The Nagasaki Lantern Festival gives the city an amazing ethereal atmosphere for just a few nights every February.
Multiple places claim to be the real-world inspiration for the Studio Ghibli anime Spirited Away.
But in terms of taking a trip to another world, it’s definitely worth hopping on a train or plane for.
So why the gap between how strongly Nagasaki resembles the setting of Spirited Away and how infrequently the city gets brought up when talking about the movie?