Buzzer Beat (2009) | Toho College of Music Kawagoe — Riko’s Music School and Audition Hall

東邦音楽大学 川越キャンパス (Toho College of Music, Kawagoe Campus) provides the real music-school setting for Riko Shirakawa and Mai Ebina in Fuji TV’s 2009 ブザー・ビート〜崖っぷちのヒーロー〜. The series location guide names the Kawagoe campus as the music college attended by the two characters, making it the clearest surviving institutional location for Riko’s professional ambitions outside the basketball story.

A second filming-location record narrows episode 1 further: Riko’s audition, broadcast 13 July 2009, was filmed in the campus’s グランツザール (Granzaal). The main archive also returns to the Kawagoe campus in episode 10 for Riko’s violin lesson and audition scenes, so the campus appears at more than one stage of her career arc.

The university still operates at 84 Imaizumi, Kawagoe. Its official campus information confirms the address and describes the active music facilities; in 2026 it is also preparing to consolidate more school functions at Kawagoe from spring 2027. The pin, 35.8972349 / 139.5228194, is a campus-level map coordinate and is not presented as the exact seat, rehearsal room or camera position used in 2009.

Because this is an active university, pilgrimage should be limited to legitimate public occasions such as announced concerts, festivals or open-campus events. Visitors should not enter classrooms, rehearsal rooms or student areas without permission.