Tabi Tales

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Themed guides that span more than one book — an author's work across a whole city, or a region seen through several different writers.

Follow Natsume Soseki across three of his novels and three Tokyo neighborhoods — from the backstreet where I Am a Cat began, through Sanshiro's university campus, to the cemetery where Kokoro ends and Soseki himself is buried.

Cross Shikoku by train between two novels — Soseki's hot-spring town in Botchan, and the library at the heart of Murakami's Kafka on the Shore.

One coastal route south of Tokyo, three novels — the Kamakura cape where Dazai nearly died, the beach where Kokoro begins, and the Yokohama hillside Tanizaki lived out in Naomi.