Tetsuko no Tabi

Cartoonist Kikuchi accepts a travel assignment expecting good food and pleasant scenery. Her guide, Hirohiko Yokomi, is a railway enthusiast whose greatest pleasure lies in visiting stations she sees little reason to stop at.

Accompanied by an editor, they crisscross Japan on local lines and lengthy journeys filled with transfers. Yokomi’s tireless excitement meets Kikuchi’s blunt objections, turning each outing into a comic collision between treating trains as transport and making them the entire purpose of a trip.