On a whim, a photographer walks towards the New Tokyo Tower during its construction. He meets a girl working at a food vendor at the site. Through their short encounter he finds "hope".

A foreign exchange student is leaving Sapporo. She meets a boy and goes on her last bicycle trip around Sapporo with him. He falls in love with her, but she leaves without giving him her number. They meet again in Otaru where he finds out the bittersweet truth.

Rinko is a 16-year-old senior high-school student. She lives happily with her mother in Yanagawa City, Fukuoka, but she longs to live in Tokyo. One day Rinko encounters a boy and his strange behavior starts to change her life.

One day a young Korean girl, Yuna (Hyun-kyoung Ryu), decides to pack up and leave, she heads for Japan where she takes a job as a tour guide for visiting Koreans to Japan, Hot on her trail is her ex boyfriend Sang-ho (Gun-hyung Park) who follows her to Japan in order to win the still confused Yuna back, but will she get back with him? "Smile Bus" is a comtempory re-working of the classic Kamakura and Enoshima love story.