【推しの子】 | SHIBUYA TSUTAYA 2F — The Window Where Ai Was Chosen

Ai sits above Shibuya Crossing while the city streams beneath the glass, and Ichigo Saitō offers her the first version of the future everyone will later mistake for destiny. The second-floor café inside QFRONT is a fitting place to begin an idol career: customers face one of Tokyo’s most photographed crowds while remaining safely separated from it. Ai is still unknown in this scene. She can watch people without being watched back. Soon that balance will reverse completely. Stand across the crossing and find the café windows under the giant screen. The distance between those two surfaces—one made for private conversation, the other for mass attention—contains the whole direction of Ai’s life. Location reference: 聖地巡礼.com, “【推しの子】聖地巡礼│東京・宮崎のロケ地を写真と地図で紹介.” Location photograph: “QFront-Shibuya-04.jpg” by Rs1421, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA.