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* [[Kyoto Animation]] is quite well known for this, to the point that fans have managed to track down the location of and angle on many if not most of the places on which the backgrounds of individual scenes were based.

** ''[http://infinitemirai.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/nishinomiya-hyogo-home-of-the-melancholy-of-suzumiya-haruhi/ The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]'' became infamous for this.

** ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20141122212505/http://www.rinku.zaq.ne.jp/p_v/kanon.html Kanon]''

** ''[http://infinitemirai.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/kyoto-region-home-of-k-on/ K-On!]''

** As mentioned at the top, ''[[Lucky Star]]''

* ''[[Beck]]'' does this a lot during their tour of America. And seems to have [[Shown Their Work]].

* ''[[Kamichu!]]'' does this with Onomichi in the Hiroshima prefecture. See [https://web.archive.org/web/20121209021805/http://www.onomichiguide.com/kamichu.html here]. Of course, everything looks a little newer in the anime—it's set in the period between spring 1983 and spring 1984.

* ''[[Eden of the East]]'' for Washington, D.C.

* Naoki Urasawa's ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'' takes you mostly through the scenery of the [[Commie Land|former Communist bloc]], like Germany and Czechoslovakia, as it tries to unravel the mystery of Johan's creation and his past, though some other settings occur as well, such as Southern France.

* Most iterations of ''[[Digimon]]'' do this, at least before the places in question get torn apart by [[Kaiju]]. Some of the best examples are the Fuji TV station in ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' and the extensive scouting of Shinjuku's surrounds in ''[[Digimon Tamers]]''.

** ''[[Twin Spica]]'' takes a more stylistic approach, although the shorelines and the Yuigahama boulevard where Asumi goes jogging are clearly recognizable.

** In ''[[Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou]]'', Alpha takes a trip to Kamakura, with a very prominent view of Enoshima.

** ''[[A Channel]]'' has the obligatory [[Beach Episode]], in which the girls take the very recognizable Enoden train ride to their destination.

** ''[[Tsuritama]]'' is explicitly set at Enoshima.

* ''[[Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto: Natsu no Sora]]'' takes place against photo-realistic real-life backgrounds. Of special note are Biei in Hokkaido, hometown of the main character Sora, and the hip Tokyo neighborhood of Shimokitazawa. In one episode Sora and Kohta also {{spoiler|go on a date}} in Kamakura.

* ''[[Umi Monogatari]]'' is set on one of the subtropical Japanese Amami-Oshima islands. It doesn't get any explicit mention though until the DVD special.

* ''[[Darker than Black]]'' is big on this. All three major localities the TV show takes place in, [[Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe|Tokyo]], Sapporo and [[Aliens in Cardiff|Vladivostok]], were painstakingly researched to the point where indeed it was possible to pinpoint the time the references were taken by the state of specific buildings alone.

* Many of the locations in ''[[Yubisaki Milk Tea]]'' are real places in Tokyo, often surprising detailed drawn. A collection of pictures of the real places can be seen [https://web.archive.org/web/20160313064856/http://natsukan.net/0034yubisakiMilkTea/?id=all here].

* ''[[Yuritetsu]]'' is about four girls which form a railway club and naturally goes by real trains to real stations and sights all over Japan. Their local station Yurigasaki-Joshikoumae is a renamed Hino Station on the Chūō Main Line in Tokyo, but the other places goes by their real names, be it the big Ueno Station in Tokyo or the secluded Koboro on Hokkaido. And since one of the girls, Hakutsuru Tsurumi, is a fan of a serie which is obvious K-on they are also visiting the above mentioned Toyosato Elementary School, which certainly look like Yui & Co could come in any other minute.

 

* [[The Teraverse]]'s ''Sister Marie'' subseries (beginning with ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31699/CaptainBoulanger+It+s+Just+A+Habit.htm It's Just A Habit]'') is set in San Diego, California, particularly by referring to many specific buildings by name and details. However, the address given for the heroine's home address doesn't precisely exist (it's a skipped number on a real street).

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

** ''[[L.A. Noire]]'' does this for the LA of 1947.

* The ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' series, starting with ''San Andreas''. Many a player was surprised at the level of detail that went into the fictional versions of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas. Likewise for ''GTA IV'' and NYC.

* ''[[The World Ends With You]]'' contains a remarkably faithful recreation of Shibuya, barring the [[Rule of Cool|stylish yet impossible angles of skyscrapers]] and [[No Communities Were Harmed|the fact that none of the stores]] [[Bland-Name Product|are the brands they should be]].

* The tracks in ''Project Gotham Racing 2'' are so accurate that one Scottish gamer was able to identify a store he used to frequent on an Edinburgh track.

* ''[[Fallout]] 3'' uses the Washington Metro area for its Capital Wasteland. Of course, the scenery is all blasted and post-apocalyptic, but there are several places where you can see what the Real Place Background would look like if it got blown up.

** ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' is even better at this. Even the little ghost town you start the game in, Goodsprings, is a real-life location; the bar and general store are lifted straight from the real ones.

* ''Modern Warfare 2'' did this with various real life cities, most notably Washington, with running and gunning inside the White House, but in a less obvious but funnier case, there was a level of the campaign (and the Special Ops-mission "Homeland Security") made from an area with some [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTOyxsnMl0s fast-food restaurants in Vancouver].

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

 

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