J-Drama Pilgrimage | コウノドリ Dr. Storks (2015) — カトリック大磯教会 / Himawari Home

Drama: TBS『コウノドリ』 / Kounodori / Dr. Storks (2015), scoped to the first 2015 television series rather than the separate 2017 continuation. For Episode 3, broadcast 30 October 2015, the Nationwide Filming Location Guide identifies カトリック大磯教会 / Catholic Oiso Church as the real-world location for the fictional 「ひまわり養育園」 / Himawari children's home where Sakura Kounotori grew up. This makes the church a particularly meaningful pilgrimage stop: it connects the medical drama's present-day Persona setting with Sakura's own childhood and the personal history behind his commitment to obstetrics. The location attribution is kept deliberately narrow. It establishes the church as the exterior/location used for Himawari in Episode 3; it does not claim that every fictional room, corridor, childhood flashback angle, or interior was filmed in the same building. Catholic Oiso Church remains an active place of worship at 2-7-1 Higashicho, Oiso, Kanagawa. Its current official access page says it is generally open 10:00–13:00 except Mondays and public holidays. Those hours can change around services or church activity, so pilgrims should give worshippers priority, keep noise low, and avoid photographing people or entering spaces not open to visitors. The stored coordinate, 35.31373, 139.32371, is a church-level anchor based on current map data. It is not an actor position, orphanage doorway mark, camera setup, or claim that the fictional Himawari institution exists here.