東京ラブストーリー (Tokyo Love Story, 1991) | おはなはん通り — Childhood stories in the old castle town

おはなはん通り（Ohanahan Street） is where Rika and Kanji continue walking after the Hijikawa riverbank, trading childhood stories through Ōzu’s preserved castle-town streets. Kanji’s memories make the place feel intimate and familiar; Rika listens with the warmth of someone briefly allowed into a past she cannot share. In the final Ehime journey, that gentle conversation makes the coming separation more painful: the couple looks at ease precisely when their future together is slipping away. Ōzu City identifies the street as the filming location and notes that its Edo-period town plan still survives, with merchant storehouses on one side and former samurai residences on the other. It remains a public street within a lived-in neighborhood. Walk quietly, yield to residents and vehicles, do not peer into windows or doorways, and use the public rest area rather than private thresholds. Photo: 京浜にけ, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.