“After the United States and after the UK, Japan is the third best area for ‘Harry Potter’ fandom.”

“That was one of the easiest decisions for us actually,” he said, standing in front of a red Hogwarts Express train emitting gentle puffs of steam.

Nagler said the studio had chosen Japan because the country is one of its top markets - and also has potential to serve as a gateway to the wider Asia Pacific region. and CNN share the same parent company, Warner Bros. “We’ve kept it all,” Jeff Nagler, president of worldwide studio operations at Warner Bros., told CNN in an interview in Tokyo. The experience, which launches this summer, allows fans to wander the sets of Diagon Alley and Platform 9 3/4, and see original props and costumes from the films up close. The company showed a preview of a new “Harry Potter” studio tour in the Japanese capital on Wednesday, its first outside the United Kingdom. pushes to expand one of the most successful franchises in literary and cinematic history. Hogwarts is coming to Tokyo, as Warner Bros.

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