Nearly 6,000 miles away from the real thing, visitors in Japan are flocking to Stoke Country Park, near the town of Maruyama, 20 miles north east of Japan's capital, Tokyo.
Japan's latest tourist attraction is a not-to-scale recreation of our fair city, containing everything from Stoke's beloved architecture to its famous monsters including Bursie and Sneyd Green Steve!
Park owner Sawako Sato spent a year in Stoke working for Vodaphone and loved it so much he decided to build the park when he returned home! "People in Japan love monsters, and Stoke has the best," says Mr Sato. "I think the park will be a big hit."
City councillor Jinky Watkins is overjoyed. "The Orientals are a great bunch," he says. "Hopefully we can have a cultural exchange and they'll let us have some of their girls-knickers-vending machines or some shit in return."
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