From Up on Poppy Hill
Gorō Miyazaki's film scripted by Hayao Miyazaki (2011), set in 1963 Yokohama: every morning Umi hoists signal flags from her hilltop boarding house overlooking the harbour, while fighting alongside Shun to save the school clubhouse. The Yamate bluff, the port and the streets of Motomachi pulse in every background.
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Harbor View Park (Minato no Mieru Oka)Umi's signal flags
The clifftop park on the Yamate bluff, overlooking the port and bay, distils Umi's hilltop landscape: since 2011 it flies a mast with the film's 'U W' signal flags.
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Yamashita Park & Waterfrontthe 1963 harbour
Yokohama's classic seaside promenade, with the liner Hikawa Maru moored alongside, evokes the 1963 port Umi and Shun cycle through: tugboats, cranes and the film's sea air.
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Motomachi StreetUmi's errands
The shopping street at the foot of the bluff, where Umi does the boarding house's daily shopping, keeps the elegant port-town air the film recreates. (Approximate coordinate: street axis.)