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** While ''[[5 Centimeters per Second]]'' starts in Tokyo and returns there for its third act, much of the first act concerns Takaki's cold, lonely journey up north to Iwafune in Tochigi Prefecture. The second act takes him even further away, to the remote southern island of Tanegashima.
** ''[[Your Name]]'': While Mitsuha's hometown of Itomori is technically fictional, it is based on the real Hida City in Gifu Prefecture, a part of central Japan largely unknown to the outside world before this, and it is there that {{spoiler| a fragment of the comet Tiamat lands.}}
** While ''[[Suzume (film)|Suzume]]'' does have vital scenes in Tokyo, it starts and ends in the Tōhoku region, and various intermediary scenes are set in the less well-known Miyazaki, Ehime and Hyōgo Prefectures.
* ''[[Kamichu!]]'' is set in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture. While no tiny town and genuinely having many religious sites in reality, it's still quite out of the way and a far cry from Kyoto, Ise or any of the other places most might think of as significant.
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== [[Fan Works]] ==
* The [[Mega Crossover]] shared-world story ''[[My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character]]'' both plays the trope straight and plays with it. Hoping to find a displacee in [[New York City]]? Sorry, try [[Joisey|New Jersey]] instead... at least until the Muppet Theater shows up or somebody actually sees [[John Munch]]. [[London Town|London, England]]? No, Kent County, UK and [[In Dublin's Fair City|Dublin, Ireland]]. [[Toronto]]? Try heading up the road to Ottawa. [[Motor City|Detroit]]? You'll have to cross the river to Windsor. And the largest collection of [[Artificial Intelligence|AI]] displacees are nowhere near Silicon Valley, having ended up in [[Boston (useful notes)|Boston]] instead. However, some displacees did appear in [[Montreal]] and [[Los Angeles]], including in the latter group [[Cardcaptor Sakura/Characters#Tomoyo Daidouji|one with an interest in cinematography]].
== Film ==
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* In ''[[MDK]]'', the population centres threatened with annihilation by the invading city minecrawlers were Laguna Beach, Lindfield, Livingston, Kirkaldy and Sparrow Pit. In ''[[MDK2]]'' the city minecrawler in the opening mission was targeting Edmonton.
* While most of the ''[[Ryu ga Gotoku|Yakuza]]'' games take place in big, famous Japanese cities like Tokyo, Osaka, and other prefectural capitals, ''6: The Song of Life'' spends a large amount of time in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture. While not exactly tiny at over 140,000 residents in 2016, it's hardly well-known to the wider world.
* Some levels in ''[[Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance]]'' take place in Denver, Colorado. While hardly a nowhere as it's the capital of the state, it's also a place that rarely appears in popular culture.
* ''[[Generation Zero (video game)|Generation Zero]]'' is [[Robot War]] in the Swedish countryside.
== Web Comics ==
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