J-Drama Pilgrimage | 臨床犯罪学者 火村英生の推理 (2016) — JR嵯峨嵐山駅 / Erika’s First Ransom Call

Drama: 日本テレビ『臨床犯罪学者 火村英生の推理』 / Rinsho Hanzai Gakusha Himura Hideo no Suiri / Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa (2016), limited here to the original 2016 terrestrial series.

Episode 3, broadcast 31 January 2016, begins its kidnapping case after actor Shima Yukio disappears and his wife Erika returns to Kyoto from a business trip. NTV’s official story says the first threatening call reaches Erika just after her return, and a detailed Kyoto filming-location record identifies the real location for that first call as JR 嵯峨嵐山駅 / Saga-Arashiyama Station.

That makes the station an unusually concrete pilgrimage point for the episode: an everyday arrival gateway to western Kyoto becomes the first on-screen contact point between the kidnapper and Erika, setting up the ransom instructions that bring Himura and Arisugawa into the case.

Saga-Arashiyama remains an operating JR West station on the Sagano Line at 11-1 Saga-Tenryuji Kurumamichicho. The stored pin is station-level, not an assertion about the exact platform edge, telephone position, actor mark or camera setup used in 2015 filming. Visit as a normal railway passenger, keep clear of platform edges and commuter flows, and do not obstruct gates or stairs while comparing shots.