[Machine Translation] Takaki Tono, a junior high school student in Tokyo, receives a letter from Akari Shinohara, his first love who has moved away from his school. It is the end of the winter of 1995. In order to reunite with Akari, Takaki heads for Iwafune station where Akari is waiting for him in the snow that is getting heavier and heavier. Eternity and moments intersect and rain down on the thirteen-year-old couple ("Sakurabana-sho"). It is the summer of 1999, the third year of high school, and everything is going wrong. Hanae Sumida, who lives on Tanegashima Island, has a fatal crush on Takaki, who has transferred from Tokyo. She has a fatal crush on Takaki, who has transferred from Tokyo, and confesses her love to him on the day she surfs a wave. With a secret resolution in her heart, Hanae desperately heads for the waves ("Cosmonaut"). On his way home late at night after work, Takaki looks up at a skyscraper with its lights out and thinks. There is no way that salvation will come to him so easily. He goes through university life in Tokyo, encounters with Risa Mizuno after finding a job, several losses, and a small rebirth. Then, the season when cherry blossoms bloom in Tokyo comes again ("5 Centimeters per Second"). This is the first novel by Makoto Shinkai, a film director who made a strong debut with his one-man animated film "Hoshino-no-e".