Minor Locations in Other Works
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This is a list of minor locations featured in miscellaneous works authored or licensed by Hirohiko Araki. This list includes maps, places and transportation.
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Baoh the Visitor
Japanese Temple
A temple located in a mountainous area of Kitakami, on the northern part of the main island of Japan. It serves as a secret entrance to the Dress Organization base. Inside, there is a statue that uses devices that scan the eyes of those who want to enter the base, and lets in accepted people.
Gas Station
A gas station located somewhere in the outskirts. It serves as a battlefield for Ikuro Hashizawa and 22nd Man. Eventually, the entire station is destroyed from a huge gas explosion.
Testing Chamber
A testing chamber located somewhere in the Dress Organization base. It is used by Dress scientists to experiment weapons. There is also an observation booth protected with glass that is 46 mm (1.8 in) thick, which is also equipped with safety shutters. Dr. Kasuminome uses this chamber to show his supervisors Baoh's powers.
Abandoned Building
An old, torn-down building located in a ruins. Ikuro and Sumire stay there for refuge, but are eventually forced to flee after Dress soldiers are sent after them.
Rokusuke's House
Rokusuke's family residence where Ikuro and Sumire settle for refuge. At first, Rokusuke refuses, but eventually welcomes them in.
Railroad
A railroad. Ikuro decides to try and use his powers without transforming into Baoh by saving a girl from an incoming train after her foot got stuck in the railroad tracks.
Town
An undisclosed town. Ikuro travels there to look for a map, where he is attacked by Dordo.
Caverns
A series of caverns located about one kilometer below the Dress Organization base. It is the battlefield for the final confrontation between Baoh and Walken and Dr. Kasuminome. The caverns collapse after the base self-destructs.
Gorgeous Irene
Irene's House
Irene Rapona's house. It is a seemingly innocuous house on the exterior but the interior is composed of luxurious antique furniture.
Swing Town
Swing Town (スウィング・タウン, Suwingu Taun) is a fictional city in America. It is plagued by crime, as Lauper's gang has taken over the city.
Lauper's Palace
Lauper's residence. It is a luxurious mansion, with spacious halls decorated with roman columns, marble floor tiles, large mirrors and a large fountain in the garden.
Harlem
Harlem is a district of New York City. It is plagued by crime, with robbers, drug dealers and other gangsters operating in the area.
The Lives of Eccentrics
Huntington Avenue Grounds
Huntington Avenue Grounds is a baseball stadium located in Boston. It is the home field of Boston Red Sox. There, in 1908, the team plays against Detroit Tigers. During the game Ty Cobb, declares that he will steal second base on the next pitch. As he approached the catcher on second base, the catcher's arm suddenly started to bleed profusely. The catcher accuses Ty of cutting him with his cleats, to which Ty Cobb responds by saying that he'll steal third base, too.
Philadelphia Baseball Stadium
A baseball stadium located in Philadelphia. It is the home field of Philadelphia Athletics. There, in June 1912, the team plays against Detroit Tigers, gathering an audience of 30,000 people. During the game, Ty Cobb plays against Hollows. After missing yet another ball, Ty Cobb gets frustrated and calls a time out, during which he starts taunting Hollows. After the time out ends, during a pitch, Hollows throws the baseball at Ty Cobb's stomach. Enraged, Cobb pulls a gun on him, causing a brawl involving all of the players present on the field.
Cobb's Mausoleum
A mausoleum built for Ty Cobb in his hometown. Everyone but himself was forbidden from entering it. Ty Cobb is eventually buried there after his passing on July 17, 1961.
Cool Shock Old B.T.
Koichi Mugikari's House
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Koichi Mugikari's house, the only property left in his possession after he was scammed by the Outlaw Guys Employees. Koichi bought the property after having visited it but Outlaw Guys had swapped the real ruined house with another one in Boyoyoing Cape. Koichi thus finds himself having here. B.T. partially refurbishes it with furnitures sent by his wife.
Outlaw Guys Office
Manga Debut: Cool Shock Old B.T.
