This chapter examines the recurring motif of the “in-between” (間, ma) within the spatiotemporal configurations of Murakami’s narratives, and posits Murakami’s portrayal of dual worlds—real and non-real, conscious and unconscious—as informed by both Western literary traditions and Japanese aesthetics, the concept of ma. This chapter elucidates ma’s temporal and spatial expressions as a metaphysical tension between presence and absence, and a phenomenological space for self-discovery. Murakami adapts this notion into contemporary settings, where his protagonists traverse realms both past and present, urban and rural, and reality and dreamscape. Murakami innovates this chronotopic structure—his liminal spaces are infused with references to classical Japanese literature, highlighting the interplay between Japan’s historical, cultural unconscious and its modern identity.