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Perhaps some of the following are what you are thinking of. Taken from the thread Bunch of archived threads cached by Google by justsomeguy. The cached links no longer seem to work but at least some of the content was recovered.

Air's real world setting - Kami (Kasumi) Japan

Neaco
2005-08-29, 00:08
Very cool, from this http://htc.moon.st/ota/05041601.html someone posted, I went and looked up the location and found it! Story may be fictional but having a real setting I think kinda ties it into our world a bit more

Kasumi (香住町; -cho) was a town located in Kinosaki District, Hyogo, Japan. On April 1, 2005 the town merged with two towns from Mikata District forming the town of Kami and no longer exists as an independent municipality. The portion of Kami that was Kasumi is now informally known as Kasumi-ku.

Population 13,500

More pictures:
http://blog.yam.com/riceking/archives/460869.html
http://blog.yam.com/riceking/archives/462539.html
http://www.cable-net.ne.jp/user/ok11...ir_tanbou.html
http://apple3.cool.ne.jp/kinki/hyogo/amarube.htm

http://blog.yam.com/riceking/66e9f399.jpg

http://www.cable-net.ne.jp/user/ok11..._tanbou.15.jpg

http://www.ricerice.net/ACG/AIR-Kasu...Kasumi-051.JPG

http://www.ricerice.net/ACG/AIR-Kasu...Kasumi-070.JPG

http://www.cable-net.ne.jp/user/ok11..._tanbou.33.jpg

Google Maps
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%E9%A6...0.059524&hl=en
TougeSil80
2005-09-01, 21:51
Wow, that's pretty cool, beautiful place.
MindOnAir
2005-10-07, 01:20
Nice that's hella cool
milkmandan
2005-10-07, 16:01
that is pretty sweet..

kinda not surprised though... mostly any place you see in an anime reflects SOME place SOMEWHERE. or where did the creator get the idea?
Richard 23
2005-10-17, 12:06
Thanks for the info and images!

In addition to the original page, AIR: Hyogo prefecture Kami Cho & the Kyoto prefecture Maizuru city compilation (http://htc.moon.st/ota/05041601.html) (English (http://babelfish.altavista.com/babel...5041601.html)), also check out AIR: Japanese ode Yamagata Mihama Cho compilation (http://htc.moon.st/ota/05022701.html) (English (http://babelfish.altavista.com/babel...5022701.html)).

This one is a little sad:

http://htc.moon.st/p/2005022709.jpg

The track is broken....

http://htc.moon.st/p/2005022708.jpg

The whole Hi-Tech Carrot (http://htc.moon.st/) site (English (http://babelfish.altavista.com/babel...c.moon.st%2f)), at least the travelogue section, The Japanese Highway (http://htc.moon.st/ota/index.html) (English (http://babelfish.altavista.com/babel...%2findex.html)) is pretty interesting. Click through this section to see some intriguing distant scenery. It shows other real world settings, some for other anime as well.

Mentioned in another thread also was this page: The 1000th summer (http://tarax.flop.jp/alive/log/000660.html) (English (http://babelfish.altavista.com/babel...F000660.html)).


I also came across a similar page for Kanon: Kanon in Moriguchi Osaka (http://www.ne.jp/asahi/chibiusa/rini/kanon/) (English (http://babelfish.altavista.com/babel...i%2Fkanon%2F)).

It's cool to find that these magical places exist.
takeshi88
2005-10-20, 13:08
ah cool! The vending machine in the 2nd pic, is that where misuzu was "supposed" to buy the concentrated peach juice for yukito?
Richard 23
2005-10-20, 15:34
ah cool! The vending machine in the 2nd pic, is that where misuzu was "supposed" to buy the concentrated peach juice for yukito?

The "weird juice?"

I've seen a "real life" image of the peach juice, or maybe it was a tin box that looked like the aforementioned beverage. If I can find it again, I'll post it here. Or someone else will.

If I'm looking for Air juice I must be a freeplanetling.

Oh, and Neaco, thanks for the updated images. Great stuff. Post more if you find more....
frad113
2005-10-20, 20:40
You mean this?

http://tinypic.com/ab2x69.jpg

Courtesy of this (http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost...&postcount=262) post.
Neaco
2005-10-21, 02:29
Sure glad you like the photos Richard 23, I posted all the photo links I know of thus far.

One wonders if that drink is actually safe to drink, 500% of anything sounds scary; no wonder Yukito spit it out. If he died of peach overdose then there would be no anime lol