J-Drama Pilgrimage | SPEC (2010) — 上総鶴舞駅 / Kazusa-Tsurumai Station, the Route to the Uematsu House

Episode 4 of TBS’s SPEC, broadcast October 29, 2010, takes 当麻紗綾 / Saya Toma and the investigation out of central Tokyo. The nationwide filming-location archive identifies 小湊鐵道 上総鶴舞駅 / Kazusa-Tsurumai Station in Ichihara as the station where Toma and the others get off on their way to the Uematsu house.

The station is still operated by Kominato Railway at 898-2 Ikewada, Ichihara. Kominato’s current station guide notes that the 1925 station has long been popular as a television-drama and magazine location and that the station building is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

For a pilgrimage, this memory is pinned to the station itself rather than to an invented platform mark, train-door position, or camera setup from 2010. The surviving wooden station and rural Kominato Line setting make it one of the strongest places in the series where the real landscape is still readily recognizable.

Sources: Nationwide Location Guide, SPEC filming locations; Kominato Railway official Kazusa-Tsurumai Station guide.