Nogizaka46 Pilgrimage: Album Covers, Jingu Stadium, and Ten Places Behind the Songs

An album cover can give a song a place on the map. Nogizaka46's first album, Toumei na Iro, puts the members on the platforms and beside the ticket gates of Nogizaka Station. For Sorezore no Isu, they stand in red and blue outfits against the glass architecture of The National Art Center, Tokyo.

From Meiji Jingu Stadium, where the group has returned for summer concerts, the journey extends to a shopping street used in a story and the enormous radio telescope at Nobeyama. This guide covers ten places: who visited, which songs brought them there, and what you can see today. Along the way, it looks at the performers and production choices behind the images.

Album Neighborhoods, Summer Concerts, and Music Video Locations

1Nogizaka Station | The Platforms and Gates on Toumei na Iro

Nogizaka Station on the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line is the cover location for Nogizaka46's first album, Toumei na Iro. Released in January 2015, its Type-A, Type-B, and Type-C editions use different photographs of the members on the platform and at the ticket gates. Tokyo Metro fully cooperated with the shoot.

The station returned to the cover of the tenth-anniversary compilation Time flies in 2021. This time, performance outfits from successive singles lined the platform, while members' uniforms stood near the gates. Photographer Yoshiharu Ota shot the images between the last and first trains. A decade of costumes occupied the places where the members had stood for their first album.

For the individual portraits in Time flies, Makoto Hada photographed the members around the station. The package combines a collective history told through the costumes with portraits of each member standing in the neighborhood.

Sources: Nogizaka46: Making the Time flies Cover (in Japanese)

On March 26, 2016, the station adopted 'Kimi no Na wa Kibou' as its train departure melody, using a piano phrase performed by then-member Erika Ikuta. When Tokyo Metro invited requests in 2015, this pairing of station and song received about 6,400 submissions. A recording of Ikuta's playing became part of the station's sound.

An album promotional panel exhibition also appeared inside the station in April 2016. Then-captain Reika Sakurai carried in a panel announcing the second album herself, and station staff installed it. That exhibition ran only until April 10; it is a record of an earlier campaign, not a permanent display you can expect to find today.

Sources: Reika Sakurai Installs the Panel (in Japanese) ／ Tokyo Metro: Departure Melody Introduction Date (in Japanese)

Sources: Tokyo Metro: Song Selection and Erika Ikuta's Performance (in Japanese)

The station is at 1-25-8 Minami-Aoyama, Minato, Tokyo. You can see its signs and gate areas while using the station, but the platforms serve passengers boarding and leaving trains. Visit as part of an ordinary train journey, keeping waiting lines clear rather than arranging a group photograph that recreates the album cover.

Sources: Nogizaka46: First Album Photography Locations (in Japanese) ／ Tokyo Metro: Nogizaka Station (in Japanese)

2Nogi Shrine | A Shrine in the Album Booklet

Nogi Shrine is one of the locations photographed for the Toumei na Iro booklet. Images of the shrine and nearby park accompany the cover photographs taken on the station platforms and by the gates. At 8-11-27 Akasaka, Minato, it offers a place to pay your respects while exploring the Nogizaka neighborhood that shares the group's name.

The shrine also appears in the members' own coming-of-age milestones. In January 2013, Mai Shiraishi, Nanami Hashimoto, Sayuri Matsumura, and Misa Eto visited in formal kimono and received prayers. Its connection to the group includes both album photography and a record of the members growing into adulthood.

Sources: Nogizaka46: 2013 Coming-of-Age Ceremony Report (in Japanese)

The shrine is open for worship from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Receiving amulets and requesting formal prayers involve separate reception hours. The amulet office opens at 9:30 a.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. on weekends and public holidays, closing at 5 p.m. on all those days. Plan around those hours if you would like to receive an amulet.

