Tourist attraction • Niiya, Ozu, Ehime 795-0069, Japan
This monument, standing in front of a small community center in Oozu City, is impressive at first sight. With characters and titles from Galaxy Express 999 carved into it, it not only excites anime fans, but also stirs the desire for a journey into space.
This monument is erected to honor the hometown of Leiji Matsumoto, the original author of 'Galaxy Express 999,' and to eternally commemorate his dream. The feelings of this author, who harbored a dream of space since childhood, are embedded in this work.
There are few places where one can experience traveling the planets featured in Galaxy Express 999. Standing in front of this monument, one can feel the intoxicating emotions as if stepping into the world of the work.
Try imagining your own galactic journey in front of the monument. Put on a spacesuit, get into a rocket, and start the countdown... This place certainly stirs up the longing for romance and drama in life, serving as an irreplaceable source of our imagination wings.
From the world of anime to reality, and from reality to the world of dreams. The monument of Galaxy Express 999 is truly an irreplaceable existence, alternately opening the wings of imagination for us.