Poko depicts the expansion of Tama New Town in the 1960s through the eyes of shapeshifting tanuki (raccoon dogs) and their attempts to stop it. The 1995 Ghibli film Whisper of the Heart is also set in Tama New Town. Many places near Seiseki-Sakuragaoka Station appear in the film, although the area is depicted as more developed than it was when the film was made. The 2022 novella Escape from Yokai Land by Charles Stross is set in the Sanrio Puroland theme park in Tama New Town, where a supernatural manifestation of Hello Kitty is on the verge of becoming a full blown kaiju. See also References Western Tokyo New towns in Japan Hachiōji, Tokyo Tama, Tokyo Inagi, Tokyo Machida, Tokyo New towns started in the 1960s