"Totoro? What's that?" Sun Qian was still a little confused. The two large trees and the surrounding scenery did look a bit familiar, and "Totoro" also sounded familiar, but what exactly was it?
"It's Totoro! This is the place Hayao Miyazaki used as inspiration for *My Neighbor Totoro*!" Sakai Kaori explained, turning back to them. "Even though they're animated films, Hayao Miyazaki always bases his settings on real locations. For example, *Valley of the Wind* was inspired by a valley in Pakistan. The prototype for the abandoned flying city in *Sky City* is Beng Mealea, located in Cambodia's Angkor conservation area. It's surrounded by forest and has collapsed buildings, looking exactly like the environment in *Sky City*. And this forest right in front of us is where the adorable Totoro from the movie lived. That big tree is where Totoro and the heroine first met. This place has now been renamed the Totoro Forest."
