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Last update: April 30th, 2020

Like a lot of artists, Gosho Aoyama bases his settings - sometimes more, sometimes less - on real world models and even the locations his series play in can be vaguely pinpointed. I think stuff like this is highly interesting and I just hope that some of you do, too. I researched and wrote this for a message board originally, but it went offline a couple of years ago and didn't return - and now that the domain seems to be for sale, I don't expect it to ever come back. So I put this stuff in here as an active work in progress. What you'll do with this information in the end is up to you - maybe you can use this knowledge for a fan fiction or go on one of those Manga/Anime pilgrimages when you are in Japan.

Every series will be partitioned by medium (yes, the position of the same building or place in a franchise differs from medium to medium sometimes) and per section, I will first show comparions between the real world model and Gosho's interpretation and afterwards I will present a rough estimation of where his stories are set (based on hints to their relative location in-universe - and yes, this also isn't always the same place as where the model it was based on happens to be in real life).

I'm talking about the different (real) wards (-ku) of Tokyo and the towns (-chō) they are composed of respectively a lot, which can get quite complicated and confusing if you are not knowledgable about the geography and how Tokyo is administrated. To the right you can see a very good map from TokyoMap.com, giving you a quick and simple rundown of the structure of its wards.

Detective Conan

Manga

Models

Model	Manga	Description
		"Sound Studio HAKOBUNE" in FILE.936 (Volume 88, File 10 - 11 and Volume 89, File 1) is modeled after "Sound Studio NOAH Shinjuku" in Nishi-Shinjuku 7-10-12, Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo. (There are several Sound Studio NOAH in Tokyo, including another one in Shibuya Ward, but the Shinjuku one is the correct model.)
		"Haido Port" in FILE.1039 - 1042 is practically identical to the real life Hinode Pier at the border between Minato Ward and Chiyoda Ward - the next hint that Haido really seems to coincide with a fictional area on/between those two parts of Tokyo in Gosho's mind (and in the Mangaverse at least). The warehouses on the right (and the one the case happens in) are the Hinode Pier Warehouses (2 Chome-7 Kaigan, Minato Ward, Tokyo 105-0022) - in real life, the ones on the panel/photo are numbered 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, etc., in Detective Conan, they are simply given numbers. Judging by their Manga and real life succession, No. 4 (where the murder happens in) should correlate with warehouse 2-D.

Detective Conan: Wild Police Story

Model	Manga	Description
		The Metropolitan Police Academy from Rei's Manga spin-off is just that: The real Metropolitan Police Academy. It's called by its actual name and also looks the same in the Manga. No renaming or anything. It's not actually in the City of Tokyo, but part of it's Metropolitan Area - in the City of Fuchū. This is also mentioned in the Wikipedia article.