distant relatives. In 1993 she visits Hinamizawa after the lockdown is lifted, where she meets Tamura Hime no Mikoto, who grants her the ability to time travel to 1983. Nao is a Tokyo native who visits Hinamizawa initially for undisclosed reasons. It is later revealed that she is in fact Rena Ryugu's half-sister. After Rena's parents divorced, Rena's mother married a man named Akihito Hotani and had Nao with him shortly after the Great Hinamizawa Disaster. Kawata is a freelance journalist who came to Hinamizawa to do research and write a book. Miyuki Akasaka's friend, whom she knows because her father was a police officer who worked with Mamoru Akasaka. References Characters Lists of anime and manga characters