A visit to Taiwan’s Jiufen – the real-world inspiration for Ghibli’s Spirited Away Few animation studios have been as consistent as Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli. Founded in 1985, its animated fantasies are made with just the right blend of humour, melancholy and surrealism to make them appeal to audiences of all ages. . The official Ghibli Museum is actually only 25 minutes from my house in Tokyo, but I still haven’t been. Ironically it took me to fly 1,500 miles  to […]

Categories: Travel: Outside Japan • Tags: asia, Chihiro, Ghibli, guidebook, Hayao Miyazaki, Jiufen, mountain, Spirited Away, Studio, Taipei, Taiwan, tokyo