The official site of Ghibli Museum, Mitaka in Japan. Look! Totoro Is Waiting for Us at the Entrance! When you walk along Kichijoji Avenue, in the shade of the tall green trees of Mitaka's Inokashira Park, you come upon a colorful building. Standing in front of a sign that says . When you look through the portholes, soot- black Dust Bunnies are there as well. But this is not the real entrance. Totoro shows you where the real entrance is.
Open the door and welcome to wonderland! Every window and lamp is lovingly hand- crafted with beautiful and colorful stained glass using Ghibli characters, pretty plants and flowers, and forest animals. When the sun is shining, the vivid colors of the glass are reflected in splashes of colored light on the stone floors. Welcome to The Space of Wonder. Look up at the ceiling, and you will find it covered in fresco painting. In the center of a blue sky, there is a shining, smiling sun. Trees stretching up towards the sky are filled with grapes, melons, deliciously ripe fruits, and beautiful blossoms which you may never have seen before.
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If you look carefully, you may see Kiki on her broom, Nausicaa on her jet glider, or other characters flying through the sky. Tickets are given over to visitors here in exchange for reservation coupons.
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These tickets are made of pieces of the actual 3. You can hold it up to the light and see which scene from a Ghibli film turned out to be your ticket. Since the Ghibli Museum treats every child as an independent guest, even very small children can stand on the special platform at the reception counter to be handed their own ticket. The Central Hall - The Wind Whistles and the Light Shines Through. Here is a towering open space extending up through the entire height of the Museum. In the glass dome at its center, a yellow whale swims in the ocean and the blades of a giant fan rotate overhead. Shining marbles of colored glass are fitted into the ironwork of the stairs and handrails.
Taking in the whole room from bottom to top, you will discover a maze of spiral stairways, bridged passages, and overhanging terraces. This marvelous space transports you into the world of Hayao Miyazaki and the strange buildings which often appear in his films. Here you can see and feel them for yourself.
Please pause before entering the exhibition rooms, and find your own secret favorite spots. A boy's Room - A Gift From Grampa. This is one of the five rooms on the first floor called . The room seems to belong to someone who was sketching at the desk just a few minutes ago. The room is filled with books and toys. The walls are all covered with illustrations and sketches. Hanging from the ceiling are a model of an airplane and a model of a Pteranodon.
It's a place where the owner of the room has stored his favorite things. This room provides lots of inspiration for what will go on to the blank piece of paper on the desk to become the origin of an actual film.
After walking through the five rooms, you will get an idea how an animated film is made. With a little bit of an idea and a flash of inspiration, a film- maker struggles with his work and ultimately completes the film. Ghibli Original Short Animated Feature at the Museum Only!
The Saturn Theater is a small theater in the basement of the Museum with only about eighty seats. There you can watch an original short animated feature from Ghibli, which can only be seen in the Museum's theatre. A blue sky and lots of colorful flowers are drawn on the ceiling and walls. When the film ends, the windows open and the sunshine comes in.
You can sit on a little red bench or the back of a seat to see the big screen without being blocked. Most of you probably don't know how a movie is projected. But here the projectionist's room, which looks like a tiny train car, is transparent, so you can see how film moves through a projector.(The Theater houses approximately 8. Screening Schedule. The Reading Room .
It was created to communicate the Museum's wish to have children see, touch, and feel strange and mysterious things through books. Books which are specially recommended by Hayao Miyazaki and the Museum can be found here for children to browse through freely. The woodblock prints are made by Keisuke Miyazaki. Poof, Boing! The Cat Bus.
The Cat Bus is waiting for you in a room on the second floor. It must be everyone's dream to touch and ride the Cat Bus. In order to make this wish come true, we made a room with an actual Cat Bus. If you remember the Cat Bus from .
Next to the Cat Bus, a bunch of soot- black Dust Bunnies are waiting for you to play with them. We wanted to make the Cat Bus as big as it is in the film, but because it wouldn't fit in the museum, we ended up downsizing him a little bit. The Cat Bus is for elementary school children and under (age 1. Our Guardian - The Robot Soldier on the Rooftop. From the terrace off the Cat Bus Room, a spiral stairway leads to the roof, and there you will find a grassy rooftop garden. From this lofty post, a serene five- meter- tall Robot Soldier (from . Please take a moment to experience the seasonally changing plant life.
An Old- Fashioned Hand- Pump Well. A cozy patio is located between the Museum and the Cafe. Surrounded by tiled roofs and colorful flowers, the space is full of sunshine.
Looking up from here, you see the vivid orange walls of the Cafe. There is a hand- pumped well in the central gazebo.
If you pump it hard, you will be rewarded with fresh, cool water from the well. The well is set in an area full of specially handcrafted ornaments and designs, including a metal hatch cover that looks like a smiling face. Just nearby, stacks of firewood are stored in front of a rustic shed. When winter comes, the firewood can be winched up to the floor above and used to fire the wood- burning stove in the cafe. You may even encounter some of our staff chopping firewood. A Towering Pine Marks the Terrace of the Cafe.