DescriptionGallery
The main office of the Outlaw Guys company and Manabu's lair. B.T. wrecks it by driving straight into the building with his car.
Interior view
Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak
Kakyoin Family's Graves
The ancestral tomb of the Kakyoin Family, including Noriaki Kakyoin's, situated in Morioh's cemetery. Due to urban redevelopment, the government plans to relocate the graves to a distant suburb, forcing the family to cooperate.[1]
Budogaoka Police Station
A koban where police officers Ryohei Higashikata, Karaiya, and Hiraoka work at. It is located in the Budogaoka area.
Morioh Underpass
An underground passage where Josuke Higashikata and Hol Horse go to protect themselves from Pet Sounds. However, they get ambushed by the parrot and Koji Kiyohara anyway.
Novels
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Novel)
Desert Village
Novel Debut: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Novel)
A small settlement in the Egyptian desert. It is Absalom and Michal's birthplace. Jotaro Kujo and Jean Pierre Polnareff end up here after escaping from Satanic Coupler. The village there is quite poor and underdeveloped, and the people there live a simple life.
Golden Heart, Golden Ring
Hotel Mondo Aria
A luxurious Hotel in Venice, situated near San Marco. Coniglio works here as a chambermaid, succeeding her grandmother. It is attacked by Purple Haze.
St. Mark's Basilica
The St. Mark's Basilica, one of the most famous landmarks in Venice. It is there that the climactic battle between Team Bucciarati and the berserk The Cure battle.
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
I Prefecture Museum
Novel Debut: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
A museum in I Prefecture, Japan that exhibits rare artifacts unearthed in a rural village from a certain country in 1997. The treasures include gold and silver ornaments and jewels. Despite the museum being like a gigantic safe with a robust security system and armed guards, the exhibits mysteriously disappear overnight. A guard had even checked the exhibits ten minutes prior to the robbery and everything was still there at the time. Every door and window was securely locked and the glass cases holding the exhibits were designed to trigger an alarm at any touch. The swift response from security and police leads to an encounter with one of the suspects. However, their bullets fail to harm him, and the man kills all of the officers instead. A security guard witnesses the event from a distance.
Morioh Real Estate Agency
Novel Debut: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
A real estate agency in Morioh nearby the station that mediates apartments and condominiums. The interior of the store has various floor plans of rooms posted on the walls. A middle-aged man wearing a suit works there and reluctantly assists Kaoru's mother with finding a cheap apartment.
The Book ~jojo's bizarre adventure 4th another day~
Thorn Building
The town library of Morioh. It is described as a western-style building situated just past the shopping district, in front of the trains station. Its walls made of red brick and covered in thorny rose vines, hence its nickname the "Thorn Building". It has a front gate made of black bars reminiscent of an ancient foreign castle, also wrapped in thorny vines. The first floor of the library has the collection; the second floor of the library houses the science, technology, and philosophy books; the third floor is where rare books and gifts to the library are kept. There are iron grating on all of the windows, except for one loose grating on a third-floor window. The Thorn Building had Western-style pointed roofs, on which were seven spires along with one octagonal dome. It has been remodeled during the Meiji Era. There is the persistent rumor of a book that calls to help being kept somewhere in the library.
Chiho Futaba often meets with Takuma Hasumi in the library as they are both interested in literature. The Thorn Building becomes a battlefield for the fight between Takuma Hasumi and Okuyasu Nijimura, then Josuke Higashikata.
Building Gap
Novel Debut: The Book ~jojo's bizarre adventure 4th another day~
A gap between two buildings. The two exits are barred by an iron fence and pipes respectively. Akari Hirai was trapped in there for months, unable to call for help because Memory of Jet prevented people from noticing her. Akari gives birth to Takuma Hasumi here.
Purple Haze Feedback
Stadio Giuseppe Meazza
Novel Debut: Purple Haze Feedback
The Stadio Giuseppe Meazza in Milan, a football stadium. Pannacotta Fugo is summoned there and given his mission by Guido Mista, purposefully to have Fugo in an open space where Purple Haze would pose little threat. It is also indirectly a show of power from Giorno Giovanna, who cancelled a highly anticipated football game for this meeting.
