Pachinko

자갈치시장 부산 중구 자갈치해안로

Busan's signature fish market, where young Sunja spends her childhood helping her mother work. The stalls bustling from dawn and the salt-and-fish air capture the mood of the drama's early chapters.

매축지마을 부산 동구 범일동

A neighborhood where the alleyways of old Busan from the colonial era survive almost intact, making it a key period backdrop. The cramped lanes and low rooftops vividly bring back the years Sunja and her neighbors lived through.

태종대 부산 영도구 전망로

A Yeongdo landmark of sheer coastal cliffs opening onto a wide sea. It appears as the scenery that stands for Sunja's home waters, evoking the feeling of the scenes where an elderly Sunja returns.

영도구청 부산 영도구 봉래동

The administrative heart of Yeongdo, used as the backdrop where Sunja wanders in search of traces of her father. It sits within easy walking distance to fold into a tour of old downtown Busan.

감지해변 부산광역시 영도구 감지길 110

One of the ten Busan filming locations disclosed by the Busan Film Commission, a quiet stretch of shore in Dongsam-dong on Yeongdo, just below Taejongdae. It holds the feeling of the sea where a young Sunja dives for shellfish and where an older Sunja later wades into her hometown water. A walking path follows the shoreline and the grilled-shellfish restaurants sit right beside it, so the spot is worth seeing after dark as well.

동래별장 부산광역시 동래구 금강로123번길 12

One of the ten Pachinko locations disclosed by the Busan Film Commission, a landmark modern-era Japanese-style house in Busan wrapped in a garden of some 3,000 pyeong. It was chosen because the colonial-period atmosphere survives here with almost no dressing required. The house now operates as a restaurant serving traditional royal-court cuisine, so booking a meal is the way to walk the garden and see the interior for yourself.

센텀시티역 부산광역시 해운대구 센텀남대로 지하 76

One of the ten Pachinko locations disclosed by the Busan Film Commission, standing in for a Tokyo subway station on screen. The present-day sequence in which Solomon loosens his tie and dances in the rain after his deal collapses was shot here. It is a stop on Busan Metro Line 2, so access is simple, and a short walk through the concourse around the gates is enough to recognize the layout from the show.

범일동 구름다리 부산광역시 동구 범일동 62-172

An old pedestrian overpass crossing the Gyeongbu rail line, listed among the ten Pachinko locations disclosed by the Busan Film Commission. It was used because this pocket of the city, together with the nearby Maechukji village, still carries the texture of old Busan. You can reach it on foot from Exit 7 of Beomil Station, and since it is also known from the overpass scene in the film Friend, it pairs naturally with a walk through Maechukji.

논산 선샤인랜드 충청남도 논산시 연무읍 봉황로 102

A less obvious location that carried nearly as much of the show as Busan did. The 1950 Studio and the Sunshine Studio drama set stood in for Yeongdo and downtown Osaka in the 1920s and 1930s, a Japanese police station in the 1970s, and a poor Tokyo neighborhood in 1989. With shooting in Japan blocked by the pandemic, prewar Japan was built here instead, and because the complex runs as a theme park you can buy a ticket and walk the same streets and building fronts.

강경근대문화역사거리 충청남도 논산시 강경읍 옥녀봉로 30-5

A street where modern buildings from the colonial period still stand, used for Pachinko's Great Kanto Earthquake sequence. Former banks and shopfronts line the road, so the 1920s and 1930s appear on camera without any set construction. It sits close to central Nonsan and is laid out as a walking route, which makes it easy to combine with the Sunshine Land sets in a single day.

순천드라마촬영장 전라남도 순천시 비례골길 24

A large open set recreating the outskirts of Seoul, its hillside shanty districts, and downtown Suncheon from the 1960s to the 1980s. Pachinko shot part of its material along the Deungyongmun bridge street and the streamside of the Suncheon town section. The set is divided into distinct districts and runs visitor programs such as renting old school uniforms, so the walk doubles as a period experience.

Pacific Central Station 1150 Station St, Vancouver, BC V6A 4C7, Canada

This is the station where a pregnant Sunja and her husband Isak arrive in Osaka at the end of their long crossing in Chapter 5. With filming in Japan ruled out by the pandemic, this downtown Vancouver terminal, completed in 1919, stood in for 1930s Osaka Station. It still runs as a VIA Rail passenger terminal, so you can step into the waiting hall without a ticket and pick out the arched windows and wooden benches from the screen.