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Yokohama Station SF Kindle Edition

by Yuba Isukari (Author), Tatsuyuki Tanaka (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
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A WORLD INSIDE

​All Hiroto has ever known is a life on a tiny coastal speck of Japan. Much of the country has been swallowed by Yokohama Station, a mysterious, ever-growing series of buildings that's been around for as long as anyone can remember. The few who live outside its many entrances have never seen Inside and know only rumors and legends of the station's interior. That all changes when Hiroto is given an 18 Ticket, a mysterious item that lets him enter the massive complex for five days. The young man has always sought a purpose, but the one he finds may not be the sort he'd hoped for...
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  1. Print length
    224 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Sticky notes
    On Kindle Scribe
  4. Publisher
    Yen On
  5. Publication date
    March 30, 2021
  6. Reading age
    13 years and up
  7. Grade level
    8 and up
  8. File size
    13129 KB
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08P1JFFDG
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yen On (March 30, 2021)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 30, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 13129 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 34 ratings

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P. Kelly
5.0 out of 5 stars Fills the void sci-fi anime/manga has left
Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2021
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I’m always looking for a new or unique sci-fi story and this one sounded interesting. The book itself isn’t very long so the story so the action gets right to the point and you aren’t left reading 12 chapters about some obscure backstory. The story is fast paced and so interesting it left me wanting to read more about Yokohama stations. I’d definitely recommend this to anyone who loves sci-fi but can’t find a good sci-fi anime or manga anymore. Hopefully this is a good sign of more Japanese sci-fi being translated for western audiences.

I don’t want to give the story away so I’ll try to be general. The story is about a station that went rogue with its technology and started doing its own thing without human intervention. Next thing you know it’s covered pretty much all of Japan. Most of the population lives inside by the stations rules but a very some civilization does exist outside of its walls. It’s interesting to see what the station prioritizes and how it adapts vs how humans would act. The story mainly follows two individuals both born outside the station and their different experiences going inside Yokohama station for the first time.
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Chinara
3.0 out of 5 stars When metro station gone wrong
Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2021
So many mixed feelings about this narrative and hard to start from one place!

Those who love metro stations and train cars, stay tight - it will blow your mind! In far future, Yokohama station in Japan had started to expand and cover the whole of Honshu island and it's been expanding since then to cover the whole Japan till Mount Fuji. People living in those parts of Japan are part of Yokohama Station now and those who don't afford to buy Suikanet access are being removed from the station and put into the holes to die there.

Hiroto, the main protagonist, is an outsider who survived this expansion and gets 5-day access ticket to find the guerilla leader within Yokohama station who will help him to find the answer to questions around this station. We mainly read 5-day journey of Hiroto within the station, his adventure with Northern Japanese Coalition spies, mysteries within the station and the route cause of this expansion.

Loved this story so much and this idea had so much potential to get expanded - I adored the robots he met, the Kyushu island's politics, and the whole concept of this expansion and fight against this mega power. However, the characters were not deeply developed and I found myself hard to emphasize with them no matter how much I wanted.

Would be a wonderful manga - this is how it was read anyway and good news - the manga is published in Japan, but not licensed anywhere else yet. Would definitely like to go back to discovery of this cyber world!
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Martin Bojinov
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Cyberpunk-esq Novel
Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2022
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Overall a great novel with a good story. If you are not familiar with the locations of Japan mentioned in the book, there is a tiny foldout map with names. Had to also do a little bit of googling for locations.
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Randy Cook
3.0 out of 5 stars The growing station
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2021
In the far future, after the Winter War, humanity has lost it hold over the world. A self repairing train station, the Yokohama Station has run out of control. Before the war, technology had advanced to the point where buildings could maintain and repair them selves. The Yokohama train station was one of them. As the war ensued, this technology morphed. When the war ended, the nations of the world had been eliminated. The remaining population are living in groups. Some organized in the old military corps, others by location. Those inside the station and those outside.

All this time Yokohama Station does not repair itself, but grows. It uses the spaces it has and replicates them over and over. Escalators rise into the mountains, elevators pop up where none were before. In this world, a young man, gains a five day pass into the station.He is tasked with two things. Help save a person and get to Exit 42. He travels through the station. Getting caught, escaping, and finding a friend.

Yokohama Station takes us into this new world, but seems to never quite get anywhere. The characters are interesting, but never reach a point of being invested in them. We are introduced to two life like robots, but we don’t get much more. I wanted this story to be much more. It was nice but left me thinking there should be more.
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B. Thomas-Moore
5.0 out of 5 stars A Japan-devouring train station, explored
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2021
'Yokohama Station SF' is an interesting translated story, about a Japan overrun by a self-replicating Yokohama Station, and a young man who gets a mysterious five-day pass that will let him escape his coastal refugee life and explore the strange interior of the station, in hopes of finding someone who might know what's going on. In the Afterward, the author talks about the story's genesis from the constantly under-construction actual Yokohama Station and a twitter thread of a story outline about what if it escaped its bounds to devour the rest of Japan; it's really interesting because you can see how it doesn't fit in quite the same genre of US-published SF as you read this, being basically a single idea expanded out to fill the book, with world-building and such, and characters only existing as needed to show you the next bit. How much of that is translation, how much is genre style for web-novels, and how much of that it this particular author, I'm not qualified to say. What I can say is that I enjoyed it for the exploration of an intriguing idea, and it was easy to sit down and just read it in an afternoon or two. Especially if you like dystopic cities, or the familiar-turned-strange, this is really worth a look. (Also, the fold-out map of Yokohama Station with points of interest, and the occasional interior illustrations, are really very good too.)
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Warrick
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Worldbuilding, Drags a little
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 24, 2023
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A wonderful novel based on a dystopian society, however, a lot of it is a word jungle which can leave some room for things to just hurry up!

I'd suggest trying the manga adaptation instead, unless you've really got some time to crunch!
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