Surrounded by some of Mitaka's rare red pines and set off against the bright orange wall and red window frames of the building that houses it, the deck of the Straw Hat Cafe provides you with an open outdoors atmosphere where you can relax and enjoy the natural setting of Inokashira Park. There is a washstand decorated with colorful tiles just to the side of the Cafe deck so you can wash your hands before mealtime. The Cafe serves both cold and hot meals, snacks and desserts. The menu is simple and the variety is limited, but almost everything comes from organic farms, is very fresh and nutritious, and we cook them with loving care and patience. We specially recommend the jumbo fried pork cutlet sandwich and the strawberry short cake.
From the deck's menu, there are ultimate hot dogs, ice- cream (milk and seasonal fruit flavors) and soothing roasted barley tea. Experience the changing seasons and enjoy the slow passing of time at the Cafe after your visit to the museum.> > Straw Hat Cafe Menu (in Japanese only)You'll Find Your Treasure Here. The museum shop . Here at this shop, you will find your favorite Studio Ghibli character products along with original Museum gift items.
At the reading room . This reading room was opened with the wish that it be a place to give children the opportunity to read.
The two places and their window displays are filled with things that are pretty, unexpected, and completely out of the ordinary. Spend some time to look around..
Before that time many of the writers, directors, producers and animators that would come to form Studio Ghibli worked together on several anime movies. These movies have much of the charm of Studio Ghibli features and are in many cases now also owned and distributed by Studio Ghibli. Despite their age these movies are of excellent quality, even by today’s high standards, and are by all means worth a watch. Hayao Miyazaki. Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro (1. Rupan Sansei: Kariosutoro no Shiro (. As such, this movie contains far less crudeness and nudity than your average Lupin III fare.
This movie also happens to be the general favourite in the anime community out of the six Lupin III movies. This movie follows Lupin III, a famed thief descended from Ars.
Discovering that their loot is counterfeit, they go in search of the source of these perfect “goat bills” which leads them to the Castle of Cagliostro featuring both a princess and a huge hidden secret. Good times to be had by all, and a more decent story than is usually found in non- canonical anime series movies. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1. Kaze no tani no Naushika (.
The art, music, and story- line of this anime were all way ahead of its time. The story revolves around the princess Nausicaa and how she gives her absolute all to save those around her from both the aggressive foliage/fungi surrounding them, the neighbouring countries, and the impending threat of giant stampeding insects. One of the best sci- fi animes ever made, and certainly a must- view for any anime fan.
You’ll be able to see why this put Ghibli in its formative years on the anime world’s map. Isao Takahata. Gauche the Cellist (1. Sero Hiki no Goushu (. Gauche the Cellist is a cute if somewhat sedate movie about Gauche who is a cellist with a local orchestra and how he learns different important cello lessons from random talking animals that visit him every night including a tanuki, a cuckoo, a cat, and a pair of mice to prepare him for an upcoming concert. It’s pretty cute and recommended for both adults and children. Good to watch on a rainy day. Studio Ghibli – (Hayao Miyazaki/Isao Takahata/Goro Miyazaki)Ghibli is commonly known as the “Disney of Japan” and is certainly one of the largest anime studios in existence.
Most of their movies are great for both adults and kids, the ones that aren’t are noted within their respective reviews. Hayao Miyazaki. Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1. Tenk. The bittersweet robots that inhabit and protect the garden may even end up being some of your favourite anime characters, not because they are amusing, but because of the care and dedication that they exude whenever you see them. Laputa revolves around a boy named Pazu and the girl that floats unceremoniously down from the sky into his life, Sheeta, and how they save both Laputa and the world from corruption. An all- around solid anime movie with classic Ghibli humour and spirit, definitely recommended. My Neighbor Totoro (1. Tonari no Totoro(.
This quickly became the defining movie for Ghibli making Totoro their mascot and the “Mickey Mouse of Japan” even though this is the only widely available movie he’s featured in. Kiki’s Delivery Service (1. Majo no Takky. The narrative follows Kiki and her witty cat Jiji as they set out for a town where Kiki can become the resident witch and earn some valuable experience in life.
It’s a solid coming- of- age story that follows the hardships and friends that they encounter while Kiki tries to develop her rather lacking witch skills into something more useful for society. As with all Ghibli movies this is not your typical anime fare and definitely worth checking out. Porco Rosso (1. 99. Kurenai no Buta (. Overall, the movie has a playful nature and is good fun for people of all ages. The story follows Porco Rosso, a man who was inexplicably turned into a pig (it never really is explained very well, so don’t bother trying to understand that part), his tricked- out plane, The Crimson Pig, and how he uses it to patrol the skies and fight evil wherever it may be.
The catch is where he got the plane from. Princess Mononoke (1.
