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Exploring Niigata Area, the Setting of the Novel 'Snow Country', February 1-4, 2024

Kyobo Bookstore, together with the Daesan Foundation, will hold the 2024 Snow Country Literary Tour. From February 1 to 4, 2024, participants will visit Japan with Professor Gounki from Hanyang University's Department of Cultural Contents to explore the settings of the novel "Snow Country."

The Shimizu Tunnel featured in the novel "Snow Country"
[Photo by Kyobo Bookstore]

The novel "Snow Country" is a work by Japanese novelist Kawabata Yasunari, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. This literary tour will focus on Niigata Prefecture's Yuzawa, the main setting of the novel. Participants will take a train through the Shimizu Tunnel, the backdrop of the novel's famous line, "Out of the long tunnel of the border, it was a land of snow." Additionally, the tour includes visits to Suwasa Shrine, where the two main characters met, and an overnight stay at Takahan Ryokan, where the author stayed and wrote the novel.

The Snow Country Literary Tour, which began in 2008, was suspended due to COVID-19 and will resume for the first time this year. Applications can be submitted until December 5 on the Kyobo Bookstore and Daesan Foundation websites. All participants will receive copies of "Snow Country" and "Tokyo Nights Come Early."

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