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** The webcomic ''[[Megatokyo]]'' employs [[Lampshade Hanging]] on this, as there is an entire police division dedicated to rebuilding Tokyo after the numerous disasters.
** This prefix-Tokyo practice is parodied in the first ''[[Phoenix Wright]]'' game, where an in-game TV show, ''The Steel Samurai'', is set in "Neo-Olde Tokyo".
** This is something of a [[Truth in Television]], as in its modern history Tokyo was completely rebuilt no less than ''four'' times. The first time was in the 1870s, when it went from the seat of Bakufu to the imperial capital (and ''started'' being called Tokyo, for that matter), then it was almost completely destroyed by fire in 1923, after [
* In the ''[[Excel Saga (Anime)|Excel Saga]]'' anime, the [[City of Adventure]], F City in F Prefecture, is a thinly veiled stand-in for the real-life Fukuoka City in the Fukuoka Prefecture of Japan. [[Excel Saga (Manga)|The original manga]] actually calls the city its proper name, and even in the anime, the map of F City is that of Fukuoka.
* The ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' series is set in the author's hometown of Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, with the serial numbers filed off: Kanji in actual place names (or their readings) are changed -- the Uegahara Pirates of Kwansei Gakuin University become the ''Kami''gahara Pirates, for instance -- and the name of the actual town is never directly mentioned ("Kitaguchi Station" is ''Nishinomiya'' Kitaguchi Station, and "North High" is Nishinomiya-Kita High School). This is made especially blatant in the anime, where Kyoto Animation saw fit to recreate the ''actual locations'' in and around the city, including undisguised shots of passing Hankyu Railway trains, and the skylines of nearby Osaka and Kobe. Since Nishinomiya is located in the heart of the [[Kansai Dialect|Kansai]] [[The Idiot From Osaka|region]] it would run the risk of being stereotyped, but [[Kyo Ani]]'s attention to detail actually gives it an "everytown" quality.
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* ''[[Sketchbook]]'' takes place in Shime, a small town near the Japanese city of Fukuoka, as evidenced by the old coal mine winding tower that appears in the background every now and then.
* The original ''[[Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (Anime)|Science Ninja Team Gatchaman]]'' has Amegapolis, a stand-in for New York City. Then one of the sequel series has (seriously) New Jork.
* The settings of the ''Pokémon'' movies are based off of real locations: Altomare is Venice, Forina is [
* Although it seems to combine elements of [[San Francisco]], [[Los Angeles]], and [[New York City]], and some fans believe it's in Hawaii, [[Word of God]] says that "Port Mery" in ''[[Kaleido Star]]'' is actually L.A.
* The Flowercrest department store in ''[[Planetarian (Visual Novel)|Planetarian]]'' is based on the (defunct) Matsubishi department store in Hamamatsu, a town in Japan's Shizuoka prefecture. The game also extensively uses other locales and sights from that town.
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* In the ''[[Harry Potter (Literature)|Harry Potter]]'' series, the Weasley family lives near the Muggle town of Ottery St Catchpole, which is generally assumed to be a fictional stand-in for Ottery St Mary.
* Ed McBain's ''[[Eighty Seventh Precinct (Literature)|Eighty Seventh Precinct]]'' series of police procedurals are set in Isola, a district of an unnamed, fictional city closely resembling New York. Isola includes many features of Manhattan, and the other districts mentioned are clear stand-ins for New York City's other four boroughs.
** In particular, according to [[The Other Wiki]], [
** Oddly enough, New York itself is occasionally mentioned in the books. Apparently McBain's universe has two huge and virtually-interchangeable metropolises co-existing very close to one another on the East Coast of the United States.
** The 1972 film adaptation of ''Fuzz'', meanwhile, is set in Boston for some reason.
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* Likewise, [[Stephen King]] makes it clear that Derry is Bangor, Castle rock is a mix of Durham, Maine and Lisbon Falls, Maine, and Jerusalem’s Lot is probably a mix of Falmouth, Windham, and Cumberland, Maine.
* Thomas Hardy's "Wessex" is the south of England, with ''every single town and city'' given a fictional name.
* The town sent through time in the ''[[1632]]'' series was nominally Grantville, West Virginia -- but except for specifics of individuals and the power plant, the town is identical to [
* [[Robert Westall (Creator)|Robert Westall]]'s work is full of this trope; ''[[The Machine Gunners (Literature)|The Machine Gunners]]'' is set in [[Fictional Counterpart|Garmouth]] as a version of the author's home town of Tynemouth and ''[[Urn Burial (Literature)|Urn Burial]]'' is set in the fictional village of Unthank near the real town of Penrith in Cumbria. So much so in ''The Machine Gunners'' that there's a Westall Walk around the area.
* Alan Garner's ''[[The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Literature)|The Weirdstone of Brisingamen]]'' is set on and around Alderly Edge, a real location near Macclesfield in Cheshire. Many of the buildings, caves and natural landmarks mentioned in the novel exist and can be visited by walking along the Edge.
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