TOKYO – Eighty-eight places in Japan are going to be designated “animation spots” to encourage tourism – using train stations, school campuses, rural shrines and other fairly everyday places where ...

Eighty-eight places in Japan are going to be designated "animation spots" to encourage tourism — using train stations, school campuses, rural shrines and other fairly everyday places where popular ...

They say animation spots should have manga character costumes that visitors can wear in photos, as well as manga-related products for sale. The government’s Japan Tourism Agency has recently begun to ...