Inception

Cobb shows Ariadne they are in a shared dream; the café blows apart. They walk back along Rue Bouchut and she folds Rue César Franck up over itself. Same corner for both beats.

Il Russo

as Café Debussy

Ariadne inserts herself into Cobb's private dream and meets Mal in the stained-glass craftsman. Stay on the sidewalk.

215 South Grand Avenue

as Cobb's house

Saito's helicopter touches down in 'Kyoto', and Cobb is met by Miles in the same terminal dressed as LAX at the end.

Farnborough Airport Terminal

as Kyoto / LAX

Mal sits on the window ledge of the 'hotel suite' and asks Cobb to jump with her. The room is this building above Frank Court.

Chester Williams Building

as The hotel suite

Eames watches Browning at the dying father's bedside in the mahogany Heritage Rooms.

Victoria House

as Fischer's suite

Cobb tells Miles he needs the charges fixed in the Gustave Tuck theatre, then meets architecture student Ariadne in the Flaxman Gallery under the dome. The gallery is open weekdays 1–5pm via the Strang Print Room.

UCL Wilkins Building

as The academy

Cobb wakes in the souk after the Saito job, then later chases Eames through the same medina lanes to recruit him.

Petit Socco

as Mombasa

Cobb meets Miles on these steps. The lecture theatre is a different pin, at UCL in London.

Palais Galliera

as The academy

A locomotive mounted on a truck barrels north on Spring and smashes through 7th. Cobb's subconscious, not a real railway.

Spring Street at 7th

as The dream city

Cobb and Mal walk the colonnade in the city they built in limbo. The submerged houses are across Hope Street at the DWP building.

Ahmanson Theatre walkway

as Limbo

Fischer's trained subconscious opens fire. The messy shoot-out is this corner, not the train a block east.

7th and Broadway

as The dream city

Ariadne builds the Kennedy footbridge, then they climb onto Bir-Hakeim. Cobb's mind recognises the place and Mal appears.

Pont de Bir-Hakeim

as The dream city

The team works out the ten-hour flight in this atrium, then Cobb poses as Mr Charles in the same lobby bar to turn Fischer. The hotel corridors were a Cardington hangar set — skip those.

Creative Artists Agency

as The hotel

The loft with the sawtooth roof where the team plans the Fischer job. Also Cassandra's apartment in Wayne's World. Private; match the façade from the street.

Mill Street Lofts

as Cobb's workshop

Arthur shows Ariadne paradoxical architecture on the atrium stair. False treads were added to the real staircase; CGI was kept to a minimum.

Samsung, Hillswood Drive

as The paradoxical atrium

The team meets in the empty city to plan inception, later picks Fischer up in the yellow cab here, and Yusuf's van keeps passing the same corner. One stand for all three beats.

Wilshire and Hope

as The dream city

Fischer is taken to the mountain hospital to retrieve the secret. The fortress was built on this ski area; it is gone.

Fortress Mountain

as The mountain hospital

Cobb and Ariadne look down from the Ahmanson walkway onto this moat, then later return to the lowest dream to confront Mal. The water is here; the houses were not.

John Ferraro Building

as Limbo

Yusuf drives off this drawbridge. The splash is the kick that ends the job. The 1948 lift span is gone; stand on the new bridge over the same water.

Commodore Schuyler F. Heim Bridge

as The dream city

The team holes up after the shoot-out. Cobb warns Ariadne about limbo and the fifty years he and Mal spent there.

516 South Anderson Street

as The hideout

Arthur arrives at Cobb's Paris workshop through this private works door into Passy station. The loft interior is a different pin, in Los Angeles.

Square Alboni

as Cobb's workshop

Cobb washes ashore beneath Saito's castle. Stand on this beach; the castle was never here.

Abalone Cove

as Saito's castle

The team buys the sedative that will hold three dream levels. Interior of the Farmiloe warehouse in Smithfield, dressed as Mombasa.

Farmiloe Building

as Yusuf's pharmacy