Gütiokipänjä

Gütiokipänjä (pronounced Guchokipanya) is a bakery in Koriko owned and operated by Osono and her husband Fukuo, as seen in the film, Kiki's Delivery Service.

Background
The building has a storefront and the bread kitchen at ground level, and living quarters above; they also provide a bed in the attic for Kiki and Jiji while they live there. The name is a pun off roshambo (rock [gu], scissors [choki], paper [pa]) and bakery [panya] although the name is not addressed in-universe so it may have some other meaning to the namer.

History
Kiki first sees Gütiokipänjä when travelling through Koriko on her first day. She rests at the balcony outside the bakery when Osono runs out with a pacifier a customer dropped. Kiki offers to get the pacifier back to the baby, so she takes the pacifier and jumps over the balcony, and Osono is shocked, until she sees Kiki flying on her broomstick. Kiki then takes the pacifier to the woman for her baby, and returns to Osono, who offers her a hot beverage. They talk about Kiki's being a witch and Kiki told her she came to Koriko for a year as part of her witch training. Osono says Kiki can stay with her and her husband for a while, but she has to help out at the bakery to pay her rent. She eventually starts operating her Delivery Service out of Gütiokipänjä and enters into a co-operative arrangement with the bakery as they need baked goods delivered to customers across Koriko.

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