The bus station at a rural village near the Nagano Prefecture town of Ueda in Japan is full of tourists taking pictures. It appears to have nothing special, but many people visit the place because it was used as a background scene of move Summer Wars directed by Hosoda Mamoru, next generation animation movie star director in Japan. Following the release of the movie, the area has become a famous tourist area where comic fans flock into.
“The Spiriting Away Of Sen And Chihiro” of world-renowned Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki won the Golden Bear at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards. It is a story about a girl’s adventure who works at a hot spring where various gods come, in order to save her parents who have turned to pigs while moving to this place. The background motif of the movie comes from Edo Tokyo Tatemonoen in Koganei, Tokyo. This place has become a must-visit course for cartoon mania as it is an outside museum where historical constructions are preserved and exhibited.
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