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Haruki Murakami’s Mystical Japan

Haruki Murakami’s Mystical Japan

Introduction This is a fantasy trip to Japan inspired by Haruki Murakami‘s books that will take you through Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Shikoku Island (Takamatsu, Kochi), Sapporo (Hokkaido). For fun, here are my top 5 favorite novels by Haruki Murakami: – A Wild Sheep Chase (Hitsuji o Meguru Bōken, 1982) – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru, 1995) – Dance Dance…

Is Bifuka the fictional Hokkaido town of Junitaki in Haruki Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase?
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Is Bifuka the fictional Hokkaido town of Junitaki in Haruki Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase?

If there’s one place recurrent through Haruki Murakami’s novels that mirrors the poetic wanderings of his characters, between deeply entangled dreams and realities, it is surely Hokkaido. Disconnected from mainland Japan, Hokkaido is a magnificent ever-cold land stretching as far as the eye can see. Here nature runs wild barely disturbed by men – Hokkaido…