Bathhouse Boiler Room

Spirited Away

Is about a young girl named Chihiro's quest to save her parents. At the beginning of the movie, Chihiro and her family get lost in the forest and find themselves in what seems to be an abandoned town. However, they find some delicious looking food at a food stand in a marketplace. Chihiro is suspicious, but her hungry parents begin eating the food, giving the excuse that they will pay later. Suddenly, both of her parents turn into pigs! As Chihiro has just discovered, that food was made and cursed by spirits, in order to ensnare careless humans and turn them into pigs for food. With the help of a boy named Haku, she escapes being taken as well and finds work in a nearby spirit bathhouse where she plans to free her parents. The person who employs her is named Kamaji, and he runs the boiler room. The room where he works was based off of a real western-style stationary store in the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architecture Museum in the Musashi Koganei district of Tokyo: