Tabi Tales

Kanto

Kanagawa

Follow the real 1920s Tokyo-to-Yokohama world behind Tanizaki's Naomi (Chijin no Ai) — including the Yamate hillside where the author himself lived out the novel's Westernizing obsessions.

Trace the real beach where Kokoro's narrator meets Sensei and the Tokyo cemetery where the novel's saddest chapters play out — the same cemetery where Natsume Soseki himself is buried.

Trace the real Tokyo and Kamakura settings behind Dazai Osamu's No Longer Human — from the coastal cape where his own life nearly ended to the Mitaka neighborhood where he wrote the book and is buried.