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Also by Hiro Arikawa:

The Passengers on the Hankyu Line, June 2025
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The Goodbye Cat, October 2023
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The Travelling Cat Chronicles, November 2018
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The Passengers on the Hankyu Line
Hiro Arikawa

Berkley
June 2025
On Sale: June 3, 2025
256 pages
ISBN: 1529934915
EAN: 9781529934915
Kindle: B0DTP6CDRL
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction Literary | Fiction Family Life

Welcome aboard the Hankyu Line train!

Come along on a heartwarming, funny, and perfectly cozy voyage with the charming and relatable passengers—including one dashing dachshund—whose lives intersect and affect each other on one of Japan’s most romantic railway lines from international bestselling author Hiro Arikawa.

Between the two beautiful towns of Takarazuka and Nishinomiya, in a stunning mountainous area of Japan, rattles the Hankyu Line train. Passengers step on and off, lost in thought, contemplating the tiny knots of their existence. On the outward journey, we are introduced to the emotional dilemmas of five characters, and on the return journey six months later, we watch them find resolutions.

A young man meets the young woman who always happens to borrow a library book just before he can check it out himself, a woman in a white bridal dress boards looking inexplicably sad, a university student heads home after class, a girl prepares to leave her abusive boyfriend, and an old lady discusses adopting a dog with her granddaughter.

With stories that crisscross like the railway lines, the Hankyu train trundles on, propelling the lives and loves of its passengers ever forward.

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