A Distant Neighborhood

Fourty-eight-year-old salaryman Hiroshi Nakahara accidentally takes the wrong train to Tokyo after a business trip in Kyoto. He decides to accept his situation and sit back when he learns that the train is headed toward his hometown in Kurayoshi. As he walks the streets of his childhood neighborhood, Hiroshi realizes how significantly the place has changed in the 20 years since his mother died. While visiting her grave in the Genzen Temple, he is transported back into the body of his 14-year-ol...

Haruka na Machi e was published in English as A Distant Neighborhood by Ponent Mon/Fanfare in 2009, and again in a hardcover edition on September 15, 2016. It was also published in Spanish by Ponent Mon from May 2003 to to October 2003 (republished as a 2-in-1 omnibus in November 2009), and in Polis...