Night over Shinjuku from high up: office towers and a bright avenue running away — Shinjuku at night from the New York Bar, April 2015. Jc8136 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Bill Murray, grey-haired, in a tweed jacket and orange shirt, looking up and away — Bill Murray (Bob), 2006. dkaz · CC BY 2.0

Scarlett Johansson, blonde hair pinned back with a red flower, in a pearl necklace and black dress — Scarlett Johansson (Charlotte), Toronto, September 2003. Tony Shek · CC BY 2.0

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Lost in Translation

Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson in Sofia Coppola’s 2003 film: two Americans in one Tokyo hotel, both awake at night. Ride down into the city, then take a day in Kyoto.

Park Hyatt Tokyo · Shinjuku Park Tower

Can’t sleep?
Take the lift.

Bob and Charlotte both stay at the Park Hyatt; the film’s scenes here include Charlotte’s room above the city, the bar and the pool. The hotel occupies the top floors of Shinjuku Park Tower, from the 39th to the 52nd. Japan’s tourist board says the Park Hyatt was the one place that gave the production two floors, for a short time.

Doors closed on 39. Press a floor.

Reopened in December 2025. The New York Bar on 52 opens daily 5pm–midnight, no reservations, over-20s only; a ¥3,300 cover applies from 6.30pm. It is a 12-minute walk from JR Shinjuku Station, or 8 minutes from Tochōmae on the Toei Ōedo Line.

Park Hyatt Tokyo

Jazz at the New York Bar

52nd floor, Park Hyatt Tokyo · Daily 5pm–midnight · sets from 6.30pm · cover ¥3,300 from 6.30pm · 20+

The bar on the 52nd floor where Bob and Charlotte meet. A band plays every night; no reservations.

See the bar

Park Hyatt Tokyo

Nishi-Shinjuku

The filming location: Bob and Charlotte’s hotel, on the top floors of Shinjuku Park Tower. Reopened on 9 December 2025 after its restoration.

Check rooms

Out of the hotel, into the night

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the signs.

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Shibuya, after dark

Wait for the green,
then sing.

Red. Wait for the green.

Crowds blurred in motion on the zebra crossings below lit buildings and screens — Shibuya Crossing, October 2018. Benh LIEU SONG · CC BY-SA 2.0

Shibuya Crossing

Bob and Charlotte wade into the intersection on their way to explore the city. About 2,500 people, coming from three directions, cross every time the lights change. The film shows the busy intersection in front of Shibuya Station’s Hachikō Exit.

A public crossing, busy at every hour. Cross with the crowd when the lights change.

Where we read it

Karaoke-kan · 601 / 602

On a night out, Bob, Charlotte and their friends sing karaoke here; the scenes were shot in rooms 601 and 602. Some of the private rooms have windows looking down on the neon-lit city. Time Out sends fans to ask for room 601, in the annex building.

Key in a track, 1 to 15.

Where we read it

The soundtrack album has 15 tracks, from “Intro/Tokyo” to “Just Like Honey / More Than This”, the last with Bill Murray.
MusicBrainz: Lost in Translation, music from the motion picture soundtrack (Emperor Norton, 2003)

Open daily from 11am to 5am, to 6am on Friday and Saturday nights and before public holidays. Ask for room 601 or 602.

Where we read it

Karaoke-kan

Karaoke-kan, Udagawachō

30-8 Udagawachō, Shibuya · Daily from 11am to 5am · to 6am Friday, Saturday and before holidays

The karaoke shop of rooms 601 and 602, a few minutes from the crossing. Ask for room 601.

See the shop

Downstairs at the Shibuya Creston Hotel

Supper,
cook it yourself.

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A curved, cream-coloured hotel building on a quiet Shibuya street under a blue sky — The Shibuya Creston Hotel, November 2023. Syced · CC0

Daily 5pm–11pm, last orders 10pm; all-you-can-eat orders until 9.30pm. An 8-minute walk from JR Shibuya.

Where we read it

Near Lake Kawaguchi, south-west of Tokyo

The one place
you can’t follow.

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Tee it up. Mount Fuji is behind you.

Where we read it

Bill Murray in a red cap and dark jumper striding across a golf green by the sea — Bill Murray at Pebble Beach, California, February 2006: not Fuji. Steve Jurvetson · CC BY 2.0

By shinkansen, alone

A day
in Kyoto.

Unsure about her future, Charlotte goes to Kyoto alone by shinkansen. She arrives at Kyoto Station. The station is about 4 km from Heian Jingū as the crow flies.

Where we read it

1Kyoto Station
2Nanzen-ji, the Sanmon gate
3Heian Jingū
4Heian Jingū garden: the Garyū-kyō stones

Wide stone steps rising to a vast two-storey wooden gate — The steps to the Sanmon gate, Nanzen-ji, February 2025. ほっきー · CC0

Nanzen-ji

The gate is at the top of the steps.

The temple compound was built in the 13th century for the Emperor Kameyama and later became a Zen temple. The gate standing today was rebuilt in 1628 by Tōdō Takatora, to mourn his men who fell in the summer campaign at Osaka. It is about 22 metres high and counted among Japan’s three great gates.

