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I knew about the influence of Yakushima on Mononoke-hime. I'd like to visit, but it's really hard to get to, because you have to travel to the bottom of Kyushu first. And a friend of mine went to a place on Shikoku that is supposedly another inspiration for the bathhouse in Spirited Away.
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Wow I wouldn't expect something from Australia to be on that list.
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Curious that Tama/Whisper and Kochi/Ocean Waves are not on there. It seems pretty clear that Only Yesterday's locations are real places as well, though I don't know where.
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Well WoTH and Ocean Waves aren't just based on real places, but took place in the actual place in itself. I mean the location of the movie is blatantly mentioned and shown in the movie itself anyway. It's like shooting a movie in Japan, then telling people that the movie was based in Japan and actually expecting people to be impressed by that fact.
The location of Totoro, at least, wasn't mentioned anywhere in the movie and could have taken place anywhere in Japan.
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I knew about the influence of Yakushima on Mononoke-hime. I'd like to visit, but it's really hard to get to, because you have to travel to the bottom of Kyushu first. And a friend of mine went to a place on Shikoku that is supposedly another inspiration for the bathhouse in Spirited Away.
They should have an actual travel guide to every location that inspired ghibli movies. I bet it'd be great.
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Well WoTH and Ocean Waves aren't just based on real places, but took place in the actual place in itself. I mean the location of the movie is blatantly mentioned and shown in the movie itself anyway. It's like shooting a movie in Japan, then telling people that the movie was based in Japan and actually expecting people to be impressed by that fact.
Fair comment but I expect many Ghibli fans would still be pleased to see comparison images between the film and RL, in the way that site does. In that respect their omission is plain odd.
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Well they're not the most famous of ghibli movies. You don't see Pom Poko or Howl there either.
Or maybe they have a word limit 
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Howl is there. Pom Poko is the only other one I can think of.
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Wow some of these are truly beautiful, can others post any others they know?
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I remember Mush went to the Tama area once on holiday for a little exploring and took lots of pictures. Unfortunately I cannot find that thread, so yeah.
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The places were mentioned in several of the films.
Pon Poko was set around Tama New Town and the closing scene was on one of the several golf courses on the hills there. It was probably less than a kilometer from the location where Seiji and Shizuku looked out to the east and the Shinjuku area.
The opening scene of Ocean Waves was in Kichijoji station, one stop east of Mitaka, where one gets off to go to the Ghibli Museum. It was photorealistic of the station as it was in the '90s. Omohide Poroporo was set in Yamagata prefecture, in northeastern Honshu island. My wife's cousins are from nearby Miyagi prefecture and have nearly identical northeastern accents.
It really is no big deal, as Roarkiller mentioned, when the location is clear. It's more fun to try to figure out other locales. Lots of places want to take credit for locales in Spirited Away, but a lot of the inspiration--according to Miyazaki himself--was in the Edo-Tokyo Tatemono Hakubutsukan, in Koganei. He loved to dwell there.
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