History Main / GhibliHills

* Maui is absolutely brimming with unspoiled nature of multiple micro-climates. Try Googling images of the Road to Hana or Haleakala; you'd never expect to see that kind of raw beauty only an hour away from the nearest town.

* The HomeCounties that surround London are steadily becoming more urbanised but still have large areas of countryside. The Surrey hills are particularly nice. LondonTown itself is surrounded by a government created "Green Belt" area, with development restricted.

* The future in ''Manga/SailorMoon'' seems to be a bright city, surrounded by nothing but green.

* Numerous games from the ''Franchise/TalesSeries'' feature this trope as well
** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'' practically the whole Kingdom of Windor consists of Ghibli Hills, with only a few sizeable settlements and cities interrupting this perfect idyll.

* In ''{{Erswhile}}'', [[http://www.erstwhiletales.com/snow-white-and-rose-red-02/#.UQNWevJeCPQ Snow White and Rose Red live by one.]] They can frolick with the animals and even sleep safely at night.

* Western example: Mufasa's kingdom in ''Disney/TheLionKing'' is like a Ghibli Savanna, which [[{{Shadowland}} later becomes]] {{Mordor}} once [[{{FisherKing}} Scar takes over the throne]].

* Nearly all of Iceland, only without the trees.
* Finland. As a bonus you get the lakes and rivers.

* Ha, Bulgaria's capital, Sofia, is right around Vitosha mountain, which happens to be a natural park too. An hour drive? Sadly yes. Traffic jams.

* In TheBrothersGrimm's ''Snow White And Rose Red'' -- no relation to Literature/{{Snow White|and the seven dwarfs}} -- the girls live by such a forest, in which they are safe to wander and even sleep at night.

** Even more so, the "Firebird Suite" in [[{{Fantasia}} Fantasia 2000]].

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* ''{{VideoGame/Fez}}'' is pretty much this trope in game form.

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* In ''{{Webcomic/Annyseed}}'' you have only to cross the road from the school yard, and there you are, in an untouched woodland paradise.

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* ''Film/TheSecretOfKells''. Though the ENTIRE film could suffice, Brendan's first visit to the forest definitely counts, particularly after he meets Aisling.

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Often paired with AdventureTowns, this area consists of the entire relatively pristine wilderness outside of TheCity. Urban sprawl is not much of an issue, especially if you just start building your cities ''up'' (or underground). An hour's drive from your house can take you to a place that's virtually a national park. Often overlaps with GreenHillZone as the first step on a hero's prolonged journey, and as such are is bound to contrast with its [[{{Mordor}} various]] [[GrimUpNorth final]] [[BonusLevelOfHell destinations]]. Cue the stirring overworld music!

It's a [[NatureLover hiker's dream]]. This might be a result of historically good city planning, although a story taking place AfterTheEnd might imply a disaster hit the place and it's just [[NewEden regrowing after the humans vacated]].

If humans ''do'' live there, but it is still idyllic, it is {{Arcadia}} -- which, indeed, often lies by the Ghibli Hills.

Often paired with AdventureTowns, this area consists of the entire relatively pristine wilderness outside of TheCity. Urban sprawl is not much of an issue, especially if you just start building your cities ''up'' (or underground). An hour's drive from your house can take you to a place that's virtually a national park. Cue the stirring overworld music!

Of course, despite its soothing grass, great blue skies and small animals, Ghibli Hills is still a lawless wilderness, crawling with [[RandomEncounters wandering monsters]], [[NewOldWest highwaymen]] and wild magic. Hence, it is subject to what is known as [[ConsoleRPGCliches49To72 Ayn Rand's Revenge]]. See also TheLostWoods. Then, it is the home of outlaws because it is beyond the reach of unjust royal officials, bought judges, and corrupt law. In older works, written in times when most people lived in the countryside and so were less moved by the greenery, this freedom from injustice was its main allure, where it may chiefly contrast with the DeadlyDecadentCourt.

