First Story | Something I Really Wanted to Say to You
Second Story | Still Staying in That Summer
Story 3 | Hello, the person I loved
Story Four | The Ambiguous October
Story Five | The Homework You Left Behind
Story Six | Because the Sun is Watching

“The moment when longing accumulates and becomes a miracle,
“At sunset, the small unmanned station sparkles with tears.”

A dazzling story of grief and love, memories and hope.

Under the crimson evening sky, the 'Sunset Train' stops at a lonely, unmanned station platform.
And beyond the car window, the person I had longed for for a long time approaches with a smile.
This book is a sentimental mystery and human fantasy about the last conversation with someone we all hold dear in our hearts.
A moving journey unfolds where love and memories, mourning and hope intersect.


"Waiting for You at the Unmanned Station" exquisitely captures universal emotions of loss and healing, reunion and separation through six stories.
The mysterious setting of the sunset train is a fantastical device, but the stories of each character are so realistic that readers find themselves empathizing with their stories without even realizing it.
A girl who can't accept the death of her friend, a woman whose time has stopped in the absence of her first love, an old woman who lost her fiancé in her youth, a girl who misses her father, a man who is broken after losing his wife, a mother who has lost her son...
The face of loss, which can happen to anyone, unfolds in various narratives.

The greatest appeal of the work is its development that ‘presents emotion and comfort while following a typical pattern.’
More than just a tear-jerking breakup story, it delivers a message of healing and hope in an unexpected way when it reaches its final moments.
The reunion on the sunset train is brief, but that fleeting encounter becomes a powerful catalyst for reliving the present life.

In particular, the tension and emotional twists and turns that each episode presents keep the reader's emotions on the edge of their seats until the very end.
The misunderstandings and forgiveness revealed in the last conversation with a friend who passed away in a car accident, the words “It’s okay, you have to live now” to a man who lost his wife to illness, and the last greeting left by a son, “I’ll be back.”
The scenes from that moment come across with dramatic yet restrained emotion, and they linger in your heart long after you close the book.

"Waiting for You at the Unmanned Station" provides warm comfort to readers who have experienced loss, and serves as a reflection that allows readers who have not yet experienced such loss to appreciate life more.
Through the mysterious device of the Sunset Train, this book asks us all:
“What have you not yet said to your loved one?”

A story of the miracle of reuniting with a lost loved one in a dazzling sunset, and the courage to move on with life through that moment.
"Waiting for You at the Unmanned Station" is a novel that offers modern readers a new way to mourn, while also reminding them of the reason why they should love life.

A journey of healing from loss with the protagonist
Finally, find the courage to face life again!

The book contains the stories of six main characters, each carrying their own longing and pain of loss, in an omnibus format.
A girl who ran away from her friend's funeral sits alone on the platform of an unmanned station.
I couldn't accept the fact that the friend I had been laughing and chatting with just a short while ago would never return.
But on an evening filled with red sunset, a train miraculously appears and stops in front of her.
The moment the beloved friend opens the train door and steps out in her school uniform, the reader's heart breaks along with the girl's, only to rise again.
This scene is not a mere fantasy, but shows how the feelings that were never conveyed to the departed become the strength to create another life.

A woman who suddenly lost her first love lives in a world where time has stopped in the forest of buildings in Tokyo.
No matter how many new people come along, her heart remains closed, and the past constantly holds her back.
But one day, when she returns home, the Sunset Train appears in front of her as she waits at an unmanned station.
The moment she sees the face of the person she misses smiling through the car window, her long-held guilt and regret burst out.
Only through her final conversation with her first love, “It’s okay to live with sadness,” does she finally gain the strength to move forward.

“Everyone experiences hardship, sadness, and hurt at times.
You don't have to force yourself to forget.
It's okay to cry when you recall memories.
“You don’t have to pretend that everything is okay.” _From the text

A woman who lost her fiancé in a work accident when she was young has lived her entire life in his shadow.
But one day, in her old age and with grandchildren, she waits for the sunset train at Seonja Station.
And then, when I meet her again, my fiancé smiles as if to say, 'Thanks to your choice, I am still by your side.'
She returns her old engagement ring and finally makes peace with the past.
The moment when the shackles of the past are released and the reader realizes that the love of the present has saved him, a deep thrill is transmitted to the reader's heart.

Unable to accept the loss of her father, the girl denies the absence of love by writing letters that will never reach him.
However, as he gradually faces the truth amidst conflicts with his school friends and tears from his family, he eventually meets his father again in front of the sunset train.
“It’s okay. Live strong now.” The moment she heard her father’s final words, the girl shed tears for the first time and took a step forward in growth.
This brief reunion becomes a turning point, transforming the young mind into one that can accept reality.

A husband who lost his wife to illness breaks down every day in front of the messy housework.
However, he completes the remaining tasks one by one, like homework she left him, and eventually meets his wife again on the sunset train.
The last thing we hear is her voice, “It’s okay. You have to live on now.” This scene shows how those left behind can live again, and it also provides deep comfort to the reader.

A mother who lost her son and became cut off from the world sits on a bench in an unmanned station, waiting every day for a miracle.
On the sunset train that finally appeared, the son left with a bright face, saying his final goodbye, “I’ll be back.”
The moment that short sentence breaks down the suppressed sadness and turns it into a reason to live again today, tears well up in the reader's eyes that he or she cannot control.

"Waiting for You at the Unmanned Station" presents the diverse faces of loss through six moving stories, but ultimately, they all resonate with the same emotion.
The miraculous moment of meeting the one who left is not the end of tears, but the beginning of a new life.
In the characters' final greetings, the reader discovers the wounds within himself and at the same time gains the courage to move forward.
This book comforts the 'longing' and 'waiting' that remain in all of our lives, and conveys the strength to live tomorrow again.