Persona 5 is an RPG released for Sony's PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 systems. The story follows the path of a high school student who goes to school during the day and experiences friendship and love. However, once school has ended, he transforms into a phantom thief who saves the weak and exposes the underbelly of the great metropolis.
There have been a number of entries in the Persona series but this is the first entry situated in a real-life city such as Tokyo. The game has garnered attention for the faithfulness of its recreations of existing sites, and there are a great number of fans who visit these landmarks to compare the in-game depictions to their real-life counterparts. This article will introduce 5 particularly attention-worthy spots.

The phantom thieves, our protagonists, meet up at "hideouts" in order to plot their plan of attack. One such hideout is located at the "Walkway in Teikyu Building, Shibuya." The location that inspired the in-game walkway is located inside Shibuya Station, between the Keio Inokashira Line and Tokyo Metro Ginza Line ticket gates. An art piece created by Okamoto Taro called "Ashita no Shinwa" (The Myth of Tomorrow) hangs on the wall in this area. You can imagine the characters in the game taking in this piece of art while preparing for battle or looking out on Shibuya from the large windows.

Shibuya's symbolic "Center Gai" is re-imagined in the game as "Central Street." If you take the time to walk the street in real life, you are sure to be amazed by the amount of signposts and shop fronts that you can recall from the game. However, it's important to note that some of the distances between buildings and the locations of some of the buildings were altered in the game. Also, the "Airsoft Shop" that exists on a backstreet in the game does not exist in real life. Center Gai is located just outside the Hachiko Exit at JR Shibuya Station, diagonally across the famous scramble crossing.