I am trying to find the name of a manga I read a while ago. --- I am terrible at creating topics and typed my subject title wrong... anyway.

The plot: a middle aged man [a salaryman I believe] decides to take a train to visit a grave in his home town (his mother's I think). At the grave he passes out and wakes up in the past (with his 13 year old -- I think-- body). He tries to relive his life with the knowledge he retains from his adult life.

I'll put the rest in a spoiler incase anyone finds this story interesting but hasn't read it...

Throughout the course of the story he learns why his father left his family arround this time. He has a chance to stop his father but lets him go because he understands his father's situation. In the end he chooses a different path from his father's and just as mysteriously as he wound up in the past, he comes to the present where he returns home to his family which he now appreciates more than ever because of the recent experience with his father.

Oh, if this helps... the ending: as he greets his family, he recieves a package from his childhood friend --- a writer to who he revealed he was a time traveller (albiet the writer didn't believe him at the time because the protagonist was drunk). The writer is now famous and has sent a copy of one of his book addressed to 'the time traveller'.

I'm sure that I've seen the name somewhere on the forum - I have used the search tool - in the past but after almost an hour of searching [admittedly I've also been looking at interesting threads along the way] I still haven't found the name. If someone could please help me name that manga I would much appreciate it.

Edit: I apologize for the lengthy post and bad grammar. I also realize the Topic name is very poor and grammatically incorrect.

Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?

Golden Days the only one i could think of... there r some similarities but i am not sure this is wat u r loooking for..

Thank you very much but this isn't it. It is very similar time wise -- the town he returns to looks very old and very much like an immediatly post-WWII setting. Again, thank you for you time.

Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?

I've read that one too, but it was a long time ago - I'll try to remember the name... (>_<)

Edit: Got it! Harukana Machi-e! 😃

"[English] not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary."
-James Nicoll, can.general, March 21, 1992

Oh, thank you. This is it. 😀

Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?