Your Name Trivia
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47 free Your Name trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Your Name trivia quiz covers Makoto Shinkai's 2016 anime film Kimi no Na wa, the body-swap romance that became the highest-grossing Japanese film ever until Demon Slayer. The story questions run from Mitsuha's wish to be a Tokyo boy and the rules the two teenagers write for each other, through the comet Tiamat, the ramen-shop owner in Takayama, the ruins of Itomori, the sake in the crater and the twilight meeting where night falls before Mitsuha can write her name. The harder half covers how it was made and received: the tsunami visit that gave Shinkai the idea, the film's discarded working titles, the novels and manga that inspired the plot, the Radwimps soundtrack, the light novel released before the film, the twelve weekends at number one in Japan, the Chinese and South Korean records, and the Hollywood remake that has been through four directors. Easy questions suit anyone who has seen it once; the expert ones will test devoted anime fans. Every answer was checked against the film's Wikipedia article and its cited sources before publishing. For more Shinkai and Japanese animation, try our anime and Studio Ghibli quizzes.
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Q 01What career is Taki working towards in Your Name?
Architect
Architect: his habit of sketching buildings pays off when he has to draw Itomori's landscape from memory, the only clue he has for finding the town.
Q 02What is the Japanese title of Your Name?
Kimi no Na wa
Kimi no Na wa means 'Your name is...', and it is the question Taki and Mitsuha finally put to each other in the film's closing line.
Q 03What does Mitsuha do after her unhappy trip to Tokyo, to her friends' shock?
Cuts her hair short
She cuts her hair short as soon as she is home, having found a Taki who did not know her; Tessie and Sayaka are stunned when they see it on festival day.
Q 04In which prefecture is Mitsuha's hometown in Your Name?
Gifu
Gifu: Itomori is fictional, set in the prefecture's mountainous Hida region, and Taki's search for it runs through the real Hida city, whose station and library fans now visit.
Q 05What does Mitsuha wish for, just before the swapping begins?
To be reborn as a boy in Tokyo
To be reborn as a boy in Tokyo is what Mitsuha shouts into the night, sick of small-town life; the next morning she wakes up in Taki's body.
Q 06In which Tokyo ward is the Italian restaurant where Taki waits tables?
Shinjuku
Shinjuku: the restaurant is modelled on a real café beside Shinjuku Gyoen park, and its Italian name is a nod to the title of an earlier Shinkai film.
Q 07How do Taki and Mitsuha communicate during the body swaps?
Notes on paper, their phones and their skin
Notes on paper, their phones and their skin carry the messages, which soon turn into house rules: she tells him to mind her skirt, he tells her to stop spending his money in cafés.
Q 08In Your Name, while living in Taki's body, Mitsuha sets him up on a date with whom?
Miki Okudera, his co-worker
Miki Okudera, his co-worker, senses on the date that Taki is preoccupied with someone else.
Q 09How is kuchikamizake, the Miyamizu shrine's ritual sake in Your Name, made?
Chewing rice and spitting it out
Chewing rice and spitting it out lets enzymes in saliva start the fermentation; it is one of Japan's oldest ways of making sake, and Mitsuha is mortified to do it in front of classmates.
Q 10What is the name of the comet in Your Name?
Tiamat
Comet Tiamat comes round once in 1,200 years; as it passes on the night of the autumn festival a fragment breaks away and falls on Itomori.
Q 11In Your Name, who recognises Taki's sketch of Itomori and drives him there?
A ramen-shop owner
A ramen-shop owner spots the drawing just as Taki, ready to give up, stops to eat; the man comes from Itomori himself and takes him to see what is left of it.
Q 12How many years apart are Taki and Mitsuha living?
Three
Three years separate them: Mitsuha's days are in 2013 and Taki's in 2016, which is why his calls never connect and why her town is already gone when he finds it.
Q 13What does Taki find in the records of the Itomori disaster?
Mitsuha's name
Mitsuha's name is on the list of the dead, with those of her family and friends among some 500 victims; soon afterwards Taki's own memories of her begin to fade.
Q 21Who voices Mitsuha in the Japanese version of Your Name?
Mone Kamishiraishi
Mone Kamishiraishi, known until then as a screen actress, won Best Actress at the Seiyu Awards for Mitsuha, on the same night her co-star took Best Actor.
Q 22Which earlier Shinkai film does Mitsuha's teacher Yukari Yukino come from?
The Garden of Words
Yukari Yukino was the heroine of Shinkai's 2013 film The Garden of Words, voiced by Kana Hanazawa in both; here she teaches the class the word 'kataware-doki', the twilight hour.
Q 23What is the name of Mitsuha's younger sister?
Yotsuha
Yotsuha means 'four leaves': the Miyamizu women are numbered in birth order, from grandmother Hitoha (one) and mother Futaba (two) down to her elder sister, the third.
Q 14What has Taki been wearing as a lucky bracelet without knowing where it came from?
Mitsuha's kumihimo braid
Mitsuha's kumihimo braid was the cord she wore in her hair: she threw it to him on a Tokyo train before he knew who she was, and he hands it back when they come face to face on the mountain.
Q 15What does Hitoha reveal on realising Taki is inside Mitsuha?
Body-swapping runs in the family
Body-swapping runs in the family: Hitoha recalls having the same strange dreams as a girl, and says Mitsuha's mother had them too.
Q 16How do Mitsuha's friends try to force Itomori's evacuation in Your Name?
A blackout and a fake broadcast
A blackout and a fake broadcast: Tessie blows up the power substation while Sayaka, from the school broadcasting club, takes over the town's emergency loudspeakers to order everyone out.
Q 17What does Mitsuha find written on her hand instead of Taki's name?
"I love you"
Instead of his name Taki had written 'I love you' (suki da) on her palm; night fell during their twilight meeting before she could write hers on his hand.
Q 18Who finally orders Itomori's evacuation in Your Name?
Mitsuha's father, the mayor
Mayor Toshiki Miyamizu, Mitsuha's estranged father, had told residents to stay put; after she confronts him he orders the evacuation that saves the town.
Q 19Where do Taki and Mitsuha finally meet in the last scene?
On the steps of Suga Shrine
On the steps of Suga Shrine in Tokyo: the two glimpse each other from passing trains, jump off at the next stations and search the streets until they meet on the stairway.
Q 20Who voices Taki in the Japanese version of Your Name?
Ryunosuke Kamiki
Ryunosuke Kamiki, a former child actor who had voiced Studio Ghibli characters, won Best Actor at the Seiyu Awards for Taki, and Shinkai cast him again in his next two films.
Q 24Which real disaster inspired Shinkai to conceive Your Name?
The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami: visiting the wrecked fishing village of Yuriage that July, Shinkai thought 'this could have been my town' and imagined swapping places with its people.
Q 25In the epilogue of Your Name, what is an older Taki struggling to do?
Land a job
Land a job: his search is going badly, and all the while he is nagged by the feeling that he is really looking for someone he has forgotten.
Q 26Which Rumiko Takahashi manga was among the inspirations for Your Name's plot?
Ranma ½
Ranma ½: its hero turns into a girl whenever he is splashed with cold water, a gender-swap comedy Shinkai drew on alongside the Heian-era tale Torikaebaya Monogatari.
Q 27Which Christopher Nolan film did Shinkai cite as an influence?
Interstellar
Shinkai cited Interstellar (2014) as an influence: its time dilation and Cooper's messages sent back across the years to his daughter echo through the film's second half.
Q 28Which band wrote and performed the music for Your Name?
Radwimps
Radwimps wrote and performed the score and the four vocal songs; Shinkai asked the band for music that would supplement the characters' dialogue and monologues.
Q 29Where did Your Name have its world premiere?
Anime Expo in Los Angeles
Anime Expo in Los Angeles hosted the world premiere on July 3, 2016, weeks before the film opened in Japan on August 26; it came back to the city that December for a one-week Oscar-qualifying run.
Q 30Which company distributed Your Name in Japan?
Toho
Toho took on the project after Shinkai pitched it in 2014, and opened the film across Japan on August 26, 2016.