{"id":23173,"date":"2026-05-15T18:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/23173\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T18:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:38:10","slug":"mundo-pixar-experience-feels-like-a-homecoming-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/23173\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mundo Pixar Experience\u2019 feels like a homecoming in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the time Mundo Pixar arrived in Tokyo this spring, it had already drawn more than 3.5 million visitors across stops in cities including Rio de Janeiro, Barcelona, Seoul and London.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now housed inside Crevia Base Tokyo in the Toyosu neighborhood, the exhibition recreates environments from Pixar films at full scale, translating familiar cinematic worlds into physical spaces through life-sized characters, texture and furniture. Now extended through Oct. 12 after initially being scheduled to run until May 31, the Tokyo run offers visitors the chance to experience what happens when Pixar\u2019s worlds are no longer confined to the screen.<\/p>\n<p>In Japan, the exhibition also carries added resonance. Pixar\u2019s relationship with Japanese animation has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/interviews\/drawing-on-spirited-world\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">well-documented<\/a>, with the studio\u2019s leadership frequently citing Hayao Miyazaki as a major creative influence. Pixar executives have often spoken about turning to his films for inspiration when facing storytelling challenges, and nods to his work have appeared in the films themselves, as in the cameo of a plush Totoro in \u201cToy Story 3.\u201d Viewed through that lens, \u201cMundo Pixar Experience\u201d can feel less like a straightforward import and more like a homecoming of sorts, returning to one of the animation traditions that helped shape the studio\u2019s sensibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By the time Mundo Pixar arrived in Tokyo this spring, it had already drawn more than 3.5 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2440,18245,8,18244,52],"class_list":["post-23173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tokyo","tag-animation","tag-hayao-miyazaki","tag-japan","tag-pixar","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}