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The Japanese landscapes that inspired Studio Ghibli films

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250912-the-japanese-landscapes-that-inspired-studio-ghibli-films
31•koolhead17•4mo ago

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fidotron•4mo ago
Let's see if they follow it with an article about Sweden (Kiki's Delivery Service), Colmar (Howl's Moving Castle) the Welsh mining villages of Castle in the Sky or Adriatic islands of Porco Rosso.

Miyazaki loves Europe more than the Europeans do.

mcphage•4mo ago
That would be wonderful!
polotics•4mo ago
Are you sure Kiki's Delivery Service is based on Sweden only? I was always thinking that this looked a lot like Kiki's place: https://www.google.com/maps/@47.5401314,9.6946462,1214a,35y,...
timr•4mo ago
I've been to Dōgo Onsen several times, but I had no idea of the putative connection to Spirited Away. If you'd asked me at the time, I never would have made the connection based on visuals alone. They're really overstating the case.

Point being: please don't rush here based on this article. It's an old bathhouse with tiny baths and a somewhat unique interior for Japan. The most interesting part is honestly the imperial bath suite, which is a museum that can only be accessed via appointment. The "Spirited Away bathhouse" is an entirely fictional construct based on a bunch of different locations, and Ghibli has said that there's no existing bathhouse that models the one on the movie.

I hate this kind of lazy tourist porn. For the past several years everyone has been overcrowding Shima Onsen in Gunma, because the outside of that one looks a bit like the movie, and lots of articles were written saying the same things. If you want Ghibli, go to the museum in Tokyo, and don't overwhelm random places looking for something that doesn't exist.

searls•4mo ago
Yeah, I went to Dogo Onsen last year and after the fact people told me it was inspiration for Spirited Away and I literally didn't believe them. I've been to countless riverside onsen resorts in the middle of nowhere that look more similar.

Agree this kind of article is really reductive and misses the point, but what're you gonna do.

mc3301•4mo ago
I fully agree with your point; and I have also been to Dōgo Onsen. I would go a step further and say this: even if a piece of entertainment (or history) is based specifically on "something," and you enjoyed that entertainment, it doesn't guarantee that you'll enjoy that "something."

However, people can have fun however they'd like. If you think it sounds awesom to drink a coffee in the same shop Edgar Allan Poe drank a coffee a hundred years ago, that's cool!

searls•4mo ago
I had some time to kill a couple years back and asked a Japanese friend where to go from Kagoshima, and she said I could take the ferry to Yakushima, so I walked to the dock, bought a ticket, and booked a minpaku lodge en route.

Turns out, it's the forest with the ancient moss and yakusugi trees from Princess Mononoke. Little did I realize that actually getting there is a pretty involved process, and it's a small miracle I was able to figure out the buses and do the whole hike in jeans and a t-shirt (most people came actually well-equipped to hike it)

Write-up and video: https://justin.searls.co/posts/go-to-yakushima/

Probably the most beautiful place I've ever been on earth.

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