A city gathers money on the internet to protect Totoro’s forest
Director Hayao Miyazaki of the animated movie My Neighbor Totoro lives in Tokorozawa City, Saitama Prefecture.
The 3.5-hectare forest near the center of the city is one of the places where Director Miyazaki thought about My Neighbor Totoro while taking a walk.
The city decided to buy this forest for about 2.6 billion yen to protect it.
Part of the required money is collected on the internet
市は「となりのトトロ」で使った5枚の景色の絵のコピーを作ります
The city makes copies of five landscape paintings used in My Neighbor Totoro
A set of 5 paintings and wooden frames will be put to sale for 25,000 yen.
The city will prepare 1000 sets and plans to sell them from September this year.
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