Villa San Giovanni
Novel Debut: Purple Haze Feedback
A little commune in Southern Italy, near Sicily. The Sezione Droghe (Narcotics Team) meets with Sale and Mario Zucchero there.
Teatro Greco
Novel Debut: Purple Haze Feedback
Syracuse Cathedral
Novel Debut: Purple Haze Feedback
The Cathedral of Syracuse in Southeastern Sicily. A Stone Mask was hidden there during World War II. Vittorio Cataldi retrieves it but Cannolo Murolo kills him and destroys the mask.
Temple of Apollo
Novel Debut: Purple Haze Feedback
The Temple of Apollo in the island of Ortygia, Syracuse. Pannacotta Fugo battles Massimo Volpe there.
JORGE JOESTAR
La Palma
Novel Debut: JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 1
La Palma, one of the Canary Islands. Erina Joestar lives there for a while after the events of Phantom Blood, with George Joestar II and Lisa Lisa. It is the birthplace of a few key characters of the novel, like Penelope de la Rosa and Antonio Torres. George spends his childhood there.
Panlandia
Novel Debut: JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 2
Panlandia is the supercontinent of Earth in the 37th Universe.
Nishi Akatsuki
Novel Debut: JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 2
Nishi Akatsuki is a settlement in Japan. It is the birthplace of Tsukumojuku Kato and Jorge Joestar (Joji), although it is not necessarily the same version.
Cube House
Main article: Cube House
Cube House is a huge white cube that was moved from Nishi Akatsuki in Fukui to Morioh at some point in 2004. It is in reality the manifestation of a Stand power belonging to Penelope de la Rosa. The Stand's main body is a teenage girl named Reimi Sugimoto37 who controls the materialized house.
Cube House has no windows, doors, or any visible entrance until it evolves into Arrow Cross House after Reimi is stabbed by the Arrow. Both Cube House and Arrow Cross House are able to exist simultaneously as long as the Arrow remains in Reimi. It is an important place that the characters use to travel through space and time.
Arrow Cross House
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Main article: Arrow Cross House
A house purchased by Rohan Kishibe37, where Reimi Sugimoto37 also resides. It is situated atop the tallest hill near Morioh, overlooking the town.
The house is actually a Stand that evolved from Cube House. As its name suggests, the house is shaped like an Arrow Cross, with four arrows surrounding the north, south, east, and west walls of Cube House. If the Arrow is removed from Reimi, the house reverts back into being Cube House.
Arrow Cross House becomes the site of three murders. Jorge Joestar and later George Joestar II investigate the strange deaths that occurred here at separate points in time.
Map of the house
Pearl Beach
A beach situated at the coast of the 37th Universe's Morioh.
Jozenji Temple
A temple in Morioh. It is burned down when its occupants are affected by the Mass Hysteria and set themselves on fire. The walls were covered in drawings of Mothmen drawn in charcoal.
Budogaoka Gymnasium
The gymnasium of Budogaoka High School. When Morioh begins to be affected by Mass Hysteria, the gym turns into a locked room and the people inside it begin to pour gasoline onto each other to burn themselves. Koji Hirose wrecks it by using a giant propeller to destroy a wall and the roof of the building, breaking the spell.
Wastewood
Novel Debut: JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 7
Wastewood is supposedly the hometown of Erina Joestar, the town near the Joestar Mansion. There are cliffs nearby where Kenton Motorize and Steven Motorize used to test their airplanes.
Motorize Manor
Novel Debut: JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 7
The home of the Motorize Family. In the novel, it is there that George Joestar II is attacked by the zombie William Cardinal and thought dead.
Mars
Novel Debut: JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 8
Mars, the fourth planet in the solar system. In the novel, Kars keeps crashing on this planet in (almost) all iterations of the universe, which results in a group of 37 Kars bidding their time on the planet until they can return to Earth. In the 37th Universe, the United States send a spaceship named the H.G. Wells in there. A strange entity named the Eyed Balloon gravitates around this planet.
