Books set in Niigata, Japan

Kawabata’s snow country, a hot-spring town in the mountains where a Tokyo man visits a geisha each winter.

1 place, 1 book

1948
Snow Country
1948 · Yasunari Kawabata · novelYuzawa, Niigata
A Tokyo man and a hot-spring geisha in the snowbound mountains of Echigo.

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