Kiki's Delivery Service
Hayao Miyazaki's film (1989) about Kiki, the 13-year-old witch who settles in a seaside city with her cat Jiji to run a flying delivery service. To create the city of Koriko, the Ghibli team travelled to Sweden: walled Visby (Gotland) and Stockholm's old town are the inspirations cited by the studio itself.
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Visby (Gotland) — The City of KorikoKoriko model
model / inspiration
The walled Hanseatic town on the Baltic, a World Heritage Site, is Koriko's main model: reddish rooftops sloping to the sea, stone lanes and the medieval wall. Ghibli visited it in pre-production and cites it as reference. (Coordinate: old town.)
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Gamla Stan (Stockholm)Kiki's flights
location
Stockholm's old town completes the Koriko collage: its ochre façades, the medieval grid around Stortorget and the rooftop water views feed Kiki's delivery flights.
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Ghibli Park — Valley of the WitchesKiki's house
official attraction
The newest area of Ghibli Park (opened 2024), gathering the worlds of Kiki's Delivery Service, Howl's Moving Castle and Earwig and the Witch. It includes a recreation of Kiki's home (the Okino house) and the Gütiokipänja Bakery, plus Howl's Moving Castle.
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