阪急電車

Mixed feelings

I didn't really know how to rate this book. I hesitated to give it only a few stars, because I didn't really like any of the characters (!). But I did enjoy reading the book, so that wouldn't have been fair. I liked to travel along the Hankyu Railway. The descriptions were so detailed that I could look up a lot of the places online and spent some time looking at satellite images and maps and pictures and the like. I almost feel like I know this area between Osaka and Kobe well now! I learned a lot about the culture and love / family / work relationships. Also as other mentioned, there is a lot of Kansai-dialect used, so if you want to practice that, great practice.