Novels set in Tokyo

2019 Japanese animated romantic fantasy film

1987 novel by Haruki Murakami

2002 novel by Haruki Murakami

thumb|right|US edition of 1Q84, first published in 2011 by Knopf is a novel written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, first published in three volumes in Japan in 2009–2010. It covers a fictionalized year of 1984 in parallel with a "real" one. The novel is a story of how a woman named Aomame begins to notice strange changes occurring in the world. She is quickly caught up in a plot involving Sakigake, a religious cult, and her childhood love, Tengo, and embarks on a journey to discover what is "real".

2013 novel by Haruki Murakami

1985 novel by Haruki Murakami

, shortened to DRRR!! in some official materials, is a Japanese light novel series written by Ryohgo Narita, with illustrations by Suzuhito Yasuda. Durarara!! tells the story of a dullahan working as an underworld courier in Ikebukuro, an internet-based anonymous gang called the Dollars, and the chaos that unfolds around the most dangerous people in Ikebukuro. The series ran for thirteen volumes, published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko imprint. A sequel series, titled Durarara!! SH set two years after the events of the original series, started in 2014.

2004 novel by Haruki Murakami

novel by Yukio Mishima

Japanese light novel series

2014 short story collection by Haruki Murakami

1991 horror novel by Koji Suzuki

1981 novel by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

cycle of four novels by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima

novel by Yukio Mishima

2003 novel by William Gibson

2015 novel by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Japanese anime television series

1997 novel by Ryu Murakami

novel series by Tokuya Higashikawa

Japanese light novel series

novel by Yukio Mishima

novel by Hideyuki Kikuchi

2001 novel by Shan Sa

Japanese novel written in 1887

novel by Natsuo Kirino

, English titles including Growing Up and '''''Child's Play''''', is a novella by Japanese writer Ichiyō Higuchi, first published in 1895–96. It depicts a group of youths growing up in Shitaya Ryūsenji-chō, Yoshiwara, Meiji era Tokyo's red light district, over a span of four months.

1999 novel by David Mitchell

novel by Yasunari Kawabata

2007 novel by Amélie Nothomb

number9dream is the second novel by English author David Mitchell. Set in Japan, the 2001 novel narrates 19-year-old Eiji Miyake's search for his father, whom he has never met. Told in the first person by Eiji, it is a coming of age and perception story that breaks convention by juxtaposing Eiji Miyake's actual journey toward identity and understanding with his imaginative journey. The novel employs eclectic narrations in each chapter.

novel by Yasunari Kawabata

Japanese dark fantasy/science fiction novel series by Hiroshi Aramata

novel by Mori Ōgai

2003 novel by Hitomi Kanehara

2008 novel by Mieko Kawakami

1968 novel by Yukio Mishima

novel by Ryū Murakami

novel by Miyuki Miyabe

novel by Ruth Ozeki

novel by Miyuki Miyabe