It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from May 2008 to February 2014 and the chapters collected into 27 tankōbon volumes.
Reception towards the manga was mixed with reviewers praising the plot for its realism or panning it as predictable and cliché.
Suddenly, a girl, Yuzuki Eba, who is the daughter of his father's acquaintance, arrives from Tokyo as a freeloader at the house of the main character, Haruto Kirishima, who is going to high school in the spring in a rural town in Hiroshima Prefecture.
Haruto has been fond of his classmate Nanami Kanzaki since middle school, and with Yuzuki's help they become good friends, but they do not develop into a relationship.
As he interacts with the urbane and free-spirited Yuzuki under the same roof, even though she has problems with her sister-in-law, Rin Eba, he gradually becomes interested in her.
There are missing each other and misunderstandings, and suddenly he receives a farewell letter from Yuzuki and he is no longer able to contact her, saying that she has started dating the person she liked.
Kyosuke had a dream of becoming a motorcycle racer even though he was suffering from an incurable disease that gave him only one year to live, and although he underwent surgery hoping for a chance of recovery, he suddenly died.
Rin appears at his part-time job and teases Haruto, and coincidentally runs into Yuzuki again, and they exchange new contact information.
With the help of Yuzuki's mother and Rin, she gains the understanding of her father, and thanks to Akari, his friendship with Takashi, Nanami, and Asuka, whose relationship had broken down, is restored.
Due to her father's poor health, Akari returns to Hiroshima and gets a job, and she marries Nanami's brother, who also works there.
Asuka played an active role as the ace of the Japan women's softball team, and Kyosuke's helmet is displayed in the Kirishima Shokudo.
[10] On October 30, 2013, Crunchyroll Manga was launched and included A Town Where You Live in its library with English translation by Abby Lehrke;[11][12] the series has also been published in languages such as French and Chinese.
[2][15] Yasuhiro Yoshiura and Hiroshi Kobayashi were the directors with script by Momoko Murakami and music by Keiichi Oku.
[17] The series covers Haruto Kirishima's class trip to Tokyo as he separates from his classmates to search for Yuzuki Eba.
[25][26][27] Right Stuf Inc.'s Nozomi Entertainment announced an English subtitled release for North America in July 2015.
[32][33] Jason Thompson praised A Town Where You Live's serious, mature tone and wrote that the audiences will either like the series for its realism or criticize it as slow and mundane.
[34] Manga-News praised the series' introduction for being more realistic than the author's previous work, Suzuka, and the plot which was described as eventful.
[35][36] In later volumes, Manga-News criticized the plot for being predictable, encompassing cliché aspects of the genre, and for dragging its story.
[36][38] Manga-News returned to positive reviews during the volumes involving Kyousuke Kazama; they praised the story arc for introducing a new setting, for breaking away from the usual classicism, and for surprising the readers for the first time in the series.