi graduated from Niigata Central High School. It's a girls' school,and it's said that she took this school as the model of Kyoko and Yagami's school. But I could not enter the school gate, could not have a feeling of reality this was Yagami's school.
Rumiko Takahashi said "The school uniform (of my high school) was jumper skirt and blazer, and a ribbon of various colors in every grade". So we can find Yagami wore the uniform of Niigata Central School.
Niigata School is very near to the Niigata Central High School. It's a boys' school. A fan said to me that maybe it was the model of Godai's old school.
But the school bulding has already rebuilt. I cannot decide whether it's the model.