It may also serve as the Good landscape, in contrast with the EvilIsDeathlyCold {{Shadowland}}, GrimUpNorth.

* Salzburg in Austria features a lot such areas, seeing how the town is built into what is essentially [[https://maps.google.nl/maps?q=salzburg&hl=en&ll=47.799175,13.050942&spn=0.01747,0.045447&sll=55.94622,-3.149128&sspn=0.029126,0.090895&t=h&hnear=Salzburg,+Austria&z=15 a ravine around a river]]. The by far greenest and least disturbed areas in a five kilometer radius are all in 10-minute walking distance from the central Domplatz, seated on top of ''tall, steep mountains'' that seem to shoot ''right'' out of the densely built city. One of these mountains, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festungsberg Festungsberg]], has the famous Salzburg castle built atop of it, while most of the other ones (such as the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6nchsberg Mönchsberg]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainberg Rainberg]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapuzinerberg Kapuzinerberg]], and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaisberg Gaisberg]]) are almost untouched, despite being ''literally'' in spitting distance of urban Salzburg.

Named for the lush, friendly settings of StudioGhibli films. Which largely stems from the fact that Mitaka and Musashino, Tokyo's affluent residential suburbs where the studio itself is headquartered [[note]]To the point that HayaoMiyazaki is {{Fan Nickname}}d as The Lord of Mitaka[[/note]], generally have [[WriteWhatYouKnow exactly that kind of scenery.]]

* See, of course, [[HayaoMiyazaki Miyazaki's]] ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro,'' ''Anime/PrincessMononoke,'' ''Anime/SpiritedAway'' and, to a lesser extent, ''Anime/PorcoRosso'' and ''Anime/CastleInTheSky''. Interestingly, Miyazaki's first independent feature ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' has no Ghibli Hills, being set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland instead.

* The Wasatch Front (the western slopes of the Wasatch Mountains) in Utah is home to two million people strung out along a 120-mile long north-south axis. It's an average of 5 miles wide and never more reaches a width of more than 18 miles. Ten minutes to the east and you're in deep forest and/or open grassy plateaus. Thirty minutes to the west and you're in barren salt flats and deserts. Two hours to the south, you're in arid redrock country. One hour to the north, vibrant farmland. The next major urban area is 300+ miles in any direction. Even ''in'' the Wasatch Front, if there are enough rain clouds (which isn't horribly often though), the Wasatch Mountains look like [[TheLordOfTheRings the Misty Mountains]].

* See, of course, [[HayaoMiyazaki Miyazaki's]] ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro,'' ''Anime/PrincessMononoke,'' ''Anime/SpiritedAway'' and, to a lesser extent, ''Anime/PorcoRosso'' and ''Anime/CastleInTheSky''. Interestingly, Miyazaki's first feature ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' has no Ghibli Hills, being set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland instead.

Named for the lush, friendly settings of StudioGhibli films. Which largely stems from the fact that Mitaka and Musashino, Tokyo's affluent residential suburbs where the studio itself is headquartered [[hottip:* :To the point that HayaoMiyazaki is {{Fan Nickname}}d as The Lord of Mitaka]], generally have [[WriteWhatYouKnow exactly that kind of scenery.]]

* "Cleckhuddersfax"[[hottip:* :Cleckhuddersfax is a nick name for the part of the Leeds/Bradford area made up of Cleckheaton, Huddersfield and Halifax ]] in Yorkshire has nice, relatively undisturbed woodland a ten minute walk from civilisation.

Often paired with AdventureTowns in anime, this area consists of the entire relatively pristine wilderness outside of TheCity. Urban sprawl is not much of an issue, especially if you just start building your cities ''up'' (or underground). An hour's drive from your house can take you to a place that's virtually a national park. Cue the stirring overworld music!

[[caption-width-right:318:The Glen, by Maxwell Parrish]]

-->--'''Creator/WilliamShakespeare,''' ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt''

* [[http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=415 Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park]]. Especially Fern Canyon, which was a filming location for ''TheLostWorldJurassicPark''.