Sources: Nogizaka46: Booklet Photography Locations (in Japanese) ／ Nogi Shrine Official Site (in Japanese) ／ Visiting Hours and Photography Guidance (in Japanese)

3The National Art Center, Tokyo | Red and Blue for Sorezore no Isu

The National Art Center, Tokyo provided the setting for the cover of the second album, Sorezore no Isu, released in May 2016. Connected directly to Nogizaka Station, it was chosen to suggest the group moving forward from the place where the first album cover had been photographed.

The members wear red and blue in the photographs. The idea was that the two colors combine to make the group's color, purple. Even within each color, the outfits have different shapes, giving each member an individual presence within the shared design.

Kisho Kurokawa designed the building, whose undulating glass facade and conical entrance are its most striking features. Inside are cafes, a restaurant, and a museum shop. You can enter without visiting an exhibition: admission to the building is free, while the individual exhibitions require their own tickets.

The address is 7-22-2 Roppongi, Minato, with direct access from Exit 6 of Nogizaka Station on the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line. The usual closing day is Tuesday. When Tuesday is a public holiday, the closure moves to the following weekday.

The title Sorezore no Isu suggests trying something new from a place that suits each person. In an interview at the time of release, Mai Shiraishi explained that it did not mean everyone was competing for a single chair. The red and blue outfits, with different designs even within one color, similarly show individuals within a shared group.

The National Art Center, Tokyo does not have a permanent collection on display. Works are brought together for individual exhibitions, so what you encounter inside changes with the photography, painting, and other shows on the calendar. The architecture in the album photograph and the day's exhibitions offer two distinct ways to enjoy a visit.

Sources: Nogizaka46: Sorezore no Isu Cover (in Japanese) ／ Official Interview with Mai Shiraishi and Nanase Nishino (in Japanese) ／ The National Art Center, Tokyo: Visitor Information

4Meiji Jingu Stadium | A Returning Summer Stage

Nogizaka46 played the Tokyo date of their Summer National Tour 2014 at Meiji Jingu Stadium on August 30, 2014. They returned for more summer concerts in the years that followed, making the baseball ground a landmark in the group's live history.

Their first two-day run at Jingu followed in 2015. The 2024 national tour brought three shows from September 2 to 4, while the 2026 tour placed four days at Jingu, August 20 to 23, at the end of its itinerary.

The stadium was completed on October 22, 1926. It stands within Meiji Jingu Gaien at 3-1 Kasumigaoka-machi, Shinjuku, Tokyo. Visitors can walk there from Exit 3 of Gaienmae Station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line.

Entering the stadium requires a ticket for a scheduled game or concert. On days without a performance, you can see the exterior; the concert stage is an installation made for the show.

Looking back on the first Jingu concert in 2014, Nanase Nishino recalled the cries at the opening and the sky before sunset. The forecast had called for rain, but the weather cleared. The 2015 concerts were rainy, and Mai Shiraishi remembered that performing in the rain felt fresh, too. Returning to the same venue left the two members with different memories of weather and individual moments.

Sources: Mai Shiraishi and Nanase Nishino Remember Jingu (in Japanese)

Sources: Nogizaka46: 2014 Jingu Concert (in Japanese) ／ Nogizaka46: 2022 Jingu Concert (in Japanese) ／ 2015 Jingu Concerts (in Japanese) ／ 2024 Jingu Concerts (in Japanese) ／ Meiji Jingu Stadium: History (in Japanese) ／ Meiji Jingu Stadium: Access (in Japanese)

5Miyashita Park | The Real Shibuya in ‘Wilderness world’

Miyashita Park was one of the locations filmed for the 'Wilderness world' music video in October 2020. This Shibuya municipal park sits on top of a commercial complex and includes sports facilities such as a skating area and bouldering walls.

The park's address is 1-26-5 Shibuya, Shibuya, Tokyo. Its usual opening hours are 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. The public areas can be part of a walk while shopping or eating in Shibuya.

From the benches and lawn on the fourth-floor level, you can look out over Shibuya. Rail tracks and major roads surround the park, offering a different height and perspective from the intersections below. 'Wilderness world' combines footage shot in this real park with the intersection dance sequence filmed somewhere else.

Sources: Shibuya City: Miyashita Park Views and Facilities (in Japanese)

Sources: Making 'Wilderness world' (in Japanese) ／ Shibuya City: Current Park Listings (in Japanese)

6Tokyo International Cruise Terminal | Erika Ikuta’s ‘Saigetsu no Wadachi’

'Saigetsu no Wadachi' was created as Erika Ikuta's graduation solo. Its video was filmed at Tokyo International Cruise Terminal in late October 2021, using the gateway to the sea for a theme of departure. Ikuta played the piano herself. For the lip-sync sequence, the production used the first take, in which she began to cry.

Toward the end of filming, a video she expected to look back over her career was replaced by surprise, self-recorded messages from the other members. Her tearful nods as she watched those messages also became part of the graduation music video.

The terminal in Aomi, Koto, Tokyo welcomes large passenger ships. Its usual opening hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with closures over the year-end and New Year period. When a cruise ship is in port, the areas available to visitors and the opening hours may change.

Check Tokyo Port Terminal Corporation's entry-restriction notices to see which areas will be open on your visiting date.

The compilation Time flies, which includes this song, also contains Mai Shinuchi's graduation solo, 'Anata kara no Sotsugyou.' Ikuta's video, directed by Atsunori Toshi, combines her own piano playing with the port as a backdrop for departure.

Sources: Making 'Saigetsu no Wadachi' (in Japanese) ／ Tokyo Port Terminal Corporation: Cruise Terminal Visitor Guide (in Japanese)

7Tove Jansson Akebono Children’s Forest Park | The Setting of ‘Hakumai-sama’

Tove Jansson Akebono Children's Forest Park in Hanno, Saitama is where the 'Hakumai-sama' video was filmed. When production took place in 2016, its name was Akebono Children's Forest Park. The song is performed by Sayuringo Gundan: Sayuri Matsumura, Kotoko Sasaki, Ranze Terada, and Karin Ito. Framed as a report on the four members' activities, the video includes such scenes as taking a stone for a walk like a pet. Another scene called for rice grains on their faces, but getting the grains to stick proved difficult. Shuto Ito, who also made individual promotional films for Nogizaka46 members, directed.

The park's Mushroom House has a hall with a fireplace on the first floor and a maze-like space upstairs. The Children's Theater has a domed roof made with cypress timber from trees more than a hundred years old. Visitors remove their shoes to explore the buildings' wooden floors and stairways.

Admission is free at 893-1 Azu, Hanno. The park usually opens from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with last admission at 4:40 p.m. Facilities inside the park close at 4:30 p.m.

Since April 2026, the park has been trialing a schedule that generally closes on Mondays in busy periods and on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays in quieter periods. Public holidays can shift the closing days, so consult Hanno City's calendar. Evening illumination has been suspended since March 29, 2026; the park is now a daytime visit ending in the late afternoon.

Beyond the Mushroom House, the Forest House displays material about Tove Jansson on its first floor and offers a reading space upstairs. The blue exterior of Cafe Puisto is another landmark inside the park. The video brings the unit's slightly strange story together with rounded buildings and wooden interiors.

Sources: Making 'Hakumai-sama' (in Japanese) ／ Hanno City: Park Guide (in Japanese) ／ Buildings in the Park (in Japanese) ／ 2026 Opening Calendar (in Japanese)

8Kujiragaoka Shopping Street | Five Members Trading Identities in ‘Heikousen’

The video for 'Heikousen' was filmed in April 2019 in the Kujiragaoka shopping district of Hitachiota, Ibaraki. Renka Iwamoto, Momoko Ozono, Shiori Kubo, Tamami Sakaguchi, and Yuki Yoda star in a story of repeated body swaps: Ozono becomes Yoda, Yoda becomes a man, and Kubo becomes a doctor. The district fully cooperated with production, which effectively had the streets to itself for the shoot.

