There are reasons why you don't want to believe in all the mass media that you see, but for Japanese, mass media is everything, and apparently they believe in everything they see.
Behold, here comes
Paris Syndrome (中英對照, lol)
So what is Europe for Japanese? Probably kinda
like 自由之丘, And notice that's acutally in Japan not in Europe.
However if you ask me where would I go? Real Paris or Japanese Europe? I'd probably choose
自由之丘 because I get to go to Japan and enjoy European sight seeing too (albeit it's Japanese verison, but whatever)