Captain Tsubasa: the real places
Yoichi Takahashi grew up in Katsushika, and the ward put nine bronze statues of his characters across the Yotsugi and Tateishi neighbourhoods, with the author supervising. Three are life-size. Keisei then redecorated Yotsugi station around them, so the pilgrimage starts the moment the train doors open rather than after a walk. The ward publishes the map itself and hands it out at the station, which makes this the easiest set on this site to do properly: an afternoon, one ticket, flat ground, and a residential quarter of east Tokyo most visitors never see. The statues stand in parks, beside a post office and outside a high school — real streets where people live, which is the whole texture of the thing and also the reason to walk quietly.
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School · Someone lives or works here
Life-size Tsubasa, by the gate of Minamikatsushika high school
One of the three life-size statues, beside the main gate of a metropolitan high school — the ward's own page gives the address. The siting is the joke and the point at once: a school football story, at a school.
- Address
- 東京都葛飾区立石6丁目4番1号
- Getting there
- Keisei line, Aoto or Tateishi, about 10 min on foot
About ten minutes on foot from Aoto or Tateishi. The statue is at the gate, on the pavement side, so you never need to go in.
Someone lives or works here. This is a working school with teenagers in it. Stay on the pavement, do not go through the gate, do not photograph students or into the grounds, and think about the hour: arriving at the start or end of a school day means standing in a crowd of pupils with a camera, which is not a thing to do.
On the map · Official page · read on September 26, 2026
Park
Kojiro Hyuga, Yotsugi park
Hyuga in a neighbourhood park a few minutes from the station: a small statue rather than one of the life-size three, in the kind of park where local children actually play football. The ward lists it at this street number, which is how you find it — there is no signage from the main road.
- Address
- 東京都葛飾区四つ木1丁目16番24号
- Getting there
- Keisei Oshiage line, Yotsugi, about 5 min on foot
Five minutes on foot from Yotsugi station, and on the way to the other Yotsugi statues.
On the map · Official page · read on September 26, 2026
Station · Rules of its own
Yotsugi station and its station-front pocket park
Keisei decorated the station around the work, so the walls announce it before you reach the street, and the pocket park outside holds the Ishizaki statue. This is where the ward's printed map is handed out, which is the reason to start here rather than at whichever statue is nearest your hotel.
- Address
- 東京都葛飾区東四つ木4丁目15番10号先（四ツ木駅前ポケットパーク）
- Getting there
- Keisei Oshiage line, Yotsugi, at the station
Yotsugi is on the Keisei Oshiage line, about fifteen minutes from Oshiage and the Skytree. Every statue on this page is within a half-hour walk of it.
Rules of its own. A working commuter station on a two-track line. Photograph the concourse and the pocket park, stay off the platform edge, and step aside at the ticket gates — this is a station people are late through.
On the map · Official page · read on September 26, 2026
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