Kujiragaoka's shops stretch for about 600 meters. You can walk through the streets seen in the video and stop at businesses that are open for shopping or a meal.

Our map uses Umezu Hall as a landmark for exploring the district. It does not identify the hall itself as the location of a particular scene. The tiled hall and the former Inadaya's red-brick storehouse are among the buildings you can see on a walk. Umezu Hall was built in 1936 and served as city hall until 1978; it is now a local history museum. Alongside its shopping streets, the district retains buildings that tell the town's history.

Sources: Hitachiota City: Umezu Hall Architecture and History (in Japanese)

To play the next identity in the same place, members changed costumes between takes. The mismatch between a character's outward appearance and the person inside could become confusing during filming. Written by Yoshimitsu Sawamoto and directed by Takeshi Izumida, the video follows the exchanges between the five members and the people of the town.

Sources: Making 'Heikousen' (in Japanese) ／ Ibaraki Tourism: Kujiragaoka Shopping Street (in Japanese)

9MOA Museum of Art | ‘Hito wa Yume wo Nido Miru’ and Views of the Sea

MOA Museum of Art in Atami, Shizuoka was a location for the 2023 video 'Hito wa Yume wo Nido Miru.' Shiori Kubo and Mizuki Yamashita share the center position in a story about people who have lost the ability to dream and find hope for the future through meeting others. Filming also took place in Shinjuku Golden Gai and studios, among other locations.

The museum's main building stands on a hill 270 meters above sea level. Its glass-fronted main lobby looks toward the sea. On the route from the entrance to the main building is a circular hall about 20 meters across, with a domed ceiling and a round floor that make it a distinctive interior space.

The collection includes East Asian painting, calligraphy, and crafts, with an emphasis on Japanese works. It is known for works such as Ogata Korin's Red and White Plum Blossoms screens, but displays change between exhibitions. Check the exhibition listing if you are coming to see a particular work. The gardens and gallery architecture are also part of a museum visit.

The address is 26-2 Momoyama-cho, Atami, with buses to the museum from Atami Station. Usual hours are 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with last admission at 4 p.m. Closing days include Thursdays and exhibition changeovers, although the museum opens on Thursdays that are public holidays. Individual visitors do not need to reserve a specific date and time.

Small architectural decisions direct attention outside. The ceiling is lowered beside the main lobby's large glass windows, drawing the eye toward the view. Long escalators connect the entrance and main building through the circular hall. Alongside the music video's story, a visit lets you experience how the building uses its hillside setting and sea views.

Sources: Nogizaka46: Video Locations and Production (in Japanese) ／ MOA Museum of Art: Architecture (in Japanese) ／ MOA Museum of Art: Visitor Information (in Japanese)

10Nobeyama Radio Observatory | The Antennas of ‘Atarashii Sekai’

Nobeyama Radio Observatory in Minamimaki, Nagano is a location for 'Atarashii Sekai.' Ayane Suzuki is the center for this Under song, included on Type-B of the 2018 single 'Synchronicity.' Under refers to the members performing songs and concerts separately from the selected lineup for that single's title track.

The video follows girls who long for a new world and send out messages of their own. It was filmed among antennas used for actual astronomical observations. Radio-emitting equipment could not be brought into the filming area, so even crew members had to run over to one another to relay messages.

Visitors can see the radio telescopes from the public observation paths. A major sight is the telescope with its 45-meter-diameter dish. It studies the universe by collecting radio waves rather than visible light. Visiting the research facility seen in the video also offers a chance to learn how those observations work.

Self-guided visits are free, usually from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Visits are unavailable over the year-end and New Year period and on days with weather warnings. The observatory is about a 40-minute walk from Nobeyama Station on the JR Koumi Line, and the 45-meter telescope is another roughly 600 meters from reception. Visitors must stop smartphone, Wi-Fi, and other radio transmissions near the antennas.

Filming took place in late February 2018 under director Mitsunori Yokobori. The same video also used the Kudo Teruhi Museum of Art in Yamanashi, combining scenes filmed at the museum with those set against Nobeyama's antennas.