Daily 8.40am–5pm to 30 November, 8.40am–4.30pm December to February; last entry 20 minutes before closing. Closed to visitors 28–31 December. Climbing the gate costs ¥600.

Where we read it

Racks white with knotted paper fortunes in front of a vermilion shrine hall — Paper fortunes tied at Heian Jingū, May 2018. Jean-Pierre Dalbéra · CC BY 2.0

Heian Jingū

There is a short shot of Heian Shrine, where Charlotte reads her fortune.

Shake the box for a numbered stick.

An active shrine, open every day. Fortunes are tied in the gravel courtyard. On 22 October the Jidai Matsuri procession arrives here.

Where we read it

Round stone pillars crossing a pond with lotus leaves — The Garyū-kyō stones, Heian Jingū garden, July 2014. Haruo.takagi · CC BY-SA 3.0

The stepping stones

On the bank. Hop to the next stone.

October 8.30am–5.30pm (last entry 5pm); November to February 8.30am–5pm (last entry 4.30pm). Adults ¥600. Enter from the shrine courtyard.

Where we read it

Nanzen-ji

Nanzen Kaikan

Nanzen-ji, Kyoto

Not a filming location: Nanzen-ji’s own lodging for pilgrims and visitors, a short walk from the Sanmon gate. The temple suggests an early walk, when the monks in training are chanting and sweeping.

See the rooms

Heian Jingū

Heian Jingū garden

Okazaki, Kyoto · Adults ¥600 · October 8.30am–5.30pm, last entry 5pm

The pond garden behind the shrine, with the Garyū-kyō stepping stones Charlotte crosses.

Plan a visit

Sofia Coppola, smiling, signing autographs in a pale sleeveless top — Sofia Coppola at the film’s Toronto premiere, September 2003. Tony Shek · CC BY 2.0

A street in Tokyo, the last scene

Lean in.

In the last scene, Bob whispers something in Charlotte’s ear.

Where we read it

Sofia Coppola says what Bill Murray whispers to Scarlett Johansson was never meant to be anything: she meant to decide on a line later and add it, and never did. She likes Murray’s answer, that it is between lovers.
W Magazine: What really happened in Lost in Translation’s final scene, according to Sofia Coppola (Steph Eckardt, 27 August 2018)

Where it is now

11 places you can visit in Tokyo and Kyoto. The golf club near Mount Fuji is private: it is named here and not on the map.

Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.

General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Reopened in December 2025. The New York Bar on 52 opens daily 5pm–midnight, no reservations, over-20s only; a ¥3,300 cover applies from 6.30pm.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Public streets, busiest after dark, a short walk north-east of Shinjuku Station.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working Buddhist temple near Nakano-Sakaue Station (Marunouchi and Ōedo lines). Visit quietly; the graves are for the families.

Shinjuku Park Tower, whose top floors hold the Park Hyatt, seen from the Metropolitan Government Building, September 2024. Klaasjeoranje · CC BY-SA 4.0
Shinjuku Park Tower, 3-7-1-2 Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo
Park Hyatt Tokyo
Bob and Charlotte both stay at the Park Hyatt; the film’s scenes here include Charlotte’s room above the city, the bar and the pool.
Reopened in December 2025. The New York Bar on 52 opens daily 5pm–midnight, no reservations, over-20s only; a ¥3,300 cover applies from 6.30pm.
Where we read it
A street in Kabukichō, Shinjuku, October 2016. Dick Thomas Johnson · CC BY 2.0
Kabukichō Ichiban-gai, Shinjuku, Tokyo
Kabukichō
Jet-lagged on the drive in, Bob passes through Shinjuku’s neon streets and sees a billboard of himself advertising Suntory whisky.
Public streets, busiest after dark, a short walk north-east of Shinjuku Station.
Where we read it
The gate of Jōgan-ji, Nakano, August 2023. Higa4 · CC0
Honchō 2-chōme, Nakano, Tokyo
Jōgan-ji
Japan’s tourist board lists the Jōgan-ji temple among the film’s locations.
A working Buddhist temple near Nakano-Sakaue Station (Marunouchi and Ōedo lines). Visit quietly; the graves are for the families.
Where we read it

Stay

A room on the top floors, or a temple lodging.

The Park Hyatt is the film’s own hotel. Nanzen Kaikan is not in the film; it is Nanzen-ji’s lodging by the gate Charlotte climbs.

Park Hyatt Tokyo

Nishi-Shinjuku

The filming location: Bob and Charlotte’s hotel, on the top floors of Shinjuku Park Tower. Reopened on 9 December 2025 after its restoration.

Check rooms

Nanzen-ji

Nanzen Kaikan

Nanzen-ji, Kyoto

Not a filming location: Nanzen-ji’s own lodging for pilgrims and visitors, a short walk from the Sanmon gate. The temple suggests an early walk, when the monks in training are chanting and sweeping.

See the rooms

Go there