J-Drama Pilgrimage | デスノート Death Note (2015) — 横浜国立大学 / Light’s “Suginami University”

Drama: Nippon TV『デスノート』 / Death Note (2015), scoped specifically to the 11-episode 2015 NTV television drama starring Masataka Kubota and Kento Yamazaki. This memory does not mix locations from the separate 2006 live-action films, the anime, or the later 2016 film/related screen projects.

Episode 1 aired on 5 July 2015. The Nationwide Filming Location Guide identifies 横浜国立大学 / Yokohama National University in Hodogaya, Yokohama as the real campus used for Light Yagami’s fictional 「杉並経済大学」 and credits the university across Episodes 1–6. That makes the Tokiwa-dai campus one of the recurring real-world anchors for the first half of the drama, connecting Light’s outwardly ordinary university life with the escalating Kira investigation.

Yokohama National University remains an active national university, not a preserved drama set. Its official site publishes current access information, campus maps and a 360-degree campus tour. Pilgrims should keep to routes and spaces currently open to visitors, avoid entering teaching/research buildings without permission, and never disrupt classes or university operations for a filming-angle recreation. The stored coordinate 35.4741172, 139.593413 is a representative university-level anchor on the Tokiwa-dai campus; it is not claimed as Light’s exact classroom, walking position, actor mark or camera position.

Photo: かなえゆうじん, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.