It’s time for a spooky Halloween treat! Sit back, relax and read my short story The Lucky Bar in Nihonbashi from my latest book Tokyo Tales: A Collection of Japanese Short Stories.
Nihonbashi is a business district in Tokyo. The character in this story has had a terrible day and she decides to drop in for a drink at the ‘Lucky Bar’ near Nihonbashi train station on her way home from work but everything is not as it seems . . . I’m sorry but I’m not going to give away the end of the story here. You’ll have to read the entire story from below to find out what happens. Whether you’ve been to Japan or not, I’m hoping you’ll enjoy this supernatural short story.
It was the fourteenth of June and it seemed like the worst day of the year for me. Everything had turned sour for me that day. For starters, it was the beginning of the tsuyu rainy season in Tokyo and I’d left my umbrella on the train that morning in my rush to get to the office. Leaving my workplace at the end of the day without anything to shield me from the rain outside, I knew I looked just as pathetic now as I did when I’d arrived at my desk at eight thirty a.m.
I remembered stumbling into work after running three blocks from Nihonbashi train station to my office not long after eight fifteen in the morning with just a plastic bag covering my head to protect me from the pouring rain. I’d wiped myself down in the crowded elevator while everyone else had shoved to one side so they didn’t have to rub up against my wet clothes. As I exited the lift on the eighth floor, I felt the eyes of everyone in the office upon me as if they were judging me for showing up looking like 
I’d been for a swim in my work clothes. I sat down in front of my PC trying to hide from and ignore the amused expressions and the snickers from the three girls who always sat next to me . . . READ THE REST OF THE STORY.
