As the the manga makes quite plain in the narration, the adventures in this chapter commence at Nirasaki Station. At the top of 32, Aki muses whether they’re going to Shosenkyo - and as she thinks, the bus does leave from Kofu Station (citation). The Peace Kannon is here. (The location on the title page is gonna show up later, spoiler alert, so I won’t mark it now.)
On page 37-38, they arrive in Akeno - they buy their tomatoes from this place. Not sure exactly where the bus let them off (the nearest bus stops that Google knows about are all on the town’s main road, a half hour’s walk away), but the first panel of page 38 is here. There are a number of sunflower farms in the area - like this one.
On page 45, they arrive at Lake Mizugaki - the building depicted in the second panel is the Visitors’ Centre. (The final panel of page 44 is also near the Visitors’ Centre).
They start walking anti-clocwise around the lake. There’s a pedestrian path, which is too far from the road to show up on street view, but there are some photo spheres. On page 48, they arrive at the Shiokawa Dam Lookout (which is also the location on the title page - told you it’d be coming up later). The bath Ena mentions is here (and ヨシヤー to ヨシャー has to be one of the subtlest bland name versions I’ve seen in this manga so far). Can’t tell from here whether it’s actually hot or not, but surely with a name like ～の湯, it’d have to be…
On page 50, they arrive here - from the Visitors’ Centre, where the bus let them off, it’s 36 minutes’ walk, uphill all the way, so it’s not too surprising that Aki’s a bit tired. (It’s slightly shorter walking clockwise, but still uphill.) Interestingly, the street sign they’re looking at lacks romaji in the street view, but to be fair, this street view photo was taken in 2014. Are they waiting for ゴドー?
Side note, here is Google’s bus directions for getting to Mizugaki from Nirasaki, but it doesn’t go anywhere near the tomato shop. Hmm…
So, flipping through this volume back when I bought it, I was rather wondering why (and how) Nadeshiko was doing the picture-in-picture talento reaction shot thing in this chapter and later chapters. Didn’t realise until the end of last week that this chapter is Aki telling Nadeshiko the story of their adventure. Though Aki going “get back in your box!” is amusing. (And today I learnt that it’s called a ワイプ. Why, though?)
Page 35, I see the simulation is starting to break down in the final panel there. Maybe they should stop playing with the settings.
So, that cart Ena is dragging around on page 38, and is blocking the aisle on the bus on page 44… is that real, or is it just full of the imaginary camping supplies for the imaginary dogs?
Page 51, I must say, it’s a bit rude that there’s so many readings for 神戸. There’s one in Mie read as かんべ…
Proper nouns:
Page 31
韮崎＝にらさき
Page 32
昇仙峡＝しょうせんきょう
