The International Journal of Contents Tourism is an
open-access Scholarly journal exploring the phenomenon of "contents tourism".
The International Journal of Contents Tourism is an open-access scholarly journal exploring the phenomenon of ‘contents tourism’. Contents tourism is travel behaviour motivated fully or partially by narratives, characters, locations and other creative elements of popular culture forms, including film, television dramas, manga, anime, novels and computer games. The concept originated in Japan and is closely related to what is known as film-induced tourism or media-induced tourism in English.
IJCT publishes articles of various lengths, from original research papers through to short blog entries. It is based at Hokkaido University and the editors-in-chief are Professor Takayoshi Yamamura (Center for Advanced Tourism Studies, Hokkaido University) and Professor Philip Seaton (Institute of Japan Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies).
IJCT has three main aims:
Read the journal’s constitution.
Click here for the first part. Then the two friends moved over to the handprints of the stars. Here the "new" ways of taking and sharing photographs... more
FromPhilip Seaton
Taking inspiration from the film Love in Tokyo, 1966- I visited the gigantic Tokyo Tower. I was always interested in visiting this place because of 2 a... more
FromApoorva Nanjangud
Seiseki Sakuragaoka is a remarkable, brilliant site for fans of ‘Mimi wo Sumaseba’, Whisper of the Heart (1995). It is not the ‘official location... more
FromTakayoshi Yamamura
I would not have thought that the same city I spent my Doctorate education would also be a site for Mamoru Hosoda’s 2012 anime Wolf’s Children. Hak... more
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