Iggy the Stray Dog
John F. Kennedy International Airport
Novel Debut: Iggy the Stray Dog Chapter 1
An airport at New York City that Muhammad Avdol enters when he arrives at the state and also when he leaves after successfully capturing Iggy.
Manhattan Island
Novel Debut: Iggy the Stray Dog Chapter 1
Manhattan Island houses many small businesses specializing in the handling of vermin such as rats and bats, as well as stray dogs and cats. It is located at the mouth of the Hudson River. It sits atop a narrow sandbank, about 4 kilometers wide and 20 kilometers long. It's said the land was discovered by the navigator Henry Hudson in 1609. 17 years later, the Dutch West India Company allegedly bought it from the Native Americans for just $24. The name Manhattan means "island of many hills" in the Native American language.
Midtown Manhattan
Novel Debut: Iggy the Stray Dog Chapter 1
A particularly prosperous region compared to other parts of Manhattan, New York. There are high-rise buildings and several people with diverse races all over the sidewalk. Avdol notes that he sees plenty of Arabs like himself there.
Manhattan Speedwagon Foundation Base
Novel Debut: Iggy the Stray Dog Chapter 1
A building owned by the Speedwagon Foundation in Midtown Manhattan. While it may seem like any other old-fashioned brick building at first glance, inside is a cutting-edge office. Avdol is able to enter without being stopped by the security guards since they are expecting him. They provide him with reports about Iggy sightings and his pedigree.
Central Park
Novel Debut: Iggy the Stray Dog Chapter 1
A massive, narrow park in the heart of Manhattan, measuring 4 kilometers long and 0.8 kilometers across. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is located at the midpoint of its eastern border, and across the road from its southern border is the American Museum of Natural History. Avdol explores the park enjoying the fragrance of the trees, and sees some small dogs hiding in the underbrush. He sits on a bench and uses his tarot cards to name Iggy's Stand, ending up with "The Fool".
New York Hotel
Novel Debut: Iggy the Stray Dog Chapter 1
A top-notch establishment situated right next to Central Park. The Speedwagon Foundation arranges for Muhammad Avdol to stay at this hotel while he is at New York to catch Iggy.
Reliable Pest Control Service Office
Novel Debut: Iggy the Stray Dog Chapter 2
The office for the Reliable Pest Control Service company, tackling everything from office clean-up jobs to waste management. It is a brick building in a deserted part of town, where empty beer cans littered the ground and closed shutters were covered with spray-painted graffiti. They have a front desk inside for taking requests. The back of the office has sofas around a table, where the employees hang around and play poker. They have a bell at the front desk for when they receive new reports.
Harlem River
Novel Debut: Iggy the Stray Dog Chapter 2
There are brownstone buildings lined up along the river. It stretches about 300 meters wide. On the opposite shore is Wards Island. The RPCS team and Avdol chase Iggy to what they believe is a pier, but it is actually a quicksand structure he created to trick them. The structure collapses into the water once they are on it.
Harlem River Grocery Store
Novel Debut: Iggy the Stray Dog Chapter 2
A grocery store located in a dirty alley by the Harlem River with graffiti-covered walls. It is run solely by its owner, but the produce in the store is exceptionally fresh and delicious-looking. The clerk is an overweight black woman. Iggy steals the store's coffee gum and makes a mess inside with his drool.
London Mansion
A palatial mansion in an upscale part of London where a party of elites is held. Muhammad Avdol heads here with his employer and meets Joseph Joestar for the first time. There's a fireplace inside and Avdol uses his Stand to light it up faster.
Mr. Electra's House
The home of Mr. Electra. It is a mansion with a large garden containing a sand pit which Iggy urinates into.
World Trade Center
While on a break from searching for Iggy, Muhammad Avdol tours the World Trade Center, an office building complex in Lower Manhattan.
Australia
Joseph Joestar goes on a couple's trip with Suzi Q to Australia. They visit the Sydney Opera House, hold koalas, and see Ayers Rock.
