Pack your bags, we're hunting for places that don't exist (but totally should).
Would you like to embark on a journey to discover new attractions in Miyazaki's works? By setting a fictional city and depicting the vivid lives of the people who live there, it is as if the city really exists.― Director Hayao Miyazaki's landscapes have this power. Natsukawa Yui, and Sugimoto Tetta, will visiting the European towns and places that inspired the setting images of Hayao Miyazaki's works. In "A European Journey to Encounter Miyazaki's Works," we embark on a journey to find the scenery of Kiki's Delivery Service and Howl's Moving Castle.
Production
Real European streets that birthed Ghibli's impossible cities.
Cinematography
Lush location shots that mirror Miyazaki's painted backgrounds.
Director
Toshikazu Satou
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The town of Visby, Sweden directly inspired both Kiki's Koriko and Howl's Market Chipping—Miyazaki essentially built two different fictional cities from the same real place.
This doc reveals Miyazaki's 'distillation' process: he visits, forgets details, then reconstructs from emotional memory—which is why his cities feel more real than documentary footage.
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