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Matsumoto Seichō: Points and Lines and Castle of Sand
Points and Lines is set between Tokyo Station and the beach at Kashii in Fukuoka, while Castle of Sand follows a detective from the Kamata rail yard in Tokyo to Akita and Shimane. Seichō Matsumoto's two best-known crime novels turn Japan's railways into the clues.
This route follows both stories: the four-minute gap on Tokyo Station's platforms, the Kashii shore, and the stations named Kameda that lead the detective to Kamedake. Pins at Kashii and Kamata are approximate.
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年表と場所
場所のラベルの意味は？
- 正確
- 出来事が起きた場所、または撮影された場所そのものを示しています。
- おおよそ
- 町、公園、地区など正しい範囲を示していますが、正確な地点ではありません。
Points and Lines opens on a Tokyo platform. Businessman Tatsuo Yasuda, who has several connections in a ministry under corruption investigation, is seen off from platform 13, and two waitresses with him notice their coworker Toki boarding the Asakaze with a man on the opposite side. The clever part is the view: platform 15 can be seen from platform 13 for only four minutes a day, between 17:57 and 18:01. That tiny gap becomes the key to the whole mystery.
訪問のヒント: Tokyo Station is a working railway station; the four-minute sightline is a story device, so expect no marked spot.
出典
- Points and Lines
- 該当箇所:
- Plot
- 点と線
- 該当箇所:
- Plot
- Points and Lines
Two bodies are found on a beach in Kashii, Fukuoka. Police call it a double suicide, but veteran detective Shigetaro Torikai suspects foul play and starts investigating on his own. Matsumoto sets the novel in Kashii, and the 1958 film version was shot at Kashii Station. The pin marks Kashii Station.
場所の精度: The novel places the bodies on a beach in Kashii without a precise spot; the pin marks Kashii Station.
訪問のヒント: The beach is not marked; Kashii Station is the nearest sure landmark.
出典
- Points and Lines
- 該当箇所:
- Plot
- 香椎駅
- 該当箇所:
- Related items
- Castle of Sand
- 該当箇所:
- Plot
- Points and Lines
Castle of Sand begins in the early morning of 12 May, when a man's body is found in the rail yard at Kamata, in Tokyo. Detectives learn that the victim spent the previous night talking with a companion in a bar near Kamata Station, and the two kept coming back to one name: Kameda. The case lands on the desk of veteran detective Imanishi.
場所の精度: The novel names the Kamata rail yard; the pin marks Kamata Station nearby.
訪問のヒント: Kamata is a railway station in Tokyo; the yard itself is not marked.
出典
- 砂の器
- 該当箇所:
- Plot
- 砂の器
The only clue is that name, Kameda, overheard in the bar. Imanishi notices that Akita Prefecture has a station called Ugo-Kameda and goes looking for it in the north. In the book the station's existence is an important plot device, and the film and TV versions also show it.
訪問のヒント: Ugo-Kameda Station is a railway station in Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture.
From there the trail leads to Kamedake. Imanishi finds it on a map of Shimane. Here a constable named Miki Kenichi once protected a seven-year-old boy, Hideo, and his father. The 1974 film did not actually use this station: it shot the platform at Izumo-Yashiro and the station building at Yakawa. The real station is on the Kisuki Line.
訪問のヒント: Kamedake Station is on the JR West Kisuki Line in Okuizumo, Shimane Prefecture.
出典
- 砂の器
- 該当箇所:
- Plot
- 亀嵩駅
- 該当箇所:
- Novel section
- Kamedake Station
- 該当箇所:
- Lead
- 砂の器
