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Originally Posted by Mike795
One of the places Miyazaki repotedly based Spirited Away on was the Edo-Tokyo Openair Architectural Museum:
http://www.tatemonoen.jp/
They don't seem to have an English website - but I'm sure if you google you will find plenty of information about it. It's in Koganei park, a little bit out of central Tokyo, but not hard to get to. It's a very interesting museum anyway - lots of old buildings have been moved from other parts of Tokyo, and rebuilt there in the park. |
Thanks for that. I'd heard of the park, but I didn't realize that buildings were moved there and rebuilt. That's pretty cool. I love places like that...they seem like they shouldn't still exist, but they do. It's kind of creepy. There's an old park near me that has the same kind of feel:
About Glen Echo Park
Unfortunately, they've been fixing it up and modernizing it a little, so it's lost a little of it's "ghostly" charm.