After working on My Neighbour Totoro, animator Akemi Miyazaki steps out from her husband’s shadow to show us Totoro’s real-world birthplace.
The area had such an influence on him that he says, “If we didn’t live in Tokorozawa, Totoro would never have been born.”
Totoro no Umareta Tokoro is currently available from the bookstore at the Ghibli Museum and other book retailers for 1,296 yen (US$11.48).
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