The Lover Who Vanished on Pont Koitani

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Episode 1190-1191 (Int. Episode 1249-1250)
Information
Title:	The Lover Who Vanished on Pont Koitani 1190: Tottori Tour 1191: Misasa Arc
Japanese title:	恋谷橋に消えた恋人 (Koitanibashi ni Kieta Koibito) 1190: 鳥取周遊編 (Tottori Shūyū-hen ) 1191: 三朝編 (Misasa-hen )
Original airdate:	January 24, 2026 (Tottori Tour) January 31, 2026 (Misasa Arc)
Broadcast rating:	6.3% (Tottori Tour) 6.5% (Misasa Arc)
Filler case:	#456
Season:	31
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Katsuhiko Yamane Ryo Okamoto
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (partially on his own, via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Frog (Tottori Tour) Rabbit (Misasa Arc)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Screenplay:	Koshiro Mikami
Storyboard:	Mitsuko Kase
Episode director:	1190: Yuki Kawakata 1191: Masahiro Takada
Animation director:	1190: • Kaoru Nagakawa • Michitaka Yamamoto • Zi Dengjia • Yukari Kamiaka • Yui Ushinohama • Marie Nagano • Kana Aoki 1191: • Akio Kawamura
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Nobuyuki Iwai (sub-character) Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)
Production cooperation:	1190: Azeta Pictures 1191: BIG BANG
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Takahiro Shimura as Katsuhiko Yamane Takayuki Sasada as Ryo Okamoto Hiroko Emori as Kazuko Yumemiya Ai Nonaka as Sachiyo Yumemiya Nobuyuki Kobushi as Teruki Yumemiya Kissei Kumamoto as Hisao Utsubuki Wataru Komada as Yasuto Utsubuki Mitsuaki Madono as Masamichi Kasuga Kaoru Morota as Yoshimi Komori Kosuke Okano as Toshihiro Kitami Miki Natsutani as Woman (Episode 1190), Waitress (Episode 1191) Yuki Hoshi as Man A (Episode 1190) Fumitake Ishiguro as Man B (Episode 1190) Rikako Yamaguchi as Receptionist (Episode 1190), Waitress (Episode 1191)
Music
Opening song:	Heaven Knows
Closing song:	TOWA ~Towa ni Kaze ni Noru~

The Lover Who Vanished on Pont Koitani (恋谷橋に消えた恋人 ,Koitanibashi ni Kieta Koibito) is the 1190th and 1191st episode of the Detective Conan anime. This is the 21st Mystery Tour episode of the anime, being set in Tottori Prefecture, most notably around Misasa town.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Kogoro Mouri

Ran Mouri

Katsuhiko Yamane

Ryo Okamoto

Gadgets

Gadgets

Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Telescopic Lenses

Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes

Case

Situation

Tottori Tour

Kogoro, Ran, and Conan are in the Limited Express “Super Hakuto” that leads them to Tottori Prefecture, as they will be taking a bus to arrive at the Misasa Onsen. On the way to the Yumemiya Ryokan, their resting place for the tour, they see Yasuto Utsubuki and Sachiyo Yumemiya talking about Yasuto’s father and Sachiyo’s aunt not allowing the two to be married. Seconds later, Kazuko Yumemiya and Hisao Utsubuki show up and do what the couple just told about earlier.

In the Yumemiya Ryokan, the Mouris are welcomed by Teruki, Kazuko’s son, and a waitress named Yoshimi Komori. As Komori introduces to Ran and Conan about Yumezakura, a kimono that the waitresses walking behind Komori is going to wear for her wedding, the two instantly realize the woman behind as the one they met earlier. Kogoro also meets two Kurayoshi officers that the family has met in a past case, Katsuhiko Yamane and Ryo Okamoto. The two show their gratitude toward Kogoro for helping, and express their joyfulness of capturing the serial bag-snatcher one week ago, which is why they are here.

In the dinner, Kogoro is drinking with Okamoto and Yamane as he tells the two detectives how he solved cases as Sleeping Kogoro, while Conan and Ran enjoy the dinner at another table when Conan receives the drink he orders from Sachiyo. The two ask her about the problem Sachiyo has, she explains that Kazuko once got into a property dispute with Hisao Utsubuki. Suddenly, Komori accidentally spills some kind of sauce on Conan's costume, so she has to take Conan to change the costume. From there, Conan realizes that some people have issues with Kazuko with their own matters:

• According to Kazuko Yumemiya, Yoshimi Komori’s carelessness is damaging the reputation of the inn.
• Kazuko also denies a loan for Masamichi Kasuga, even though his company is facing financial difficulties.
• Kazuko roasts his son for being in debt because of a girl from Osaka whom he spent money on.
• Kazuko tells Sachiyo that she never wants to keep the ryokan on her own, and she wants Sachiyo to marry a dependable man instead of Yasuto.

