Yoko Tawada is a star of the first magnitude in modern Japanese literature. She was born in Tokyo in 1960, educated at Waseda University, and has lived in Germany since 1982. Currently, Tawada lives in Berlin and writes books in Japanese and German, acts as a poet, prose writer, playwright, and often collaborates with artists and musicians. The modern Austrian composer Peter Ablinger wrote the opera based on its libretto. Tawada is the winner of a number of prestigious prizes and awards: the Akutagawa Prize for the best story (1993), Adelbert von Chamisso for the contribution of foreign authors to German culture (1996), Junichiro Tanizaki (2003), Goethe Medal (2005). This publication is the first separate book publication of the writer in Russia. The main character of Yoko Tawada's story "Suspicious Passengers on Your Night Trains" is a young Japanese dancer touring Europe by train. Each chapter of this elegant book is a new city on the heroine’s path, an adventure, a dream, a dream. It is impossible to get off this train. Life is a long journey in a carriage on the bottom bunk... A journey to a city that does not exist...