Sources: Nogizaka46: Making 'Atarashii Sekai' (in Japanese) ／ NAOJ Nobeyama Radio Observatory: Visitor Information (in Japanese)

Getting to Know Nogizaka46: Beginnings and Songs

The station and museum covers connect the group to its founding neighborhood while finding ways to show the members as individuals. Listening goes beyond title tracks by the selected lineup, too: the albums include smaller units and songs performed by a single voice.

The Nogizaka46 Name and the First Album

Nogizaka46 formed on August 21, 2011. Produced by Yasushi Akimoto, the female idol group made its CD debut on February 22, 2012 with 'Guruguru Curtain.' Alongside singing and dancing on stage, the members have expanded their work into television, theater, films, and magazines.

The name comes from the SME Nogizaka Building, where the final audition took place. At the group's founding, '46' expressed the determination not to lose to AKB48 even with fewer members. The number in the name does not describe how many members are on the roster at any given time.

Toumei na Iro arrived about three years after the debut. Its cover and booklet used Nogizaka Station, Nogi Shrine, Nogi Park, and the area around the SME Nogizaka Building. The album lets listeners take home both the music and images of the neighborhood where the group began.

DISC 1 contains the title tracks from the debut single through the tenth single, 'Nandome no Aozora ka?' It also includes 'OVERTURE,' the music that opens the group's concerts.

Sources: Sony Music: Formation Announcement (in Japanese) ／ Nogizaka46: Tenth Anniversary of Formation (in Japanese) ／ Toumei na Iro Track Listing (in Japanese)

Smaller Units and Solo Voices on Sorezore no Isu

Sorezore no Isu includes songs by small units and solo performers. 'Kuukikan' on Type-A brings together Misa Eto, Mai Shiraishi, Kazumi Takayama, Nanami Hashimoto, and Sayuri Matsumura. Shiraishi described its relaxed feel as comfortable to sing and noted that the individual passages let listeners recognize each member's voice.

'Kougousei Kibou,' on the same edition, is Nanase Nishino's solo. Her previous solo songs had been ballads; this was her first uptempo one. The key was relatively high for her, and hearing the finished recording felt fresh. That experiment in singing outside a large group also echoes the album title's emphasis on each person's place.

'Kikkake' and 'Taiyou ni Kudokarete' both feature the selected members from the fourteenth single. Shiraishi described the former, written by Katsuhiko Sugiyama, as characteristic of Nogizaka46. Nishino introduced the latter as a fresh change with a Latin feel.

Sources: Sorezore no Isu: Mai Shiraishi and Nanase Nishino Interview (in Japanese) ／ Type-A Participating Members (in Japanese)

Music Video Stories and How Their Locations Were Used

The member who takes the central role in a song's vocal and dance presentation is called its center.

‘Koko ni wa Nai Mono’: Asuka Saito’s Solo and a Flower-Covered Rooftop

Asuka Saito was the center for this thirty-first single, released in 2022, her last before graduating from the group. In the video she plays a clothing-store employee who begins pursuing a dream of becoming a designer again after almost giving it up.

Her solo dance was filmed at Shibuya Station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line. It was the group's first dance shoot on a station platform. For the full-group dance on the Roppongi Hills rooftop, the crew installed grass and flowers, turning a space also used as a heliport into a flower-covered stage for filming.

Keiichi Kobayashi directed the three-day shoot, which took place from late October into early November 2022. On April 19, 2024, the Sky Deck announced the end of its general public operation. The rooftop is currently unavailable for ordinary public admission.

Sources: Nogizaka46: Making 'Koko ni wa Nai Mono' (in Japanese) ／ Tokyo City View: End of Public Sky Deck Operation (in Japanese)

‘Hito wa Yume wo Nido Miru’: Two Centers Reaching for a Dream

Shiori Kubo and Mizuki Yamashita shared the center position for the thirty-second single, released on March 29, 2023. It was Kubo's first time as a center on a title track, the song that gives a single its name. The video follows people who can no longer dream as they meet others and begin to find hope for the future.

