本篇寫1997年，阪神地震兩年後，在神戶一帶長大的村上春樹從西宮步行至三宮，比對參照童年回憶。
In May of 1997, two years after the massive earthquake in Kobe, I hit upon the idea of taking a leisurely, solitary walk from Nishinomiya to Sannomiya in downtown Kobe. I happened to be staying in Kyoto at the time for work, and continued on to Nishinomiya. On the map it’s about fifteen kilometres west from there to Kobe. Not exactly a stone’s throw away, but not such a gruelling distance, and besides, I’m a pretty confident walker.
I was born in Kyoto, but soon afterwards my family moved to Shukugawa, a neighbourhood in Nishinomiya. And not long after that we moved again, closer to Kobe, to Ashiya, where I spent most of my teenage years. My high school was in the hills above the city, so naturally downtown Kobe was where I headed when I wanted to have a good time, specifically around Sannomiya. I became a typical Hanshin-kan boy, the term referring to the area that lies between Osaka and Kobe. Back then – and probably nowadays as well – this was a great place to grow up. It’s quiet and laid-back, with an open, relaxed feeling about it, and it’s blessed with the ocean, mountains and a large city nearby. I loved going to concerts, hunting for cheap paperbacks in used bookstores, hanging out in jazz cafes, and enjoying Art Theatre Guild new-wave films. My favourite look at the time? VAN jackets, of course.
原文出自《邊境·近境》的最後一篇：走過神戶 （未讀過原文又很想網上讀讀的話，試試這裡）
Open Culture網站一向收集村上春樹的免費網讀英譯作品。連最新的A Walk to Kobe在內，共8篇，其中包括The New Yorker刊登的六篇短篇小說。另外一篇，雖也曾在The New Yorker刊登，現已只能在The Guardian免費網讀：The Folklore Of Our Times（似乎尚未有中譯，待考#）。
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# 初步考據結果，不管是The Folklore Of Our Times，還是另一版本，收入Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman小說集的A Folklore For My Generation: A Pre-History Of Late-Stage Capitalism，皆未曾譯成中文出版，但網上能找到有心人中譯：我們時代的傳說 （譯言，譯者：藍熊船長）（坦白說，譯文水平不高，可以的話，還是讀原文或英譯吧）
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