Ghibli Land from Hayao Miyazaki's manga

Spirited Away, City in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service... Almost every one of Miyazaki's works is a classic, with fantastic sea trains, flying castles, cute Totoro and a variety of strange but lovable fantasy characters that make you want to take a journey through animation.

Studio Ghibli, founded by the likes of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, has opened a number of attractions and exhibitions in recent years, as well as a continuous update of Ghibli-themed entertainment venues, located in the Ai Earth Bo Memorial Park in Nagate City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan (near Nagoya city), Ghibli Land is a pilgrimage site for countless fans to clock in.

In the original plan, the Ghibli theme park spent nearly 1.6 billion yuan to reproduce the architectural scenes of classic works, and later added animation scenes to meet all the fantasies of fans, such as "City in the Sky", "Spirited Away", "Hal's Moving Castle", "My Friend Totoro" and other classic animation scenes are displayed here. The whole park is hidden in the former Expo Park in Aichi Prefecture, and you can always walk in it and explore the various treasure sites.

Ghibli Park's "Hill of Youth", "Ghibli Warehouse" and "Totoro" three parks have been opened in November 2022, and "Ghost Town" will be opened in November 2023. The final "Witch's Valley" was officially opened on March 16 this year.

In order to control the flow of visitors to the park, Ghibli Park is currently only open to real-name online ticket purchase

Full of memories of the scene restoration

Ghibli Park currently has two main entrances: the North Gate and the West Gate.
The elevator building representing the building at the north gate is particularly striking, built according to the imaginary science animation works of the late 19th century represented by "Sky City" and "Hal's Moving Castle". The former site of the Aichi Youth Park Era Management Building is also the entrance of the park, and stepping into the elevator is like entering another world.

Through the elevator building, as soon as you enter the park, you can see where the "Hill of Youth" is located. The Earth house in the animation scene of "Listening" is exquisite and lovely, with red walls and irregularly shaped house design, surrounded by lush woods, it seems to come to the animation scene of "Cat's Kindness", especially when the wind blows, the leaves are rustled. Especially fresh and natural.
From the "Earth House", not far away is the mini-size "Cat office", through the window can also see "Ge You paralysis" Balon and Muta, there are various oil paintings and ornaments in the room, full of details.

Beyond the Hill of Youth, the Ghibli Warehouse is a comprehensive area with a plethora of Ghibli related exhibits, like an all-encompassing cartoonist's studio, using a colorful central staircase lined with 200,000 tiles, and a giant spaceship of "City in the Sky" overhead. There are also video exhibition rooms, planning rooms, children's playgrounds, nearby shops and cafes.

Walking around, you can punch in various "Ghibli famous scenes" at any time, and ride the sea train with a faceless man; Catching Heda falling from the sky in City of Sky; Drill into the house of "The little person who borrowed Things" and feel the rich world of the little person; When she broke into the curator's office, her delicate hair seemed to have a fierce aura...

Out of the Ghibli Warehouse, come to the Totoro Forest, located in the forest, the "Moon and Mei House" exude a strong sense of 1950s Showa nostalgia, and there is water in the kitchen and courtyard faucets.

Deep in the forest is where the Totoro is located, and the five-meter-high Totoro is actually a wooden amusement facility, specially built for children. When taking photos on rainy days, it is like really stepping into the animation of My Neighbor Totoro.

Punch "Ghost Country" and "Witch Valley"

In the park, the "Ghost Town" is mainly to restore the Japanese mountain village scenery in the movie "Princess Mononoke", and also specially built the slide of the wild boar god "Yizoshi" and the "Dadala God" model. In addition to the original products of the Ghost Town, the stone rest place also sells soda and lemonade, and you can experience the joy of making "Five flat Mochi" by yourself in the park (additional charges are required).

The new "Witch Valley" opened this year is based on "Witch's Delivery Service", "Howl's Moving Castle" and "Anya and the Witch", which covers a huge area and is the largest park in Ghibli Park. The whole park is like a huge Nordic style town, there are magical buildings in the magic world, but also the fresh romance of European garden.

Walking in the "Witch's Valley" street, you can not only encounter about 20 meters high "Hal's castle", if you are lucky, you can see that part of the castle will move and change, and there will be smoke above it, which is the illusion that it will really fly away. You can also visit the "witch's delivery service" heroine Kiki's father's home "Ojino's home", walk into it to visit, you can also enter Kiki's room, get the same cartoon photos.
In addition, the bakery where Kiki works - "Rock, paper, Scissors Bakery" has also been 1:1 restoration, and now there are real bread sellers in the store, which tastes quite good, so fantasy and reality are intertwined, and the immersive tour makes people have a romantic experience that the characters in animation and we live in the same world.

Of course, you can also buy a variety of cute character accessories in the Ghibli Park store, take photos with Totoro, see the paper version of the character's work interpretation, beautiful covers and cards are very suitable for collection.

In addition, the park also set up a carousel and rotating aircraft (need to pay a separate ticket) two new entertainment facilities, which is the first time Ghibli Park launched amusement facilities, very suitable for big friends children to experience together.

In addition, the "Totoro bus" is also the first debut in the park on March 16, 2024, the chubby and cute sightseeing bus not only restores the cat head of Totoro on the appearance, but also adds a fat tail with stripes on the rear of the bus, which is very cute.