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Author: herbides

May 22nd 2013 at 3:08:23 AM

I can think of examples of sitcoms that have vacation episodes where the characters have contrived hijinks while go around to as many tourist attractions as possible like:
Brady Bunch - had a four part Hawaiian Vacation
Full House - Visited Disneyland

The National Lampoon Vacation Movies also did this, especially the first two, "Vacation" and "European Vacation"
Also, there are a few anime that go out of their way to highlight the tourist attractions, local specialties and souvenirs  etc.

Tsuritama - Crams in as many possible tourist plugs for Enoshima (an island in Japan) as possible: including the aquarium, enoshima tower, the historic enoshima bridge, the botanical gardens, the local specialty foods (white bait icecream and "enoshima don" rice bowl with white bait), local sport (bass fishing), how to charter a boat, what kind of fishing tackle to buy, the local legends, the local festival, temple and regional dance. The show even manages to include explicit freeway and train directions on how to get there.

Also, many high school anime include the class trip episode, which features the characters going to another part of Japan on an overnight field trip, often highlighting the local tourist attractions.

"Love-Com" - they go to Hakodate, Hokkaido

But this seems to be different from your examples above which focus specifically on detailed descriptions of architecture.