Abandoned Apartment
Novel Debut: Iggy the Stray Dog Chapter 4
An old apartment located in a spot several blocks north of Central Park. It is in a high-crime, deserted area that tourists never venture into. Due to redevelopment plans, the residents have been evicted. The lined-up old apartments are seemingly all vacant. The building is a six-story brick structure that is significantly deteriorated, with crumbling exteriors. Iggy makes this building his base, which Joseph ends up finding using Hermit Purple.
There are stone stairs to the main entrance. The door handle is wrapped with a chain and locked with a padlock, which Avdol assumes is to prevent vagrants from entering. There is a large atrium inside. The ceiling and wall materials are deteriorated from age, and there are broken chairs and a piano piled up in the center of the hall. The air has a stale, moldy odor, like the smell of a building neglected for a long time after a leak. Beyond the door facing the first-floor hall, there is a room that was once an office with desks, cabinets, and old documents.
The windows on the fourth floor are boarded up, preventing light from getting inside. Avdol finds Iggy in a room on the fourth floor that might have been a living room or dining room. Due to Avdol and Iggy's battle, the building eventually completely collapses from all the fire and destructive sand.
SPW New York Research Facility
Novel Debut: Iggy the Stray Dog Chapter 2 (Mentioned only) / Iggy the Stray Dog Chapter 5 (1st full appearance)
A research facility of the Speedwagon Foundation located a short distance away from New York City. They offer medical treatment with some of the world's best doctors and treat Avdol and Iggy here after their battle.
El Aleph
Antigua
La Merced
Ancha de los Herreros
Convento Santa Clara
Antigua Guatemala Central Park
Cerro de la Cruz
Guatemala Prison
Chichicastenango
Maquiladora
Guatemala Speedwagon Foundation Base
Lisa Lisa's Dormitory
Guatemala Settlement
El Oro
Santa Rosa
Dos Santos's House
Octavio's Orphanage
San Juan de Lurigancho
Lima Speedwagon Foundation Base
Alhorn's Citadel
Amazon Rainforest
Alhorn's Factory
Lake Titicaca
Pisco's Island
Rio Branco
Marañón River
Octavio's Temple
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testimone di gangster
Palermo
Novel Debut: testimone di gangster Chapter 1
The largest city on the island of Sicily, Italy. There is a market near the harbor that opens early in the morning selling fresh fish. There are also countless hotels and restaurants catered to tourists.
Palermo Courthouse
Novel Debut: testimone di gangster Chapter 1
A prominent building in the lively town center, towering over all the others like a fortress. There are several security guards at the first-floor courtroom entrance. In front of the doorway is a bronze statue of a goddess of justice holding a sword and a book of law. A massive trial involving 32 gang members is held here.
Sicily Café
Novel Debut: testimone di gangster Chapter 4
Arancini Shop
Novel Debut: testimone di gangster Chapter 4
An arancini shop in Salina, Sicily. The owner's wife is Melissa Collina. Pollo goes there often on his time off since Melissa is his half-sister, though she is seemingly unaware of their relationship.
Sicily Hotel
Novel Debut: testimone di gangster Chapter 5
There's No Love Like a Parent's
Imported Goods Store
Novel Debut: There's No Love Like a Parent's Chapter 1
Melone's Apartment
Novel Debut: There's No Love Like a Parent's Chapter 1
Amaretti's Villa
Novel Debut: There's No Love Like a Parent's Chapter 1
A villa owned by Amaretti Lucano. He has a housekeeper who frequently goes there to clean and have an affair with him. The house has a garden.
Video Games
Over Heaven Space
Game Debut: Eyes of Heaven
A dimension created by Heaven-Attained DIO using The World Over Heaven. The location resembles an endless purple ocean, with the darkness of outer space visible in the sky.
Cairo Overpass (Over Heaven Space)
Game Debut: Eyes of Heaven
The overpass where Jotaro Kujo defeated DIO in the original universe. Heaven-Attained DIO transports this overpass into Over Heaven Space for his final battle against Jotaro and Jolyne. Having been ripped from its proper universe, portions of the road are torn off and suspended in midair as platforms.
References
- ↑ Crazy Heartbreakers Chapter 1: Dire straits
