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.
I am very happy to have the opportunity to go to the tourist attraction and to enjoy it from the tourist perspective. After a 1.5 hour journey, I arriv... more
FromRanny Rastati
Doai Station on the Jōetsu Mainline was used for scenes in both the 2005 NHK dramatization of Kuraimāzu Hai (‘Climber’s High') and the 2008 movie... more
FromChristopher P. Hood
I live in a beautiful seaside village in Victoria, Australia, where we can come across artists, musicians, writers and other creative people living qui... more
FromSue Beeton
Since the conference is held in Musashino area, and I also stay in a hotel nearby, I wanted to know who lived and wrote about this area. Dazai Osamu (... more
FromZhang Tianxin
Geisha as a popular object of Japanese tourism
I had the opportunity to travel to the city of Kanazawa this past winter, and participated in an open-house tour of a historical tea house operated by ... more
FromYunzi Zhang-Jiao
2019.3.22
小新井 涼
2019.3.19
Philip Seaton
2019.3.19
Philip Seaton
2016.12.22
2016.6.13
2016.4.8