About the Book: Passage to Tokyo
A young woman finds herself transported back in time to 1920s Tokyo just as
Japan enters a dangerous new era.
Yui Sanada struggles to raise her twelve-year-old brother, Hiro, while
contending with a neglectful, alcoholic mother. During a trip to Ueno Park, Hiro
runs away from his sister into a strange passage beneath a samurai statue. Yui
chases after him and soon finds herself in a Tokyo far removed from the familiar
world of 1995.
When Yui emerges from the tunnel, she cannot find Hiro but meets a young woman
named Chiyo and her family and