Mononoke Hime (. This is by far the most graphic of Ghibli’s movies, with gore and decapitation among other things. Does it end up being an okay movie in spite of its unusually mature content? Yes, it actually does. I commend Miyazaki for being able to craft such a solid and mystical story that one would swear was based on actual folklore, but I still can’t say that this is one of my favourite animes. The story follows prince Ashitaka as he gets caught in the middle of a war between forest spirits (as well as San, or Princess Mononoke, who was adopted by the forest’s wolves) and a mining town called Iron Town while trying to lift a curse put on him by a giant boar demon that was attacking his village. Chances are that you’ll love it, but I find it largely too long and gruesome for repeated consumption, even compared to the more brazenly gory movies featured in this guide. Spirited Away (2.
Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi(. If Western audiences hadn’t heard of Studio Ghibli before, Spirited Away.
The movie follows Chihiro as she and her family get caught in a bizarre spirit world and how she tries to overcome fear and adversity to escape this strange land. Easily one of the weirder animes in existence, but not even close to being the weirdest in this guide. Spirited Away most definitely deserved its Oscar. Howl’s Moving Castle (2. Hauru no Ugoku Shiro(.
This magical anime follows the quest of a girl named Sophie to restore her youth that was stolen by the Witch of the Waste. She seeks out a sorcerer named Howl and his moving castle not knowing what kind of troubles and strange adventures await her. The animation in this movie is gorgeous and it has, in my opinion, the single best soundtrack of almost any anime to date.
Definitely worth watching more than once. Ponyo (2. 00. 8)Gake no Ue no Ponyo (. While not my absolute favourite Ghibli movie, this is certainly one of the better ones.
The story in Ponyo tends to be a bit slow even compared to most other Ghibli movies, but as a whole it just pleasantly takes its time instead of truly plodding along. It follows a little goldfish- like girl thing called Ponyo and her sudden transformation into a human after accidentally tasting human blood while healing a cut on a little boy named Sosuke’s finger. The turning point in the story is Ponyo’s love of Sosuke and how that threatens to not only change her life permanently, but also the world at large. There is much to be seen with this movie’s fantastic visual style, slightly different from previous Ghibli offerings with more pastels and simpler shading.
Wholly recommended to everyone, this is a must- see Ghibli movie. The Wind Rises (2. Kaze Tachinu (. Not only is it a farewell to one of anime’s most celebrated directors, it is also a movie with less universal appeal than most other Ghibli features. The Wind Rises is a highly romanticized biopic of Jiro Horikoshi, the designer of the two main fighter aircraft used by Japan in WWII.
It focuses on Jiro’s extreme 1. Japanese work ethic and how it, along with a love of planes, propelled him to the forefront of his field during the war and how he met his wife in the midst of it all. History buffs will certainly scoff at the movie’s very nonchalant embellishment of Jiro’s life and how it not only views such a tumultuous time through rose- coloured glasses, but draws the vast majority of its poignancy from its entirely fabricated story elements instead of even mildly addressing the deep- seated problems of the time.
I, being automatically adverse to most historical features, don’t particularly care about how many of the movie’s plot points Miyazaki made up because they largely just serve to inject some much- needed conflict and excitement into the film’s proceedings. On the whole, The Wind Rises can’t be called a bad movie but it ends up being close to the slowest film that Ghibli has produced in the last couple of decades. I figure that since it was his last hurrah, Miyazaki decided to make a movie for himself where he got to have all kinds of the fancy planes that he enjoys so much doing cool (to plane enthusiasts) things instead of one that would be guaranteed to appeal to audiences worldwide like Ghibli’s classic fantasy fare. While The Wind Rises may feel like a bit of a disappointment to some because of its plodding pace and niche subject matter, I think we owe it to Miyazaki to appreciate his final film for what it is (a story about the value of emotion, focus and commitment to a goal) and be thankful for all of the amazing characters and worlds that he brought to life throughout his illustrious directing career.
Isao Takahata. Grave of the Fireflies (1. Hotaru no Haka (. The movie even begins with Seita, the older boy, explaining about the day that he died. The movie follows the last few weeks in the lives of Seita and Setsuko before their untimely deaths in WWII Japan.
This is definitely a tear- jerker, and probably the saddest anime movie that I have ever seen. Realistic, touching, and scary, this movie is for anime what Schindler’s List is for live action. Only Yesterday (1. Omohide Poro Poro (. Only Yesterday follows a woman named Taeko and how she comes to grips with reality through constant flashbacks to her past.
Her past self even literally follows her around sometimes in a rather eerie manner. The movie’s tone overall is a lighthearted one and is rather shojo (girly). It deals a lot with Taeko’s relationships and her life- long search for a loving husband. With this in mind, the anime is enjoyable and worth the time, but I’d suggest developing a bit of a taste for Ghibli movies before you take this one head on if you’re a bit wary. Pom Poko (1. 99. 4)Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko (.