Location from Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba
The metropolitan heart of Japan — where thirty million people live, work, and die, and where L's first broadcast narrowed the world's most wanted killer to a single geographic area.
The Kanto region is where almost everything in Death Note happens. L's Lind L. Tailor broadcast aired only in Kanto, and when Light killed the decoy, L knew Kira was here. The investigation, the killings, the confrontations — all centered on this vast urban area where anonymity is easy and surveillance is hard. Tokyo within Kanto is a city of contrasts relevant to the story: the gleaming campuses of To-Oh University where geniuses play at being normal, the anonymous hotels where L hides, the corporate towers where Yotsuba executives decide who dies, and the suburban houses where families eat dinner unaware that one of them is a mass murderer.
The greater Tokyo metropolitan area and its surrounding prefectures — a sprawling urban landscape of skyscrapers, residential neighborhoods, train lines, and neon. Tokyo Tower is visible from most high points. The city hums with the constant background noise of millions of lives being lived simultaneously.
Also known as: Tokyo, Greater Tokyo