Filming took place from late February into early March 2023 at MOA Museum of Art in Atami, Shinjuku Golden Gai, locations in Saitama, and studios in Tokyo. A visit to MOA also offers art and architectural sights to enjoy.

The director was Takeshi Maruyama, who had made the group's documentary Kanashimi no Wasurekata. Choreographer yurinasia gave the final upward reach of the hands the meaning of grasping a dream.

Sources: Nogizaka46: Making 'Hito wa Yume wo Nido Miru' (in Japanese)

‘Kaerimichi wa Toomawari Shitaku Naru’: Nanase Nishino’s Two Lives

Nanase Nishino was the center of the twenty-second single in 2018. In its video, she plays a protagonist whose life takes different paths through small coincidences. Events such as missing a bus or drawing a picture set the two stories in motion.

Yoshimitsu Sawamoto wrote the script and Kazuaki Seki directed. The production team also gathered real anecdotes from members and incorporated them into the story. The protagonist's two lives, however, are fictional paths within the music video, not a literal reconstruction of a member's biography.

Filming took place in mid-September 2018 in Tochigi, Gunma, and Tokyo studios. The protagonist lives happily on both paths; the alternative she did not take is not presented as a failure. In her final single before graduation, Nishino played a story in which life continues beyond a fork in the road.

Sources: Nogizaka46: Making 'Kaerimichi wa Toomawari Shitaku Naru' (in Japanese)

‘Wilderness world’: Shibuya Streets and a Recreated Crossing

This collaboration with the online game Knives Out appears on Type-A of 'Boku wa Boku wo Suki ni Naru,' released in January 2021. The video has members act in scenes carrying weapons: Asuka Saito uses a sniper rifle, Erika Ikuta two handguns, Sayuri Matsumura a shotgun, and Minami Umezawa a crossbow.

The members learned from specialists while acting in the weapon-handling scenes. The early October 2020 shoot also included a celebration of Sakura Endo's birthday.

Alongside footage from real Shibuya streets, including Miyashita Park, the production used an outdoor set in Ashikaga, Tochigi for the dance at the scramble crossing. This filming facility reproduces the streetscape. Combining the actual neighborhood with the purpose-built set created the video's action and dance sequences.

Sources: Nogizaka46: Making 'Wilderness world' (in Japanese)

A History Written in Neighborhoods and Venues

Seen through places, Nogizaka46's history stretches from the Nogizaka neighborhood connected to their formation to repeated summer visits to Jingu and the individual settings of their music videos. Album and concert-video releases have also created a growing record of the members and venues as they appeared in different years.

‘Kikkake’ at Tokyo Dome in 2017

Nogizaka46 held their first solo Tokyo Dome concerts on November 7 and 8, 2017. On the first day, 460 high school girls danced to 'Seifuku no Mannequin' at the opening. The second day used an opening performance involving extras dressed as security guards. The two nights did not begin with identical staging.

At the end of the second night, the members gathered around Marika Ito and Himeka Nakamoto, both approaching graduation, to sing 'Kikkake.' A song from the album photographed at The National Art Center, Tokyo became part of a farewell stage for the two members. Alongside the main concert, the limited-production video edition includes a backstage documentary and the opening from the second night.

Sources: 2017 Tokyo Dome Concerts and Video Contents (in Japanese)

The Fan-Voted Second Disc of Toumei na Iro

Fans voted for the coupling songs included on DISC 2 of Toumei na Iro. Results were announced at Merry X'mas Show 2014 in Ariake Coliseum that December. 'Hoka no Hoshi kara' placed first, followed by 'Watashi no Tame ni Dareka no Tame ni' and 'Sekkachi na Katatsumuri.'

A coupling song is another track released with a single's title song. The ten highest-ranked songs in this vote made the album. Alongside the title tracks listeners might know from television, the project gathered songs that fans had come to love through concerts and CDs.

