Anime pilgrimages (anime seichi-junrei) is one of the today’s hot issues for impoverished local areas. We inquired the actual conditions of anime pilgrims and their influences to the actual locale. Anime pilgrims at first visit the locale for seeing the same place imaged in anime, however, some pil- grims change their reason to visit into the communication with inhabitants or other pilgrims. Although it seems to benefits the locale, it has the risk that active repeaters behave exclusively for others. As all anime products have their life to keep popular interests, every locale has to prepare how and when anime pilgrim campaign to stop. Recent trend is to extend its local festival to anime pilgrims.
