Hayao Miyazaki classic Kiki's Delivery Service may be about witches, magic, and the innocence of youth, but it does have one foot solidly grounded in reality: the bakery in which our beloved 13-year-old witch lives and works actually exists. In a little hamlet called the Yufuin Floral Village in Japan, you can buy pastries from Kiki's Bakery, adorned with symbols of the Studio Ghibli's tale about a witch coming of age. A replica of Kiki's magical black cat, Jiji, hangs in a cage out front, a broom is emblazoned on the bakery's sign, and the painfully delicious-looking pastries themselves come to life inside. The sign is in the Kiki's Deliviery Service font and the walls are made from weathered yellow brick that looks right out of Miyazaki's imagination. One might imagine this is the bakery Kiki herself opens years after the trials and tribulations she faces in the film.A photo posted by Kinoshita_Masami (@masami_1010) on Feb 27, 2016 at 8:19pm PST
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