Before the dawn of the next day, Teruki wakes Kogoro up, as Sachiyo has disappeared for some reason. As the two Kurayoshi officers are awaked from the sound, the two would request back up from the Misasa police box. Next morning, Kasuga tries to ask Yasuto if his niece was there or not, which Yasuto answers no, while he mumbles that Sachiyo actually did something. There are some possible suspects beside people in the inn, and Yasuto:

• The first person is Toshihiro Kitami, a photographer brought by Okamoto, Yamane, and a Misasa officer. The reason he became the suspect is that Sachiyo appears in some pictures he had taken yesterday when he was taking pictures of frogs in the Misasa.
• A second possibility is Sachiyo’s close friends who are members of Tottori Arts and Culture Association.

So Ran and Conan go to the Yonago City Center to ask the tour guide, while Okamoto and Yamane go to Mount Daisen to ask the mountain guide, and Kogoro goes to find the sand sculptor (he is also seen in the Tottori Sand Dunes, where he used to tie up Conan and throw him down because of a sudden burst of inspiration).

The investigation by the five people seems to yield no results, so they decide to interrogate Yasuto once again to see if he knew anything about the disappearance. This time, he admits that Sachiyo has temporarily taken refuge in the warehouse of the Misasa Violin Museum in the hope that her parents would understand the genuine feelings between her and Yasuto. However, Sachiyo is nowhere to be found there; instead, she has become the victim of an actual kidnapping for ransom. Kasuga recalls that a waitress noticed a black car parked near the mountains yesterday evening, meaning there could be a high chance that the people in the car were the kidnappers.

Kidnapping

Victim: Sachiyo Yumemiya

Age: 22 years old

Ransom: 100 million yen

Suspects: Yasuto Utsubuki, Kazuko Yumemiya, Teruki Yumemiya, Yoshimi Komori, Masamichi Kasuga, and Toshihiro Kitami

The captor will send two more videos every hour, and the ransom must be prepared within two hours.

Misasa Arc

Yasuto points out that Sachiyo has never blamed anyone else for the unfortunate events that happened to her. Conan happens to pass by three waitresses, including Komori, discussing that no one has ever seen a car like what Kasuga told. The two things raise doubt if Sachiyo was really kidnapped or not, so Conan goes to some location for information, with Ran and Yasuto tagging along:

• On the road Sachiyo went after escaping the warehouse, there are two separate paths, one of them leads to Misasa Onsen.
• Conan sees the photographer again in the Kajika bridge when the three arrive at the hot spring through his telescopic lens. The three reach out to Kitami, and know that Sachiyo was trying to cross the river.
• The side she went to leads to Yumemiya’s parking lot, which has one black car with sand on it.

Meanwhile, the inn receives a third message from the kidnapper. It seems like Kazuko is cornered when she agrees to pay the ransom to rescue Sachiyo, since she had promised her sister that she would take good care of Sachiyo. Suddenly, Conan notices something from the word "wave".

People

Sachiyo Yumemiya
	Victim (kidnapped) 22 years old Yasuto's girlfriend

Yasuto Utsubuki
	22 years old Sachiyo's boyfriend

Kazuko Yumemiya
	59 years old Sachiyo's aunt Acting proprietress of Yumemiya Inn

Hisao Utsubuki
	58 years old Yasuto's father

Teruki Yumemiya
	27 years old Kazuko's son

Yoshimi Komori
	35 years old Waitress at Yumemiya Inn

Masamichi Kasuga
	48 years old Sachiyo's distant uncle

Toshihiro Kitami
	31 years old Photographer

Woman A
	Tour guide Member of Tottori Arts and Culture Association

Man A
	Mountain guide Member of Tottori Arts and Culture Association

Man B
	Sand sculptor Member of Tottori Arts and Culture Association

Woman B
	Waitress at Yumemiya Inn

Woman C
	Waitress at Yumemiya Inn

Resolution

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There are some words that Sachiyo repeated on each video, combining these repeated words to form the name of the location she has been kept, Hakuto beach. At sunset on Hakuto Beach, a suspicious person is seen calling someone, revealing to the audience that the money has not been deposited, causing the ransom kidnapping to fail. With no other options left, the person tells the accomplice to run, while they kill Sachiyo to cover up the evidence. However, everyone in the inn has reached the location in time, and reveals the identity of the suspicious person, Masamichi Kasuga.

Attempted murders

Location: Hakuto Beach, Tottori City

Victim: Sachiyo Yumemiya

Age: 22 years old

Weapon: Knife

Culprits: Masamichi Kasuga

First, Kasuga tries to silence Sachiyo for good, but after he is arrested, Komori tries herself to kill Sachiyo.

Although Kogoro has a slightly terrible deduction scene at start, the rescue led by Yasuto combined with the two Kurayoshi police officers is absolutely top-notch. As for Kogoro, after hearing the conversation between Sachiyo and Kasuga before the latter is taken to the police, he finally understands part of the situation, and makes his own deduction:

• Kogoro deduces that Sachiyo read the letter and followed its instruction, not knowing that Kasuga changed his plan and went out with a black car to kidnap Sachiyo for ransom.
• Kogoro thinks that Sachiyo happened to see the location when she was thrown to the back of the car before it gets closed, which explains why she was able to inform about the location.

However, Kasuga is surprised to see those deductions, as if he wasn't the one to do those things. When Kogoro is getting ready to celebrate with Okamoto and Yamane, Conan tranquilizes Kogoro. Conan reveals that Kasuga did this under the influence of Yoshimi Komori, who wants to take revenge by putting the Yumemiya ryokan out of business. The reason is that her parents lost everything when they were dragged into the property dispute that Kazuko mentioned, the Yumezakura is also made for Komori by her parents.

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Trivia

• Although the English Crunchyroll subbed version of the case is named "The Lover Who Vanished on Pont Koitani", the bridge itself is not officially named "Pont Koitani" in English. Instead, local tourism sites have been using "Koitani Bridge" as an English translation. The word "pont" in the English title is a French word meaning "bridge", and its use may be linked to the fact that when French ambassador to Japan Bernard Dorin came to the valley of the Misasa River in Misasa in 1987, he nicknamed the place the "Vallée de l'Amour" (lit. Valley of Love). The bridge's Japanese name reflects this: "Koitani" translates to "Love (恋) Valley (谷)."
• The previous Mystery Tour to have aired in Tottori Prefecture, Tottori Sand Dunes Mystery Tour, in 2015, is directly referenced in the episode. Not only the two anime-original detectives from that reappeared, but they referenced the Kumado family ransom case from that Mystery Tour.
• Starting Episode 1191, the door eyecatch for title card has been revised with a tilted camera movement.
• The Utsubukis (宇津吹) are named after Mount Utsubuki (打吹山), an important mountain in neighboring Kurayoshi City.
• The real-life locations shown are:
  • In Misasa Town: The Misasa Violin Museum, Koitani Bridge and the Kurayoshi Police Station - Misasa Onsen police box (mentioned only in episode 1190) ;
  • In Yonago City: Yonago Station, Kaike Onsen, the Yonago City Tourism Office (米子市観光センター) and Yonago Castle ;
  • In Daisen Town: Mount Daisen, Ōgamiyama Shrine, the Daisen National Park Center (大山ナショナルパークセンター), and Daisen-ji (mentioned only in episode 1190) ;
  • In Kotoura Town: Senjo Falls (千丈滝, mentioned only in episode 1190) :
  • In Tottori City: Tottori Karo Crab Aquarium, Tottori Karoichi Fish Market (鳥取港海鮮市場かろいち), Tottori Station, Tottori Sand Dunes, Tottori Sand Museum, Hakuto Beach (白兎海岸) and Shinwa no Sato Shirousagi roadside station (道の駅神話の里 白うさぎ) ;
  • In Kurayoshi City: Old Utsubuki Tamagawa townscape.
• The culprit's car is a black Toyota 10th generation (E140 narrow). The license plate is 倉吉 503 わ 67・70 (Kurayoshi 503, Wa 67-70).
• Yumemiya Ryokan is modeled after the real-life Ohashi Ryokan (旅館大橋) in Misasa Town.
• Trains shown include the Super Hakuto and the Yakumo.

Gallery

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
French (Subbed)	La Petite amie disparue sur le pont Koitani	The girlfriend that disappeared on Koitani bridge
German (Subbed)	Die auf der Liebestal-Brücke verschwundene Geliebte	The Lover Who Vanished on the Liebestal Bridge

See also

• Season 31
• Mystery Tour (series)