Sources: Nogizaka46: Merry X'mas Show 2014 Report and Vote Results (in Japanese) ／ Toumei na Iro Contents (in Japanese)

Albums Bringing the Locations and Early Songs Together

On the Type-C cover of Toumei na Iro, the members stand with Nogizaka Station's ticket gates behind them. This single-CD edition offers the early title tracks. The second disc containing the fan-voted songs belongs to Type-A and Type-B.

Type-A also includes footage from Summer National Tour 2013 FINAL!, held on October 6, 2013 at Yoyogi First Gymnasium. Its DVD contains the first sixty minutes of the concert. The edition to choose depends on whether you want to focus on the recordings or also watch an early live performance.

Sources: Nogizaka46: Contents of Each Toumei na Iro Edition (in Japanese) ／ Nogizaka46: Type-C (in Japanese)

Type-C has fifteen tracks: 'OVERTURE,' the first ten single title tracks, and four new album songs. With the station cover beside you, you can follow changes in sound and voices from 'Guruguru Curtain' through 'Nandome no Aozora ka?' If you want the fan-voted coupling songs as well, choose Type-A or Type-B, which include DISC 2.

The second album, Sorezore no Isu, brings together the National Art Center cover and footage from the first Jingu concert. The Type-A edition featured here is a two-disc CD-and-DVD package. Its CD has sixteen tracks, including 'Kuukikan' and 'Kougousei Kibou'; its DVD contains twelve songs from the opening part of the 2014 Jingu show.

The DVD opens with 'Natsu no Free & Easy.' It passes through songs including 'Romance no Start' and 'Girls' Rule' before this opening portion ends with 'Ningen to Iu Gakki.' The middle and final portions are split between Type-B and Type-C, so Type-A alone does not contain the entire concert.

Type-D of Sorezore no Isu instead comes with Mayuko no Douga, previously unreleased footage recorded by staff. The extras differ depending on whether you want a Jingu performance or scenes behind the stage, and some audio tracks vary by edition as well. Before choosing by cover photograph alone, compare the solo and unit songs you want to hear with the video contents.

Sources: Sorezore no Isu Type-A: Audio and Video Contents (in Japanese) ／ Extras Across the Different Editions (in Japanese)

The Oshi Lab Note: Returning to One Place at Different Milestones

Nogizaka Station appears on both the first album, Toumei na Iro, and the tenth-anniversary collection Time flies. For the latter, performance outfits and uniforms from the group's history occupied platforms and ticket-gate areas where members had once stood. The location stayed the same; what appeared there changed to tell a ten-year story. For a community or facility, this suggests keeping a record of an initial filming collaboration that can be revisited at a later milestone. Presenting earlier work alongside an anniversary project or a new generation can show how the relationship between a place and a group develops over time.

The departure melody adds another connection: 'Kimi no Na wa Kibou,' played on piano by Erika Ikuta. A station seen in photographs also became a place to hear the music while taking a train. We see this as an example of building a connection into everyday transport, alongside major events. A local partnership could therefore consider what can remain compatible with a facility's ordinary work after the launch publicity ends. Evaluation could also extend beyond a single attendance figure, examining whether people who discovered the station or nearby facilities through the music subsequently used them.

Sources: Nogizaka46: the concept behind Time flies (in Japanese) ／ Tokyo Metro: the melody and Erika Ikuta’s piano recording (in Japanese)

Sources

• 2026 National Tour (in Japanese)
• Sixth-Generation Member Announcements (in Japanese)
• 2024 National Tour (in Japanese)
• Nogizaka46 Formation Anniversary (in Japanese)
• Toumei na Iro (in Japanese)
• Sorezore no Isu (in Japanese)
• Time flies (in Japanese)
• Nogizaka Station Departure Melody (in Japanese)
• Atarashii Sekai (in Japanese)
• Kangaenai You ni Suru (in Japanese)

Exhibition dates, opening hours, and ticket arrangements reflect the information checked for this article. Consult each official site for current details before setting out.