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New Japanese Guidebook Focuses on Anime Pilgrimages
posted on by Eric Stimson
As anime are often closely modeled after real world locations, mainly in Japan, dedicated anime fans have long undergone trips (so-called "pilgrimages") to visit the inspirations for backdrops to iconic anime series and movies. Recent sites of Girls und Panzer practice tankery. Now a guidebook, Anime Tanbou: Seichi Junrei Guide ("Anime Tours: A Holy Land Pilgrimage Guide") has been published in Japan that compiles places throughout Japan that have been featured in recent anime — 150 anime, to be exact.
Chichibu is the setting for anohana
As a sample tour, the book offers one tailored around locations related to The Wind Rises.
If anime fans don't have the time, money, or inclination to travel all over Japan, Anime Tanbou recommends visiting Shinjuku instead. This busy district in Tokyo has the single highest concentration of anime-related sites. The massive train station is shown in Joshiraku fans will want to see the Shinjuku Suehirotei, the theater where the cast performed their rakugo.
Other suggested anime tours include a Makoto Shinkai pilgrimage, a app released by DIP.
[Via Denshi Navi; Images from Shashin-to Haiku-de Tojiru Kyouto-no Arekore, Matsuyama-jou-ga Daisuki!, The Art of Yoshiko Miyashita, Rolling Mawashikeri]
