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last updated July, 2026
The Forest of Wool and Steel
Natsu Miyashita
Dandelions
Yasunari Kawabata
The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1)
Keigo Higashino
The Premonition
Banana Yoshimoto
The Honjin Murders
Seishi Yokomizo
Strange Houses
Uketsu
Strange Pictures
The Black Swan Mystery (Inspector Onitsura, #1)
Tetsuya Ayukawa
Tokyo Express
Seichō Matsumoto
Paprika
Yasutaka Tsutsui
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai
Mysterious Setting
Kazushige Abe
My Annihilation
Fuminori Nakamura
Murder in the Crooked House (Kiyoshi Mitarai, #2)
Sōji Shimada
The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
Mild Vertigo
Mieko Kanai
Memoirs of a Polar Bear
Yōko Tawada
The Emissary
The Last Children of Tokyo
Scattered All Over the Earth
Manazuru
Hiromi Kawakami
Record of a Night Too Brief
Parade
The Nakano Thrift Shop
People From My Neighbourhood
Strange Weather in Tokyo
Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon (The Go-Between, #1)
Mizuki Tsujimura
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Lady Joker, Volume One
Kaoru Takamura
Inspector Imanishi Investigates
May I also suggest Tokyo express and the black swan mystery as they are both murder mysteries that heavily feature train timetables and as such are perfect for train trips.
I have read bullet train while on a long distance train ride I definitely recommend
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